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The success of SpaceX's Starlink has helped Taiwan-based electronics manufacturers to tap into the international satellite market. According to Taiwan-based suppliers, SpaceX is Taiwan's largest source of satellite-related orders. However, these suppliers indicated that SpaceX's domination in the sector as well as its "Apple-like" closed ecosystem will offer limited long-term benefits for Taiwan's supply chain, denting earlier hopes that the LEO satellite industry will replicate the successes seen in the notebook and smartphone sectors.

MediaTek is gearing up competition with Qualcomm in the market for satellite communications, aiming to have a bigger say in standard-setting.

The adoption of advanced fan-out packaging among handset application processors has been sluggish, according to sources at backend houses.

After it helped make the world's first 5G satellite communication smartphone, Taiwan-based IC design leader MediaTek recently announced a 6G NTN (non-terrestrial networks) technology themed around the convergence of the latest satellite and terrestrial networks (TN). In the future, NTN and TN will complement each other to build a three-dimensional coverage for all terrains and spaces, providing users with seamless communication services.

Despite issues such as the global economy showing no sign of recovery and the slow season having limited tablet brands' shipment in the earlier half of the first quarter of 2023, tablet brands are starting to place short-term orders at the end of the quarter to replenish their channel inventories. This is expected to benefit overall tablet shipments worldwide to see only a minor drop from a quarter ago, according to DIGITIMES Research's latest figures from the tablet report.