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Thursday 13 January 2022
Master Talks 5: Why better AI systems are causing more problems and how we fix them
Multiple films have featured how intelligent machines might disobey orders from humans and eventually take over the world. In the opinion of Stuart Russell, professor of electrical...
Wednesday 12 January 2022
Global fab equipment spending to log record high in 2022, says SEMI
Global fab equipment spending for front-end facilities is expected to rise 10% on year to a new all-time high of over US$98 billion in 2022, marking a third consecutive year of growth,...
Wednesday 12 January 2022
Highlights of the day: Notebook components inventory piling up at ODMs
Demand from notebook clients may still be strong, but ODMs have seen difficulties managing their component inventories. Their overall component...
Wednesday 12 January 2022
Master Talks 4: How AI affects our future
A personal assistant that knows the best time to wake you up. A machine that reads radiology scans together with a pathologist. More and more artificial intelligence (AI) applications...
Wednesday 12 January 2022
CES 2022: All Good Energy talks the next step of electrification and the role BMS plays in reusing batteries as power storage
In the past, battery packs were regarded as components that must be designed and manufactured to meet the specifications of some more significant main product. Battery performance...
Wednesday 12 January 2022
Carmakers working to be self-sufficient on EV battery
With the electric vehicle (EV) market continuing to grow, carmakers in Europe and the US have been building battery plants or partnering with battery manufacturers domestically. The...
Wednesday 12 January 2022
ADLINK launches first embedded MXM graphics modules based on NVIDIA Ampere architecture for edge computing and AI
ADLINK EGX-MXM-A1000, EGX-MXM-A2000 and EGX-MXM-A4500 are the first modules to use NVIDIA's embedded GPUs based on NVIDIA Ampere architecture. ADLINK embedded MXM graphics modules...
Tuesday 11 January 2022
Automakers adopting lightweight materials
New electric cars are using lightweight materials to achieve higher range and power efficiency. Sources at the suppliers said magnesium alloy is replacing some of the heavy metal...
Tuesday 11 January 2022
Taiwan III-V IC makers gearing up for robust RF, PA demand
Taiwan-based gallium arsenide (GaAs) foundries including Win Semiconductors and Advanced Wireless Semiconductor (AWSC), and epi-wafer suppliers such as Visual Photonics Epitaxy Company...
Tuesday 11 January 2022
GlobalWafers reports record 2021 revenue
Silicon wafer company GlobalWafers saw its revenue climb by over 10% on year to a record high of NT$61.13 billion (US$2.21 billion) in 2021.
Tuesday 11 January 2022
EV lithium battery shortage expected to be worse than chip shortage in 2022
While the automotive chip shortage finally started easing at the end of 2021, some automakers believe that the lithium battery shortage will be worse than the chip shortage in 2022...
Tuesday 11 January 2022
Master Talks 3: Algorithms may become biased and need governance
Algorithms are changing our lives in different ways. However, Cathy O'Neil, founder of O'Neil risk consulting and algorithmic auditing, said in some cases, the mathematical models...
Monday 10 January 2022
Diodes steps into EV-use SiC-based power modules via JV
US-based semiconductor device maker Diodes has established DiodSent Green Technology on a joint-venture basis with Taiwan-based Sentec Group to step into R&D and production of...
Monday 10 January 2022
Gotion looks to bring LFP production to US
China-based LFP battery supplier Gotion announced in late December that Gotion US has sealed a large order with a top American carmaker without revealing who it is. In the announcement,...
Monday 10 January 2022
India roundup: Tata sees highest sales of EV in December
Electric vehicles (EV) are taking off in both scooter and passenger car segments, while industry groups fear high import taxes could dent India's advantages.