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Friday 17 May 2019
Global Unichip expects flat revenue growth in 2019
IC design service company Global Unichip should be able to post flat revenue growth in 2019, despite unfavorable global trade conditions and weakening demand for cryptocurrency mining...
Friday 17 May 2019
Gorilla and Asteria announce strategic edge AI alliance
Asteria Corp and Gorilla Technology Inc announced a business alliance regarding their video analytics technology and products using AI. Asteria and Gorilla plan to grow their presence...
Thursday 16 May 2019
TSMC 7nm process attracts orders for AI chip from Alibaba
Pingtouge Semiconductor, Alibaba's semiconductor subsidiary, reportedly has placed orders for 7nm chip solutions with Global Unichip and TSMC.
Thursday 16 May 2019
Microcontroller market growth drops to nearly zero in 2019, says IHS
Following two years of expansion, the global microcontroller (MCU) market is set to stall in 2019 because of a combination of factors including a downturn in the wider electronics...
Thursday 16 May 2019
Blockchain to play only supporting role in diverse applications, says ioeX CEO
Blockchain technology can be applied to diverse industries in the future, but it should be playing a supporting role rather than a leading one, according to Aryan Hung, founder and...
Thursday 16 May 2019
Samsung details 3nm gate-all-around technology
Samsung Electronics provided an update to its advanced-node process technology roadmap, including its 3nm gate-all-around (GAA) technology, during a recent company event in Santa...
Wednesday 15 May 2019
ABF substrate supply remains tight
The supply of ajinomoto build-up film (ABF) substrates has been tight, and will continue to fall short of demand in the second half of 2019, according to industry sources.
Wednesday 15 May 2019
Support from supply chain hub needed for moving production out of China, says Quanta chairman
Quanta Computer chairman Barry Lam, commenting on the US government's announcement of extending the 25% tariff to notebooks and smartphones imported from China, has pointed out that...
Wednesday 15 May 2019
Google launches AI-based accessibility services for disabled users
Google, striving to provide AI-based accessibility services as one of its core missions, has unveiled three accessibility projects that help people with disabilities at its just-concluded...
Tuesday 14 May 2019
Nan Ya PCB posts smaller loss in 1Q19
PCB and IC substrate maker Nanya Printed Circuit Board saw its net loss improve to NT$278 million (US$8.9 million) in the first quarter from loss of NT$677.9 million during the same...
Monday 13 May 2019
TAO Info leverages AI data analytics to help optimize production
If data collected from production process can be well concatenated, then problems affecting production efficiency can be quickly spotted through big data analysis, according to Alex...
Monday 13 May 2019
Unimicron to pour US$20 billion into FC substrate biz over next 4 years
Unimicron Technology has disclosed plans to invest a total of NT$20 billion (US$644.7 million) in R&D and expanding production capacity for advanced flip-chip (FC) substrates...
Thursday 9 May 2019
Edge computing dominant in 5G-driven smart production operation
Smart manufacturing plants will materialize faster with commercialization of 5G mobile communication technologies, and edge computing will play a leading role in the materialization...
Wednesday 8 May 2019
IC designers placing additional foundry orders in anticipation of 3Q19 boom
Taiwan IC designers are now moving to place additional orders with foundry houses and thicken their inventories lest they should suffer insufficient foundry capacity support in the...
Monday 6 May 2019
Huawei gearing up to expand presence in public cloud segment
Huawei is moving at full throttle to develop public cloud services, which may pose threats to Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud and reshuffle China's supply market for public cloud...