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Friday 3 November 2023
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt bets AI to shake up scientific research
Eric Schmidt is funding a nonprofit that's focused on building an artificial intelligence-powered assistant for the laboratory, with the lofty goal of overhauling the scientific research...
Friday 3 November 2023
Thailand to reduce EV subsidy in 2024 as sales boom
Thailand will lower the government subsidy for EV purchases starting next year due to the growing sales. The Thai government also plans to provide incentives for carmakers to establish...
Friday 3 November 2023
Tata Motors to expand premium EV market with Jaguar Land Rover platform
Tata Motors, India's largest electric vehicle (EV) brand, announced a partnership with Tata Group's luxury brand Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) for licensing an EV platform for Tata to expand...
Friday 3 November 2023
Koito Manufacturing to mass-produce automotive LiDARs in 2024
Japan-based automotive lighting equipment manufacturer Koito Manufacturing plans to begin mass production of high-precision automotive LiDARs used in advanced driver assistance systems...
Friday 3 November 2023
AUO CEO Frank Ko on acquisition of BHTC
Panel giant AUO is targeting the automotive industry by acquiring BHTC, the company's first international acquisition. Frank Ko, CEO and president of AUO, admits his company was "quite...
Friday 3 November 2023
New orders to buoy AI memory biz sales in 2024, says AP Memory
AP Memory has seen revenue and operating margin growth for two sequential quarters. While its revenue this year was lower than expected, the firm is seeing improved demand from the...
Friday 3 November 2023
In race for self-driving vehicles, Taiwan's semiconductor and ODM companies hold strong potential
With software-defined vehicles rapidly becoming the trend in the automobile market, Arm has introduced its SAOFEE cloud platform for automotive software architecture. According to...
Friday 3 November 2023
AI PC market unlikely to take off until 2025, says Elan
Notebook touch controller specialist Elan Microelectronics believes that the AI PC era has just begun and will not take off until 2025, after its first year of development.
Thursday 2 November 2023
AMD: MI300 can co-exist with ASICs, GPUs in the AI chip market
AMD's MI300 can co-exist with ASICs and GPU solutions in the AI chip market, CEO Lisa Su has said recently, stressing that its latest AI chip is very powerful and gaining market traction...
Thursday 2 November 2023
AI doomers take center stage at the UK's AI Summit
A fierce debate over how much to focus on the supposed existential risks of artificial intelligence defined the kickoff of the UK's AI Safety Summit on Wednesday, highlighting broader...
Thursday 2 November 2023
Taiwan-based Master Transportation, RAC Electric Vehicles expands overseas first in Japan
As reducing carbon emissions becomes the shared goal, many countries have prioritized the electrification of buses. Taiwan-based Master Transportation and RAC Electric Vehicles, a...
Thursday 2 November 2023
Slow high-end EV demand lowers Panasonic's battery capacity utilization rate
Panasonic Group saw its net income hit a record high in the first half of the fiscal year 2023, thanks to the battery subsidies offered by the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). However,...
Thursday 2 November 2023
Toyota sees profit jump in 2QFY24, raising full-year forecast
Toyota enjoyed a 155.6% year-over-year growth in operating income in the second quarter of fiscal year 2024, thanks to a weak Japanese yen and price hikes. With the improved financial...
Thursday 2 November 2023
Vivo launches self-developed OS and LLM to jump on AI bandwagon
At the Vivo Developers Conference on November 1, Chinese smartphone brand Vivo launched its self-developed operating system Blue OS, and its proprietary large language model (LLM),...
Thursday 2 November 2023
Gigabyte optimistic about AI server sales
Gigabyte Technology is optimistic about the sales potential of AI servers and has stated that it has not yet obtained any clients from China, according to the Taiwan-based ODM.