Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) remained the world’s No.1 pure IC foundry supplier in 2013 with market share of 46% and revenue of US$19.8 billion when global sector sales surged 14% year on year to US$42.8 billion, according to market consultant IC Insights. The growth was eight percentage points more than the 6% increase achieved by the total IC market, shows IC Insights’ 2014 ...

The Industrial Economics & Knowledge Center (IEK) of Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute recently warned that the global information and communication technology (ICT) market is showing weak demand in 2014, in which the annual market growth of tablet PCs and smartphones are estimated to be lower than 10%, while desktop and notebook PC shipments are expected to continue falling. The ...

Thanks to falling production costs resulting in declines in average selling prices (ASPs), shipments of 4K×2K, or UHD (Ultra High Definition) desktop monitors are expected to increase steadily, according to the NPD DisplaySearch. Even as overall desktop monitor demand is estimated to fall to 133 million units in 2014, 4K×2K UHD monitor shipments will reach two million units, the research firm ...

T.C. Guo, chairman of Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd. (Foxlink) of Taiwan, recently said that his company's major revenue growth momentum in 2014 will come from wearable devices, automotive electronics, smartphones and game consoles. Foxlink designs, manufactures and sells connectors, cable assemblies, power management devices, battery packs on an OEM/ODM basis for many of the world's l...

At a forum held on Jan. 22 addressing Taiwan’s economic problems, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) Chairman Morris Chang suggested that the government should let in foreign talents as a quick fix of the island’s worsening personnel shortage. Chang, whose company is the world’s No.1 supplier of tailor-made chips, pointed out that Taiwan needs a quick supply of talents to strength...

Although Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) was ranked the world’s No.2 chipmaker in 2013 in terms of installed silicon-wafer capacity, next only to Samsung, it unseated Intel as the world’s No.1 supplier of logic ICs, according to market consultant IC Insights, which recently released its 2013 rankings of the world’s top-10 chipmakers. IC Insights’ report showed as of December 2013...

Interest in 4K2K, or ultra high definition (UHD), TVs is heating up as the emerging technology transitions from early adopters to more mainstream consumers. Rapidly falling prices, particularly in China, will fuel adoption, according to NPD DisplaySearch. AU Optronics Corp. (AUO), Innolux Display Corp. and other Taiwanese makers of thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels hav...

The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), a technology innovation and invention hub in Taiwan, once again proves its prowess by winning three of the 2013 R&D 100 Awards, given to the 100 most technologically-significant products introduced to market over the past year. The three winning technologies this year include the virtual input device, the production of biofuel with sizably less...

Six technology R&D projects funded by Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) won the 2013 R&D 100 Awards, given by the R&D Magazine of the United States to recognize the world’s 100 most technologically significant products, according to MOEA. Three of the six projects were introduced by the Industry Technology Research Institute (ITRI), two by the Institute for Information Industry (III...

Computex Taipei 2013 attracted over 130,000 attendees during its June 4-8 run, including 38,000 foreign buyers from 173 economies, and generated an estimated US$25 billion worth of business, according to Chairman C.K. Wang of the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), one of the show’s organizers. The estimated business opportunities resulting from Computex, Wang noted, are equal...