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Monday 3 October 2022
Short chains, localized production trending: Q&A with Foxconn chairman Young-way Liu
Once short chains become the market norm, industry players will have to invest in setting up local supply chains worldwide. However, how to manage different operating units in different...
Friday 30 September 2022
Toyota's CEO says EV adoption will take longer than expected
Toyota Motor plans to keep gas-powered cars as a key part of its lineup, rejecting efforts by rivals to go fully electric amid concerns over how quickly consumers will embrace new...
Monday 26 September 2022
Industrial UAV startup AiSeed offers AI+Drone to tackle toughest challenges
AiSeed Technology (AiSeed), a newcomer to the commercial drone market, was established in Taiwan right before COVID-19 rampaged across the world. Despite the difficulty, it still...
Friday 23 September 2022
Key supplier in international IPC market: Q&A with KC Liu, chairman of Advantech
Since the start of the trade war between the US and China in 2018, the global industry has been rethinking the need for globalization and regionalization planning. The pandemic has...
Thursday 22 September 2022
Ready for electric revolution in agricultural automobiles: VST India
Much of the news of India's shift to electric vehicles (EV) is limited to passenger and some commercial vehicles. But what often goes unnoticed is that EVs are perfectly suited for...
Wednesday 21 September 2022
Decades of globalization journey: Q&A with Foxconn chairman Young-way Liu
With global economic and market prospects full of variables and uncertainties, it has become one of the most important issues for enterprises to rethink how to position themselves...
Wednesday 21 September 2022
Q&A with SiFive SVP Jack Kang: 5 nm chips with SiFive cores likely to be used in cars by 2025-2026
SiFive successfully rolled out a portfolio of automotive CPUs based on the RISC-V standard, and is about to create a new ecosystem of chips, tier-1 auto component providers and OEM...
Monday 12 September 2022
We are bridge, coach, matchmaker for partners in open innovation: Q&A with RISC-V International CEO Calista Redmond
RISC-V is becoming a mainstream architecture to share the market with Intel's X86 and Arm. Being an open platform, it is especially attracting extraordinary attention from semiconductor...
Thursday 8 September 2022
Powertrain shortage easing, but other concerns persist: Mahindra India
The Indian automotive giant Mahindra & Mahindra recently announced the launch of a series of consumer electric vehicles, joining a rapidly growing market. But even as the Indian...
Thursday 8 September 2022
The first in Taiwan to mass-produce IGBT power semiconductors: Q&A with Pan Jit COO Edgar Chen
The supply of high-end electronic power semiconductors, such as automotive MOSFETs and IGBTs, continues to be tight with delivery times still at 50 weeks or more. These power components...
Wednesday 7 September 2022
Aspiring to become 'Shenzhen of India': Q&A with Sujai Karampuri from ITE&C of Telangana state government
Officials from the Information Technology Electronics and Communication (ITE&C) Department of India's Telangana State recently made another trip to Taiwan to woo investment in...
Tuesday 6 September 2022
Entering an age of vertical globalization: Q&A with geopolitical futurist Abishur Prakash
The fresh US export restrictions on chips to China and Russia seem to have pushed the decoupling of the semiconductor technology a step further. DIGITIMES Asia had an exclusive interview...
Monday 5 September 2022
Lypid's PhytoFat makes alternative meat more flavorful and delicious: Interview with CEO Jen-yu Huang
Technology not only changes the way people live, but also what they eat. As more people consider going on a plant-based diet as part of the personal endeavor to reduce carbon emissions,...
Tuesday 30 August 2022
Interview: JDI seeking higher automotive sales with eLEAP displays, says Seiichi Fukunaga, head of AutoTech BU
Japan's largest display manufacturer Japan Display Inc (JDI) will produce free-shape OLED displays for car uses, and its eLEAP technology brings out higher brightness and longer lifetime...
Friday 26 August 2022
Power semiconductors: Q&A with Jasper Lee, CSO of Pan Jit International
The consumer electronics supply chain is facing mounting inventory levels with many resorting to price reductions trying to maintain market shares. But the supply of power semiconductors...