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Monday 13 November 2017
Ways to ease EU GDPR impacts: Q&A with Microsoft legal counsel Neal Suggs
Following a two-year buffer period, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), enacted by the European Union in April 2016, will officially take effect on May 25, 2018. The GDPR,...
Thursday 9 November 2017
IGBT outlook in China: Q&A with HHGrace executive Jiye Yang
Insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) is technologically the most advanced device among power electronics and boasts extensive applications ranging from home-use small electromagnetic...
Thursday 2 November 2017
IoT in China: Q&A with Advantech executive
Industrial computing device maker Advantech has been promoting IoT (Internet of Things) applications to the manufacturing sector and smart cities in China, according to Industrial...
Thursday 2 November 2017
Sesto eyeing automation business in Taiwan semi industry
Singapore-based Sesto Robotics is an automated guided vehicle (AGV) and intelligent mobile robot (IMR) developer that recently participated in Semicon Taiwan 2017 to push its products...
Thursday 2 November 2017
Heraeus reinforces competitive edge as innovation of PV technology accelerates
2017 is definitely a highly volatile year for PV industry in terms of technology advancement, market demand, and international trade barrier. At 2017 PV Taiwan held recently, Andreas...
Tuesday 31 October 2017
Qualcomm small cell chips only choice for Taiwan: Q&A with DoIT chief Lo Ta-sheng
The announcement by Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) in mid-October to impose an antitrust fine of NT$23.4 billion (US$775.8 million) on Qualcomm for its allegedly unfair royalty...
Monday 30 October 2017
Dynamic, smart production in China: Q&A with iSESOL GM Zhu Zhihao
While the sharing economy is gaining momentum nowadays, the manufacturing sector is also utilizing cloud service platforms to materialize new business models associated with Industry...
Thursday 26 October 2017
Industrial IoT: Q&A with SAP Labs China head Li Ruicheng
While smart manufacturing seems an unstoppable trend, Germany-based software vendor SAP SE keeps offering analytic tools to facilitate enterprises' upgrade toward Industry 4.0. Such...
Thursday 19 October 2017
Bright prospect for wireless charging: Q&A with WPC chairman Menno Treffers
Wireless charging is emerging as a new major feature of high-end smartphones after Apple, Samsung and other leading vendors incorporated it into their latest smartphone models.The...
Tuesday 17 October 2017
Linde LienHwa making new gas production investments in Taiwan
Linde LienHwa, a joint venture between the Germany-based Linde Group and Taiwan-based LienHwa Industrial, is a manufacturer of bulk and electronic specialty gases used during the...
Monday 16 October 2017
IoT vertical markets in Indonesia: Q&A with Indosat executives
Indosat, the second largest telecom operator in Indonesia and boasting the strongest IoT (Internet of Things) technology capability, has recently launched a smart vehicle fleet integration...
Friday 13 October 2017
Dual leadership should become long-term management model at TSMC, says Morris Chang
The dual leadership to be enforced at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) starting from June 2018 should remain a long-term management model for a big company like TSMC,...
Thursday 12 October 2017
Wireless charging: Q&A with Steven Tateosian, director of IoT and Security Solutions at NXP
The launch of Apple's iPhone 8 and iPhone X has highlighted wireless charging, a function that will also be featured in other smartphine vendors' upcoming models. However, besides...
Thursday 12 October 2017
Morris Chang sees hurdle for semiconductor development in China
While China is aggressively accelerating the development of its semiconductor industry, a hidden barrier will gradually surface to affect its development, in that many countries will...
Wednesday 11 October 2017
Consumer sectors to grow faster in next 5 years in Indonesia: Q&A with DBS economist Gundy Cahyadi
Indonesia is the most populous and largest country in Southeast Asia, but some changing trends in this market could be easily overlooked if observers only look at the statistics at...