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.
TAITRONICS (the 36th Taipei International Electronics Show), Taiwan RFID (the 4th Taiwan International RFID Applications Show), and Broadband Taiwan (the 3rd edition), co-organized by TAITRA and TEEMA, is scheduled for Oct. 11-14, 2010 at the TWTC Nangang Exhibition Hall. Global buyers who look to tap Taiwan's world-leading market share for chip resistors, WLAN NIC, and IP phones, and glo...
With the iPhone 4 selling well and user-friendly, functional iOS 4 operating system appealing to many, Apple expects to ship some 44.3 million iPhones in 2010 provided that supply keeps up to demand, according to the Topology Research Institute (TRi), the largest private market researcher and consultant in Taiwan. If Apple manages to launch the code division multiple access (CDMA) version iPho...
The government of Taiwan is vigorously working with the island's information and communications technology (ICT) sector on strategies to facilitate the development of cloud-computing industry. The emerging industry has been singled out as an area that could fast-forward the island's ICT sector into a leading provider of system-integration services incorporating software and hardware. Cloud co...
Global shipments of notebook PCs (including traditional notebook PCs, netbooks, and slate PCs) declined 11.2% quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) in the first three months of this year, a normal level for the low season, according to the Topology Research Institute (TRi), the largest private market research company in Taiwan. TRi said that global notebook PC shipments resumed positive growth in the secon...
Jason Chang, chairman of Taiwan's No.1 chip assembler, Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. (ASE), reported at a conference in early May that his company was busy boosting capacity to cope with a deluge of orders that stretched his production lines to the limit-and beyond. That was a sharp contrast to a serious capacity utilization recession that afflicted the island's chip assemblers in ...
Of the 181 entries, the jury short-listed 34 products for a COMPUTEX TAIPEI Design & Innovation Awards 2010, with four winners honored with the top prize of the COMPUTEX TAIPEI Gold Award at the awards presentation on the opening day of the 2010 Computex Taipei (Taipei International Information Technology Show), a top-two ICT trade fair globally held in Taiwan each early June. "This award is a...
Some promising developments are pushing Taiwan's solar-equipment manufacturers to invest in and market photovoltaic (PV) equipment: Encouraging official incentives offered to install PV equipment and bullish industrial outlook in 2010. The Taiwan government is mandating to subsidize 10-to-500KW PV installations, to a maximum of US$1.5 million per project and US$3,125 per KW using double-sided...
The flat panel display (FPD) industry in Taiwan turned out US$11.97 billion worth of productsin the first quarter of 2010, a 2.4% quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) decline but a 67.5% year-on-year (YoY) increase, according to the IEK-ITIS (Industry & Technology Intelligence Services) in Taiwan. FPDs made up US$8.2 billion of the total production value, a 5.5% QoQ decline but a 67.1% YoY increase, wit...
Both silicon foundries and memory-chip makers in Taiwan have at least one thing in common this year: the challenge of adding capacity to handle a deluge of orders-a sharp contrast to the situation at the height of the global economic downturn in 2008. No.1 foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) plans to spend US$4.8 billion on expansions this year, almost 80% more than the capit...
China will swap needed panel tech
Mar 17, 2010Taiwan is losing its lead in the global thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panel sector to formidable rivals in South Korea, and the decisive battlefield is in China where gaining dominant market share is critical, according to a research report released recently by the Topology Research Institute (TRi), the largest private market researcher in Taiwan. C.W. Lee, TRi’s displa...
