Taiwan-based ODM Inventec expects each of its three major product lines to register about 10% revenue expansion in 2020 and a higher growth in 2021, with plans to simultaneously expand...
Compal Electronics expects its notebook shipments to register only flat growth on year in 2020, but shipments of its non-notebook products such as wearables, smart home devices, automotive...
Despite a truce in the US-China trade war, notebook ODMs will continue their capacity relocation to Taiwan and Vietnam, with the two becoming their major production bases outside...
Notebook ODMs saw weaker-than-expected shipments in fourth-quarter 2020 due to Intel CPU shortages and clients' high inventory levels as a result of their early inventory build-ups...
Worldwide first-tier ODMs and EMS providers including Quanta Computer, Pegatron, Wistron and Flextronics have begun crossing into the manufacturing of augmented reality (AR) glasses,...
Huawei has a low-profile display at CES 2020, showcasing mostly existing products, such as the P30 Pro smartphone, the foldable Mate X, tablets and wearable, without unveiling any...
Taiwan PCB makers are expected to maintain strong shipments of rigid-flex boards at least throughout the first half of 2020 to meet robust demand for AirPods 2 and other TWS (true...
Chinese PCB maker Kinwong Electronic and Taiwan-based peer Plotech Technology have both disclosed plans to set up new production lines for HDI boards in China seeking to cash in on...
The global market for wearables is on track to ship 305.2 million units in 2019, up 71.4% from the 178 million units shipped in 2018, according to IDC. From there, total volumes will...
Apple has informed its upstream partners it will stop paying non-recurring engineering (NRE) fees for the development of new iPhones' chassis and metal frames, according to industry...
While SiP substrates are increasingly needed to support function upgrades on wearables, TWS earbuds and other devices, rigid-flex PCBs will firmly stay as mainstream applications...
Global shipments of wearable devices totaled 84.5 million units in the third quarter of 2019, an on-year increase of 94.6% and a new record for shipments in a single quarter, according...
Smart glasses enabled by AR/MR technologies may gradually replace smartphones, with such a trend beginning to emerge in 2023 according to Tom Liang, chairman for both Taiwan-based...
As 5G penetration rate is expected to reach 50% in 2023, smart augmented reality (AR) glasses will begin entering the consumer market, according to Digitimes Research.
Taiwan-based Nan Ya PCB is expected to double its 2020 capex from NT$3.5 billion (US$114.8 billion) in 2019 to expand capacity for ABF substrates for 5G network applications and SiP...
