1060 news items tagged AI
No capacity overbooking seen for high-end PCB products
Thursday 21 January 2021Downstream clients have neither registered overly-high inventory levels for high-end PCB products nor overbooked capacity at PCB makers, as they are still striving to satisfy strong...
MediaTek launches 6nm 5G SoC chips
Thursday 21 January 2021MediaTek has unveiled its new Dimensity 1200 and 1100 5G smartphone SoC series built using 6nm process technology.
Semiconductor firms up investments
Tuesday 19 January 2021The semiconductor industry has seen some major players committing significant sums for R&D, such as TSMC announcing to inject a record-high capex of up to US$28 billion in 2021...
Leatec may raise quotes for ceramic substrates
Monday 18 January 2021Taiwan-based Leatec Fine Ceramics, a dedicated maker of aluminum and ceramic substrates needed for manufacturing chip resistors, is mulling raising its quotes in the wake of a recent...
Dell optimistic about emerging technology development in 2021, says company CTO
Monday 18 January 2021Dell is optimistic about the development of quantum technologies, heterogeneous architecture of semiconductors, 5G and edge computing in 2021, according to company CTO John Roese.
Samsung intros 5G mobile processor built on EUV process
Friday 15 January 2021Samsung Electronics has announced its new 5G mobile processor series - Exynos 2100 - built using 5nm extreme ultra-violet (EUV) process technology.
Taiwan PCB output value hits record high in 2020
Friday 15 January 2021The output of Taiwan's PCB industry grew 5.6% on year to a record high of NT$667.2 billion (US$23.83 billion) in 2020, bolstered by pandemic-induced stay-at-home economy in most of...
MediaTek enhances ASIC and IP design capability
Thursday 14 January 2021MediaTek continues to enhance its ASIC and IP design capability through several acquisitions announced recently, while recruiting talent from the IP and IC design industry sectors,...
Ambarella unveils 5nm AI vision processor
Wednesday 13 January 2021Ambarella has unveiled CV5, an artificial intelligence (AI) vision processor for single 8K and multi-imager AI cameras, setting a new standard for power efficiency with 8K video recording...
Gowin embeds Winbond 64Mb HyperRAM to GoAI 2.0
Wednesday 13 January 2021Winbond Electronics Corporation, a leading global supplier of semiconductor memory solutions, today announced that FPGA manufacturer Gowin Semiconductor has embedded a Winbond 64Mb...
VIA, Shuttle see growing profitability from non-PC business
Tuesday 12 January 2021VIA Technologies and Shuttle are both expected to see rising profits in the next few years thanks to contribution by their non-PC businesses.
IC foundries, designers strengthening tie-up with backend houses
Monday 11 January 2021With demand for diverse chips solutions continuing to grow robustly, Taiwan's foundry houses, IC designers and even EMS providers are all strengthening tie-up with backend houses...
Taiwan CCL makers guardedly optimistic about 2021
Thursday 7 January 2021Taiwan-based CCL makers Elite Material (EMC), Iteq and Taiwan Union Technology (TUC) are guardedly optimistic about their 2021 sales prospects after ending 2020 with single-digit...
AI makes RPA intelligent
Thursday 7 January 2021While RPA (robotic process automation) has become an important tool for enterprises' digital transformation, AI-based technologies have been increasingly introduced to RPA to transform...
Backend house Winstek to enjoy 10% sales growth in 2021
Tuesday 5 January 2021IC backend service provider Winstek Semiconductor is expected to post an about 10% revenue increase in 2021, driven by demand for AI chips for handset and blockchain applications,...
Samsung to unveil 5G handsets featuring own ToF sensors in 2H21
Monday 4 January 2021Samsung Electronics is expected to incorporate in-house-developed ToF sensors into its own handsets in second-half 2021 at the earliest, as part of its efforts to sustain handset...
Customized IC sockets in hot demand for SiP, SLT applications
Thursday 31 December 2020Demand for highly-customized IC sockets will sustain growth momentum in 2021 along with increasing application of SiP (system in package) technology to heterogeneous chips integration,...
WinWay sees robust demand for high-end IC test interfaces in 2021
Wednesday 23 December 2020Taiwan-based WinWay Technology, a dedicated supplier of IC test interface solutions, has seen a significant ramp-up in demand for high-end IC sockets and probe cards and is optimistic...
Taiwan IC ecosystem unscathed by Huawei ban
Wednesday 23 December 2020The impact of Huawei's woes on its Taiwan-based chip suppliers has been smaller than expected, according to industry sources.
Taiwan OSAT firms see clear order visibility through mid-2021
Tuesday 22 December 2020Taiwan-based OSAT services providers have seen clear order visibility through mid-2021, thanks to robust demand for 5G and Wi-Fi chips, power management ICs (PMIC), and display driver...
High performance and low power consumption give Winbond's 1Gb LPDDR3 DRAM the edge in Tsing Micro's new AI image-processing SoC
Wednesday 16 December 2020Winbond Electronics Corporation, a leading global supplier of semiconductor memory solutions, announced that a high-performance, low-power Winbond 1Gb LPDDR3 DRAM product has achieved...
Chipmakers to ramp up 176-layer 3D NAND chip output in 2H21
Tuesday 15 December 2020Chipmakers including Micron Technology and SK Hynix have introduced the availability of their 176-layer 3D NAND flash chips, and are expected to ramp up the chip output for UFS and...
Himax teams up with Edge Impulse for AI chips
Friday 11 December 2020Himax Technologies, dedicated to display driver ICs and timing controller (TCON) chips, is set to accelerate the development of AI chips in 2021 through a recent collaboration deal...
Cooling module makers optimistic about 2021
Thursday 10 December 2020Taiwan-based cooling module suppliers are generally optimistic about their operations in 2021, judging from an anticipated surge in demand for 5G and AI related applications.
Taiwan to invest NT$8 billion over 5 years in quantum computing R&D
Wednesday 9 December 2020Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) and Academia Sinica are set to invest a total of NT$8 billion (US$280.7 million) over five...
- Let's talk in-cabin AI, DMS and Apple C1 processor (Jan 15) - EE Times
- Google told its scientists to 'strike a positive tone' in AI research, Reuters reports (Dec 23) - CNBC
- Intel debuts 'Clover Falls' companion chip for better laptop AI (Dec 17) - PC World
- Apple shifts leadership of self-driving car unit to AI chief (Dec 9) - Bloomberg
- German chipmaker Infineon to make Singapore its first global hub to embed AI in all job roles (Dec 2) - The Straits Times
- China's semiconductor industry sees 5G, AI applications driving opportunities for domestic substitutes amid US tech restrictions, says KPMG (Nov 9) - South China Morning Post
- Apple's latest acquisition uses AI to figure out what's in your videos (Oct 27) - engadget
- Facebook AI open sources multilingual machine translation model (Oct 19) - ZDNet
- Nvidia says its AI can fix some of the biggest problems in video calls (Oct 5) - The Verge
- Qualcomm's Cloud AI 100 aims for first half 2021 deployments (Sep 16) - ZDNet