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New Innolux Fab Will be Operational This Year

by Tom Allen

Innolux is building the world’s first G8.6 fab in Taiwan. Equipment installation began in June, and production is scheduled to begin before the end of the year. Associate VP Hung Mao-sheng said that the …

Rumour: Nanoco Has New TV Customers

by Tom Allen

We have been told that Nanoco’s cadmium-free quantum dots have been adopted for use in LCD TVs from Chinese and Taiwanese makers. The sets are expected to arrive in the second half of this …

AUO Takes on New Staff for Capacity Expansion

by Milos Pavlovic

AUO is to take on 3,000 new employees in Taiwan – 1,000 of them engineers – to operate its new production capacity, say sources in the country. These include a new fab producing 27,000 …

ITRI Establishes R2R OLED Line

by Tom Allen

Image: ITRIElectronics and Optoelectronics System Research Laboratories, under the auspices of Taiwan’s ITRI, is building a roll-to-roll production line for flexible OLED lighting panels. The panels are based on thin glass substrates. The front-end …

ASE Must Wait Before SPIL Bid

by Tom Allen

Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission is suspending its review of ASE’s bid to take over SPIL (ASE Fails in SPIL Bid), meaning that there will be no exemption from the year-long ‘cooling off’ period before …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Taiwan| Vol 23 - Issue 12

ASE Fails in SPIL Bid

by Tom Allen

The acquisition of Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) by Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) has not been approved, following a failure to gain antitrust approval. Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission neither accepted nor denied the application, which …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Taiwan| Vol 23 - Issue 10

Chip Makers Struggle in February

by Tom Allen

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) reported a YoY decrease of 7% in February, to NT$17.7 billion ($538.9 million). Year-to-date revenues were NT$38.8 billion ($1.2 billion), down 8.3% YoY. Lite-On Semiconductor rose 4.3% YoY, to NT$645 …

Innolux Recovers From Quake Damage

by Tom Allen

Innolux has fully restored production at eight factories in the Southern Taiwan Science Park, which were damaged in an earthquake in early February (Earthquake Rocks Taiwan Production Base). A G5 and G6 factory were …

Tags:Innolux| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Taiwan| Vol 23 - Issue 07

Companies Revise Earthquake Impact

by Tom Allen

After the earthquake last week (Earthquake Rocks Taiwan Production Base), TSMC has said that the impact on its production would be larger than originally thought. Wafer shipments had been estimated to fall less than …

Earthquake Rocks Taiwan Production Base

by Tom Allen

An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter Scale hit southern Taiwan around 4am on the 6th of February, affecting the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP). Several chip and panel makers have buildings here, including …

New Exhibits at Computex

by Tom Allen

Taking place from the 31st May to the 4th June, Computex Taipei will focus on areas including the IoT, startups and business solutions. Three new exhibits will be seen at this year’s show: SmartTEX …

HTC Pursuing VR for Vehicles

by Tom Allen

Taiwanese media reports that HTC is working with car makers, and will use its HTC Vive VR headset as a new car demonstrator in 2016. HTC is currently working with Ford to showcase its …