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Friday 9 February 2018
Dassault Systemes aims to be like Amazon in design, engineering software sector
After scoring impressive revenue and profit performances in 2017, Dassault Systemes, a France-based specialist in offering 3D design and engineering software products, will move to...
Tuesday 6 February 2018
AI-based facial ID accuracy sees dramatic upgrade, says SenseTime executive
AI-based facial recognition technology has advanced drastically to achieve a negligible deviation after outperforming human eyes for the first time in 2014, according to Xiaogang...
Tuesday 6 February 2018
Semiconductor sales hit record US$412 billion in 2017, says SIA
The global semiconductor industry posted sales totaling US$412.2 billion in 2017, the industry's highest-ever annual sales and an increase of 21.6% compared to the 2016 total, according...
Monday 5 February 2018
Foxconn to invest NT$10 billion to develop AI applications
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) will invest NT$10 billion (US$341 million) over the next five years to develop AI (artificial intelligence) applications for industrial...
Monday 5 February 2018
NTU Hospital, Deep Force cooperate in research on medical image analysis
National Taiwan University (NTU) Hospital and Deep Force, a provider of deep learning platform for mobile devices, have been jointly conducting a research on processing and analyzing...
Friday 2 February 2018
Taiwan readies blueprints to develop smart machinery
Taiwan's economics ministry has released a set of blueprints for promoting the development of smart machinery, seeking to make the country the world's research and manufacturing center...
Friday 2 February 2018
Mobile SoC designs, embedded processing lift microprocessor market
The fastest growing types of microprocessors in 2012-2017 were mobile system-on-chip (SoC) designs for smartphones and tablets, and microprocessors used in embedded-processing applications,...
Friday 2 February 2018
Intel, MediaTek well galvanized to perform better in 2018
Though not scoring good revenue and profit performances in most part of 2017, chipmakers Intel and MediaTek have both witnessed significantly improved gross margins in the fourth...
Wednesday 31 January 2018
CoWoS, SiP to be key packaging processes for AI chips
High performance computing (HPC) will become the most crucial platform in the development of process technologies for AI (artificial intelligence) chips, and CoWoS (chip on wafer...
Wednesday 31 January 2018
Oppo to push 5G, AI developments to maintain smartphone momentum
China-based smartphone vendor Oppo will commit more resources to developing related 5G and AI technologies and applications as it seeks to enhance its presence in the global smartphone...
Tuesday 30 January 2018
Cryptocurrency mining, AI applications to drive up demand for analog, MOSFET chips
Taiwan-based suppliers of analog ICs, MOSFET chips and protection components are braced for strong shipment growths in the first quarter of 2018 as demand for graphics cards for cryptocurrency...
Monday 29 January 2018
IBM to enhance private cloud business in Taiwan in 2018
IBM will step up promoting its Cloud Private software platform in Taiwan in 2018 to help enterprise customers in the country better access microservice architectures to create new...
Monday 29 January 2018
Gaming to surpass notebook in production value in 2020, says TH Tung
Taipei Computer Association (TCA) chairman TH Tung has pointed out that the production value of the gaming industry will have a good chance of reaching US$143.5 billion by 2020, an...
Friday 26 January 2018
AcBel expects new products to boost 2018 revenues
Despite a nearly 10% on-year drop in 2017 consolidated revenues, Taiwan-based power supply maker AcBel Polytech still expects its 2018 revenues to benefit from volume production of...
Friday 26 January 2018
Elan gearing up for AI
Fabless IC firm Elan Microelectronics has been involved in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) chips with plans to assign a team of over 100 engineers to enhance further...