Taiwan’s car market faces stiff headwinds as brands launch aggressive promotions

Taiwan’s domestic car market entered 2025 with cautious optimism, but early indicators reveal a challenging landscape. Despite aggressive promotional efforts and a flurry of new model launches, many automakers are struggling to meet their sales targets for the crucial first quarter. Industry experts are now predicting a stagnant or even declining market compared to 2024, citing persistent economic uncertainties and a lack of significant consumer demand.

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Lip-Bu Tan gets real about Intel’s foundry roadmap—and what it takes to win customers

For nearly 50 years, Intel remained committed to its integrated device manufacturing (IDM) model. From its founding CEO Robert Noyce to Paul Otellini, the company prioritized in-house chip design and production while building the globally recognized “Intel Inside” brand. That strategy held until 2013, when then-CEO Brian Krzanich began cautiously exploring the contract chipmaking business.

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Philips OLED760 and Philips OLED770 specifications and features

The Philips OLED760 and Philips OLED770 comprise the entry-level set of twin OLED series by Philips for 2025. They should go on sale in May and for this model year, they offer a number of upgrades compared to last year’s OLED759/OLED769. Philips 77OLED760/12 – specifications / Philips 77OLED770/12 Philips 65OLED760/12 – specifications / Philips 65OLED770/12 Philips 55OLED760/12 – specifications /…

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Philips OLED810 and Philips OLED820 specifications and features

The Philips OLED810 / Philips OLED820 twin series are like the Philips OLED850/OLED860 pair with one main difference – the stand design. The OLED810/OLED820 series has an elongated oval shape base for its Swivel Soap Bar Arch Stand and does not support magnetic soundbar attachment. This series is also available in a total of five different sizes and the 77″ model has a V-sticks stand. In all else…

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Philips OLED850 and Philips OLED860 specifications and features

The Philips OLED850 and Philips OLED860 series of 2025 Philips OLED TVs were only briefly mentioned in March when TP Vision announced the series won an iF Design Award 2025. The main design feature of the twin series is the Swivel T-Stand. The base is a narrow and elongated rectangular metal plate to which you can seamlessly integrate the Philips B8200 soundbar via magnets. The photo below this…

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Cloud growth drives Foxconn’s March revenue to NT$552.125B

Driven by the continued growth of AI server cloud network products, system manufacturing leader Foxconn reported a revenue of NT$552.125 billion (approx. US$16.7 billion) for March 2025, bringing its total revenue for the first quarter of 2025 to NT$1.64 trillion. Foxconn stated that cloud network products are expected to maintain their growth trend in the second quarter of 2025, with operations likely to show both quarterly and yearly increases. However, close observation of the impact of global political and economic changes is still necessary.

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