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Thursday 24 January 2019
Intel, MediaTek, Qualcomm dominating 5G modem chips supply
While chipmakers and brand vendors of smartphones are striving to seek a preemptive presence in the segments of 5G IPs, patents and AP chips, the most critical 5G modem chip solutions...
Wednesday 23 January 2019
Cisco offers Taiwan enterprises help in biz transformation
Cisco has hosted Cisco Connect TPE 2019 in Taipei, sharing its ideas about cloud computing. Cisco Taiwan president George Chen, during his keynote speech, ointed out that the company...
Wednesday 23 January 2019
TSMC to tape out first 5nm chip design in 1H19
Despite its dim business and industry outlook this year, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) continues to make progress in the development of sub-7nm process technologies...
Tuesday 22 January 2019
5G moving out of lab for official kickoff in 2019, says MediaTek chair
The next generation of mobile connectivity, 5G, is moving out of its testing stage and will take off in 2019, according to MediaTek chairman MK Tsai.
Tuesday 22 January 2019
AI, 5G to be major chip market growth driver, says SEMI CMO
Chip demand for emerging AI and 5G applications will keep surging to become a major growth driver for the global semiconductor sector in the next three years, according to Terry Tsao,...
Monday 21 January 2019
Acer stepping up efforts for AI hardware business in 2019
Acer so far in January 2019 has already obtained two procurement orders for high-performance computing (HPC) products for artificial intelligence (AI) applications and is looking...
Friday 18 January 2019
Wistron pushing into autonomous driving development, says paper
Wistron and its partners from an autonomous driving development team including several IT and bus companies in Taiwan and National Taiwan University (NTU), have unveiled their latest...
Friday 18 January 2019
IC backend service houses may see shipment pickup in mid-2019
Taiwan backend service providers are taking a wait-and-see attitude toward their business prospects for 2019 amid a spate of undesirable factors including the volatile US-China tariff...
Friday 18 January 2019
Acer founder expects elderly consumers to be opportunity for Taiwan IT industry
Acer founder Stan Shih has pointed out that Taiwan's IT sectors should work together to pursue the business opportunity from the elderly consumer group and can leverage the success...
Friday 18 January 2019
Rapidz introducing decentralized payment solutions into Taiwan
Taiwan's electronic payment market is entering a new development stage, with crypto coins emerging as a new payment tool for B2B and B2C transactions, according to Paul Wei, sales...
Thursday 17 January 2019
AI, 5G to boost penetration of HDI PCBs in notebooks
Notebooks are getting smart along with growing application of 5G and AI technologies, driving up demand for high-density interconnect (HDI) PCBs to support upgrades in designs, according...
Thursday 17 January 2019
2018 review and 2019 outlook: New applications driving server industry growth
Emerging technologies and applications such as artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and 5G have driven server shipment growths in the past few...
Wednesday 16 January 2019
Handset PCB makers moving to develop high-end board materials
Despite sales growth stagnancy for smartphones, handset PCB suppliers are moving to develop high-end board materials as they believe handsets still have great room for sales growth...
Wednesday 16 January 2019
Conversational AI to reshape social network ecosystem, says Yoctol adviser
Taiwan AI startup Yoctol Information is dedicated to offering conversational AI systems as a new channel for enterprises to better communicate with potential customers to boost their...
Wednesday 16 January 2019
MediaTek eyes AI, auto, ASIC solutions as 2019 growth drivers
Taiwan chipmaker MediaTek is gearing up to expand its businesses in AI, automotive electronics and ASIC sectors, internally dubbed as the "3A" plan, seeking to reverse in 2019 its...