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Tuesday 8 September 2020
Chips R&D matters: Q&A with iST chairman Danny Yu
Materials analysis (MA), reliability analysis (RA) and failure analysis (FA) are increasingly needed by IC designers, wafer foundries and backend houses to support R&D projects...
Thursday 3 September 2020
More choices for gamers: Q&A with Frank Soqui, GM of Intel Gaming Division
With the gaming market expanding quickly in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Intel, AMD and Nvidia are all set to release their latest CPUs and GPUs in the second half of 2020...
Wednesday 2 September 2020
The inevitable trend toward industrial automation: Q&A with ZNT CEO Bernhard Marsoner
ZNT-Richter is a global IT company. In the past 30+ years, ZNT has successfully developed software solutions suitable for the manufacturing industry to help customers improve production...
Tuesday 1 September 2020
Techno-nationalism in US-China row: Q&A with Alex Capri, senior fellow at NUS
While many still believe the US-China tech war will be over along with the end of the US presidential election, most China experts at US think tanks believe it will be difficult for...
Wednesday 26 August 2020
Geared towards 5G mmWave: Q&A with Flexium chairman MC Cheng
Taiwan's flexible PCB specialist Flexium Interconnect has seen its business operations improve significantly, reportedly as a result of entering the supply chain of flexible MPI (modified...
Friday 21 August 2020
E-paper as third pillar of display industry: Q&A with EIH chairman Johnson Lee
The output value of e-paper products may be relatively small as compared to those from LCD or OLED, e-paper solution provider E Ink Holdings (EIH) has managed to garner a gross margin...
Wednesday 5 August 2020
Startup marketability: Q&A with Foundation Capital partner Morgan Lai
Many tech firms in Taiwan have shown growing interests in working with and investing in startups. But for startups to survive the competition, according to Morgan Lai, a parnter of...
Thursday 30 July 2020
VR-enabled social interactions: Q&A with XRSpace president Sting Tao
There are many social networking platforms, but they have been unable to fill the very gap left wide open by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic that has been barring people from face-to-face...
Tuesday 21 July 2020
Support for startups: Q&A with Arm Taiwan president CK Tseng
Following the release of Flexible Access in 2019, Arm, a subsidiary of SoftBank, is opening up the project to startups with no charge, helping newcomers to reduce costs for product...
Wednesday 15 July 2020
Jumping on the EUV bandwagon: Q&A with Gudeng chairman Bill Chiu
Gudeng Precision Industrial, a member of TSMC Grand Alliance and Taiwan's first semiconductor equipment maker allowed to join SEMI in setting next-generation equipment standards after...
Tuesday 23 June 2020
Mini LED opportunities: Q&A with Epistar president Fan Chin-yung
LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar sets high hopes on mini LED applications. It has been keen to improve every step of the manufacturing process for mini LED chips, and aims...
Tuesday 16 June 2020
No peak season for consumer chips in 2H20: Q&A with WT chairman Eric Cheng
Renesas Electronics has announced a decision to delegate IC distribution rights to only a few partners, with Taiwan's WT Microelectronics among them. WT is now also a main sales agent...
Wednesday 10 June 2020
Government subsidies crucial for new TSMC fab establishment in US
TSMC is in talks with the US government about relevant subsidies for its new wafer fab in Arizona so that the foundry is able to implement the investment plan, said TSMC chairman...
Thursday 21 May 2020
PhD shortage to challenge TSMC: Q&A with company senior VP of R&D Cliff Hou
Shortages of personnel with PhDs will be a challenge facing TSMC as well as Taiwan's chipmaking industry by 2030, according to Cliff Hou, company senior VP of technology development...
Friday 15 May 2020
Industry 4.0 driving demand for pneumatic automation components: Q&A with Taiwan Chelic chairman Barton Yu
As pneumatic automation components are essential parts of automated equipment, demand for them is expected to be on the rise along with ongoing development of Industry 4.0-based industrial...