Category: TECHNOLOGY

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Government officials and pundits were scrambling on Monday to address reports that Taiwan's top chipmaker may build its most advanced plant yet in the U.S. instead of in Kaohsiung. Technology Minister Chen Liang-gee (陳良基 ... ( read original story ...)

... Gixia therefore jointly developed an innovative produce series using a new solar panel technology, the Waveguide Lightweight solar module. On March 21, in Taipei, GET and Gixia jointly launched the “LIGHT2” series solar application, including ... ( read original story ...)

Visitors will also have the opportunity to test the effectiveness of the XFrame technology by fitting the Extreme RR at the Northwave booth. The new shoes will not be the only new Northwave products on display at Taipei Cycle Show; attendees will also be ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan is looking for domestic drivers that dovetail with President Tsai Ing-wen's push to roll out green energy, improved utilities, better transport and telecommunications networks, and innovative technology. Exports account for over 60 percent of Taiwan ... ( read original story ...)

Semiconductor systems provider Micron Technology has won the auction for Cando assets, which will be utilized in establishing a back-end site for Micron Taiwan. Micron has now completed the title acquisition process for the new site. The acquisition ... ( read original story ...)

Mobile telecom carrier Taiwan Mobile saw its net profits increase 7% on year to NT$2.68 billion (US$86.47 million) in the first two months of 2017. EPS for the January-February period stood at NT$0.98, accounting for 73% of its guidance set for the first ... ( read original story ...)

In China’s bureaucratic circles, a summit like the weekend’s meeting with the US secretary of state might be referred to as “win-win”. In US diplomatic circles it’s… now also apparently known as that, too. Rex Tillerson wrapped up two days of ... ( read original story ...)

Local telecoms regulator the National Communications Commission (NCC) has confirmed that no cellco has indicated an intention to offer services over a shared GSM network, which Asia Pacific Telecom (APT) had volunteered to operate after 2G licences expire ... ( read original story ...)

LG Electronics has launched four smartphones, the LG Stylus 3, LG K10, K8 and K4, in the Taiwan market, targeting the entry-level to mid-tier segment. These new phones will be available starting April. The 5.7-inch LG Stylus 3 is priced at NT$7,990 (US$260 ... ( read original story ...)

TAIPEI, Taiwan, March 21, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU), a global leader in advanced semiconductor systems, today announced that on March 14 it successfully won the auction for Cando Corporation assets, which will be ... ( read original story ...)

Shipments of smartphones in the Taiwan market decreased 18% on year to 8.74 million units in 2016, the first year-on-year decline in Taiwan's smartphone market, according to data compiled by IDC. Saturating market conditions, narrowing differences between ... ( read original story ...)

An industry source familiar with the matter said TSMC was deeply interested in the Toshiba unit. (Reporting by Jess Macy Yu and J.R. Wu in Taipei; Editing by Himani Sarkar) ( read original story ...)

TAIPEI -- Undeterred by the widely reported explosion of several Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones, Taiwan's consumers have demonstrated a preference for the South Korean firm's smartphone models over other brands, making Samsung the largest smartphone ... ( read original story ...)

Contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (NYSE: TSM) has been on a roll over the last several years, bringing out new manufacturing technologies and subsequent enhancements thereof like clockwork. That pace of innovation has been one ... ( read original story ...)

HTC has launched two smartphones at the CES 2017, but a post on the company's Taiwanese Facebook Page is giving a serious hint that HTC U Ultra and HTC U Play aren't the only two handsets that it intends to introduce this year. The teaser posted by the ... ( read original story ...)

Huawei also plans to strengthen its presence in the NT$5,000-10,000 segment to ramp up the popularity of Huawei' smartphones in Taiwan, while aiming a 2-fold increase of its smartphone shipments in the local market in 2017, Tsao said. Buoyed by improved ... ( read original story ...)