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Monday 20 May 2019
Taiwan optical communication module makers likely to land windfall orders
Some Taiwan-based optical communication module makers are expected to land windfall orders after the US government imposed a 25% punitive tariffs covering US$200 billion worth of...
Monday 20 May 2019
Huawei seeking capacity increases at Taiwan partners despite US ban
Huawei has reportedly promised not to cut its orders with Taiwan's upstream and downstream supply chain partners and also inquired about the possibility of increasing their production...
Monday 20 May 2019
Taiwan 1Q19 international Internet bandwidth over 2,979Gbps
Taiwan's direct Internet connection with 12 countries/areas (including Hong Kong and Macau) reached total bandwidth of 2,979.743Gbps as of the end of first-quarter 2019, increasing...
Monday 20 May 2019
LG develops AI chip
As part of its strategy to accelerate the development of AI devices for the home, LG has developed its own artificial intelligence (AI) chip with proprietary LG Neural Engine to mimic...
Monday 20 May 2019
Oppo, Xiaomi see competition from their own sub-brands
Efforts by China's smartphone vendors Oppo and Xiaomi to push sales of sub-brand models with high price/performance ratios could affect the own-brand sales of the parent companies...
Friday 17 May 2019
Taiwan AI supercomputer comes into trial operation
The Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) has announced the beginning of trial operation of Taiwania 2, a domestically developed AI supercomputer, and the inauguration of Taiwan...
Friday 17 May 2019
Cloud enables Taiwan healthcare exports to Southeast Asia
The availability of quality medical resources is one of Taiwan's most powerful competitiveness, but how the resources can be better utilized to not only take care of the health of...
Friday 17 May 2019
Asustek pinning hopes on ZenFone 6, new ROG Phone
Asustek Computer has officially launched its next-generation ZenFone 6 smartphone at a product event in Spain, as it seeks to make a turnaround of its money-losing smartphone busin...
Friday 17 May 2019
TSMC obtains orders for 5G modem from fabless firms
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reportedly grabbed orders for all the 5G modem chips that have been introduced by fabless chipmakers, such as Qualcomm's Snapdragon...
Friday 17 May 2019
Huawei tightening ties with Taiwan IC supply chain
China's largest telecom equipment maker Huawei and its chipmaking arm HiSilicon are ambitiously proceeding with their vertical and horizontal deployments in diverse chip solutions...
Thursday 16 May 2019
Blockchain to play only supporting role in diverse applications, says ioeX CEO
Blockchain technology can be applied to diverse industries in the future, but it should be playing a supporting role rather than a leading one, according to Aryan Hung, founder and...
Thursday 16 May 2019
Collaborative robots improve Qisda production efficiency
EMS provider Qisda has disclosed it has seen 74% in improvement in production efficiency from adopting collaborative robots for production lines at its factory in northern Taiwan,...
Wednesday 15 May 2019
Support from supply chain hub needed for moving production out of China, says Quanta chairman
Quanta Computer chairman Barry Lam, commenting on the US government's announcement of extending the 25% tariff to notebooks and smartphones imported from China, has pointed out that...
Wednesday 15 May 2019
Collaborative robots gaining momentum as automation tools for SMEs
Collaborative robots (cobots) are emerging as key automation tool in the Industry 4.0 era and enjoy greater growth potentials than traditional industrial robots, as they are flexible,...
Wednesday 15 May 2019
China smartphone sales fall to 71.7 million units in 1Q19, says Digitimes Research
Sales of smartphones in the China market tumbled by 31.3% on quarter and 16.7% on year to 71.7 million units in the first quarter of 2019, Digitimes Research has estimated, as consumer...