iCatch Technology, an international leading IC design company focusing on intelligent image processing SoC development for automotive applications, in order to ensure the cybersecurity of its SoC chip design, has recently obtained the ISO/SAE 21434 cybersecurity design flow certification and has been awarded a certificate. This standard can ensure the cybersecurity of automotive electronic products when connected to internet applications and prevent the potential risks of cyberattack and data breach or leakage. After obtaining ISO 26262 automotive functional safety ASIL-D design flow certification, iCatch Technology further obtained ISO/SAE 21434 cybersecurity design flow certification. This enables iCatch Technology to provide global automotive customers with functional safety and cybersecurity combined solutions for intelligent image processing SoC products and to fulfill the application requirements of automotive OEM and Tier-1 customers.
Launched in late 2022, ChatGPT showed the world the almighty power of generative AI, thus paving the way for the AI 2.0 revolution. At the heart of generative AI is so-called the large language model (LLM), which is trained on large amounts of data. ChatGPT, for example, is based on either GPT-3 with 175 billion parameters, or GPT-3.5 with 200 billion parameters. Currently, apart from Open AI, Taiwan Web Service's (TWS) Formosa Foundation Model (FFM), and other paid LLMs offered by domestic and foreign companies, there are many more open-source LLMs on the market, such as Hugging Face's BLOOM and Meta's Llama 2. These LLMs are equipped with 7 to 176 billion parameters and can be used legally in commercial environments.
During the three-year pandemic, food businesses had been impacted by decreasing in-person dining and government endemic prevention policies globally. As a result, they have been collaborating with delivery platforms to sustain their survival and increase revenue. Despite increasing diversity in delivery services, people began dining in restaurants or ordering takeout again after the pandemic eased off. To avoid hefty platform fees, food businesses are seeking collaboration with other platforms. They hope that by diversifying delivery channels, they can improve their profit margin and the overall revenue.
STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, is introducing its comprehensive ecosystem offer for companies to transform their products with edge AI. The announcement of the ST Edge AI Suite, an integrated set of software tools free-to-use with ST hardware, takes the offer to customers one step further, enabling them to jumpstart the design and deployment of billions of connected, autonomous things embedding artificial intelligence locally. The ST Edge AI Suite will simplify the development of customers' AI solutions by exploiting ST's broad range of hardware (general-purpose and automotive microcontrollers and microprocessors, smart sensors) and related tools for embedded AI optimizations. It will expand and integrate the multiple software tools, evaluation, and development kits introduced over the past 10 years while leveraging the existing AI ecosystem of machine learning (ML) frameworks and key partners (such as Nvidia and AWS).
Crypto Quantique, a leading quantum-safe cybersecurity solutions provider, is delighted to announce a strategic partnership with Blaitek, an AIOT smart-home technology company, as part of its strategic expansion in the Taiwan market.
Providing health workers with light and handy portable devices is becoming a key strategy for service improvement in the healthcare industry. ASUS has already developed a complete product roadmap in this field through its longstanding investment in smart healthcare. The recently released LU700/LU710 series of handheld ultrasound products in particular realizes the vision of mobile healthcare providing physicians with a lightweight, high resolution, and long battery life scanning solution suitable for a wide range of scenarios.
Clientron (TW code: 8119), a pioneer automotive electronics enterprise, has been honored with the "2024 Taiwan Excellence Award" for its groundbreaking "Smart eCockpit of Electric Vehicle." The award ceremony took place on December 6 in Taipei City, where Clientron's innovative product stood out among 948 participating entries. The award, akin to the Oscars of Taiwan Industries, meticulously selects high-quality and innovative products that meet the highest standards. Clientron's success, rooted in advanced research and integrated technologies, secures its consecutive win and solidifies its position as a frontrunner in the automotive electronics industry.
The AI revolution is reshaping the world, impacting every industry. AI being rapidly put to use has spurred surging demand for critical components. In particular, GPU being in constant shortage has many supply chain ramifications. Taiwan-based startup AIRA has developed a solution that stands out from its peers on the market to circumvent the GPU shortage. It uses Intel CPUs instead of GPUs to perform precise and instant face recognition, which allowed AIRA to receive the Intel Gold Partner status within just nine months after the company was founded, making it a rising AI star.
Raising productivity and quality is the top priority when manufacturers of all sectors endeavor to boost revenue and competitiveness. To manufacturers, whether in traditional manufacturing or high-tech industries, the most effective way to raise productivity is to constantly look for bottlenecks in the production process, find the causes, and resolve them. By harnessing the power of data, manufacturers can get to the root of the bottleneck and figure out a solution. PowerArena, a startup specializing in deep learning, has developed core algorithms, coupled with big data analytics and prediction, to digitize and visualize human factors that may have been difficult to detect in the past and thereby help manufacturers enhance their overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).
The online course model, developed over several years, has witnessed unprecedented growth in the past three years, driven by the global pandemic. Various degrees of pandemic prevention measures implemented worldwide have resulted in a significant surge in demand for online courses, attracting professionals from diverse fields to enthusiastically enter the online education sector.
