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China IC supply chain gaining momentum: Q&A with Photronics DNP Mask
As a joint venture between US photomask maker Photronics and Japan's Dai Nippon Printing (DNP), Photronics DNP Mask broke ground in mid-2018 for building a photomask...
Industry 4.0, IoT opportunites for information security industry: Q&A with ACSI president
Industrial control engineers now face unknown areas as Internet-based information security has extended from IT to OT (operational technology) involving production...
Stay focused: Q&A with NXP executive Steve Owen
NXP Semiconductors has gone through several periods of restructuring since its departure from Philips, followed by privatization, and mergers and acquisitions...
Wonders develops diverse smart city solutions with new techs
Wonders Information, a major smart city service provider in Shanghai, China, is aggressively utilizing such newly emerging technologies as cloud computing, big...
National alliance needed to help Taiwan firms better tap IoT opportunities, says ITRI executive
As IoT and AI applications will enter a substantive growth period amid the imminent advent of the 5G era, Taiwan's government-funded Industrial Technology Research...
IoT combining AI, blockchain, CarTech to create huge opportunities, says Ayla Networks co-founder
IoT (Internet of Things) does not promise a turnkey solution serving all needs but is a wide variety of solutions tailored to meet different needs of multiple...
Bandwidth upgrades, IoT applications bring huge opportunities, says Sercomm CEO
Global demand for broadening network bandwidths is still maintaining substantial growth momentum, particularly bolstered by active deployments of optical fiber...
Global diode supply shortfall to last into 2Q18, says Diodes CEO
The supply shortfall seen in the global diode industry since the beginning of 2017 will last into the second quarter of 2018, with the shortfall mainly being driven...
IoT edges to drive demand for advanced data storage solutions, says Seagate executive
Driven by the development of IoT (Internet of Things), cloud, big data and machine learning technologies and applications, aggregate global data volume is estimated...
Taiwan IT players have big opportunites in AI, IoT era, says Pegatron chairman
Despite not performing well in the era of smart mobile devices, there is no reason for Taiwan's information technology (IT) players to feel pessimistic about their...
The IoT possibility for traditional IPCs: Q&A with Artila director of IoT Division Mike Kao
Artila Electronics is a long-term player in the IPC industry, but unlike most others that focus on developing x86 applications, Artila has chosen ARM-based systems...
Data is like crude oil in new tech era, says Applied Materials VP Erix Yu
After progressing from the PC and network generation in 2000-2010 to the mobile device and social networking generation during 2010-2020, the ever-advancing tech...
Smart city to develop fast amid AI, IoT applications, says expert
The raging development of AI (artificial intelligence), IoT (Internet of Things) and cloud computing applications will bring drastic changes to human life, and...
Coopetition and coexistence in IC industry: Q&A with ASE COO Wu Tien-yu
The global semiconductor industry is experiencing faster quantitative and qualitative changes along with the increasingly fierce coopetition among wafer foundry,...
Digital transformation vital to survival of enterprises, says ITRI executive VP
With the consumer-driven operation model gaining momentum, how to accelerate digital transformation to create new product values, optimize production process and...
IoT in China: Q&A with Advantech executive
Industrial computing device maker Advantech has been promoting IoT (Internet of Things) applications to the manufacturing sector and smart cities in China, according...
Industrial IoT: Q&A with SAP Labs China head Li Ruicheng
While smart manufacturing seems an unstoppable trend, Germany-based software vendor SAP SE keeps offering analytic tools to facilitate enterprises' upgrade toward...
IoT vertical markets in Indonesia: Q&A with Indosat executives
Indosat, the second largest telecom operator in Indonesia and boasting the strongest IoT (Internet of Things) technology capability, has recently launched a smart...
Wireless charging: Q&A with Steven Tateosian, director of IoT and Security Solutions at NXP
The launch of Apple's iPhone 8 and iPhone X has highlighted wireless charging, a function that will also be featured in other smartphine vendors' upcoming models...
Ways to explore Indonesia ICT market: Q&A with Aptiknas chairman Franky Christian
When making forays into the Indonesia market for ICT products, Taiwan makers would curiously ask where their business opportunities are after finding that the...
Staying focused on profitability: Q&A with UMC co-president SC Chien
United Microelectronics (UMC) recently disclosed plans to expand its 28nm process offering by launching 28nm HPC and 28nm HPC Plus nodes, and introduce a further...
Seeking to become major IoT brand: Q&A with Aaeon chairman YS Chuang
As one of Taiwan's major makers of industrial PCs, Aaeon Technology was back to the capital market in late August 2017, when it was relisted on the local bourse...
IoT applications may take root in Indonesia in 5 years: Q&A with Advantech executive Ramdhani Gumilar
While the global development of smart manufacturing, smart medicine and smart cities is gaining momentum with the advent of the Industry 4.0 era, Indonesia is...
IDM model no longer viable for Japan semiconductor industry: Q&A with Socionext CEO Yasuo Nishiguchi
Though still a global bellwether in many areas of semiconductor technologies, Japan's semiconductor industry is significantly losing ground in world markets, as...
