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Thursday 2 January 2020
Taiwan finalizes 2020 feed-in tariff for renewable energy
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has announced final feed-in tariff rates for renewable energy for 2020, with reductions from 2019 for offshore wind power generation by...
Tuesday 31 December 2019
Supply chain continues moving out of China despite trade truce
The US-China trade tensions seem to be easing with both sides set to sign an agreement soon, but there is still so much uncertainty lying ahead that many IT supply chain players have...
Tuesday 17 December 2019
StrongLED suffers large on-year decrease in January-September 2019 operation
LED lighting solution provider StrongLED Lighting System saw January-September 2019 consolidated revenues of NT$939.3 million (US$30.8 million) drop 31.23% on year; gross margin of...
Tuesday 26 November 2019
Notebook brands mull new production practice to avoid tariffs
To avoid US tariffs on Chinese imports, notebook vendors are considering a new practice of manufacutring where production lines in China will only handle the final assembly work,...
Tuesday 12 November 2019
Mitac to push into cloud computing in 2020
The Mitac Group will see three major growth drivers - edge computing, large-scale datacenters and Internet of Vehicles - in 2020 with subsidiaries Mitac Computing Technology and Mitac...
Wednesday 6 November 2019
Taiwan white-box server shipments to rebound in 2020
Taiwan's white-box server shipments are expected to rebound in 2020 after public cloud datacenter players finish adjusting their inventory levels in 2019, according to sources from...
Friday 1 November 2019
Taiwan ODMs strive to improve yield rates, costs for non-China production lines
Taiwan-based notebook ODMs have completed most of their plant relocation and their present focus is to improve production yield rates and reduce costs at the relocated facilities...
Thursday 31 October 2019
Global notebook shipments to drop slightly in 4Q19, says Digitimes Research
Worldwide notebook shipments are forecast to drop 1.8% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2019 after registering a nearly 2% increase in the prior quarter, according to Digitimes...
Tuesday 15 October 2019
Automation demand may not recover until after mid-2020
With manufacturers starting to move some production out of China to avoid the US tariff on products imported from the "world's factory," robot and automation solution providers are...
Thursday 3 October 2019
Taiwan manufacturing environment more competitive than China in most aspects, says DBS report
Singapore-based DBS Group Holdings has issued a report comparing the cost-effectiveness between manufacturing in China and Taiwan, and of the 12 categories of comparison, Taiwan leads...
Tuesday 1 October 2019
Acer sees positive impact of trade war
The ongoing US-China trade disputes have given a good opportunity for notebook brand vendors to rethink and improve their risk management, according to Acer co-COO Tiffany Huang.
Tuesday 1 October 2019
Notebook brand vendors accelerating production relocation out of China
The ongoing trade tensions between the US and China is prompting notebook brand vendors to have their ODMs accelerate production relocation out of China, with Compal Electronics to...
Tuesday 24 September 2019
Storage market to return to growth track in 2020: Q&A with Pure Storage CEO Charlie Giancarlo
Pure Storage, an all-flash array storage product vendor, has seen double-digit growths that are far stronger than those of other major vendors who mostly have only single-digit increases...
Thursday 12 September 2019
Compal turns to Taiwan for making US-bound notebooks
Compal Electronics, in response to its major brand clients' requests, is moving production of their US-bound notebooks from Vietnam to Taiwan, which is expected to turn Taiwan into...
Wednesday 11 September 2019
Wistron continues setting up production lines in various countries, says chairman
Wistron chairman Simon Lin believes the US-China trade dispute is unlikely to end any time soon and therefore the company will continue running production lines in different parts...