After years of business development, Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd. (CPT), major supplier of thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels in Taiwan, recently announced having shipped more than 10 million automotive-application panels in 2014. In addition to panels for automotive navigation and infotainment systems, CPT has been developing more products for the booming application...

Tsai Wen-rong, president of Yulon Nissan Motor Co., agent in Taiwan of Nissan and Infiniti and 2014's No.2 auto vendor in Taiwan by sales volume, recently announced the advanced launch of its Taiwan-assembled Nissan X-Trail sport utility vehicle (SUV) in May, a quarter earlier than the original schedule. The new SUV, according to Tsai, is expected generate monthly sales of about 1,000 units, as w...

Berg Insight estimates that total shipments of embedded car OEM telematics systems reached 8.4 million units worldwide in 2013. Growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30.6%, the shipments are expected to reach 54.5 million units in 2020. The global automotive industry has been undergoing rapid changes in recent yeas with major technological advancements in areas including powertrai...

Continuing a growth trend from 2013, when about 80 million units were sold, sales of new cars worldwide increased by about 4% to reach some 85 million units in 2014, though regional markets showed ups and downs, according to the Automotive Research & Testing Center (ARTC), Taiwan's leading transportation vehicle R&D and testing institute. Asia In Asia, new-car sales grew by 7% from 2013...

The new management team of Sanyang Motor Co., Ltd. (maker of SYM branded motor scooters in Taiwan and formerly Sanyang Industry Co., Ltd.) recently announced several developments at a press conference, including its new English corporate title and new policies. The press conference was the first since the new management team took over the helm in July, 2014. Sanyang remains as its Chinese corp...

With road safety often compromised due to inclement weather, erratic driver behavior, drunk driving etc. that can result in sizable compensation handed out by courts after lawyers, defendants and prosecutors show proof, especially in rule-of-law nations, coupled with rapid development of various types of vehicle safety systems onboard, as well as increasing popularity of vehicle digital video rec...

Head-up displays or HUDs in private or personal vehicles have long been exclusive to upscale cars, having been adopted from military aircrafts to easily display instrumentation on windshields without interrupting a driver's focus on road. Gradually carmakers are introducing HUDs in more popularly-priced vehicles, often as standard equipment. Hence luxury brands are seeking to differentiate their ...

As smartphones cannibalized product sales in other small/medium flat-panel-display (FPD) categories in 2014, automotive display revenues rose to become the second-highest growth category, according to IHS. Based on the latest information from the IHS Technology Quarterly Small/Medium Shipment and Forecast Report, in 2014, automotive display revenues (not including aftermarket displays) inc...

Sales of new cars in Taiwan continued to increase in 2014 to some 424,000 units, a 9-year high, with total number of used cars sold on the island exceeding that of new ones. Eyeing the growing used car market in Taiwan, two major auto vendors, Hotai Motor Co. Ltd. and China Motor Corp. (CMC), have been aggressively developing such sales channels by tapping the ample supply of makes and mod...

CPC Corp., reportedly Taiwan's largest petrochem and fossil energy company, recently announced a partnership with local petrochem company Excel Corp. and petrochem logistic firm Uni-Shine Chemical Corp. to produce lubricants and solvents in Vietnam. With total investment of NT$1.58 billion (US$52.6 million), the joint venture is scheduled to kick off mass production by 2017 with annual production...