Taiwan

Apple is urging suppliers to make sure that all shipments from Taiwan to China follow Chinese customs regulations to avoid processing delays at the border — reports Nikkei Asia. As political tensions between China and Taiwan continue to rise, the former has started strictly enforcing a long-standing rule that requires Taiwan-made imports to be labelled...

Apple supplier Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) Limited's microprocessor factories would become "not operable" if China were to invade its home country, company Chair Mark Liu said in a recent interview with CNN (via CNBC). Liu warned that chipmaking is not an isolated operation and relies on global supply chains. "Nobody can control TSMC by force....

Apple supplier Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) is building four new chip fabrication plants in Tainan, Taiwan, after having just completed another four facilities in the area — reports Nikkei Asia. The new facilities will house TSMC's new 3-nanometer process nodes, with each costing around $10 billion USD. "Look around. We're in a rush to...

A recent report from The Wall Street Journal documents rampant COVID-19 outbreaks across Asia, and how they are not only delaying global shipping but also worsening an already bad shortage of semiconductors across the world. As economies across the planet make their way to recovery, a COVID-19 outbreak at one of the world's busiest freight ports...

According to a new report by DigiTimes, Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission has started collecting applications from banks for providing Apple Pay services in the country. The source claims that users in Taiwan will be able to sign up for Apple’s mobile payments service by the end of 2016. The source adds that Taiwan's leading banks are expected to...

Various new job listings spotted by Reuters confirm Apple’s move to open its first retail store in Taiwan. The listings appeared a month after the technology giant raised $1.38 billion in a bond offering. Apple was looking for "a leader for personnel training plans for the Taiwan Apple Store" alongside various other retail positions in...

Although its influence is undeniable, iPhone orders won’t have the same effect as they did last year, when the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus launched. Still, the demand for the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus has helped Taiwan’s export orders, as they fell less than expected last month: 4.5%, compared to a Reuters poll forecasting...

Apple is in hot water over its anti-competitive practices, not only in Canada, but also in Taiwan. The main difference between the two cases is that Apple's anti-competitive practices have been proven in Taiwan, so the world's most valuable tech company will be fined T$20 million (USD $624,000) the Taiwan court ruled, reports Reuters. However,...

Apple is preparing the launch of two new iPhones this September. As we know, the handsets are connected to Asian economies since the majority of Apple's supply chain is from that part of the world. Rumours claim that Apple has increased its initial order of the iPhone 6 to up to 80 million units. Although...

Taiwan demands Apple immediately to issue changes to its Maps application that identifies the island nation as a province of China, The Telegraph reports. After officials allegedly discovered that the Maps application on both iOS 7 and Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks lists the country as China Taiwan province, they expressed intense dissatisfaction and demanded...