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Monday 9 December 2019
Smart agriculture biotech solutions highlighted at Futex Taipei 2019
Driven by the application of sensors, AI, big data and IoT technologies, smart agriculture has developed rapidly in Taiwan, and a spate of latest smart agricultural solutions unveiled...
Wednesday 4 December 2019
AWS announces new AI services and quantum computing initiatives
At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced several new projects including five new artificial intelligence (AI) services designed to put machine learning in the hands...
Wednesday 4 December 2019
Adlink building smart production ecosystem with partners
Taiwan-based IPC maker Adlink Technology is aggressively building a smart manufacturing ecosystem in cooperation with IBM Taiwan, World Peace Industrial Group, Delta Electronics and...
Wednesday 4 December 2019
Wistron Medical deepening deployment in smart healthcare sector
Taiwan-based Wistron Medical Technology is deepening its deployment in four domains seeking to leverage its parent firm's ICT prowess to informatize, digitalize, and smartize medical...
Tuesday 3 December 2019
Sustainability and digitalization: Q&A with Covestro CEO Markus Steilemann
Germany-based Covestro, spun off from the Bayer Group in September 2015, is now among the world's leading makers of premium polymers with 30 production bases and around 16,000 employees...
Tuesday 3 December 2019
5G chip price to stay above US$100 in 1H20
5G mobile SoC unit price will stay above US$100 in the first half of 2020, several times that for 4G solutions, as tight capacity at TSMC's 7nm node is likely to keep production cost...
Monday 2 December 2019
Nvidia introduces Clara FL using AI to protect patient data
Today at RSNA, Nvidia has introduced Clara Federated Learning, which takes advantage of a distributed, collaborative learning technique that protects patient data.
Friday 29 November 2019
IC designers poised to reap well from 5G peripheral chips demand
Taiwan-based IC designers are gearing up to cash in on the growing demand for high-speed, high-performance peripheral chips including Type-C interface chipts, USB 4.0 chips, diverse...
Friday 29 November 2019
Open AI Fab develops automated image matting models for advertising designers
Open AI Fab, a provider of subscription-based consulting in AI technology and AI solution, has developed Auto Hair, an AI-based automated image matting model to remove the background...
Thursday 28 November 2019
Startup founders shed light on developing international markets
Taiwan has seen startups proliferating in diverse segments, and how to extend their reach abroad and build international connections is a pressing matter. Three startups shed light...
Thursday 28 November 2019
Taiwan accelerator AppWorks hosts event to promote AI, blockchain startups
Taiwan-based AppWorks accelerator has recently hosted AppWorks Demo Day#19 in Taiwan to promote 18 of its startups, with the event attracting over 1,200 investors and industry repr...
Wednesday 27 November 2019
Pure-play online banks to kick off operations in Taiwan in 2020
Taiwan's FinTech will enter a new era of development as three Internet-only banks have been approved to kick off operations in 2020, according to Willington Koo, chairman of the Financial...
Wednesday 27 November 2019
CWTC to provide leadframes for EV power devices
Leadframe specialist Chang Wah Technology (CWTC) plans to expand its offerings to include those for power devices in 2020 and is also set to kick off a NT$3 billion (US$98.38 million)...
Wednesday 27 November 2019
Global smartphone demand remains weak in 3Q19
Global sales of smartphones to end users continued to decline in the third quarter of 2019, contracting by 0.4% compared with the third quarter of 2018, according to Gartner. Demand...
Wednesday 27 November 2019
MediaTek intros new-gen 5G SoC
MediaTek held a press conference on November 26 to introduce the new generation of its 5G SoC chips, with guests including TSMC VP Lora Ho, a number of high-ranking executives from...