According to the MIC (Market Intelligence Center of the Institute for Information Industry ) a government-supported ICT industry research institute based in Taipei, in 2007 Taiwan WiMAX ( World Wide Interoperability for Microwave Access ) CPE ( Customer Premises Equipment )shipment value is expected to amount to US$159 million in 2007, representing a large-scale growth in comparison with US$ 22.6 million in 2006.

Looking at the current development of Taiwan WiMAX equipment makers, in Taiwan they built up contract production relationships with international telecom equipment vendors shuch as Motorola, Alcatel, Alvarion and SR Telecom, which will help Taiwanese WiMAX equipment shipments to reach mass-production scale. According to MIC, towards the end of 2007 the major standard is 802.16e Wave 2, and MIMO and beam forming functions will incorporated in WiMAX products. Also, transmitting capability will increase 1.5 times. Furthermore, Taiwan WiMAX equipment makers are actively building up their WiMAX CO ( Central Office ) equipment R&D capabilities, and cultivating software and wireless technology talents. Network communication vendors in Taiwan including ZyXel, Foxconn, and Tecom are engaged in the R&D of WiMAX base stations.

As to WiMAX CPE chipsets, currently the major vendors are Intel, Wavesat, Runcom, Sequans, and Beceem. However, Taiwan chip makers including MediaTek are now engaged in the R&D of WiMAX chipsets. Taiwan WiMAX chipsets are expected to be released in 2008.

Taiwan will become and important R&D and production center of WiMAX equipment. A testing and certification center in Taiwan will help to lower certification costs if WiMAX products and speed up time-to-market of WiMAX products.

The WiMAX Forum announced in June 2007 that Taiwan's ADT (Advanced Data Technology ) had been chosen as the fourth WFDCL ( WiMAX Forum Designated Certification Lab ) in the world offering WiMAX equipment testing and certification. ADT is also the first WFDCL in Asia, and provides services for both fixed and mobile WiMAX.