IC design houses are bracing for disappointing high-end notebook demand, including commercial and gaming models, in the second half of this year, according to industry sources.

The debut of the world’s first dual-camera handset in 2011 kicked off a competition between handset vendors of adding more cameras on mobile phones, pressing brand vendors including Samsung Electronics, Huawei and Xiaomi to make efforts to respond the new trend.

As COVID-19 has accelerated the digitalization of how companies do business, so as how companies conduct their investor relations. In our previous article, “MiFID II and its impact,” we highlighted that companies and their IROs are forced to take a more active role in investors’ communication due to MiFID II. The pandemic has further increased the need for investor outreach and improved transparency. With the prevalence of virtual events, investors nowadays can be easily swamped by meeting invitations. As a result, companies need to ensure their digital investor relations management is carried out properly to ensure effective investor communication.

Most of Taiwan’s optical communication devices makers focusing more on datacenter than 5G base station applications have reported significant revenue improvements for the first half of the year and are expected to perform even better in the second half on continuous spec upgrades for datacenter solutions, according to industry sources.