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EMS provider Qisda has stepped up its deployment in the medical care sector as it moves to ramp up the sales proportion of high-value-added businesses.

Taiwan-based MSI becomes one of the first Taiwanese suppliers to bounce back from the post-pandemic downturn, having revised its annual shipment estimations for notebooks and motherboards upwards recently.

Hon Hai Precision Industry (Foxconn) reiterated its previous estimate of sequential and year-over-year revenue declines for the second quarter.

Chinese silicon carbide (SiC) companies including SICC and TankeBlue Semiconductor have secured contracts to supply 6-inch SiC materials to international automotive IDMs and tier-one suppliers, according to industry sources.

Camera module and other component suppliers for Apples iPhones are bracing for the off-season which will be even weaker in the first half of 2023, according to industry sources.

China has launched a cybersecurity investigation into Micron Technology, raising the possibility of a ban on the US memory vendors product sales in the country.

Apples inventory correction for iPads is expected to reach an end soon thanks to a major improvement in orders from Apple for high-end iPads in April; however, this may not be true for Apples notebook products as MacBooks shipments have remained feeble so far, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.

Tesla, with its new factory for energy storage products in Shanghai, is eyeing closer ties with local industry supply chains in China, according to sources at Chinese power component suppliers.

EMS provider Lite-On Technology expects revenue growth to be driven by sales generated from cloud server and automotive optoelectronics applications this year.

High-speed transmission chip specialist Parade Technologies expects its revenue to rebound in the second half of this year when shipments for customers new products kick-off.