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Tuesday 26 March 2024
Redefining MEMS speakers: Q&A with xMEMS CEO Joseph Jiang
US-headquartered xMEMS is on track to redefine Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) speakers.
Tuesday 26 March 2024
Foxconn subsidiary and MediaTek team up for co-packaged optics devices
Foxconn Interconnect Technology (FIT), a subsidiary of Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn), has partnered with MediaTek to co-develop a groundbreaking 51.2T solution incorporating...
Tuesday 26 March 2024
IC design houses optimistic about AI PC chip shipments despite low penetration
Taiwanese IC design houses remain confident about AI PC-related chip shipments in 2024, despite an AI PC penetration rate of 5% at most for the year, according to industry sources.
Tuesday 26 March 2024
LG and Samsung accelerate robotics investments, eyes commercial and home markets
LG and Samsung, eyeing the continual growth of the robotics market, are accelerating their investment efforts in their respective ventures.
Tuesday 26 March 2024
TSMC + Japan: win-win situation or mutual exploitation?
At a recent semiconductor forum hosted by a think tank under Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), former TSMC R&D Director Konrad Young and various scholars...
Tuesday 26 March 2024
Taiwan-based supply chain confirms production cuts at Tesla's Shanghai plant
With Tesla rumored to be slashing production at its Shanghai plant, sources in the Taiwan-based supply chain note that production has been delayed, but overall impact will be limit...
Tuesday 26 March 2024
Apple CEO's Shanghai trip highlights focus on Chinese market
Tim Cook's recent trip to China underscored Apple's emphasis on the Chinese market, where iPhone sales have been reported to be below estimates since 2024.
Tuesday 26 March 2024
VPEC sees brisk order visibility from data center sector
Epitaxy wafer manufacturer Visual Photonic Epitaxy (VPEC) has seen clear order visibility for data center applications extend into the second quarter of 2025.
Tuesday 26 March 2024
Supply-side resource balancing issues to plague AI server supply chain
Despite Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's commitment to meeting all customer demands, supply-side resource balancing difficulties will pose challenges for the AI server industry supply chain,...
Monday 25 March 2024
Apple's Cook tells China forum AI is key for climate battle
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said artificial intelligence is an essential tool for helping businesses reduce their carbon footprint, as he joined a climate change dialog...
Monday 25 March 2024
BYD takes on EV laggards Toyota, VW with steep China price cuts
Not content with unseating Tesla Inc. as the world's top-selling electric car maker, BYD Co. has now set its sights on stealing customers from the likes of Toyota Motor Corp. and...
Monday 25 March 2024
Ex-Google Gemini guy heads Samsung's AGI venture, eyes OpenAI and Meta collaborations
Samsung Electronics has launched its AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) business.
Monday 25 March 2024
Exclusive: Taiwan supply chain helps Micron to achieve early HBM3E mass production
Support from Taiwan's supply chain was behind US memory IDM Micron's successful mass production of its latest-generation high bandwidth memory (HBM) product – HBM3E –...
Monday 25 March 2024
AMD's Lisa Su brings AI PCs to China
Su was accompanied by AMD executives on her trip to Beijing.
Monday 25 March 2024
Ayar Labs unveils CW-WDM MSA-compliant 16-wavelength light source for AI infrastructure
Ayar Labs has unveiled what the company claims is the industry's first 16-wavelength light source that complies with CW-WDM MSA. At the ongoing Optical Fiber Communication (OFC) Conference,...