EMS provider Lite-On Technology has disclosed it originally planned to transfer its SSD business unit to Kioxia Holdings on April 1, 2020, but the Japanese memory company has been unable to finish the takeover procedures due to delay in the wake of coronavirus outbreak. Both sides have agreed to postpone...

Light guide plate (LGP) maker Global Lighting Technologies (GLT) has said that it will focus on ramping up shipments for IT applications in 2020 as prospects of TV applications are not clear.

Car-use camera and GPS navigation device maker Mitac Digital Technology will invest NT$1.5 billion (US$49.5 million) to set up a factory focusing on R&D of automotive electronics, AI-based application of images and IoV (Internet of vehicle) devices at Taiwan's Hsinchu Science Park, according to...

HTC will team up with Extra, a leading distributor of consumer electronics products in Saudi Arabia, to build a VR-based theme park-like center, dubbed Xtra Life, in Al Khbor, according to Lee Wen-tsai, vice president of business solutions at HTC Vive.

Optical lens module maker Genius Electronic Optical (GSEO) has reported net profit of NT$2.522 billion (US$83.29 million) with EPS reaching NT$24.79 for 2019.

TexTip, a startup offering an online AI platform for selecting fabrics, has introduced a new use of its services in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic: customized covers for face masks.

Demand from the server sector has been fueld by work- and study-from home activities in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. But IC designers have recently seen a slow-down in orders for server applications, sending them worrying about...

An aerospace team composed of Taiwan's Aerospace Industrial Development (AIDC) and three advanced machinery makers has successfully tapped into the international aerospace composite materials processing market, landing 10 years of orders worth NT$62 billion (US$2.05 billion) from Boeing and Airbus,...

Micro-Star International (MSI) expects revenues to drop less than 10% on year in the first quarter of 2020 and will see its sales gradually pick up starting April with the releases of new products from Intel, AMD and Nvidia, according to company chairman Joseph Hsu.

Intel is set to unveil its new 14nm processors and chipsets in April, but the coronavirus pandemic may seriously hinder end-market demand for related PCs and motherboards, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.

Taiwan-based IC design houses engaged in the supply chain for servers are expected to see orders coming from the sector buoy their sales during the second quarter of 2020, but have recently seen orders slow down from brand clients based in North America, according to industry sources.

Pegatron is looking to push up sales for its three major product lines in 2020, with results for the second quarter to outperform those for the first quarter, according to company president and CEO SJ Liao.

Taiwan-based IC design houses have recently landed short lead-time orders for applications for commercial and educational notebooks and tablets, according to industry sources.

Lithium-ion battery and lithium-ion polymer battery maker Synergy ScienTech has disclosed it will begin production of button batteries mainly for use in TWS devices at its factory in Kunshan, eastern China, in third-quarter 2020.

Apple is still working on augmented reality (AR) glasses, with more to be known about their development in the next one or two years, according to sources from the supply chain makers.

Apple is reportedly accelerating plans to diversify its manufacturing risks by removing more of its production out of China, with sources from the supply chain claiming that the vendor is relocating some capacity for iPhone to India and acoustic devices such as AirPods and HomePod to Vietnam.

Suppliers engaged in the supply chain for Apple's new products featuring its redesigned scissor-switch Magic Keyboard are ramping up production and have seen no cutbacks in the orders despite concerns over the coronavirus, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.

The Computex Taipei 2020, originally slated for June, has been rescheduled to September 28-30 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

US-based data storage and management solution provider NetApp expects its Taiwan sales for its fiscal fourth-quarter 2019 (February-April 2020) to hike on year, judging from sales results so far in the calendar first-quarter 2020, according to the company's Taiwan general manager Sean Lin.

Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and StanShih Foundation, established by Acer founder Stan Shih, on March 20 jointly hosted a three-day training camp on entrepreneurship via online conferencing, avoiding a physical meetings in response to the coronavirus outbreak.

POS (point of sale/service) device and kiosk makers Flytech Technology and Posiflex Technology have both reported profits for 2019.

Time-lapse camera maker Brinno has reported net profit of NT$23.7 million (US$780,000) and net EPS of NT$1.07 for 2019.

Taiwan-based PCB makers are poised to benefit from growing demand for business-use notebooks and tablets from enterprises and schools in many countries rushing to implement remote work and learning programs amid the fast spreading coronavirus pandemic, according to industry sources.

Many Taiwan-based high-tech companies reportedly has asked the organizers of Computex Taipei to postpone the annual tradeshow this year currently scheduled for June 2 to 5, citing the coronavirus pandemic.

Taiwan-based makers received export orders totaling US$28.68 billion in value in February 2020, decreasing 18.8% sequentially and 0.8% on year, according to the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA).