Television technology occupied center stage at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, with major vendors showing off their latest high-resolution sets during the event, according to WitsView, a division of TrendForce, which says its website was founded in 2000 and headquartered in T

Market consultancy LEDinside of Taiwan projects light emitting diode (LED) to penetrate 36 percent of the global lighting market in 2016 with sales revenue of US$30.5 billion, up from 2015’s 31 percent with revenue of US$25.7 billion. LEDinside, established in 2007 as TrendForce’s LED division,

The Hon Hai-Foxconn Technology Group has reportedly announced its decision to put on hold its deal to acquire the financially troubled Sharp Corp. of Japan, due to its having to clarify the contents of a document that Sharp Corp. delivered on Feb. 24. The announcement came shortly after Sharp ha

Taiwan’s exports fell 13 percent year on year, to US$22.2 billion in January, the 12th in a series of worsening monthly declines. According to Taiwan's Ministry of Finance (MOF), the recently reported downtrend is only two months short of the longest period of contraction in Taiwan’s exports set

With the growing popularity of the Samsung Galaxy Edge series and the Apple Watch, display manufacturers are expanding their production capacities of flexible active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) displays, according to IHS Inc. While comprising just 2 percent of all AMOLED panel

Jason Hsuan, Chairman and CEO of TPV Technology Ltd., the world's largest contract assembler of LCD monitors and the distributor of its own brands of AOC and Envision, recently summed up the dilemma of the oversupply problem of thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels due to new

Chairman X.B. Ke of the Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry (TAMI) points out that Taiwan’s machinery industry has the capacity to surpass its Japanese, Italian and even German competitors if it makes the most of the island’s mature, established information-communication technology (ICT) indus

To be staged in Japan, still considered a hot bed of consumer electronic technologies, the LED NEXT STAGE will start its 2016 edition from March 8 through 11 at Tokyo Big Sight (Tokyo International Exhibition Center), to again underline the increasing popularity and wide ranging application of such

Taiwan’s furniture making sector, as many other manufacturing industries globally, has had to cope with increasingly strict eco-protection rules and stay with the global trend to become earth-friendly amid more convincing evidence of global warming and the disastrous consequences of extreme weather

AU Optronics Corp. (AUO), recognized as the second-largest maker of thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels in Taiwan, recently said that it topped global counterparts in 2015 in shipments of four types of value-added products, including curved TV panels, 15.6-inch on-cell inte

Full high-definition (FHD) panels reached a record 21 percent of the smartphone display market in the third quarter of 2015, due in large part to increases in active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) panel adoption by Samsung and others, according to IHS Inc. Increasing demand from th

Apple Inc. of the U.S. reportedly opened a production laboratory in northern Taiwan where engineers are developing new display technologies, according to Bloomberg. Bloomberg's recent report also said that the Apple building in Longtan employs at least 50 engineers and other workers creating new

A total of 2,727 exhibitors form countries drew nearly 50,000 buyers to the 17th Autumn Edition of the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair (LFAE) and the inaugural World of Outdoor Lighting & Lighting Accessories (WOLLA), making the two-in-one trade event the world’s biggest lighting marketplace,

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 re

Among the striking LED packages that ProLight Opto Technology Co., Ltd., an LED package veteran, displayed at the 2015 Autumn edition of the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair during its four-day run beginning October 27 included the flip chip on board (COB) packages, the packages for projectors

With thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) and active matrix organic light-emit diode (AMOLED) panels being the mainstream displays of handheld devices, the consumer electronics market continues, true to the rapid deterioration of shelf life and ever changing tastes of consumers for

Lextar Electronics Corp. mostly promoted LED commercial lighting, including a series of unique panel lights and high color rendering index (CRI) luminaries that enhance tonal effect on merchandise at the 2015 Autumn edition of Hong Kong International Lighting Fair, running from Oct. 27 through 30.

The 2011-founded Champ-Ray Industrial Co., Ltd. is a dedicated manufacturer of direct-current (DC) brushless motors and controllers in addition to products that run on the motors as ceiling fans and portable fans as well as LED light bulbs and LED surface mount device (SMD) for ceiling fans. The

Epoch Chemtronics Corp., founded in 1997 in Taiwan, is promoting the epoFlorium, epoXcube, epoSlender, and epoSlim-Steps series of LED lighting fixtures featuring unique designs. epoFlorium is an E27-socket LED light bulb that has been awarded the Reddot Design Award 2015 for its streamlined, fl

With an eye on enhancing technological-innovation capability in Taiwan, Ford Lio Ho Motor Co., the local subsidiary of Ford Motor of the U.S., recently signed an agreement to cooperate with the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE) of the National Taiwan University (NTU)

AU 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

Taiwan Oasis Technology Co., Ltd., one of Taiwan’s leading light emitting diode (LED) makers, is promoting its Satellite Pendant Lamp. Measuring 200mm long, 200mm wide, 140mm high and weighing 0.55 kilograms, the lighting fixture consumes 9W of power to deliver 600 lumens of warm white light wit

Formosa Optronics Co., Ltd. is promoting its T8 and T5 LED linear light tubes, which are integrated with the company's unique LED-on-heat-sink (LHS) technology to ensure excellent thermal dissipation of these lighting fixtures. The light tubes are equipped with all plastic casing, which is IP65

Epoch Chemtronics Corp., founded in 1997 in Taiwan, is a dedicated manufacturer of LED lighting fixtures, including panel light, down light, batten light, ceiling light, integrally mounted light, and edge-lit light carrying brand names LoveWing, epoFlorium and epoSlim for indoor, commercial and off

Taiwan Oasis Technology Co., Ltd., or Oasistek, founded in 1974 in Taiwan, makes LED displays, LED lamps, surface mounted device (SMD) LEDs, high power LEDs and LED lighting fixtures, including pendants, troffers, recessed lights, panel lights, and streetlights. The company is dedicated to R&D

Huai Jinpeng, Vice Minister of mainland China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) is scheduled to visit the chairmen of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) and Hon Hai/Foxconn Technology Group over cooperation deals during his stay in Taiwan for a technology forum.

Kamioka Corp., a leading Taiwanese manufacturer of CNC machining centers, CNC horizontal turning centers, and double-column machining centers, is promoting the VMC-1000 series of high-performance CNC vertical machining center. The VMC-1000, a completely new model to the company’s product line, m

This year's International Touch Panel & Optical Film Expo (Touch Taiwan) 2015, billed as the world's largest touch-panel and optical film exhibition that was held August 26-28 in Taipei, capital of Taiwan, saw the domestic exhibitor Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), a government-back

Lin Sheng-chang, president of Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd. (CPT), a thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panel manufacturer based in Taiwan and focusing mainly on developing and manufacturing small- and medium-sized panels, recently reported to be relatively cautious towards CPT's

Facing unprecedented competition from Korean and Chinese rivals due to free trade agreements, relatively deeper currency devaluation and rising self-content ratios, Taiwanese makers of thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels have been trying to find niches to better weather suc