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Chinese smartphone maker Oppo disbanded its chip design house Zeku in May, stimulating commentary on Zeku being the latest victim of the US-China chip war among the media in China. However, blaming geopolitical pressure for Zekus failure does not help stakeholders to prevent the same mistake from recurring. Zekus CEO Liu Jun and Oppo founder Duan Yongping made it clear: with sales far lower than expected, the investment needed for self-designed chips went through of the roof and it became prohib...

Electronic components, notably semiconductors, remain a significant source of Taiwanese exports, despite the country seeing its sixth consecutive month of on-year decreases in electronic component export orders in April 2023.

JioPhone Next, the affordable 4G smartphone co-developed by Google and Indias largest wireless operator Reliance Jio, had failed to gain traction amid the supply chain disruptions and weak smartphone demand in the past two years when Google pinned its hope on the device to expand a further billion users in more emerging markets.

With Starlink and satellite communication network growing in popularity and importance, Taiwan-based low-earth orbit (LEO) system integrators observed that the LEO satellite sector is not experiencing exponential growth, but linear growth. Nevertheless, they noted that the slope is much steeper compared to five years ago.

Taiwans leading OSAT ASE Technology and its affiliate Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) have officially joined the supply chain of silicon photonics high-speed networking chips and modules for Broadcom, offering their CPO (co-packaged optics) backend services for the US chipmaker, according to industry sources.

MediaTek is facing barriers in its efforts to expand its mobile SoC business, due to sluggish demand in the mobile phone market and competition from Qualcomm.

A consumer survey conducted by CIRP (Consumer Intelligence Research Partners) on Apple product purchases in the US showed that in the first quarter of 2023, high-end iPhone models were selling better than ever.

Despite the milestone of achieving over one billion users worldwide at the end of 2022, 5Gs massive commercialization so far is still limited only to a few markets, while many countries and regions mobile users have not exhibited a keen intention to upgrade to the new communication standard, according to DIGITIMES Researchs latest study of the 5G industry.

Tron Future Tech, a Taiwan-based startup specialized in active electronically scanned array (AESA) for drone and space applications, recently announced success in delivering the prototype of T.SpaceRouter, its automotive user terminal for low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication. In a press release, the company claimed that the T.SpaceRouter sourced 85% of components locally, marking a milestone for domestically developed automotive LEO satellite communication user terminals.

Flexible PCB specialist Flexium Interconnect will ramp up FPCB shipments to a US-based primary customer for high-speed transmission applications in the second half of this year, according to company sources.