Last update: Tuesday 20 November 2012 [28 news items]
Developing innovative energy technology: Q&A with Siemens president and CEO Peter Loscher
Nov 20, 14:40
Germany-based Siemens introduced an environmental portfolio in 2011 to help reduce gas emissions by 317 million tons. According to Peter Loscher, president and CEO of Siemens, climate...

Digitimes Research: More offshore wind power systems in non-EU countries
Nov 14, 14:33
In the past, Europe has been the main market for offshore wind-generated electricity and about more than 50% of the systems are located in the UK. Over the past two years, a surge...

Onshore wind converter market to encounter turbulence, says IMS Research
Sep 10, 10:27
In the global market for wind converters, nearly 80% of revenues in 2011 were attributed to utility-scale onshore projects, but are forecast to account for less than 70% of the total...
Solar technology needs upgrades, says China State Counsellor
Aug 20, 14:59
To face the growing challenges, the China government should aggressively increase domestic demand and upgrade the technology of the solar supply chain, according to Dinghuan Shi,...

China market: Poor-quality solar PV systems to cause future problems
Aug 16, 14:01
China has been actively expanding domestic demand of solar products due to trade barriers in US and possibly in EU. Nevertheless, industry sources indicated concerns that China's...

Taiwan plans tidal wave installations of 30MW
Aug 10, 14:57
Taiwan's National Science Council has been planning to install 30MW of tidal wave systems using the Kuroshio Current to generate power within four years.
Commentary: Poland has potential to build a strong renewable energy sector
Jun 14, 15:45
Compared to countries in the same region, Poland seems promising. From the printed version of The Economist on June 9, Poland's latest GDP was 3.5%. This relatively high...
Commentary: US, China renewable energy trade war continues
Jun 1, 11:29
Following the announcement of anti-dumping duties on China-made solar cells that range from 31-250% by the US Department of Commerce, more anti-subsidy duties have been levied on...
Teco revenues grow 11% on year in 2011
Jan 13, 15:22
Motor maker Teco has posted revenues of NT$26.07 billion (US$869 million) for 2011, increasing 11.2% from a year earlier. The company expects wind-power generating equipment to account...
Siemens cooperates with 4 Taiwan companies to develop offshore wind power
Nov 18, 16:17
Viewing that Taiwan is suitable for developing offshore power in the Taiwan Strait, Germany-based Siemens has cooperated with four Taiwan-based enterprises to develop offshore wind...

China plans to spend 5 trillion yuan on developing new energy industries in 2011-2020
Sep 30, 14:23
A plan to spend five trillion yuan (US$747.3 billion) from 2011 to 2020 on the development of new energy industries has reportedly been submitted to China's State Council, and the...
Advantech scores points in tapping China market of wind power generators
Jul 15, 15:52
Industrial PC maker Advantech has participated in the supply chain of wind power-generating equipment in the China market through supplying computerized controllers for the main China-based...
Teco unveils 2MW power-generating wind turbine
Mar 24, 11:41
Taiwan-based Teco Electric & Machinery, the world's third largest producer of industrial motors, on March 23 debuted a 2MW (megawatt) power-generating wind turbine equipped with...
Wind rotor blade material maker Swancor expected to see revenues grow 50% in 2010
Newswatch - Feb 4, 16:25
Swancor Industrial, a Taiwan-based supplier for wind rotor blade materials, LED packaging materials and epoxy resin products, is expected to see its revenues expand 50% in 2010 due...
Taiwan market: Renewable energy feed-in tariff subsidization to be available for application soon
Jan 14, 11:34
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has set feed-in tariff rates for renewable energy, and the subsidization is expected to be available for application by renewable energy...
Lelon seeing stable orders of wind power capacitors
Oct 2, 15:55
Aluminum electrolytic capacitor maker Lelon Electronics is seeing stable orders for wind power products. Lelon said it expects to expand shipments to an existing customer and products...
Taiwan PV feed-in tariff rates too low to attract investment, say PV makers
Sep 25, 15:30
The tentative feed-in tariff rates for photovoltaic (PV) power generation proposed by the Bureau of Energy (BE) under Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs are too low to offer incentives...
Capacitor maker Chinsan sees 1H09 profit
Sep 1, 14:28
Aluminum electrolytic capacitor maker Taiwan Chinsan Electronic Industrial has reported net profit of NT$212 million (US$6.45 million) for the first half of 2009 with a net EPS of...
Capacitor maker Lelon expects high-margin products to boost profit in 3Q09
Aug 31, 14:20
Lelon Electronics has said it has adjusted its product mix and average selling price (ASP) of some of its product lines since the beginning of the third quarter in order to improve...
Solar, wind power to enable base station market, says In-Stat
Aug 27, 16:47
By 2014, over 230,000 cellular base stations in developing countries will be solar-powered or wind-powered, according to In-Stat.
Taiwan, China groups sign MOU for cooperation on wind energy
Aug 19, 11:23
The Taiwan Wind Energy Association (TWEA) and its China counterpart, the Chinese Wind Energy Association, on August 18 signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for cooperation in...
Top-two China wind energy providers look to cooperate with Taiwan-based Teco
Aug 18, 11:30
Sinovel Wind and Goldwind Science and Technology, the two largest China-based providers of wind power-generating solutions and equipment, expressed their willingness to cooperate...
Taiwan hopes to cooperate with China in wind energy technology and market
Aug 18, 11:09
The Taiwan government hopes that Taiwan's suppliers of wind power-generating equipment and services can cooperate with their China counterparts to set product standards, train manpower...
Taiwan hosts cross-strait forum on wind power
Aug 17, 12:22
The Taiwan government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and the Taiwan Wind Energy Association are jointly holding a cross-strait wind power generation forum...
China aims at 100 million KW wind power-generating capacity in 2020, says paper
Jul 31, 16:44
The China government is making efforts to promote wind power generation in line with its renewable energy policies. Wind power-generating farms around China are scheduled to reach...
Taiwan and China energy experts to hold wind power meeting in Taipei
Jul 31, 11:51
Energy experts from Taiwan and China are scheduled to hold a conference on wind power generation on August 17 in Taipei.
Taiwan renewable energy law promises huge business opportunities for PV and wind power
Jun 16, 10:33
Taiwan's Renewable Energy Development Statute enacted on June 12 will generate business opportunities with an estimated value of NT$360 billion (US$11.1 billion) for photovoltaic...
Capacitor maker Lelon cuts into wind power market
Jan 6, 17:12
Aluminum electrolytic capacitor maker Lelon Electronics has cut into the wind power market, having received orders from one wind power system maker totaling NT$70-80 million (US$2.12-2.42...
Globalfoundries lands wafer start orders from China-based Rockchip
Bits + chips | 7h 58min ago
Everlight Electronics expects increases in revenue proportion of LED backlights, lighting in 2013
LED | 8h 17min ago
Prices of smartphone and tablet solutions to drop 10-20% in 2H13
Bits + chips | 8h 21min ago
NPC 2013 capex to focus on FC CSP substrates, says president
Bits + chips | 8h 31min ago
Samsung offers subsidies, Asustek cuts prices to promote tablet sales in Brazil, say local channels
IT + CE | 9h 23min ago
China-based TV vendors to procure over 30 million panels from Taiwan makers, says CVIA vice president
Displays | 10h 18min ago
Connector makers worried about price competition arising from Foxconn spinning off NWInG
Before Going to Press | 9h 8min ago
DRAM shortages to continue for 3 years, says Inotera executive
Before Going to Press | 9h 20min ago
Chin-Poon expanding share in global automobile board market
Before Going to Press | 10h ago
Taiwan vendors, ODMs turn conservative about 2H13 notebook shipments
Before Going to Press | 10h 12min ago
Lite-On IT to start production of LED light bulbs in 3Q13
Before Going to Press | 10h 26min ago
Taiwan market: ViewSonic to launch Full HD projectors by end of 2013
Before Going to Press | 10h 32min ago
Foxconn to start production of 70-inch Ultra HD TVs in 1Q14
Before Going to Press | 10h 33min ago
China has no schedule for hiking customs duty on TV panels, says CVIA vice president
Before Going to Press | 10h 34min ago
JDI, CPT, Innolux see increased orders for large-size panels from smartphone vendors, say Taiwan makers
Before Going to Press | 10h 39min ago
- First-tier players may release smartphones that adopt heat pipes by the end of the year
- Chipbond ramping up testing capacity for advanced driver ICs
- Wintek to benefit from Google and Amazon touch panel orders
- CVIA: China to purchase 30 million TV panels from Taiwan makers
- Taiwan makers see booming orders for smartphone tablet accessories
- Taiwan IC design houses reducing exposure in NAND flash controller market
- Taiwan LED Lighting Industry Alliance to propose Taiwan-China common standards for LED lighting
- Panel supply shortage likely to affect second-tier handset shipments
- China smartphone shipments grow 117% on year in 1Q13, says IDC
- Kinsus sets 2013 capex at record NT$4.5-5 billion
- Taiwan market: Handset shipments in 1Q13 hit record, says IDC
- Asustek expects 10% sequential drop in 2Q13 notebook and tablet shipments
- Taiwan market: Taiwan Mobile to launch VoIP at M+
- Mixed-signal technology to dominate global chipset market: Q&A with Dialog Semiconductor CEO Jalal Bagherli
- Taiwan market: Tablet sales in 2013 to reach nearly 2 million units, says FET executive
- SPIL expanding capacity for high-end ICs
- OLED TVs to be similarly priced as LCD TVs by 2016, say observers
- Global output of LED light bulbs to reach 600 million units in 2013, says Epistar chairman
- Epistar to issue 250 million new shares for private placement
- Unity Opto profits double in 2012
- New Csun solar manufacturing facility in Turkey opens door for maker
- Digitimes Research: South Korea firms mixed on solar business developments
- AMD unveils upcoming server strategy and roadmap
- Connector maker UDE to benefit from games console orders
- Digitimes Research: China touch panel makers expand their influence in the market
- Releases
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- Advantech Releases 6U CompactPCI Board with 4th Generation Intel Core i7 Processor
- Advantech to Support CompactPCI PlusIO and Serial Standards
- ABB to showcase leading-edge power distribution technologies at CIRED
- Fanless In-Vehicle Systems with Intel Core i7
- FIC partners with Cluster Wireless to deliver Intelligent M2M Solutions
- 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
18-Jun-2013 markets closed
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- IBM starts American job cuts, say reports (June 13) - NASDAQ.com
- NHK to air documentary on Taiwanese semiconductor giant (June 6) - Focus Taiwan news channel
- Slow global GDP growth weighs on IC market (May 29) - IC Insights
- 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
- Lose the switch, lose the loss: Cavendish Kinetics leverages MEMS for tunable RF components
- Cavendish Kinetics announces RF MEMS technology for improving wireless performance
- Solar trade dispute spreads to wine industry; gets personal
- Analogix eyes link between smartphones and HD displays
- Strong reaction from China, EU members over solar trade row

Dialog Semiconductor has managed to land solution orders from first-tier smartphone vendors in the...

Lose the switch, lose the loss: Cavendish Kinetics leverages MEMS for tunable RF components
Cavendish Kinetics recently announced the availability of production samples of its tunable RF capacitors...

Taiwan-based Chimei Group, once a major LCD panel maker, now focuses on providing upstream components...

Eight years ago, the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) defined the first carrier class networks and services...
- 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...
- 2H 2012 global TFT panel market forecast
Digitimes Research predicts there will be a total of 389 million large-sized TFT LCD panels shipped in 2H12, with 195 million in the third quarter and 194 million in the fourth quarter - with the total representing a 7.6% increase over the first half of this year.
- Trends and shipment forecast for 2H 2012 smartphone market
Smartphone shipments in 2010 and 2011 both enjoyed growth of more than 60%. Growth will decelerate in 2012 due to the high base, as well as a slowdown in consumer spending in Western Europe.
- 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.

















