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• Taiwan's makers to start delivering Grantsdale 915 motherboards in 2Q
  Tuesday 10 February 2004 – 11:44
  Taiwanese makers will begin volume shipments of new Pentium 4 motherboards built on Intel's Grantsdale 915 chipsets in the second quarter, according to sources at Taiwan's motherboard makers.
• Taiwan's online game market to exceed NT$10 billion in 2004
  Monday 19 January 2004 – 03:20
  Taiwan's online game market is expected to exceed NT$10 billion in 2004 and will continue to expand with double-digit growth in the next two years, according to Taiwan's Market Intelligence Center (MIC).
• Taiwan's dry spell drives PCB suppliers to outsource
  Monday 20 May 2002 – 09:57
  Some Taiwanese PCB makers have begun outsourcing orders to smaller players whose capacity has not been as constrained by the current water shortage.
• World of Warcraft Expansion coming to Taiwan and Hong Kong
  Thursday 14 December 2006 – 08:56
  Blizzard has signed a deal with Soft-World International Corporation to distribute and operation the upcoming World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Expansion in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. Soft-World will sell game and will also give customer support.
• Taiwan makers gear up for 802.11n product roll-out
  Tuesday 24 January 2006 – 06:12
  In line with the recent approval of the 802.11n (pre-N) standard, Taiwan-based WLAN equipment and chipmakers will begin rolling out their respective pre-N products.
• Taiwan's top three optical disc makers expanding DVD-R production capacity
  Monday 24 November 2003 – 11:25
  CMC Magnetics, Ritek and Prodisc Technology, the three largest producers of optical discs in Taiwan, are expanding their production capacities of blank DVD-R discs to 20 million to 60 million discs a month each in 2004.
• Taiwan's AWSC first overseas GaAs foundry to land Conexant-Alpha verification
  Monday 22 July 2002 – 04:58
  Taiwan-based GaAs (gallium arsenide) foundry Advanced Wireless Semiconductor Company (AWSC) announced that it has received verification from Skyworks Solutions, the company formed by the merger between Alpha Industries and the wireless communications business of Conexant Systems.
• Taiwan's motherboard shipments to grow 11% on-year in 1Q
  Friday 6 February 2004 – 03:03
  Motherboard shipments from Taiwanese makers are expected to grow 11% year-on-year but shrink by 12.9% quarter-on-quarter to 26.11 million units in the first quarter of this year, according to Taiwan's Market Intelligence Center (MIC).
• Taiwan PC, system makers show marginal improvement in June revenues, indicating bottoming-out of technology sector
  Friday 12 July 2002 – 05:51
  In June, Taiwan's top seven notebook makers saw revenues improve marginally at 1.3% over May, but the top five desktop PC makers remained in a slump, with combined revenues falling 2.5%.
• Taiwan 6" foundry to expand capacity
  Thursday 18 July 2002 – 01:12
  With third-quarter orders from customers including Texas Instruments (TI) exceeding existing capacity, Taiwan-based 6" foundry Analog Technology (ATC) has decided to invest more than US$8 million in manufacturing equipment and expand monthly production capacity from 25,000 wafers to 31,000 wafers by year-end, the company stated.
• US-Taiwan Business Council calls for Taiwan to ease cross-strait investment restrictions
  Friday 28 October 2005 – 04:13
  According to the US-Taiwan Business Council, the Taiwan government should consider relaxing its restrictive investment policies for Taiwan-based foundries interested in fab construction projects in China when the current policies expire at the end of 2005.
• Taiwan own-brand notebook vendors exposed to losses on falling LCD panel prices
  Wednesday 18 August 2004 – 02:04
  Some Taiwan vendors of own-brand notebooks, including Asustek Computer, Acer and Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS), have reportedly suffered substantial losses due to their high levels of LCD panel inventories, according to market sources.
• Samsung aggressively sells own-brand DVD+R/-R discs in Taiwan
  Tuesday 16 May 2006 – 02:58
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• Taiwan second-tier makers unable to raise OEM prices of optical discs
  Wednesday 6 April 2005 – 04:46
  Second-tier manufacturers of blank optical discs in Taiwan, seeing top makers successfully raising OEM prices by 10%-15% for this quarter, would also like to do the same, but so far have only been able to raise prices 3%-5% due to immediate financial needs and therefore have had to accept low-price orders to bring in revenues quickly, according to industry sources.
• Taiwan second-tier DSC brands turn to CCD digital camera production
  Wednesday 28 July 2004 – 04:27
  Taiwan second-tier digital still camera (DSC) makers, in light of decreasing sales of three-megapixel CMOS-based models, have recently turned to producing CCD DSCs.