174 news items tagged medical
StarVR debuts on Taiwan emerging stock market
Tuesday 24 April 2018StarVR, a VR device joint venture between Acer and Sweden-based Starbreeze, started trading on Taiwan's emerging stock market on April 23. On the first day of trading, StarVR's share...
Smart medical care in China takes off in 2018
Monday 23 April 2018China International Medical Equipment Fair 2018 taking place in Shanghai, eastern China, during April 11-14 reflected the takeoff of smart medical care in China in 2018, according...
Zoetek introduces smart wearables for medical care
Thursday 19 April 2018Zoetek has introduced a healthcare smartwatch and a smart garment for healthcare of the elderly.
Compal crossing into medical market
Friday 13 April 2018Compal Electronics' biomedical research subsidiary has recently partnered with a university in southern Taiwan to establish an animal hospital, providing services including computer...
APD Group to launch a full range of medical power solutions at CMEF 2018
Tuesday 3 April 2018With smart medical care and health care becoming hot topics in the industry, medical electronics are igniting the growth momentum of the information communication technology market...
Acer to work with Taiwan hospitals for cloud medical care
Thursday 29 March 2018Acer is partnering with three hospitals in Taiwan, looking to establish a cloud-based medical care service platform using its technologies and is planning to expand the system to...
Yen Sun reports strong profits for 2017 thanks to car-use fans
Tuesday 27 March 2018Cooling fan and home appliance maker Yen Sun Technology has announced its 2017 financial results with consolidated revenues growing 5.51% on year to come to NT$2.42 billion (US$82.64...
Macronix NOR chips adopted for new STMicro MCU
Tuesday 27 March 2018Macronix International has announced that STMicroelectronics is using Macronix International's 8-bit I/O serial NOR flash memory for ST's new STM32L4+ microcontroller discovery kits...
Without AI support, medical care has no future, claims expert
Tuesday 27 March 2018Medical care has no future without the support of AI applications, according to Li Yu-chuan, dean of College of Medical Science and Technology under Taipei Medical University (TMU)...
Min Aik reports profits in 2017
Monday 19 March 2018Taiwan-based metal-stamping part supplier Min Aik Precision has announced consolidated revenues of NT$2.47 billion (US$84.08 million) for 2017 with net profits reaching NT$16.51 million...
Advantech readies new business strategy for worldwide IoT business units
Friday 9 March 2018Advantech has disclosed its strategies, plans and goals for 2018, indicating that in November it company will organize an Internet of Things (IoT) summit in Suzhou, China to demonstrate...
AcBel posts EPS of NT$0.60 for 2017
Thursday 8 March 2018Taiwan-based power supply maker AcBel Polytech has reported net profits of NT$311 million (US$10.6 million) or NT$0.60 per share for 2017, when consolidated revenues decreased 9.9%...
Silicone supply to be tighter in 2018, says Topco chairman
Wednesday 7 March 2018Global supply of silicone materials in 2018 is expected to turn much tighter than in 2017, allowing Topco Technologies, which distributes and sells silicone products for Japan's Shin-Etsu...
NTU Hospital, Deep Force cooperate in research on medical image analysis
Monday 5 February 2018National Taiwan University (NTU) Hospital and Deep Force, a provider of deep learning platform for mobile devices, have been jointly conducting a research on processing and analyzing...
AcBel expects new products to boost 2018 revenues
Friday 26 January 2018Despite a nearly 10% on-year drop in 2017 consolidated revenues, Taiwan-based power supply maker AcBel Polytech still expects its 2018 revenues to benefit from volume production of...
Acer, Compal eye business from elderly
Friday 26 January 2018Taiwan-based IT firms including Acer and Compal Electronics have been keen on planning products and services for Taiwan's elderly consumer groups.
Compal expects PC revenue proportion to drop to 65% in 2018
Thursday 25 January 2018Compal Electronics saw the revenue proportion for PC products slip from over 70% in the past to 68% in 2017 and expects the percentage to further drop to 65% in 2018, as shipments...
3D printing set for customized medical, aerospace, auto applications
Friday 19 January 2018With the availability of a growing variety of printing materials, ever-improving printing quality and precision, and printer price reduction, 3D printing is expected to enter small-batch,...
Largan Medical, St Shine Optical expanding contact lens business
Thursday 18 January 2018Contact lens vendor Largan Medical is expanding its retail network in Taiwan for its own-brand products, while contact lens OEM and own-brand vendor St Shine Optical is expanding...
Demand for mobile medical care to take off
Tuesday 16 January 2018Along with mature development of ECG (electrocardiography) and PPG (photoplethysmograph) sensing technologies, ICT firms are keen on developing monitoring devices for use in mobile...
Aurora tapping China furniture market for medical care, education
Tuesday 9 January 2018Aurora, a distributor of office automation (OA) machines and furniture in Taiwan and China, has disclosed it has introduced furniture produced by South Korea-based Fursys for medical...
Sigurd sees robust revenue growths in December, 4Q17
Friday 5 January 2018IC testing firm Sigurd Microelectronics has announced consolidated revenues of NT$739 million (US$24.82 million) for December 2017, up 40.3% on year.
China smart medical development to focus on AI-aided applications in 2018
Wednesday 3 January 2018China's development of innovative technologies used in smart medical care in 2018 will focus on AI (artificial intelligence)-aided interpretation of medical images and gene inspection...
ITRI, NARLabs to set up smart medical device platform
Tuesday 2 January 2018Taiwan government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and National Applied Research Laboratories (NARLabs) have signed a MoU for cooperation to set up a platform...
Acer to develop AI applications for FinTech, medical care, autonomous driving
Thursday 28 December 2017With AI becoming a major focus of the IT industry, Acer is planning to develop AI applications including those for FinTech, autonomous driving and medical care, according to Maverick...
- Google is teaming up with the largest doctor group for a medical data challenge (Apr 9) - CNBC
- Apple's director of health leaving company to form his own medical records startup (Dec 7) - 9to5Mac.com
- Nikon to cut 1,000 jobs in Japan (Nov 8) - Nikkei Electronics Asia
- ARM enables autonomous vehicles with its most advanced safety processor (Sep 20) - Company release
- Canon closes in on Toshiba's medical unit after fierce bidding (Mar 9) - Reuters
- Apple introduces ResearchKit for medical studies (Mar 9) - Company release
- Samsung joins forces with US medical device firm (Dec 25) - Yonhap News
- Chipmaker Microchip to buy Supertex for US$394 mln in cash (February 10) - Reuters
- Spansion launches family of flexible MCUs for industrial "Internet of Things" (November 18) - Company release
- New US$89 open-source hardware runs full linux OS (October 31) - PC World