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Wednesday 14 August 2024
Taiwan's drone industry grapples with rapid product cycles and short-term focus
Taiwan's drone industry faces significant challenges as it attempts to align with the country's defense initiatives and compete in the global market. The rapid pace of product iteration...
Wednesday 14 August 2024
Japanese wafer majors report falling sales amid slow chip recovery
Shin-Etsu Chemical and Sumco, which account for approximately 50% of the global wafer market, have both reported a decline in demand for the April-June 2024 quarter compared to the...
Wednesday 14 August 2024
Why Intel has also struggled to manufacture chips in Arizona
The New York Times recently published a piece expressing concern about the delay in the start of chip fabrication and sale at TSMC's Fab 21 in Arizona, despite the project...
Wednesday 14 August 2024
TSMC scaling up equipment and engineering orders for fast plant expansions
TSMC has been placing large volumes of orders for production equipment and factory engineering projects in support of its fast capacity expansion, dispelling skepticism about the...
Tuesday 13 August 2024
Taiwan's drone industry gains momentum, sparks annual expo debut in October
Taiwan's government is intensifying its efforts to develop the domestic drone industry, designating it as one of the five key pillars in the nation's trusted supply chain initiative...
Tuesday 13 August 2024
Microsoft expands AI push in Taiwan with US$308 million fund
Microsoft's Asia Pacific tech conference, DevDays Asia, has reached its ninth year in Taiwan.
Tuesday 13 August 2024
Taiwan stands firm to keep advanced semiconductor R&D despite US pressure
In addition to Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump demanding Taiwan to "give back" more for its safety amid the geopolitical uncertainties, the United States has reportedly...
Tuesday 13 August 2024
Samsung reportedly building new CIS lab to catch up to Sony
Samsung Electronics (Samsung) is reportedly building an image quality lab for CIS. To catch up to Sony, it is planning on using simulated photography of various scenery to enhance...
Tuesday 13 August 2024
Samsung's new ultra-thin LPDDR to disrupt edge AI market
Samsung Electronics has unveiled a groundbreaking 12nm low-power DRAM (LPDDR) with a thickness of just 0.65mm, responding to the rapidly growing on-device AI market. This move comes...
Tuesday 13 August 2024
Japanese breakthrough in energy-efficient EUV tech could propel advances in the field
Japanese researchers have developed a groundbreaking new technology that could revolutionize the semiconductor industry.
Tuesday 13 August 2024
Taiwan's AI server surge fuels global market, drives import boom in 2H24
Before Taiwan opened its notebook (NB) industry to invest in China, Taiwanese-made laptops accounted for 90% of the global market. Today, Taiwan-made AI servers hold a similar market...
Tuesday 13 August 2024
Samsung reportedly investing in in-house chip development to compete in XR market
Samsung Electronics is developing high-performance semiconductors for next-generation Extended Reality (XR) devices, aiming to compete with Apple's Vision Pro, which uses in-house...
Tuesday 13 August 2024
AI-enhanced smartphone boom fuels FocalTech's AMOLED DDI sales growth
Taiwan's display driver IC (DDI) vendor, FocalTech Systems, experienced mixed sales performances across its diverse product lines in the second quarter of the year. Despite this,...
Tuesday 13 August 2024
Flexium anticipates profitable transformation by 2025 amid stable Q3 operations
Flexium, Taiwan's leading flexible printed circuit (FPC) company, held an earnings call on August 12, highlighting its strategic transformation towards high-frequency transmission...
Monday 12 August 2024
SDC reportedly signs contract with Microsoft
Samsung Display (SDC) is reportedly collaborating with Microsoft to develop and supply OLED on Silicon (OLEDoS) for the next generation of Mixed Reality (MR) devices.