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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...
Wednesday 11 October 2017
Service-oriented corporate culture counts most in foundry sector, says Morris Chang
Once describing Intel and Samsung Electronics as "700-pound gorillas" when commenting on his company's two major competitors, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) chairman...
Tuesday 3 October 2017
All feasts must come to an end: Q&A with TSMC chairman Morris Chang
Just three days after announcing an encouraging decision that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will build its 3nm wafer fab in Taiwan, the firm's chairman Morris...
Tuesday 3 October 2017
Ways to explore Indonesia ICT market: Q&A with Aptiknas chairman Franky Christian
When making forays into the Indonesia market for ICT products, Taiwan makers would curiously ask where their business opportunities are after finding that the smartphone market is...
Monday 2 October 2017
Staying focused on profitability: Q&A with UMC co-president SC Chien
United Microelectronics (UMC) recently disclosed plans to expand its 28nm process offering by launching 28nm HPC and 28nm HPC Plus nodes, and introduce a further improved version...
Friday 29 September 2017
Partnerships that matter: Q&A with HMD Global CMO Pekka Rantala
HMD Global, which began to market Nokia-branded feature phones and smartphones through a license agreement with Nokia at the end of 2016, has further enriched its product portfolio...
Thursday 28 September 2017
Seeking to become major IoT brand: Q&A with Aaeon chairman YS Chuang
As one of Taiwan's major makers of industrial PCs, Aaeon Technology was back to the capital market in late August 2017, when it was relisted on the local bourse six years after it...
Tuesday 26 September 2017
IoT applications may take root in Indonesia in 5 years: Q&A with Advantech executive Ramdhani Gumilar
While the global development of smart manufacturing, smart medicine and smart cities is gaining momentum with the advent of the Industry 4.0 era, Indonesia is also quietly jumping...
Monday 25 September 2017
Machine vision will gradually expand into consumer applications: Q&A with Arbor CTO Karl Chen
Taiwan-based Arbor Technology has been in the industrial PC (IPC) secor for over 20 years and has always been an important upstream partner of worldwide IPC brand vendors. With automated...
Monday 18 September 2017
5G brings new business opportunities: Q&A with Alpha Networks chairman John Lee
Taiwan-based networking device maker Alpha Networks has expanded its product lines from mainly Ethernet switches to include fixed broadband products, wireless networking devices,...