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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 Zeku's failure does not help stakeholders to prevent the same mistake from recurring. Zeku's 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 prohibitively difficult to sustain the operation, thus...

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 India's 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.

Taiwan's 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.