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Thursday 16 May 2024
Hardware supply chain's pivotal value recognized in Nvidia's strategies
To maintain its leading position in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Nvidia has mastered its CUDA software, constantly emphasized its affiliation with Taiwan and TSMC, and has even secured...
Wednesday 15 May 2024
Artificial intelligence is bringing an epic change to our lives
From Nvidia and Microsft to Taiwan's TSMC, Quanta, Wistron, and Foxconn, companies are constantly exploring the future of their businesses with the theme of Artificial Intelligence...
Monday 13 May 2024
Taiwan should redefine the value of its supply chain
In 2000, Bill Gates visited Taiwan for the World Congress of Information Technology (WCIT), and in 2009, Steve Ballmer, the second president of Microsoft, visited Taiwan only for...
Friday 15 March 2024
Uncertainties on the macroeconomic horizon
Electronic devices account for over 40% of Taiwan's exports, but semiconductor products are shipped through air freight. Meanwhile, notebook PC and smartphone production lines have...
Wednesday 13 March 2024
Air cargo capacity shortage could be supply chain breaking point
The shipping industry, passenger or cargo, has slowly recovered to pre-COVID-19 levels. It is worth noting that since air cargo capacities were booked up by e-commerce demand, failing...
Monday 11 March 2024
2024 Industry Outlook (8): the Paradigm Shift from dotcom to AI
The winners before the creation of cell phones were Cisco and telecom service companies such as Nokia and Ericsson. However, with the launch of the iPhone in 2007, the cell phone...
Friday 8 March 2024
2024 Industry Outlook (7): The reflexive point of US-China relationship
Looking at the world's total GDP, which has increased 25 times over the past 70 years, we can also look at Taiwan's experience and find a few turning points in time to explore in...
Thursday 7 March 2024
2024 Industry Outlook (6): Learning from past economic nodes of paradigm shift
Using the IMF's statistics on global GDP, I will explore the keys to the post-1950 rise of the four Asian Tigers. I have chosen 1950, 1980, 2009, 2019, and 2023 as nodes to explore...
Wednesday 6 March 2024
2024 Industrial Outlook (5): the cliff-like economic growth model
Visual Capitalist has published a study that organizes the evolution of total economic output and GDP for various countries over the past 2,000 years. Using data estimated...
Tuesday 5 March 2024
2024 Industry Outlook (4): Automobile production migration from advanced to emerging countries
The market is looking forward to the business opportunities of electric vehicles; however, the demand has been impacted by the weaker-than-expected macroeconomic growth.
Friday 1 March 2024
2024 Industry Outlook (3): Using economic data to assess industry directions in Taiwan and China
In 2023, Taiwan's exports declined by 9.8%, which is of course related to the weakening of electronics exports, but with a total export value of US$432.5 billion, a trade surplus...
Thursday 29 February 2024
2024 Industry Outlook (2): ICT industry performance reflects economic health in Taiwan
In 2023, 940 plus publicly listed electronics companies in Taiwan reported a total of US$833 billion in revenues, down 12.6% from US$953 billion in 2022. This number reflected the...
Tuesday 27 February 2024
2024 Industry Outlook (1): cross-discipline competitions and diversified business development
Newcomers to the industry are often intimidated by the flexibility and diversity of the strategies of the traditional large companies that are constantly responding to change. When...
Monday 19 February 2024
Colley Hwang: Taiwan-Japan best match in semiconductor synergy
Geopolitical pressures and changes in industrial structure are driving strategic collaborations among semiconductor companies, with various countries or regions incentivized for partnerships,...
Tuesday 6 February 2024
Japan's semiconductor renaissance (2): advanced packaging and materials
The Japanese government's efforts to attract foreign semiconductor investment have been very effective, with almost every major international semiconductor manufacturer responding...