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Friday 19 October 2018
Innodisk forming alliance with subsidiaries, partners to tap AIoT opportunities
Innodisk, a Taiwan-based provider of industrial embedded flash and DRAM solutions, is joining forces with its four subsidiaries and cooperative partners such as SuperMicro to build...
Thursday 18 October 2018
Qualcomm extends Wi-Fi to 5G with 60GHz 802.11ay solutions
Qualcomm Technologies has announced a family of 60GHz Wi-Fi chipsets, the QCA64x8 and QCA64x1, delivering 10+ gigabit-per-second (Gbps) network speeds and wire-equivalent latency.
Thursday 18 October 2018
Samsung starts production of 7LPP with EUV
Samsung Electronics has started wafer production of its 7nm LPP with extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology, according to the company.
Tuesday 16 October 2018
Amazon may launch versatile robots integrating new-generation tech in 2019
Amazon is likely to launch in 2019 a versatile robot integrating cloud service, big data, smart voice, IoT, AI and even 5G technologies, which is expected to serve as the web giant's...
Monday 15 October 2018
ASE and clients are ready for US-China trade war, says COO
ASE Technology Holding and its customers have come up with contingency plans to counter possible impact from escalating US-China trade conflicts, but so far no customers have switched...
Monday 8 October 2018
Global foundry industry to grow at 6% CAGR in next 5 years, says Digitimes Research
The production value of the global foundry industry is expected to grow by a CAGR of 6.2% to reach US$81.94 billion in 2023, the final year of a five-year forecast period, driven...
Friday 5 October 2018
Apple to face iPhone pricing issue during transition to 5G
With the global communications industry beginning to migrate from 4G to 5G from 2019 onwards, Apple may find it difficulty to determine its iPhone product mix and pricing strategy,...
Wednesday 3 October 2018
IC packagers warming up to 5G opportunities
Globally leading IC designers are keen to develop 5G-related chipsets as the new generation mobile communications technologies are set to kick off commercial applications in 2020,...
Tuesday 2 October 2018
Forum explores ways to create smart medicine ecosystems in Taiwan
While tech innovations have kept driving medical innovations, Taiwan can move to build smart medicine ecosystems by applying 5G and AI technologies to promote new-generation telecare...
Monday 1 October 2018
Memory market growth promising: Q&A with Apacer president CK Chang
The memory-chip market exhibited impressive growth in 2017 as undersupply drove up both the DRAM and NAND flash prices. However, oversupply has re-emerged this year casting a shadow...
Friday 28 September 2018
Taiwan gearing up to net annual IC output value of NT$3 trillion by 2021
Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) is aggressively moving to pool cross-domain academic forces to help the semiconductor sector break through bottlenecks seen in the...
Tuesday 25 September 2018
China 5G market unlikely to grow in scale until after 2022, Digitimes Research says
The end-user market for 5G networks in China may not enter a stage with meaningful growth until after 2022, as telecom operators there are aiming to kick off commercial operations...
Friday 21 September 2018
Vietnam boasts great ICT development potentials, says deputy MIC minister
Vietnam has a population of near 100 million and there are over 70 million handset and Internet users, providing a good foundation for stable development of the country's information...
Thursday 20 September 2018
China IC industry to gain solid footing in five years, says Tsinghu Unigroup chairman
China's IC industry is expected to establish a solid foothold in five years and go on to become a top-three or top-four player globally in 2028-2030, according to Zhao Weiguo, chairman...
Tuesday 18 September 2018
Stay focused: Q&A with NXP executive Steve Owen
NXP Semiconductors has gone through several periods of restructuring since its departure from Philips, followed by privatization, and mergers and acquisitions. Steve Owen, executive...