I was once invited by the Canadian government to talk in several cities about the possibilities of Canada-Taiwan collaboration in the high-tech industy. The talks took me to Vancouver, Banff, Victoria Harbour, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto and the nearby technology town of Waterloo. Asians account for a large portion of Vancouver’s 40%, and Toronto and Waterloo are close to the Great Lakes region, which not only has a strong telecommunications industry.

While demand and prices for LCD display driver ICs (DDI) are declining across all sizes segments, demand and prices for OLED DDI are relatively stable, and attracting more efforts from design houses, according to industry sources.

Taiwan-based IPC vendor Ennoconn, an affiliate of Foxconn Technology, is set to develop cloud-ground integration services as a new business line and will launch ESG+ Edge AI cloud services for domestic enterprises, aiming to score a 10% share of public cloud services in Taiwan by 2025.

Rigid PCB maker Chin-Poon Industrial has obtained orders with shipments scheduled until the end of the third quarter of 2022, according to the company.