Last update: Wednesday 15 May 2013 [210 news items]
Quanta adopts low profile about cloud computing business
May 15, 20:09
Quanta Computer Chairman Barry Lam, at the company's recent inventors meeting, has stopped talking about the company's cloud computing business lineup and only said that the business...
Chunghwa Telecom, IBM cooperate to launch Smart PaaS in Taiwan
May 10, 15:54
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), the largest fixed-line and mobile telecom carrier in Taiwan, on May 9 announced cooperation with IBM Taiwan to launch Smart PaaS (platform as a service), a...
Taiwan makers struggle to benefit from fast growing cloud computing storage market
May 3, 15:00
While global demand for cloud computing-based storage has been growing fast, it is difficult for Taiwan-based hardware makers to enjoy such business opportunities because cloud computing-based...
Inventec focuses on cloud computing business by developing data center server solutions
Apr 30, 10:42
Taiwan-based ODM Inventec has stepped into the cloud computing business with a focus on developing server solutions for data centers, and has participated in collaborative development...
Asustek cooperates with subsidiary to launch in-car cloud computing navigation system
Apr 23, 21:48
Asustek Computer on April 23 announced the adoption of a smart cloud computing-based navigation system for 35 Toyota electric cars to be available for rent in the Sun Moon Lake scenic...
Taiwan market: GigaCloud launches cloud computing services for SMBs
Apr 3, 10:39
Taiwan-based GigaCloud on April 2 announced the launch of SaaS (software as a service) public cloud computing services in the Taiwan market, targeting small and medium businesses...
Asustek to offer cloud computing services through cooperation with Taipei City Government
Apr 2, 22:12
Asustek Computer on April 2 signed an MOU with the Taipei City Government for cooperation to set up five cloud computing application platforms providing cloud computing services in...

Taiwan market: Canon launches three cloud computing photo MFPs
Mar 20, 15:02
Canon Marketing (Taiwan) has unveiled three Canon PIXMA series cloud computing photo MFP (multi-function peripheral) models, MG6370, MG5470 and MX927, for immediate launch in the...

Taiwan government setting up environment cloud computing platform
Mar 13, 11:11
Taiwan is constructing a cloud computing platform for environmental administration with a 4-year budget of NT$600 million, according to Environmental Protection Administration (EPA...
Acer starts AcerCloud service worldwide
Feb 18, 23:04
Acer has announced the activation of its cloud computing service platform AcerCloud worldwide. The platform crosses three major operating systems and the company expects to attract...
Mobile and cloud computing spur tripling of micro server shipments in 2013, says IHS
Feb 7, 15:54
Driven by booming demand for new data center services for mobile platforms and cloud computing, shipments of micro servers are expected to more than triple in 2013, according to an...
In Win Development and partners launch cloud computing appliances
Jan 29, 19:52
In Win Development, a Taiwan-based PC/server chassis and power supply maker, and its partners including SaveCom International, Lancer Systems, Advanced Control & Systems and NetVision...
Taipei City to develop cloud computing industry parks
Jan 23, 14:23
The Taipei City Government has announced plans to develop cloud computing industry parks on three suburban sites in the city based on a BOT (build-operate-transfer) model.
Jan 3, 16:31
China-based Huawei Technologies has always been known for its telecom technologies and equipment, but seeing the rise of cloud computing, the company has also become aggressive about...

Asustek forms health cloud computing alliance
Dec 20, 13:40
Asustek Computer on December 19 formed a health cloud computing alliance through cooperation with Taiwan-based Show Chwan Health Care System to establish a cloud computing ecosystem...
Taiwan market: Chunghwa Telecom launches additional business-use cloud computing services
Nov 23, 15:29
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), having launched HiCloud Mall, on November 22 introduced additional internally-developed enterprise-use cloud computing services, HiCloud VPC (virtual private...
CHT to invest in visual effects cloud computing service
Nov 22, 21:34
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) on November 21 signed a memorandum of understanding with US-based visual effects producer Rhythm & Hues Studios (R&H) to establish a Cloud for Animation...
Notebook ODMs offer extra services to attract tablet orders
Nov 19, 22:55
With notebook shipments estimated to only have a single-digit percentage growth on year in 2013, notebook ODMs including Quanta Computer, Compal Electronics and Wistron, are aggressively...
Taiwan market: Toshiba debuts cloud computing HDD
Nov 19, 13:40
Toshiba Digital Media Network Taiwan, Toshiba Storage Products' subsidiary responsible for marketing Toshiba hard disk drives (HDDs) in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia,...
SAP seeking partnerships with Taiwan makers to offer cloud computing solutions
Oct 19, 10:59
SAP AG is seeking Taiwan-based hardware ODMs/OEMs for partnership to offer hardware/software-integrated cloud computing solutions to compete with database applications from Oracle,...
Taiwan ODMs seek cooperation with software providers to offer cloud computing solutions
Oct 2, 14:09
With more and more companies outsourcing data center operations to cloud computing service providers, Taiwan-based hardware ODMs have been seeking cooperation with cloud computing...
Taiwan government opens Cloud Open Lab
Sep 25, 16:11
The Taiwan government on September 24 started operation of Cloud Open Lab, a platform for matching software application providers, mainly independent software vendors (ISVs) and system...
Notebook ODMs expect surging growth in cloud computing business in 2013
Sep 25, 01:25
As cloud computing business opportunities are expanding, several notebook ODMs have been aggressively pushing their related business segments and expect strong revenue growth from...
Taiwan government starts health cloud pilot project through cooperation with Microsoft
Sep 18, 15:05
Taiwan's Department of Health (DOH) on September 17 announced the beginning of a pilot project of cloud computing applied to health information management through HealthVault, a Microsoft-developed...
Sep 13, 16:23
The Taiwan government will establish a platform for developing and testing solutions based on cloud computing technology to offer public services. The platform will aim to match demand...
Taiwan market: TWM cooperates with Evernote to offer personal cloud computing services
Aug 31, 15:53
Taiwan Mobile (TWM), one of the three largest mobile telecom carriers in Taiwan, on August 30 announced cooperation with California-based Evernote to promote its notetaking personal...
Quanta announces 2Q12 results; details future planning
Aug 31, 01:20
Quanta Computer has announced its financial report for the second quarter with net profit after tax of NT$5.99 billion (US$200.06 million) and EPS at NT$3.80, helping the company's...
Quanta to establish R&D building in Taiwan and recruit software talent in Taiwan
Aug 30, 01:20
Quanta Computer is set to establish new building in Taiwan for R&D purposes and plans to recruit 4,000 software technicians to focus on developing the cloud computing market,...
Quanta to offer procurement management cloud computing services
Aug 22, 16:01
Quanta Computer has begun offering cloud computing services with its in-house-developed TEAMS system to manage idle materials at factories, and will launch PPM, a procurement management...
Inventec to begin offering educational cloud computing services in 4Q13
Aug 22, 01:05
Inventec has started trial operations of educational cloud computing services in Taiwan and plans to set up a pricing model for services and related devices to begin commercial operations...
Quanta aiming to move all notebook production lines to Chongqing by 2014
Aug 16, 01:25
Quanta Computer is aiming to move all its notebook production lines except those for Apple's products to Chongqing, China within two years and estimates that its notebook shipments...
Lenovo may face difficulty entering cloud computing market, says HP executive
Aug 9, 14:40
Commenting on Lenovo's joint venture with EMC, managing director and vice president of enterprise business for Hewlett-Packard (HP) Taiwan Jon Wang has said that there is a huge boundary...
Intel pushes SSD business into the enterprise market
Aug 9, 01:00
Intel, seeing cloud computing demand continuing to heat up, is accelerating its solid state drive (SSD) development targeting datacenter applications, and has also developed High...
Quanta chairman reportedly may invest in VMware
Jul 31, 01:25
Quanta Computer chairman Barry Lam has recently sold shares totaling a 1.67% stake in Quanta through global depositary receipts (GDR) for a price of US$150 million, accounting for...
PC players need to consider selling smart services in the post-PC era, says Quanta chairman
Jul 19, 01:10
Quanta Computer chairman Barry Lam, at a cloud computing forum, pointed out that the PC industry will need consider how to sell smart services in the post-PC era, instead of focusing...

- China market: Several smartphone components in short supply
- AUO supply of iPad mini panels in 2Q13 expected to slip sequentially
- Demand for small-size panel driver ICs stays strong
- Innolux, AUO differ in strategies for tapping China smartphone panel market
- Asustek unveils Intel 8 series motherboards
- Wintek to reportedly set up joint venture 6G touch panel factory in China with Nanjing Panda Electronics
- PCB firm Apex 2Q13 sales to rise over 10%
- Taiwan LED firms to attend Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition 2013
- Touch screen notebook shipments reach 4.57 million units in 1Q13, says Displaybank
- Asia Pacific leads worldwide mobile phone sales growth in 1Q13, says Gartner
- Mobile DRAM revenues slip 5% in 1Q13, says DRAMeXchange
- SMA Technology sees 1Q13 revenues fall on year
- SunPower announces fiscal 2013 financial guidance
- LED plant factory market to reach US$1.2 billion in 2013, says PIDA
- Suntech agrees on new forbearance agreement with converible note holders
- BlackBerry to offer BBM on Android and iOS platforms
- New generation iPhone may adopt sapphire crystal glass for home button
- Ledlink to begin LED lighting shell volume production in May-June
- Ruggedized PC vendors eyeing 7- to 8-inch tablet market
- Equipment maker Acter sees profits down in 1Q13
- Soft-World sees over 50% of 1Q13 profit from 3 subsidiaries
- Corning introduces Lotus XT Glass
- Synnex Technology reports profits for 1Q13
- HannStar Display posts 1Q13 profits
- Taiwan market: HTC, Samsung optimistic about May sales
- Digitimes Research: Rising mobile device demand drives TSMC, UMC wafer shipment growth in 2Q13
- Digitimes Research: Battery technologies regain focus as energy storage demand rises
- Digitimes Research: LED light bulb prices in Japan fall in April
- Digitimes Research: Sapphire 2-inch substrate prices to be around US$8/unit in 2013
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- DIGIEVER partnership with EverFocus for better professional network surveillance solutions
- Advantech Introduces New 18" and 21" Widescreen Multitouch Panel PCs
- Digital Network Fuels Opportunities in Vehicle Surveillance Market
- Advantech Redefines Entry Level Network Application Platforms
- WD shipping world's first 5 mm 2.5-inch hard drive
- Embracing the New Generation Intel Atom Family with DDR3 Memory Support
- Got The Message? Ensuring efficient and reliable delivery of content across a mission critical digital signage network
- Emb' Store On-Demand Software Service for Embedded Computing
- Efficient Network Management for Digital Signage
- Design Benefits of the MI/O Extension Solution
- ATO Solution Co., Ltd. to launch 1Gb SLC NAND Flash after 256Mb/512Mb mass production for the first time in Fab-less industry
- Chilisin's miniature power inductor in 0603/0805 sizes
- Chilisin introduces Thin-film chip inductor 0201 size
- Chilisin at 2012 electronics Munich A5/159 & 260
- Chilisin sunken-type molded power inductor for MXM Graphic application
17-May-2013 markets closed
| Last | Change |
| TAIEX (TSE) | 8368.19 | -21.86 | -0.26% |

| TSE electronic | 316.17 | -0.60 | -0.19% |

| GTSM (OTC) | 119.56 | +0.49 | +0.41% |

| OTC electronic | 143.91 | +0.93 | +0.65% |

- Weak eurozone growth hits euro (May 15) - The Financial Times
- German factory orders rise for second month (May 7) - Bloomberg
- Eurozone retail sales fall for second consecutive month (May 6) - BBC News
- China economy to stay commodity-oriented, says JPMorgan (April 16) - Bloomberg
- S Korea in US$15.3 billion stimulus bid to spur economic growth (April 16) - BBC News
- Gold hit by sharpest tumble in 30 years (April 16) - CNN
- FBI probes Boston 'terror' blasts (April 16) - BBC News
- China GDP growth slows to 7.7% (April 14) - Wall Street Journal

Opportunity lies for MEMS energy harvesting: Q&A with Holst Centre general manager Bert Gyselinckx
Digitimes recently interviewed Bert Gyselinckx, general manager of the Holst Centre in Eindhoven, to...

Returning with stronger competitiveness: Q&A with Lu Li-Cheng, Chaintech chairman
Chaintech, a motherboard/graphics card maker, which quit the market once and returned recently, has...

MEMS-enabled energy harvesting: Q&A with MIG executive director Karen Lightman
Digitimes recently spoke with Karen Lightman, the executive director of MEMS Industry Group (MIG),...

Complete mobile platform solutions: Q&A with Broadcom executive VP Robert Rango
In a relentless competition against rivals including Qualcomm, Nvidia and Media in the smartphone chipset...
- Smartphone and tablet industry: The view from Taiwan - May 2012
Taiwan-based companies have a long and successful history of involvement in the supply chain for mobile devices, which for the purposes of this article consist...
- Taiwan motherboard industry overview - May 2012
The year 2011 saw the motherboard industry reverse its trend of declining shipments year-on-year, to post a slight 0.2% growth. This upturn in fortunes was expected...
- Notebook market overview - Jun 2011
The notebook industry in 2010 experienced several major events that significantly changed the industry's ecosystem for the year and the industry is also believed...
- LCD TV overview - Jun 2011
Growth of the global LCD TV market was not as strong as expected in 2010 as the market continued to feel the aftershocks of the economic recession that had hit...
- Trends and shipment forecast for 2H 2012 tablet market
Digitimes Research remains conservative about the prospects for the period, with half-year shipments projected to reach 49.18 million units and whole-year shipments being revised downward to 88.69 million units.
- Trends in the China video market
In addition to strong potential video content demand in China, the market has developed rapidly due to government intervention and delays in establishing copyright protections.
- Trends in Asia LED chip manufacturing industry
Asia is playing an ever more important role in upstream LED chip manufacturing. The region accounted for 80% of MOCVD demand in 2011 and will account for 90% in 2012, largely because Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and China are the major global centers for LED chip production.























