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Although Taiwan-based optical lens suppliers have been expanding production capacities amid growing competition from China makers, there will not be oversupply as demand is growing sharply, according to Jones Chen, chairman of Genius Electronic Optic...

The government in Taiwan, quite concerned about the future development of small- and medium-sized IC design houses in the country, is seeking to leverage academic forces to help them develop AI edge technologies and foster first-class design talent i...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics (UMC) have reported sequential decreases in November consolidated revenues of 3.1% and 8.1%, respectively, while revenues at Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) incr...

Wireless charging devices for smartphones have experienced a remarkable decline in demand in 2018 due to poorer charging performance than traditional charging, and Taiwan MLCC suppliers do not expect the 2017 wireless charging fever to stage a comeba...

UnlimiterHear, a Taiwan-based hearing technology specialist, has teamed up with Airoha Technology to develop Bluetooth chips for hearing aids....

The arrest of Huawei's CFO Meng Wangzhou by the authorities of Canada could undermine the deployments of 5G base stations and networks in China, delaying demand for related components and materials for 5G equipment, according to sources at Taiwan's...

Having reported decreased sales for November, most Taiwan-based flat panel makers are expected to see their revenues continue to drift downward in December due to dwindling demand and falling panel prices, according to industry sources....

Chances are not high for leadframe suppliers to score double-digit revenue increases in 2019, and China leadframe supply chain can hardly emerge to threaten Taiwan peers, according to CN Huang, chairman of Taiwan's leadframe maker Chang Wah Technolo...

A Taiwan univeristy has unveiled a self-driving farming vehicle prototype jointly developed with Acer....

Overall revenues from Taiwan's server sector are expected to rise over 20% on year in 2018 with server shipments increasing over 10% on year, according to Digitimes Research figures. For 2019, Taiwan's server shipments will pick up another 7% on ye...

Taiwan's exports totaled US$27.81 billion in November 2018, dropping 5.9% sequentially and 3.4% on year, while the month's imports reached US$23.16 billion, falling 11.6% sequentially but rising 1.1% on year, according to the Ministry of Finance (M...

China's software industry consisting of 39,211 companies generated revenues of CNY5.051 trillion (US$752.4 billion) in January-October 2018, growing 15.1% on year, according to China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT)....

Networking IC design specialist Realtek Semiconductor has reported consolidated revenues of NT$4.05 billion (US$131 million) for November 2018, up 2.2% on month and 7.6% on year....

Winbond Electronics and Macronix International have reported sequential decreases in November consolidated revenues of 3.2% and 21.8%, respectively....

New-generation man-machine interaction in the post-smartphone era will be dominated by mobile + voice, with voice-control mobile devices to enjoy huge sales opportunities, according to Li Zhifei, founder and CEO of China AI startup Mobvoi....

PCB manufacturer Zhen Ding Technology has reported revenues of NT$14.92 billion (US$483.2 million) for November 2018, down 0.8% sequentially but up 0.1% on year....

Taiwan-based MOSFET chip firms Excelliance MOS and Sinopower Semiconductor have reported sequential increases in November revenues of 14% and 2%, respectively....

Taiwan-based passive component companies saw their November revenues decrease on month as a result of disappointing demand from the handset and PC segments....

AU Optronics (AUO) has announced its consolidated revenues for November reached NT$25.75 billion (US$834.69 million), down by 2.8% on month and 6.0% on year....

The arrest of Huawei's chief financial officer Meng Wangzhou threatens to further escalate the US-China trade tensions, significantly dimming business prospects for the China firm's supply chain partners in Taiwan....

Taiwan government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute's (ITRI) Service Systems Technology Center (SSTC) has developed a cold chain logistics solution based on sharing of cold chain logistics resources....

Foxconn Group chairman Terry Guo has urged businesses to play a role in balancing US-China trade, disclosing that his company will begin helping import more quality products to China....

Touch panel maker TPK Holding has reported decreased revenues for November as compared to a month earlier, citing weakened order dynamics from its major clients....

The government of Keelung has been keen on proceeding with smart city development in recent years, aiming to turn the harbor city in northern Taiwan into a people-serving city from the past cargo-serving one in the context of industrial upgrades and ...

Foxconn Industrial Internet (FII) vice chairman Jay Lee has noted that smart manufacturing is not meant to solve problems after they happen, but to foresee and predict the occurrence of problems....

HTC is striving to make a turnaround in 2019 by accelerating its development of blockchain-focused smartphones and new mobile products for the upcoming 5G era, according to industry sources....

Networking device makers Accton Technology and Sercomm have both reported strong sales for November, buoyed by inventory build-ups by clients amid US-China trade disputes....

As part of its taxation reforms, China will transfer the responsibility of collecting social insurance charges to tax bureaus to build a unified tax collection system, starting January 1, 2019. The move is expected to push up the personnel cost of ma...

Taiwan-based memory module makers have started landing orders transferred from their fellow China-based firms since September, according to industry sources....

Second-tier IC foundries intend to cut their quotes in order to vie for more orders in the first half of 2019, according to industry sources....

Qualcomm's new 7nm, 5G-ready Snapdragon 855 mobile SoC will power a number of new smartphones slated for launch in the first half of 2019, according to the company....

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has disclosed plans to build a new 8-inch wafer fab at its manufacturing site in Tainan, southern Taiwan to satisfy robust customer demand....

Epistar has diclosed it has triumphed over US-based Lowe's Home Center and China-based fellow maker Sanan Optoelectronics after its US patents concerning LED filament light bulb technology were upheld by the authorities....

MediaTek showcased at the China Mobile Global Partner Conference in Guangzhou on December 6 its first 5G baseband chipset Helio M70, which was launched in mid 2018....

Keyboard and CCM (compact camera module) maker Chicony Electronics and its power supply subsidiary Chicony Power Technology have reported November consolidated revenues of NT$8.165 billion (US$265 million) and NT$2.707 billion respectively, the forme...

PV and wind power firms have protested Taiwan's proposed cuts to feed-in-tariffs (FIT) for 2019, with developers who are building offshore wind farms in the country claiming reduced rates would make their projects unsustainale....

Compound semiconductor firms are conservative about order visibility for the first quarter of 2019 due partly to Apple cutting orders amid weaker-than-expected sales of new iPhones, according to industry sources....

Time-lapse camera maker Brinno has secured procurement of MAC series time-lapse surveillance cameras used in outdoor security monitoring from the governments of Fukushima and Aichi Prefectures, both in central Japan, according to the company....

Li-ion battery and Li-ion polymer battery maker Synergy ScienTech was listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE) at an initial price of NT$18 (US$0.58) per share on December 5, according to the company....

The commercialization of 5G communications will be realized starting in early 2019 with mobile device launches and network rollouts across North America, Europe, Japan, South Korea, Australia and China, according to Qualcomm president Cristiano Amon....

LFPO (lithium ferrous phosphorous oxide) batteries have started replacing mainstream VRLA (valve-regulated lead-acid) batteries for use in UPS (uninterruptible power supply) devices as prices of the former have slipped to a level similar to that of t...

LED driver IC supplier Macroblock is cautious about its business prospects for the fourth quarter of 2018 and first-quarter 2019 judging from a continued slowdown in customer orders....

It will take years for 5G applications to become popular, and business opportunities for 5G hardware supply chains are not visible for the moment, according to Frank Huang, chairman of Taiwan IoT Technology and Industry Association (TwIoTA)....

Applications of 5G will generate only symbolic rather than substantive economic benefits to suppliers of wireless compound semiconductor components devices such as radio frequency (RF) and power amplifier (PA) devices, with the devices most likely to...

Touch penal module maker General Interface Solution (GIS) has reported revenues of NT$15.92 billion (US$516.33 million) for November, down 12.1% on month but up 5.6% on year....

The Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE) has approved the listing application of copper clad laminate (CCL) supplier Ventec International, which expects to start trading on the TWSE mainboard in April 2019....

Samsung Display reportedly plans to convert one of its 8.5G LCD fabs, the L8-1, into a production base for the development of QD-OLED (quantum dot-OLED) panels with the transition process likely to begin in the middle of 2019, according to industry s...

Lens module maker Newmax Technology has reported increased sales for November, while fellow company Genius Electronic Optical, per request from Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE), has announced its profit performance for October....

Largan Precision on December 5 reported consolidated revenues of NT$4.008 billion (US$130 million) for November, the lowest monthly level since May 2018, decreasing 23.08% on month and 28.57% on year....

Taiwan-based Global Mixed-mode Technology (GMT), a supplier of analog and power management (PWM) ICs, has announced plans to launch a tender offer for fellow company Advanced Analog Technology (AAT)....