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DigiTimes

Taiwanese tech-industry trade press (business-focused, no U.S. partisan lean)

Owned byPrivately held by DIGITIMES Inc., a Taipei company founded in 1998 with backing from nearly 50 Taiwanese tech-industry investors. Colley Hwang is founder and president, and Kenneth Tai (InveStar Capital) is chairman. Its early backers reportedly included Acer founder Stan Shih, MiTAC chairman Matthew Miau, TSMC founder Morris Chang and SYNNEX's Evans Tu. I could not confirm current shareholding details.
FundingMainly paid subscriptions (reported at about US$550 a year for premium access), plus proprietary market-research reports and industry-intelligence services. Advertising and events probably add some revenue. Its roughly US$5.8M annual revenue figure comes from a secondary source and is unverified.
On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

DigiTimes was founded in Taipei in 1998 by Colley Hwang, a former head of the Market Intelligence Center at the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). It was set up as an independent publisher backed by nearly 50 Taiwanese tech-industry figures. It grew into a major English- and Chinese-language source on the Asian electronics supply chain, with a paywalled news service and research arm. Western tech blogs and Apple-focused sites cite it often for supply-chain reports, especially on Apple products. Its record there is mixed: critics such as Poynter, Time and Daring Fireball have documented many wrong Apple predictions, and a tracking site put its accuracy at about 61–65%. The outlet has acknowledged that some supply-chain information concerns prototypes that never ship. Its industry-insider sourcing and ties to Taiwanese tech investors give it a pro-industry, Taiwan-centered perspective, so it tends to cover trade policy in terms of the effect on chipmakers and suppliers. It is not a political outlet, and its coverage of the Trump administration is mostly factual reporting on tariffs, export controls and U.S.-Taiwan chip policy. I did not review a sample of recent articles to confirm this. The sources below did not include current ownership filings or a recent audit of its administration coverage.

Sources

  1. DigiTimes - Wikipedia
  2. DigiTimes Asia - Bias and Credibility - Media Bias/Fact Check
  3. DIGITIMES Defies the Zero Click Era With $550 Subscriptions and Rising Traffic - Storm Media
  4. DigiTimes on MacRumors
  5. Digitimes, perennial Apple rumormonger, is usually wrong - Poynter
  6. DIGITIMES Asia: Funding, Team & Investors
  7. Colley Hwang - Founder and President @ DIGITimes - Crunchbase

Profile compiled 2026-10-27; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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