Taiwanese technology companies breathed in badly due to the collapse of the desktop PC industry

ByPatrick Lauke

Although the appearance of smartphones was an event that threatened the desktop PC industry, it is reported by Bloomberg that this big change, the technology company in Taiwan owes much deeper to express it as "catastrophic" rather than "dangerous" It is.

Taiwan Tech Demise Shows Pain of Dependence on Desktop PCs - Bloomberg Business
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As Taiwan's technology companies, there are Honhai Precision Industry, which was named for the acquisition of Sharp's LCD business, and ASUS (Ace), which is known for the "ZenFone" series of smartphones, but Morgan Stanley In the information technology related stocks in the Asia-Pacific region, nine Taiwanese companies seemed to have particularly poor figures.

Among the "firms with bad figures" are Acer, also known as a PC or tablet named "Aspire". The decline range is over 40%. Likewise, HTC, which is a smartphone maker and has been selling a lot of models especially in America, also recorded a decline of more than 40%. Epistar, the world's largest LED chip maker, has the largest falling rate, and its annual decline rate has reached 60%.

The market capital declines of these technology companies, which are widely handled from memory chips to flat panels, are actually equivalent to 24 billion dollars (about 3 trillion yen), which is equivalent to one Hewlett-Packard company.

As Bloomberg showed Taiwanese firms' declining annual market capitalization by Epistar, memory maker Inotera, the world's largest touch panel TPK,AU Op, Semiconductor manufacturer ·Mediatek, Acer, Wistron, substrate makers · Kinsus, HTC and about 40% to 60%, considerable things. Below the graph, as a strong manufacturer leading the Asian market, Nexon, which is known for online game management, and Alps Electric Co., Ltd., an electronic parts maker, are included as comparison targets.


Taiwan's technology companies are thus dropping market capitalization as a whole, as Bloomberg analyzed whether Chinese and other manufacturers are transitioning to Internet service, due to too much insistence on PC hardware.

However, it can not be said that it is the fault of PC alone, and in the case of the aforementioned HTC, as smartphone maker it is receiving the influence that startup such as Xiaomi and OPPO came out as well.

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