The Delta variant of the COVID virus has ravaged Asia, with confirmed cases in Japan and Southeast Asian countries continually on the rise. Japanese company Murata made an emergency announcement on Au...
The rampage of COVID-19 variants has disrupted electronic component manufacturing in Southeast Asia. Apart from IC supply shortage in the third quarter, ODMs also needed to face escalating inventory l...
The Tokyo Olympics has just ended, but the number of COVID-19 cases per day has continued to surge and spread to other regions in Japan...
In August, the Delta variant continued to rampage across Southeast Asia. Following the announcement of movement control measures in Thailand, Malaysia, and Vietnam...
ODMs continued to horde 8-10 weeks’ worth of low-mid range MLCC inventory levels in July, and the slowing down of pull-in orders are seeing no signs of improvement. Furthermore, American-European mark...
Since July, the Delta variant has spread across Southeast Asia. After the Malaysian government extended MCO 3.0 indefinitely, the Philippine government also imposed an ECQ across Metro Manila from Aug...
The Delta variant swept across Southeast Asia in July, forcing governments in this region including Thailand, Malaysia, and Vietnam to announce lockdown measures. The situation was particularly severe...
The COVID-19 epidemic in Malaysia intensified again in July, with the daily number of newly confirmed cases rising above 7,000 people, forcing the Malaysian government to enforce an emergency EMCO on...
As the number of confirmed cases remains high, the Malaysian government has extended the Movement Control Order (MCO 3.0) on June 27. The government will make rolling changes based on three indicators...
Due to IC supply shortage, all notebook PC ODM vendors registered a...
COVID-19 cases have been soaring in Malaysia since last month. After more than 6,000 cases in a single day were reported for the first time on May 19, the number of daily cases has hit a record high e...
Following news leaked from China’s smartphone market of dwindling sales for e-commerce platforms since May 1st, MLCC channel agents have also received notices from the top three Chinese brands (Oppo,...
According to TrendForce, shipments of various major laptop ODM clients have dropped in April compared to March, since wafer foundries have begun redistributing production towards the automotive market...
