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Monday 9 July 2018
Farewell to low-price business model: Q&A with Lelon president Wu Chih-min
A continued rally in MLCC prices has been pushing up prices for other passive components including capacitors, which Lelon Electronics specializes in. For Lelon president Wu Chih-min,...
Tuesday 3 July 2018
Brand value to determine winners in gaming market, says Team president
The rampant development of the global gaming industry has significantly driven the shipment growth and spec upgrades of gaming devices, but it is brand value that will determine who...
Friday 29 June 2018
Taiwan needs internationalized talent, says Wretch Chien, AME Cloud Venture principal
Wretch Chien, principal of AME Cloud Venture, was himself an entrepreneur when he founded a community website Wretch.cc in Taiwan. Since then his career has taken several turns, taking...
Thursday 28 June 2018
Entrepreneurs should aim at creating world-class products, says ASVDA CTO TC Wu
Currently the CTO of Taiwan's Asia Silicon Valley Development Agency (ASVDA), TC Wu had spent 35 years working in the bona fide Silicon Valley's semiconductor industry. He retired...
Wednesday 27 June 2018
Taiwan must be prepared for entrepreneurship, says Acorn Campus Taiwan chairman Wu-Fu Chen
Chairman of Acorn Campus Taiwan Wu-Fu Chen, with a record of having founded 13 companies within a 15-year period and having all of them either acquired or listed, clearly showed his...
Wednesday 27 June 2018
USB Type-C unified standard to connect them all
The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) is a non-profit industry group and support organization for the advancement and adoption of Universal Serial Bus technology as defined in the USB...
Tuesday 26 June 2018
Eyeing the top notch of the FPD industry: Q&A with Tianma president Sun Yongmao
For the small- and medium-size panel industry, China's Tianma Microelectronics is definitely a star that outshone Japan Display (JDI) to become the world's largest supplier of LTPS...
Tuesday 26 June 2018
Taiwan needs to build angel investor culture, says David Weng, CEO of Taiwania Capital
David Weng, CEO of national-level investment firm Taiwania Capital, worked in Silicon Valley for as long as 37 years with 20 years of them spent in the venture capital industry. He...
Monday 25 June 2018
Taiwan entrepreneurships should start from where it is strong, says Ed Yang, partner of ID Ventures America
Having worked as vice president and CTO of Hewlett-Packard's (HP) Personal Systems Group and Computing Systems Organization for over 20 years in Silicon Valley, Ed Yang, currently...
Friday 22 June 2018
Internal entrepreneurship to be key for Taiwan innovation development, said NTU professor Gary Wang
Thanks to his 20 years of work in Silicon Valley, Gary Wang, a professor of the Creativity & Entrepreneurship Program at National Taiwan University (NTU), co-founder and chairman...
Thursday 21 June 2018
New TransferJet X standard achieves 10 Gbps of high rate, close proximity wireless communications
TheTransferJet Consortium recently announced its next-generation TransferJet X standard at Computex. It is a point-to-point wireless personal area network (WPAN) technology that uses...
Tuesday 19 June 2018
Cobalt solutions best helper for 7nm node: Q&A with Applied Materials expert Jonathan Bakke
While Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and Samsung are entering the 7nm process era, the latest cobalt-based process solutions rolled out by Applied Materials following...
Wednesday 13 June 2018
Heraeus Photovoltaics continues to drive PV efficiency to bring greater benefits to industry and future generations
At the recent 2018 SNEC International Photovoltaic Power Generation and Smart Energy Exhibition & Conference in Shanghai, Dr. Weiming Zhang, Executive Vice President and Chief...
Tuesday 5 June 2018
Consistent user experience: Q&A with Gigabyte sales and marketing chief Eddie Lin
Following a business re-organization in the second half of 2017, Gigabyte Technology is now looking to unifying all its products under the Aorus gaming brand, seeking to bring a consistent...
Tuesday 5 June 2018
Gearing efforts toward special-purpose power supplies: An interview with Rax Chuang, general manager, APD Power System Business Group
Leveraging robust R&D capabilities as well as manufacturing and customization flexibility, APD Group's long-term efforts toward the power supply market are generating results,...