Thanks to short-term orders from the electronics supply chain and HPC chip shipments, Taiwan's wafer foundry revenue increased by more than 10% in the fourth quarter of 2023, driving up the revenue for the entire year to US$79.1 billion, according to DIGITIMES Reseach's latest report on Taiwan's wafer foundry industry.
South Korea-based panel makers are investing in transparent displays and trying to expand the technology's application into more applications, while China-based display panel makers are catching up quickly, particularly in the inkjet printing for manufacturing AMOLED displays, says DIGITIMES Research.
The emerging communication technology NearLink is positioning itself as an alternative to Wi-Fi and Bluetooth in the Chinese market and is competitive regarding network latency and the number of terminal connections, according to DIGITIMES Research's latest report covering communication technologies.
DIGITIMES Research believes that the neural processing unit (NPU) will bring new choices for AI accelerator chips in edge devices. Compared to general-purpose graphics processing units (GPGPU), NPU has power consumption and price/performance ratio advantage, making it suitable to handle AI computing tasks in edge computing, according to DIGITIMES Research's findings in the new AIoT report.