IDC (Internet data center) co-location service provider Chief Telecom is constructing its fourth IDC building in Taipei City, northern Taiwan, with completion scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2023 and inauguration for the first quarter of 2024, according to company president Johnny Liu.
Many suppliers of components for notebooks, handsets and other consumer electronics devices have striven to diversify their product lines, markets and applications in recent years, allowing them to be less impacted by sales slowdowns facing any single industry or market segment, according to industry sources.
Networking/communication device makers generally saw June consolidated revenues increase sequentially and on year, with Sercomm, Alpha Networks and Hitron Technologies hitting respective monthly records.
The line between PR (Public Relations) and IR (Investor Relations) is getting ever blurrier with the increasing exposure of different media outlets, be it online websites, social media, TV (or online TV), or even radio or podcasts. Nowadays, IR cannot just direct all efforts to institutional investors only. IR generally will need to work with PR (or vice versa) to make sure the i’s dotted and t’s crossed. So there has been a hybrid of both functions such as financial PR.
Long-term agreements (LTAs) signed with foundry partners have caught IC design houses in a dilemma over whether they should honor the contracts in the second half of the year amid weakening consumer demand, according to industry sources.
Network IC specialist Realtek Semiconductor saw its revenue hit a record high for the second consecutive quarter in the second quarter of 2022. Revenue totaled NT$60.26 billion (US$2.02 billion) for the first half of 2022, rising 22.5% on year.
Taiwan-based server assemblers are expected to see third-quarter shipments register double-digit sequential increases, with positive shipment prospects for the second half of 2022, according to industry sources.
Although sales of LCD monitors made some ground during the 618 mid-year shopping festival in China, the outlook for the monitor industry remains dim in the second half of 2022, according to market sources.
EMS provider Lite-On Technology has reported solid revenue growth for June, with sales of its three major product lines – optoelectronics, cloud/IoT products, and IT/consumer electronics – all posting gains.