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Tuesday 21 March 2023
Transforming India's semiconductor industry: insights from L&T Tech Services CEO
Although India's semiconductor manufacturing plans are relatively new, the country has been a strong player in the chip design engineering services sector. One of the key Indian companies...
Tuesday 21 March 2023
IC design houses still under price pressure
IC design houses expect their business to hit bottom in the first quarter but the outlook for the rest of the year remains uncertain despite seeing price pressure ease slightly, according...
Tuesday 21 March 2023
Baidu's Kunlun Xin not only focuses on AI, but also eyes self-driving
China's Baidu recently announced the AI product "ERNIE Bot," which uses the second generation of Kunlun AI chip in its model. Besides focusing on AI chip development, Baidu is also...
Tuesday 21 March 2023
Automotive, industrial IC demand remains brisk
Despite persistently weak demand for PCs, handsets, and consumer electronics devices, the automotive and industrial sectors continue to see robust momentum, with supplies of certain...
Tuesday 21 March 2023
Nvidia finds strength in AI era
Nvidia, which possesses key AI and GPU software and hardware capabilities, has been thrust into the spotlight over the last two years, driven by the growth of the metaverse and the...
Tuesday 21 March 2023
TSMC sees Nvidia step up pace of orders
TSMC has seen a ramp-up in orders from Nvidia for the GPU vendor's A100 and H100 chips, as well as lower-spec A800 series explicitly designed for the Chinese market, according to...
Monday 20 March 2023
Taiwan partners to beef up backend support for Qualcomm new chips in 2H23
As Qualcomm is set to place wafer starts with TSMC for new handset APs, RF chips, networking chips, and even PC CPUs to be launched in the second half of 2023, its backend supply...
Monday 20 March 2023
Taiwan IC design houses turn cautious in dealing with Chinese customers
The structural conflict between the US and China seems to be increasingly free of gray areas, and Taiwan's IC design sector, which has been least affected by the semiconductor trade...
Monday 20 March 2023
Baidu's ERNIE Bot reportedly turning to Nvidia's A800 GPUs
Following the official unveiling of ERNIE Bot, Baidu's answer to ChatGPT, Baidu CEO Robin Li mentioned that the company's in-house Kunlun chip is only suitable for large-scale model...
Monday 20 March 2023
Qualcomm opens advanced engineering, testing center in Taiwan
Qualcomm has recently inaugurated its advanced engineering and testing center in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan to provide services for Taiwanese semiconductor supply chain partners, and...
Monday 20 March 2023
China develops new way of poaching South Korean talent
China's approach to obtaining South Korean technological secrets seems to have evolved in recent years. In the past, Chinese entities poached engineers and acquired businesses from...
Monday 20 March 2023
IC Design White Paper (3): Contributions from Taiwan's IC design sector to Taiwan
Taiwan is an important hub of the global information and communication technology (ICT) industry. The development of the ICT supply chain is supported by Taiwan's complete semiconductor...
Monday 20 March 2023
Qualcomm steps up procurement in Taiwan
Qualcomm has stepped up its procurement from Taiwan, where the chip company is expanding its local operations by adding a new factory building.
Friday 17 March 2023
ASUS IoT announces first RISC-V single-board computer, embracing open-source architecture for industrial IoT developers
ASUS IoT announced on March 14 the Tinker V — a versatile single-board computer (SBC) powered by a 64-bit RISC-V-based processor, which supports both Linux Debian and Yocto...
Friday 17 March 2023
Chinese automakers spurring self-sufficient supply chain
China's car market, as the biggest in the world, can provide enough momentum to allow the country to develop a self-sufficient supply chain amid expanding US trade sanctions, according...