Staff writer, with CNAContract electronics manufacturer Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (鴻海精密) and contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) were the top two most-watched Taiwanese stocks by Yahoo Finance app users this year, the Web services company said yesterday. Yahoo Finance picked this year’s top 10 stocks based on view counts of Taiwanese stocks on its app from Jan. 1 to Dec. 15. All of the top 10 were electronics companies. Memorychip maker Macronix International Co (旺宏電子) took third place; followed by passive component manufacturers Yageo Corp (國巨) and Walsin Technology Corp (華新科技) in fourth and fifth place; and printed-circuit board makers Unimicron Corp (欣興電子) and Compeq Manufacturing Co (華通電腦) in sixth and seventh place respectively. Rounding out the top 10 were memorychip suppliers Nanya Technology Corp (南亞科技) and Winbond Electronics Corp (華邦電子), and flat-panel maker Innolux Corp (群創光電).
