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.
With the gradual warming of the global economy, the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the world's largest consumer technology trade show, attracted more than 2,500 exhibitors who came from all over the world to show off their latest innovative products in Las Vegas, on Jan. 7-10. The Topology Research Institute (TRi), Taiwan’s largest private market research firm for information technology...
To accelerate development of the growing e-book industry in Taiwan, as well as attempt to boost the island into a leading position in the global market, the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) recently held the 2009 Flexible Display & Electronics Technology Exchange Conference, focusing on the next wave of progress in electronic books (e-books). More than 400 professionals from...
Global shipments of cellphones (excluding white-brand models) are forecasted to grow 12% to 1.33 billion units in 2010, including 235 million smartphones, after holding steady in 2009. The prediction was made by the Topology Research Institute (TRi), the largest private market-research firm in Taiwan. Chen Wei-hang, a telecom researcher at TRi, says that emerging markets, especially China ...
The 2010 global panel market
Nov 18, 2009Battered by the global-meltdown in 2009, when major financial institutions either collapsed or were bailed out by governments and the year of tightened credit given to consumers and corporations in many developed markets, the global thin-film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panel sector also suffered, undermined by steadily falling panel prices that even dipped below costs. Many maker...
Rising popularity of mobile broadband
Nov 16, 2009Driven by increasing netook (mini-note PC) shipments, the 2009 global personal computer (PC) market will see better-than-expected result at the year-end-with shipment to dip only 1.27% year-on-year (YoY) rather than the -2.4% as originally forecasted, according to Topology Research Institute (TRi) of Taiwan. Taiwan's largest private market research firm is optimistic about the 2010 global PC m...
Established in 1998, the E-One Moli Energy Corp. (which uses the Molicel brand) is a leading lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery maker in Taiwan that has become a medium-sized international player by focusing on niche markets. E-One Moli is, in fact, the world's second-largest supplier of Li-ion batteries for power tools and relatively mature battery electric vehicle (BEV) models such as the BMW...
Nano-grade high-molecular material
Oct 13, 2009The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) in Taiwan, regarded as the leading R&D center on the island engaged in pushing ahead various cutting-edge technologies, has again given Taiwan a bigger, more credible role in power storage development: the ITRI recently won a globally-renowned R&D Magazine's R&D 100 Award for developing STOBA, the high-safety lithium battery material, hence furt...
The flat panel display (FPD) sector in Taiwan achieved a production value of NT$310.7 billion (US$9.56 billion at US$1: NT$32.5) in the second quarter of 2009, a 35.9% quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) increase but a -37.1% year-on-year (YoY) decline, according to the IEK-ITIS (Industry & Technology Intelligence Services), a government-sponsored industry researcher in Taiwan. FPDs contributed to N...
The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan's foremost technology research organization, beat over more than 500 competitors (including HP, Livescribe, and Motorola) to win first prize in the Consumer Electronics category of the Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Awards with a highly innovative, paper-thin, flexible speaker dubbed the "fleXpeaker." The fleXpeaker is...
Electronic-paper (e-paper) technology has continued to undergo progress since its birth in the late 1990s, after which e-paper makers have been engaged in R&D, sampling, small-batch production to finally realize mass production in 2008. Basically e-paper or electronic ink display is a technology designed to mimic the appearance of ordinary ink on paper. Unlike a conventional flat panel disp...
