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Monday 23 November 2020
Reliability science: Q&A with CReST director Cher Ming Tan
When product life cycle gets shortened and competition gets keener, the timing for product launch is important. For products where safety is a top priority - such as medical devices...
Friday 20 November 2020
Pandemic-triggered structural changes: Q&A with ASE Technology COO Tien Wu
ASE Technology has turned optimistic about the IC backend industry prospects for the first half of 2021 with high capacity utilization to linger in diverse processes despite the coronavirus...
Wednesday 18 November 2020
The true power of IoT: Q&A with Cavli Wireless CEO John Mathew
Connectivity has become an essential commodity that determines how people live, work and play, according to John Mathew, co-founder and CEO/CTA of Cavli Wireless, an Internet of Things...
Friday 13 November 2020
Taiwan to head for smart digital economy, says science minister
Taiwan will focus its next wave of technology development on materializing smart healthcare, precision medicine, smart city and digital data governance by leveraging its robust semiconductor...
Monday 9 November 2020
AaaS essential to digital transformation of small- to mid-size firms: Q&A with AIMS director Chien Chen-fu
Small- to medium-size manufacturers are important to Taiwan's economy, but most of them lack the human resources and cannot afford the expensive equipment and services needed for...
Tuesday 3 November 2020
Cryptography everywhere: Q&A with Chain Reaction CEO Alon Webman and CTO Oren Yokev
Less than one year after Mellanox was acquired by Nvidia for US$7 billion, Alon Webman, co-founder of Mellanox, started his second entrepreneurial project. The new company, Chain...
Monday 26 October 2020
Driver ICs tight supply: Q&A with Chipbond chairman FJ Wu
The supply of display driver ICs has fallen short of demand, while capacities at 8-inch foundries stay tight. Backend houses are mulling raising their quotes to reflect the tight...
Thursday 22 October 2020
MicroLED pioneer: Q&A with PlayNitride chairman Charles Li
MicroLED looks like it is going to take the display market by storm in the next decade or so. Established in 2014, PlayNitride is a pioneer in developing microLED, and has aggressive...
Wednesday 21 October 2020
Promoting trust in AI: Q&A with Intel data-centric tech evangelist Abigail Hing Wen
Abigail Hing Wen is the data-centric tech evangelist and AI podcast host for Intel. Beside her work at Intel, she has multiple identities: a lawyer in venture capital, a leader in...
Monday 5 October 2020
5G, mini LED opportunities in 2021: Q&A with K&S executive VP CP Chong
For the world, 2020 has been a roller-coaster year, but that has not dampend the prospects of some new tech applications such as mini LED backlighting which are expected to begin...
Monday 21 September 2020
Opportunities amid macro uncertainty: Q&A with Avnet Asia-Pacific president Prince Yun
The coronavirus pandemic, coupled with the escalating US-China trade war, have prompted businesses to revise their roadmaps and goals for 2020. Disruptions brought by the pandemic...
Wednesday 16 September 2020
IT ecosystem transformation: Q&A with Inventec chairman Tom Cho
The global IT ecosystem is undergoing fundamental changes in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and US-China trade tensions. Inventec, as one of the major ODMs worldwide, is at...
Monday 14 September 2020
Ecosystem for mobile gaming: Q&A with Lenovo VP Zhao Yunming
Three years after the launch of its gaming sub-brand Legion, Lenovo has launched its first gaming smartphone, the Legion Phone Duel, recently. The gaming phone is crafted with a symmetrical...
Tuesday 8 September 2020
Chips R&D matters: Q&A with iST chairman Danny Yu
Materials analysis (MA), reliability analysis (RA) and failure analysis (FA) are increasingly needed by IC designers, wafer foundries and backend houses to support R&D projects...
Thursday 3 September 2020
More choices for gamers: Q&A with Frank Soqui, GM of Intel Gaming Division
With the gaming market expanding quickly in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Intel, AMD and Nvidia are all set to release their latest CPUs and GPUs in the second half of 2020...