These are in-depth pre- and post-show reports on major international trade fairs, held in Taiwan and other countries with significant participation by Taiwanese manufacturers and exporters. They are offered to help global buyers and other readers better understand what is going on at the fairs and the latest offerings by Taiwanese exhibitors.
Global sales of new cars are expected to grow slightly by about 0.7 percent to over 90 million units, driven by major growth momentum coming from Europe and the U.S., with sales growth slowing in China, the world's largest automobile market by sales volume, according to Industrial Economics & Knowledge Center (IEK) of Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute. Autonomous or self-drivin...
Apparently economy of scale and production efficiency, which fortunately result in lower retail prices of flat panel displays, can ironically work against supplier. In the last 6 years, the retail price of a 32-inch LCD TV made by a Taiwanese brand has dropped by about half in Taiwan. The flat panel display (FPD) industry is facing life-and-death challenge amid the harshest market conditions a...
The expanding shipments of low temperature poly-silicon (LTPS) thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels have been raising the penetration of full high-definition (FHD)-screen smartphones to about 25 percent, from about 18 percent in early 2015, according to WitsView, a market research division of TrendForce. WitsView also predicts this year's global LTPS production capacity...
Global shipments of large-sized thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels (7-inches and above) for the entire 2015 are forecast to reach 794 million units, a 4.1 percent year-on-year (YoY) drop and the first-ever annual shipment decline in the TFT-LCD panel industry, according to WitsView, a division of TrendForce. The sagging information technology (IT)-application market h...
Industry insiders believe conditional permission to Chinese investment is feasible
Nov 30, 2015Economics Minister John Deng predicts that the Taiwan government to lift the ban on mainland Chinese investments in the island’s IC design houses as early as before his term ends next year in an interview with the Financial Times, saying that the government is considering lifting such ban that prevents mainland’s enterprises wanting to hold a stake in Taiwan’s IC design houses. According to Di...
Worldwide personal computer (PC) shipments totaled nearly 71.0 million units in the third quarter of 2015. The volume represented a year-on-year (YoY) decline of 10.8 percent, which was slightly worse than projections for a decline of 9.2 percent, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). The lackluster volume of PC shipments was consistent with expectations that the third quarter wou...
Global shipments of thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels for TV applications increased 9.9 percent month-on-month (MoM) and 13.8 percent year-on-year (YoY) to 24.47 million units in September, according to WitsView, a division of TrendForce. Iris Hu, WitsView assistant research manager, stated that the TV panel market experienced a steady rise in stock-up demand during ...
Acer outstrips ASUS as fifth-largest notebook PC vendor thanks to strong shipment growth
Nov 09, 2015Global shipments of notebook personal computers (PCs) in the third quarter of 2015 increased by 11.1 percent quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) to reach 43.17 million units, but dropped 5.7 percent year-on-year (YoY), according to global research firm TrendForce. A market-ranking change in the third quarter was that Taiwanese PC vendor Acer outperformed major local rival ASUS to be the No. 5 during the ...
Chairman suggests threatening Taiwan to open IC design market or face sales ban
Nov 09, 2015Shortly after acquiring a quarter stake in the Taiwanese IC assembler Power Technology Inc. (PTI) for NT$75 per share, Tsinghua Unigroup Chairman Weiguo Zhao says he will immediately meet with his counterpart at the Taiwanese IC design house MediaTek Inc., M.K. Tsai, to discuss the merger of his company’s Spreadtrum Communications Inc. and RDA Microelectronics Inc. with MediaTek to take on Qualco...
Exhibited solar modules and battery storage systems target both industrial and residential consumers
Oct 21, 2015AU Optronics Corp. (AUO), a major supplier of thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels in Taiwan that has also been aggressively developing photovoltaics (PV) business, participated in SPI 2015 (Solar Power International 2015) held in mid-September in California to demonstrate a new lineup of solar products, featuring high performance solar modules and scalable battery storage...
