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Monday 16 July 2018
Taiwan moving to help makers avert China-US trade war impact
The government in Taiwan has taken three major countermeasures to avert possible impact of the escalating China-US trade spats, including helping makers to boost their domestic R&D...
Friday 13 July 2018
Dell unveils innovations for enterprises in Taiwan
Dell has unveiled a series of new enterprise PCs in Taiwan including its Precision 7730 and 7530 workstations designed specifically for virtual reality (VR) purposes; Latitude 5491...
Friday 13 July 2018
MediaTek NB-IoT SoC validated by SoftBank
MediaTek has completed validation (interoperability tests) of NarrowBand IoT connectivity (NB-IoT) with SoftBank to set the stage for future commercial NB-IoT applications within...
Friday 13 July 2018
TAIFE 2018 focuses on self-driving electric vehicles
Taiwan Automotive Research Consortium (TARC), formed by some government-sponsored research organizations, on July 12 hosted Taiwan Automotive International Forum and Exhibition (TAIFE)...
Friday 13 July 2018
Samsung capex for NAND flash to hike
Samsung Electronics will expand its capex for NAND flash memory to around US$9 billion in 2019, up from about US$6.4 billion in 2018, a recent Chosun Ilbo report quoted industry...
Thursday 12 July 2018
Taiwan telecom carriers see June results meet guidance
Taiwan's top-three telecom operators, Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), Taiwan Mobile, and Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET), have all seen their sales performance meet their guidance for...
Thursday 12 July 2018
Taiwan makers under pressure from China restrictions on PV installation
China's latest move to impose stricter control on PV installations has sent a chilling wave across the domestic market, and in turn created pressure on Taiwan-based solar power supply...
Thursday 12 July 2018
Taiwan makers urged to develop small and medium LCD panels for emerging applications
Taiwan's LCD panel makers should develop more small- and medium-size panels for emerging applications that will come along with the rapid developments of 5G, IoT and IoV industries,...
Thursday 12 July 2018
Information needs comprehensive protection, says telecom carrier
As the information application architectures in today's business sectors are increasingly interconnected, making it difficult for individual enterprises to safeguard their information...
Thursday 12 July 2018
IBM announces Domino 10 in Taiwan
IBM has announced its Domino 10 software in Taiwan, integrated with IBM's Watson cognitive services and cloud computing technologies, and supporting common office tools including...
Thursday 12 July 2018
Alliance formed to spur blockchain development in Taiwan, China
Following 10 years of development, blockchain technologies are emerging as a disruptive innovation beginning to challenge and subvert established business and production models, but...
Wednesday 11 July 2018
YouCam beauty apps most downloaded for virtual makeup
YouCam beauty apps offered by Taiwan-based Perfect Corp have become the world's most downloaded beauty apps, scoring over 600 million global app downloads, with global beauty and...
Wednesday 11 July 2018
LG ramping OLED TV shipments in Taiwan
LG Electronics has launched its W8, E8, C8 series of OLED TVs in 55- and 65-inch sizes in Taiwan, aiming to ramp up its OLED TV shipments by more than 3-fold in the local market in...
Wednesday 11 July 2018
Taiwan firms urged to invest in commercialization of genome editing
While Taiwan electronics industry is aggressively mulling over how to tap the huge business opportunities to be created by quantum computers, the country's Ministry of Science and...
Tuesday 10 July 2018
China to become largest semiconductor equipment market in 2019, says SEMI
China will unseat South Korea as the largest market of semiconductor manufacturing equipment in 2019, when global sales hit another record-high levels, according to SEMI.