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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...
Tuesday 10 September 2019
Compal, Inventec expect flat 3Q19 revenues after reporting declines for August
Compal Electronics and Inventec are on track to achieve flat sequential performances for their third-quarter revenues as expected, since clients advanced their orders originally for...
Monday 2 September 2019
Rigid-flex boards shipments for AirPods to stay robust
Despite the US tariffs on China-sourced wearable devices taking effect September 1, Taiwanese PCB makers are expected to see their shipments of rigid-flex boards for AirPods remain...
Monday 2 September 2019
Taiwan firms alter investment deployments due to US-China trade war
The escalating tit-for-tat tariff war between the world's two largest economies has prompted Taiwanese firms with operations in China to return home for investments while also sharply...
Tuesday 20 August 2019
Top-5 notebook brands see shipments rise on year in July, says Digitimes Research
Worldwide top-5 notebook brands saw combined shipments shrink 20% on month and rise 7% on year in July as Intel's CPU shortages started improving and vendors continued preparing extra...