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Thursday 31 May 2018
GPU computing accelerating AI development, says Nvidia CEO
The time for GPU computing has come, and such computing is accelerating the development of AI (artificial intelligence), with demand for GPU computing power to see a 100-fold increase,...
Thursday 31 May 2018
Global 2017 smartphone AP market drops while growth resumes in tablet AP sector, says Strategy Analytics
The global smartphone applications processor (AP) market declined 5% on year to US$20.2 billion in 2017, while the tablet AP market grew 3% to US$2 billion, according to Strategy...
Wednesday 30 May 2018
Acer announces new servers powered by Nvidia Tesla GPUs
Acer has announced the new Altos R880 F4 GPU server ahead of GTC Taiwan 2018. It can host up to eight Nvidia Tesla V100 32GB SXM2 GPU accelerators, where every GPU pair includes one...
Wednesday 30 May 2018
Foxsemicon expects capacity expansion to bring record revenues for 2018
Semiconductor equipment maker Foxsemicon Integrated Technology, an affiliate of the Foxconn Group, has completed capacity expansions at its Kunshan (China) plants to better meet brisk...
Wednesday 30 May 2018
Seagate moving to explore huge AI-driven storage biz in Asia Pacific
AI-driven demand for data storage capacity expansion will grow much faster than expected amid ever-advancing AI technologies and applications, as data volume generated by AI technologies...
Tuesday 29 May 2018
Teradata COO urges firms to be sentient
Evolving into a sentient enterprise must be an ultimate goal for businesses which seek to sustain their competitiveness, according to Oliver Ratzesberger, chief operating officer...
Tuesday 29 May 2018
Etron taps into AI application sector
Taiwan-based IC designer Etron Technology, dedicated to application-driven buffer DRAM chips and system on chips, has newly ventured its low-power, high bandwidth memory chip solutions...
Tuesday 29 May 2018
Sogepa to invest US$150 million in Thunder Power EV
Belgium-based investment fund Sogepa has signed a framework agreement with Hong Kong-based electric vehicle (EV) maker Thunder Power EV to invest US$150 million in the latter, according...
Monday 28 May 2018
IC test board maker Keystone lists on Taiwan emerging stock market
Taiwan-based Keystone Mircrotech, a supplier of high-frequency and high-speed IC testing solutions, has listed on the Taipei Emerging Stock Board, as part of its efforts to gain financial...
Friday 25 May 2018
Acer tapping deeper into gaming PC sector as major growth driver
Acer will continue to grow sales of its gaming PCs to improve further its overall gross margin as gaming devices have helped the company return to profitability, and the company will...
Thursday 24 May 2018
Silicon wafer price uptrend to carry into 2020
Silicon wafer prices are estimated to further rise 20% on average in 2018 after posting the same size of hike in 2017 on robust market demand, and the quotes are expected to trend...
Thursday 24 May 2018
Toshiba Memory to build new fab to expand 3D flash production capacity
Toshiba Memory (TMC) announced recently it had decided to start constructing a new fab for BiCS FLASH, the company's proprietary 3D flash memory, in Kitakami (Iwate prefecture, Japan)...
Thursday 24 May 2018
North American semi equipment industry posts record April billings
North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted US$2.69 billion in billings worldwide in April 2018 (three-month average basis), according to SEMI. The billings...
Thursday 24 May 2018
Samsung unveils plan for 3nm process
Samsung Electronics has disclosed its comprehensive process technology roadmap updates down to 3nm at the annual Samsung Foundry Forum in the US.
Wednesday 23 May 2018
Legal and ethical issues concerning AI need to be addressed, says Microsoft executive VP
It is imperative that legal and ethical parameters be established as soon as possible to cope with the fast development of AI that has given rise to issues concerning prejudice, transparency...