These are in-depth pre- and post-show reports on major international trade fairs, held in Taiwan and other countries with significant participation by Taiwanese manufacturers and exporters. They are offered to help global buyers and other readers better understand what is going on at the fairs and the latest offerings by Taiwanese exhibitors.
The 7-category contest is in its 6th year The Computex Taipei 2013 trade show hosted the sixth annual Computex d&i Competition, with the jury having selected five winners for the Gold Award out of 90 award winners. The product design and innovation competition, co-hosted by the Taiwan Exteral Trade Development Council (TAITRA) and iF Design of Germany, as well as organized by the iF Branch ...
The 2013 global smartphone market will see high market penetration and popularly-priced products, according to Topology Research Institute, a Taiwan-based market research organization. Kelly Hsieh, TRI manager, predicts some 1.86 billion mobile phones to be shipped worldwide in 2013, up 4.49% year on year, of which 860 million will be smartphones, for year-on-year increase of 26.47% and marke...
A survey of 341 Taiwanese optoelectronics manufacturers from the LED (light emitting diode), photovoltaic, LCD (liquid crystal display), and opto-communications sectors, conducted by the non-profit Photonics Industry Technology and Development Association (PIDA), revealed relatively weak confidence in the industry’s outlook for this quarter. The median score, on a scale of 0-100, was 42, down fro...
Mainland China’s photovoltaqic (PV) manufacturers, hit by antidumping probes in major markets (notably America and the European Union), have started looking for cooperation with Taiwanese suppliers while scaling down production at their own facilities. To the Taiwanese suppliers, this looks pretty much like a windfall. But M.J. Wang, a market research fellow at the Industrial Economics & Knowl...
Four of 10 Gold Award winners are 3C products Most observers and insiders agree that, while eying Apple as real-world example, Taiwanese entrepreneurs, enterprises on the island and overseas have little option but to invest in innovation to upgrade global competitiveness, for relying on being OEM may have worked before but no longer. Emerging, hardship-habituated rivals in China and elsewhere ...
The five Gold Award winners of the COMPUTEX d&i awards 2012 were honored during the official opening of the 2012 COMPUTEX TAIPEI (Taipei International Information Technology Show) held in early June. COMPUTEX TAIPEI is one of the world's largest information and communication technology (ICT) trade fairs. Forty-four entries received the exceptional innovation and design achievement award, out o...
Taipei, Sept. 13, 2012 (CENS)--Global shipments of smartphones are likely to nearly double by 2016 from 2012’s projected 567 million systems thanks to more rollouts of exciting products as iPhone5, according to market research organization NPD DisplaySearch. The Santa Clara, California-based organization released the forecast yesterday. Hiroshi Hayase, the company’s vice president tracking...
Taiwan’s light emitting diode (LED) makers are shifting production into high gear in preparation for a predicted market upsurge in the next few years. Digitimes Research, a market consulting firm that tracks information-technology markets, estimates that the global market for LED light bulbs will rise to 2.5 billion units in 2013, up from 596 million this year. Over the same period, the numbe...
At a conference held in mid-October, specialists from Taiwan’s academia, think tanks, trade bodies and manufacturers unanimously urged the government to take immediate measures before the island’s light emitting diode (LED) industry sinks into the abyss miring the dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and liquid crystal display (LCD) segments, both of which boasted iconic status. They suggest t...
The Pihsiang Electric Vehicle Manufacturing Co. (PEVMC), a fully-owned subsidiary of Taiwan’s Pihsiang Machinery Manufacturing Co. (PMMC), recently announced its first urban electric vehicle (EV) model and its own "ACHENSA" brand for all auto products that the Pihsiang Group will manufacture in the future. Donald Wu, chairman of both companies, claimed during the ceremony introducing the E...
