Taiwan’s science parks’ revenue falls in H1

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/08/17
By: Lin Meng-ju and Romulo Huang

Taipei, Aug. 17 (CNA) Taiwan’s three major science-based industrial parks, home to the country’s mainstay semiconductor and electronics industries, reported a 4.89 percent year-on-year decline in revenue in the first half of the year, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) said Wednesday.

Production revenue at the three parks totaled NT$1.078 trillion (US$34.2 billion) in the first six months of this year, down from the NT$1.134 trillion registered a year ago, the MOST said.

The output of Hsinchu Science Park fell by 10.02 percent year-on-year to NT$492.3 billion in the first half of this year, while that of Central Taiwan Science Park dipped by 1.98 percent to NT$236.9 billion and Southern Taiwan Science Park bucked the declining trend by recording a yearly increase of 1.2 percent with the six-month revenue of NT$348.8 billion, MOST statistics showed.

Among the industries in the science parks, the optoelectronic industry suffered the steepest drop in revenue, recording a yearly decline of 17.81 percent, the manufacturing of computer and peripherals dipped by 6.94 percent and the IC industry fell by 0.41 percent.  [FULL  STORY]