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Friday 22 June 2018
Pegatron optimistic about prospects for 2H18 despite challenges
The IT supply chains are facing both challenges and opportunities in 2018 and there is no reason for makers to feel pessimistic about business prospects for the second half of the...
Friday 22 June 2018
Microsoft and Taiwan university to set up AI training center
Microsoft Taiwan and National Chiao Tung University have teamed up to set up an AI (artificial intelligence) and data science training and certification center through introducing...
Friday 22 June 2018
China AI unicorns grow stronger on fresh financial injections
China's AI sector has witnessed a new round of fundraising campaigns, with a flurry of investment deals completed over the past few weeks to make AI unicorns there stronger, according...
Friday 22 June 2018
TSMC ramping up 7nm chip production
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has started commercial production of chips built using 7nm process technology, according to company CEO CC Wei. The foundry is also...
Thursday 21 June 2018
Lenovo launches new PC services for Taiwan enterprise clients
Lenovo has introduced new service programs Premier Support and PC as a Service (PCaaS) to better serve enterprise customers in Taiwan, and it will also step up promoting gaming PCs...
Thursday 21 June 2018
North American semi equipment industry posts record billings for 2nd consecutive month
North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted US$2.70 billion in billings worldwide in May 2018 (three-month average basis), according to SEMI. The billings...
Wednesday 20 June 2018
Edge AI solutions provider Kneron aspires to become innovation leader
Taiwan's edge AI solutions provider Kneron has recently completed its series A1 financing of US$18 million led by Horizons Ventures, a venture capital firm founded by Hong Kong tycoon...
Tuesday 19 June 2018
MediaTek steps up investment in 5G, AI
Smartphone SoC specialist MediaTek plans to pour in additional investments to its advanced technology R&D as the company expects to speed up deployments in emerging sectors such...
Friday 15 June 2018
CATL plans to expand annual battery capacity to 50GWh by 2020
Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), a China-based maker of Li-ion power batteries used in electric vehicles, plans to expand annual production capacity to 50GWh at the end of...
Friday 15 June 2018
Chengdu Shuanliu FTZ eyes revenues of CNY160 billion for 2018
The Chengdu Shuangliu Free Trade Zone, a major part of the Sichuan FTZ in southwestern China and now home to 2,444 businesses with aggregate registered capitals of CNY33.8 billion...
Friday 15 June 2018
Inventec developing new AI devices
Inventec is developing new products featuring in-house designed artificial intelligence (AI) technology, with shipments of such AI-enabled devices to begin at the end of 2019, said...
Thursday 14 June 2018
Government backing crucial for Taiwan IC achievements, says TSMC CEO
When Texas Instruments' new engineer Jack Kilby invented the world's first IC in 1958, no one could imagine that 60 years later, ICs have deeply rooted in Taiwan, now the world's...
Thursday 14 June 2018
Electric Power Technology to start production of EVs in China in 1Q19
Electric Power Technology (EPT) is setting up an electric vehicle (EV) production base in Gangzhou, southeastern China, and has completed initial annual production capacity of 6,000...
Wednesday 13 June 2018
IBM expects third exponential tech shift to be driven by AI
In bracing for the advent of the AI era, IBM has focused its efforts on developing AI and cloud application solutions, seeking to explore immense application opportunities ranging...
Tuesday 12 June 2018
Computex reviving on multiple AI, gaming applications
Computex, which had been gradually losing its luster along with the rise of e-commerce and the slowdown of the PC industry in recent years, seems to start showing signs of revival...