Taiwan Tech Demise Shows Pain of Dependence on Desktop PCs

bloomberg.com

39 points·pavornyoh··5 comments

For a stark depiction of how Taiwan’s technology industry has been ravaged by the rise of the smartphone and the fall of the desktop computer, look at Asia’s stock market.

Stopped reading there.

These are public companies. You have access to better information than that.. like the companies revenue and earnings that would tell us the real effect this trend has had on these companies.

If you're too lazy to look up the actual numbers.. them I'm too lazy to read your article.

Not to mention several of the companies on that "worst performers" list are not at all desktop focused. HTC? Mediatek? These are very much mobile-focused companies. They just happen to be mobile-focused companies that are doing very badly for other reasons. What a lazy article.

> For a stark depiction of how Taiwan’s technology industry has been ravaged by the rise of the smartphone...both are down by more than 40 percent -- and smartphone maker HTC Corp (as well)

Didn't bother wasting my time with the rest.

To be fair this is mainly a dutch disease style issue. Taiwan was a dominating player in PCs in the 90s, not only under its own brands but making a large percentage of US-company branded products too. Since this was a cash cow, they failed to be forced to innovate. I still think there are pockets of excellence - personally love the Gigabyte Brix Pro: costs me much less to prototype clustering solutions using a bunch of these little muthas than renting off Amazon - and in the world of Gaming PCs a whole bunch of Taiwanese companies are super competitive and very innovative.

No mention of TSMC in the article?

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