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Thursday 23 May 2019
Business transformation via stake investment: Q&A with Qisda chairman Peter Chen
EMS provider Qisda has achieved growth by investing in firms whose businesses complement its own, with its 2018 consolidated revenues reaching a record at NT$4.576 billion (US$149...
Monday 6 May 2019
Quanta making AI push, says chairman
AI will usher in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and Taiwan must manage to develop a solid presence in the AI era that will persist into the next decades, Quanta Computer chairman...
Tuesday 9 April 2019
Memory long-term outlook promising: Q&A with Micron EVP Sumit Sadana
The memory-chip market conditions will start to improve later in 2019, followed by several years of prosperity, according to Sumit Sadana, executive VP and chief business officer...
Monday 1 April 2019
The road to transformation: Q&A with MSI president and CEO Sheng-chang Chiang
After years of operation in the PC market, Micro-Star International (MSI) has advanced to the next phase with the company's founders passing on management to a team of professional...
Friday 29 March 2019
Why 12-inch fabs are better for power components: Q&A with Bing Xue, AOS SVP of global sales
Alpha & Omega Semiconductor (AOS), which designs and manufactures power semiconductors for a broad range of applications, will start production at its new 12-inch wafer plant...
Monday 25 March 2019
AI-enhanced manufacutring: Q&A with Seagate executive VP Jeffrey Nygaard
Seagate has teamed up with HPE and Nvidia to release an AI-based manufacturing platform, Project Athena, in line with the concepts of Industry 4.0, as artificial intelligence gradually...
Tuesday 19 March 2019
Heterogeneous integration bringing more innovation: Q&A with Etron chairman Nicky Lu
The Taiwan semiconductor industry is gearing up to tap huge business opportunities arising from AI and IoT applications, such as machine learning, cloud to edge computing and big...
Monday 4 March 2019
Industry 4.0 brings lucrative opportunities for chipmakers: Q&A with TI manager Matthieu Chervier
Global chipmakers have been racing to develop chip solutions associated with Industry 4.0 applications to tap huge business opportunities arising from smart manufacturing in conjunction...
Thursday 21 February 2019
Taiwan must run faster in IC development: Q&A with science minister Chen Liang-gee
TSMC is likely to kick off volume production of 3nm manufacturing process in 2022-2023, when AI and 5G applications are seen to explode to drastically drive the growth of mobile communications,...
Friday 1 February 2019
Quanta chair issues prescriptions for AI healthcare development in Taiwan
AI applications can usher in brand-new values for Taiwan's medical sector, given the growing integration of health insurance data and technological resources and improving relationships...
Friday 18 January 2019
Taiwan PV FIT scheme has room for improvement room, says Motech president
Taiwan began to adopt a feed-in tariff (FIT) scheme to boost PV power development about two years ago, much later than many other countries, and therefore the scheme has considerable...
Friday 4 January 2019
Transforming into a solution provider: Q&A with Chilisin president Jack Chung
Taiwan-based Chilisin Electronics has developed itself into a leading provider for an array of passive components in recent years through intensified developments of core technologies...
Tuesday 25 December 2018
Public cloud services market to see strong growth: Q&A with eCloudvalley president Linda Lin
Public cloud services take up 30% of enterprises' IT spending in the US and the percentage is estimated to be only 5% in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. It is even lower in Southeast...
Thursday 20 December 2018
Merck seeking sustainability for another 350 years
Merck has achieved a milestone for being in business for over 350 years, particularly engaging in the development of liquid crystal products for over 100 year, and the company's mindset...
Monday 17 December 2018
China IC supply chain gaining momentum: Q&A with Photronics DNP Mask
As a joint venture between US photomask maker Photronics and Japan's Dai Nippon Printing (DNP), Photronics DNP Mask broke ground in mid-2018 for building a photomask plant in Xiamen,...