Taiwan’s semiconductor development model, featuring good disciple among local players and strong mass production capability, is hard to be replicated in other places, but Taiwanese ICT firms should fine-tune their mentality if they want to seize new market opportunities for automotive electronics over the long term, according to Yee-Wei Huang, spokesman and vice president of Realtek Semiconductor.

The notebook market is set to face a more than 20% decline in whole-year 2022 shipments with the second-quarter shipments starting to dive as post-pandemic market demand becomes relatively saturated on top of a series of black swan events including rising global inflation, the Russia-Ukraine war as well as aggressive interest rate hikes in mature markets and worse yet, lingering supply chain instabilities.

China, as the largest car market worldwide, has fostered many home-grown electric vehicle (EV) brands over the years . These carmakers are bringing their gusiness models overseas looking to build a global presence. However, whether consumers would accept the new entrants remain to be seen.

Inventory adjustments for LCD panels continue progressing and are heading in a healthy direction, according to sources at Taiwan-based panel makers.