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Friday 9 December 2022
US, Taiwan IC design houses cutting wafer starts at China foundries
US and Taiwan-based fabless chipmakers have increasingly moved to scale down wafer starts at China-based foundries, according to industry sources.
Friday 9 December 2022
New TSMC fab in US has in-house capability of IC analysis and verification
TSMC's new advanced wafer fab in the US will be capable of providing IC materials analysis and verification in-house, according to sources at Taiwan IC analysis and inspection labs,...
Friday 9 December 2022
How Silicon Valley looks at the Taiwan miracle (10): Where is Taiwan heading?
It's been six generations since my great-great-great grandfather moved to Taiwan from the Chinese mainland, and I have been doing industry research in almost my entire career. I know...
Thursday 8 December 2022
Global company, like TSMC, should have access to global resources
The opening of TSMC's new Arizona plant has dominated recent industry news headlines. Regarding this information, there have been many negative comments, with the main argument being...
Thursday 8 December 2022
UnaBiz raises US$25 million in B+ round financing
UnaBiz, the massive Internet of Things (IoT) solution provider, announced on December 8 that it has completed its B+ financing round led by Japan's Sparx Group, and other investors...
Thursday 8 December 2022
Strong computing gives impetus to Taiwan's zero-carbon vision
Due to the escalating severity of climate change, achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 has been included as a key target for sustainable operation by many governments and large corporations...
Thursday 8 December 2022
Japan looking to next-generation semiconductors, says JST president
While the US leads in IC design, Taiwan leads in wafer foundry and IC packaging/testing, and South Korea leads in DRAM/flash memory, Japan is focusing on development of next-generation...
Thursday 8 December 2022
How Silicon Valley looks at the Taiwan miracle (9): Ethnic Chinese associations and industry leaders
In recent years, Silicon Valley has seen a growing cohort of Indian tech talent, some of whom run world-class tech firms. But what I hear is that there is only one Indian technology...
Wednesday 7 December 2022
Japan seeks to revitalize semiconductor leadership in cooperation with Taiwan
In the Taiwan-Japan Technology Dialogue forum hosted by Taiwan Japan Academy on December 6 in Taipei, executives from key semiconductor players and scholars from top think tanks presented...
Wednesday 7 December 2022
Health Big Data Platform Program takes on responsibility to drive precision medicine in Taiwan
The completion of human genome sequencing has given rise to the trend of precision medicine and prompted governments worldwide to formulate the relevant healthcare policies. Meanwhile,...
Wednesday 7 December 2022
Taiwan government to deploy team to protect key technologies
With the concern that the US may pressure the Taiwanese government to have TSMC move its newest technologies to the US, thus weakening Taiwan's importance in the semiconductor industry,...
Wednesday 7 December 2022
Freyr establishes JV with Nidec for battery energy storage solutions
Freyr Battery has received another push for scaling up its business. On December 6, the company announced it had set up a joint venture with Nidec to develop batteries for energy...
Wednesday 7 December 2022
Imec to cooperate with Japan's Rapidus on 2nm technology
Belgium-based microelectronics research hub Imec has signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) with Japan's newly formed semiconductor champion Rapidus Corp.
Wednesday 7 December 2022
Data storage demand continues rising in 2023, says Pure Storage Taiwan
Pure Storage is cautiously optimistic about the storage market's potential in 2023, said Pure Storage Taiwan general manager Grace Lu. The rapid growth of IT data generation, stable...
Tuesday 6 December 2022
Taiwan-Japan semiconductor forum draws attention with key Japanese politician giving keynote
The fact that a heavyweight Japanese lawmaker spoke at the "2022 Taiwan-Japan Technology Dialogue: Semiconductor Key Technology and Talent Forum" on the same day that US president...