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Tuesday 26 June 2018
Silicon wafer prices likely to spiral upward through 2025
Global supply of silicon wafers will remain tight and their prices are expected to spiral upward probably through 2025 due to ever-expanding demand and slow capacity expansions at...
Tuesday 26 June 2018
Micron begins volume production of GDDR6
Micron Technology has announced volume production on its 8Gb GDDR6 memory, which is optimized for a variety of applications that require high performance memory including artificial...
Tuesday 26 June 2018
Taiwan needs to build angel investor culture, says David Weng, CEO of Taiwania Capital
David Weng, CEO of national-level investment firm Taiwania Capital, worked in Silicon Valley for as long as 37 years with 20 years of them spent in the venture capital industry. He...
Monday 25 June 2018
TSMC dominance in 7nm process enhanced with InFO package
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is enjoying a sweeping dominance in the 7nm process space, as it has entered volume production of APs for new iPhones set to hit...
Monday 25 June 2018
Taiwan entrepreneurships should start from where it is strong, says Ed Yang, partner of ID Ventures America
Having worked as vice president and CTO of Hewlett-Packard's (HP) Personal Systems Group and Computing Systems Organization for over 20 years in Silicon Valley, Ed Yang, currently...
Friday 22 June 2018
Pegatron optimistic about prospects for 2H18 despite challenges
The IT supply chains are facing both challenges and opportunities in 2018 and there is no reason for makers to feel pessimistic about business prospects for the second half of the...
Friday 22 June 2018
Microsoft and Taiwan university to set up AI training center
Microsoft Taiwan and National Chiao Tung University have teamed up to set up an AI (artificial intelligence) and data science training and certification center through introducing...
Friday 22 June 2018
China AI unicorns grow stronger on fresh financial injections
China's AI sector has witnessed a new round of fundraising campaigns, with a flurry of investment deals completed over the past few weeks to make AI unicorns there stronger, according...
Friday 22 June 2018
TSMC ramping up 7nm chip production
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has started commercial production of chips built using 7nm process technology, according to company CEO CC Wei. The foundry is also...
Thursday 21 June 2018
Lenovo launches new PC services for Taiwan enterprise clients
Lenovo has introduced new service programs Premier Support and PC as a Service (PCaaS) to better serve enterprise customers in Taiwan, and it will also step up promoting gaming PCs...
Thursday 21 June 2018
North American semi equipment industry posts record billings for 2nd consecutive month
North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted US$2.70 billion in billings worldwide in May 2018 (three-month average basis), according to SEMI. The billings...
Wednesday 20 June 2018
Edge AI solutions provider Kneron aspires to become innovation leader
Taiwan's edge AI solutions provider Kneron has recently completed its series A1 financing of US$18 million led by Horizons Ventures, a venture capital firm founded by Hong Kong tycoon...
Tuesday 19 June 2018
MediaTek steps up investment in 5G, AI
Smartphone SoC specialist MediaTek plans to pour in additional investments to its advanced technology R&D as the company expects to speed up deployments in emerging sectors such...
Friday 15 June 2018
CATL plans to expand annual battery capacity to 50GWh by 2020
Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), a China-based maker of Li-ion power batteries used in electric vehicles, plans to expand annual production capacity to 50GWh at the end of...
Friday 15 June 2018
Chengdu Shuanliu FTZ eyes revenues of CNY160 billion for 2018
The Chengdu Shuangliu Free Trade Zone, a major part of the Sichuan FTZ in southwestern China and now home to 2,444 businesses with aggregate registered capitals of CNY33.8 billion...