Last update: Wednesday 22 May 2013 [371 news items]
Foxconn to establish Cybermart IT mall in Taiwan
Jul 7, 01:45
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) will start establishing buildings for the Taipei IT mall project on July 11 with company chairman Terry Guo to attend the groundbreaking...
Foxconn announces plans to expand investments in China subsidiaries
Jul 5, 01:40
Taiwan-based electronics manufacturing service (EMS) provider Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has announced it will increase its investments in its subsidiaries in...
Taiwan notebook ODMs see slight sequential shipment growth in 2Q11
Jul 5, 01:30
Taiwan-based notebook makers, facing an impact from Japan's earthquake, competition from tablet vendors and the fact brand vendor significantly cleared inventory, saw their notebook...
HP, Acer, Asustek to raise supply proportion from Chongqing in 2H11
Jun 30, 01:30
Global notebook brand vendors Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Acer are set to significantly increase their notebook supply proportions from Chongqing, China in the second half of 2011 with...
Foxconn reportedly hires Unimicron executive to expand substrate business
Jun 24, 01:10
The Foxconn (Hon Hai) Group has hired Chu-Ching Hu, who in May resigned as head of Unimicron Technology's IC substrate division, to lead the substrate business unit of Foxconn Advanced...
Foxconn sets to establish new business facilities in Nanning, China
Jun 21, 15:48
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry), at a recent business meeting, pointed out that the company has jointly planned an investment project with the local government of...
Battery maker AcBel to benefit from cloud computing opportunity
Jun 16, 01:45
Taiwan-based battery maker AcBel expects its revenues to see a double-digit percentage growth in 2011, benefiting from cloud computing driving demand for server power supplies, according...
Intel new server platform expected to start large replacement trend
Jun 14, 01:15
Intel is set to launch a new server platform Romley in the third quarter of 2011 with social network websites such as Google and Facebook all planning to upgrade their servers by...
Foxconn prepares 5-year plan to boost its performance
Jun 9, 16:23
Taiwan-based electronic manufacturing service (EMS) provider Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) chairman Terry Guo, in response to investors' questions about the company...
Foxconn unveils plans to enter solar industry in 2H11
Jun 9, 10:36
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) is set to expand into the solar business in the second half of 2011, the company announced at its annual shareholders meeting on June...
Foxconn will not quit notebook manufacturing, says company chairman
Jun 9, 02:10
Taiwan-based electronics manufacturing service (EMS) provider Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) chairman Terry Guo, at a recent investors meeting, stated that Foxconn...
Computex 2011: Asustek announces Padfone, bundling smartphone with tablet PC
May 31, 01:20
Taiwan-based notebook brand vendor Asustek Computer, at its pre-Computex press conference, announced its Padfone, bundling a 4.3-inch smartphone with a 10-inch tablet PC for an estimated...

Foxlink to expand retail chains for Apple products in Asia
May 13, 13:56
Taiwan-based Foxlink plans to expand the number of its exclusive stores for Apple products in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Korea to 100 outlets by the end of the year, from 50 currently,...
Supply chain may not be able to satisfy demand from Apple
May 12, 01:05
Taiwan-based electronics manufacturing service (EMS) provider Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) is reportedly facing a shortage of both labor and materials at its plants...
Quanta sees revenues drop 20% on month in April
May 10, 01:05
Taiwan-based notebook maker Quanta Computer has announced consolidated revenues of NT$91.51 billion (US$3.2 billion) for April, down 20.1% on month and 5.67% on year with notebook...
Small-size panel shortage could impact 2Q11 DSC shipments
May 3, 01:10
Taiwan-based digital still camera (DSC) makers including Ability Enterprise, Altek, Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) and Asia Optical may see their DSC shipments in...
Foxconn announces on-year revenue growth in 2010
Apr 28, 16:29
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has announced consolidated revenues of NT$2.99 trillion (US$103.68 billion) for 2010, up 53.33% on year, with consolidated net profits...
Three Foxconn employees charged for leaking iPad 2 design, says report
Apr 28, 15:07
Three employees from Taiwan-based Foxconn Electronics' (Hon Hai Precision Industry's) plants in Shenzhen, China, have been charged with leaking iPad 2's design to outside accessory...
Foxconn confirms Brazil investment plans
Apr 14, 14:56
Taiwan-based Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has confirmed plans to invest in Brazil and pointed out that the company has been evaluating the Brazil investments for...
Foxconn, Chicony may be affected by Cisco discontinuing Flip
Apr 14, 01:20
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) and Chicony Electronics, which are the OEM partners for the Flip video camera, may see their orders affected if Cisco decides to discontinue...
Foxconn reportedly plans to establish 10 subsidiaries and list them on TSE within 5 years
Apr 7, 01:50
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) reportedly plans to establish 10 new subsidiaries within the next five years and is set to list them all on the Taiwan Stock Exchange...
Foxconn posts 18% drop in February revenues
Mar 11, 01:35
EMS provider Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has announced that revenues for February 2011 decreased 17.9% sequentially to NT$152.88 billion (US$5.15 billion). Accumulated...
Taiwan market: HP launches Sandy Bridge notebooks
Mar 9, 16:40
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has launched several new Intel Sandy Bridge-based notebooks in Taiwan, and as the company is starting to mass ship the notebook models in March, its upstream...

Foxconn refutes rumors about cutting into media business in Taiwan
Mar 3, 01:15
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has refuted a recent market rumor in Taiwan that the company plans to cut into the local media business, according to company spokesperson...
Surging demand changes small- to medium-size panel industry
Mar 2, 01:35
Amid the surging demand for smartphones and other applications for small- to medium-size panels, the overall small- to medium-size industry is changing with NEC to turn wholly owned...
Foxconn kicks off desktop PC production in Turkey
Mar 1, 13:35
As part of its global deployment for production capacity and reducing over-reliance on the labor force in China, Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Prevision Industry) has commenced production...
HP unsatisfactory performance to impact Taiwan upstream supply chain
Feb 24, 01:35
Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced revenues of US$32.3 billion during the period from November of 2010 to January of 2011, lower than market watchers' expectations of US$32.9 billion,...
Apple reduces iPad 2 mass production volume target
Feb 23, 17:08
Amid rumors that Apple is making adjustments in its iPad 2 design and is also facing issues over the device's touch panel yields, sources from upstream component makers pointed out...
Quanta Computer expected to see decreased orders from HP in 2Q11
Feb 23, 16:52
Quanta Computer will see orders received each month from Hewlett-Packard (HP) decrease from 1.2-2 million notebooks in the first quarter of 2011 to 800,000-1.2 million units in the...
Retail channel hoping for Sandy Bridge-based MacBook Pro by end of February
Feb 22, 01:00
Apple may launch an upgraded version of MacBook Pro notebooks before the end of February with the possibility of adopting Intel's Sandy Bridge processor, according to sources from...
China-based Sunning has no intention to enter Taiwan retail channel in the short term
Feb 17, 02:00
China-based channel retailer Sunning Appliance in response to questions whether the company has plans to cut into Taiwan's retail channel, chairman Zhang Jindong pointed out that...
Notebook shipments may see a sequential growth of 15-20% in 2Q11
Feb 15, 01:35
Upstream notebook supply chain players predict that notebook shipments in the second quarter of 2011 will have a chance to grow 15-20% sequentially benefiting by Intel's fixed notebook...
Foxconn reports on-year revenue gains for January
Feb 11, 01:35
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has announced revenues of NT$186.23 billion for January 2011, down 23.88% sequentially but up 36.6% from a year earlier. Shipments...
Quanta to start pilot production at Chongqing plants in March
Jan 27, 01:30
Taiwan-based notebook maker Quanta Computer will start pilot production for Hewlett-Packard's (HP's) orders at its plants in Chongqing, China in March with a volume of 40,000-60,000...
ASRock becomes the third-largest brand in motherboard industry in 2010
Jan 27, 01:15
Taiwan-based motherboard brand ASRock shipped eight million branded motherboards in 2010 and became the third-largest motherboard brand, surpassing Micro-Star International (MSI)...
- AUO aims at 20% market share for eTP touch panels for notebooks in 2013
- Digitimes Research: US new solar installations may only reach 3.5GW in 2013
- Solar cell prices may increase to US$0.43/W in Taiwan
- Sony Mobile to extend cooperation with ODM firms, says marketing executive
- Senao expanding retail chain in eastern China
- UDE likely to obtain orders from 2 game console vendors
- Lenovo 1Q13 net profit hikes 90% on year
- Phison warns several backend firms of possible patent infringement
- Facebook sets up OCP Taiwan
- Computex 2013: Memory module firms to showcase new SSDs
- Asia to be largest LTE market, says Nokia Siemens Networks greater China head
- ABB to produce PV inverters in South Africa
- TPV Technology suffers 1Q13 net loss of over US$10 million
- Digitimes Research: Seoul Semiconductor may see 2013 revenues up 40.3% on year
- Taiwan April manufacturing production index down, says MOEA
- Polarizer makers under price-cut pressure from clients
- AUO to supply panels for use in 2nd-gen Nexus 7, say sources
- US fab-tool book-to-bill stays above parity, says SEMI
- Intel, MediaTek and Elan taking up 60% of global touchscreen controller market
- HannStar to reach 95% utilization in 2Q13
- Windows 8 expected to take up 5-8% of global tablet shipments in 2013, say Taiwan makers
- Digitimes Research: Global LED tube light shipments to reach 220 million units in 2013
- Nvidia introduces GeForce GTX 780 GPU for gaming
- Quartz component maker TXC expects sales to rise through 4Q13
- Global LCD monitor OEM shipments down 14% on year in 1Q13, says TPV
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- GIGABYTE Launches the BRIX Ultra Compact PC Kit
- AEWIN Introduces Newest Multiplayer Gaming System SGA-5010
- Carry Technology Highlights Thunderbolt and Wi-Fi Card Reader Series
- Imagination says third party IP becoming a key driving force for silicon vendors
- EverFocus launches ECOR960 X1 16CH with better image quality and more affordable price
- 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
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| OTC electronic | 143.77 | -0.29 | -0.2% |

- Infineon ships security chips to Taiwan electronic passport program (May 23) - Company release
- Apple 'among largest tax avoiders in US' - Senate committee (May 21) - BBC News
- 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

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.
- 4Q12 trends in the Greater China touch panel industry
In the second half of 2012, the market focus is on the iPhone 5, which uses in-cell touch screen technology. Due to the integration of display panels and touch panel functions, the high technological threshold will mean Taiwan touch panel makers are unable to enter the iPhone supply chain.



















