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Thursday 12 April 2018
Micron rolls out edge storage solutions for video surveillance
Micron Technology has announced general availability of the 128GB and 256GB density of edge storage microSD card solutions and collaboration with several leading video surveillance...
Thursday 12 April 2018
Xilinx gearing up for FPGA market
Bolstered by its programmability trait, FPGA (field-programmable gate array) is gaining ground in the field of high-performance computing (HPC) chips and artificial neural networks...
Wednesday 11 April 2018
ASE 1Q18 revenues decrease
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) has reported consolidated revenues of NT$64.97 billion (US$2.22 billion) for the first quarter of 2018, down 22.6% sequentially and 2.4% on...
Tuesday 10 April 2018
Bitmain Ethereum ASIC miner to be released in July
ASIC supplier Bitmain has postponed shipments for its Ethereum ASIC miner, the Antminer E3, from April to mid- or late-July due to the circuit's weaker-than-expected performance,...
Monday 9 April 2018
Future application trends highlighted at Japan AI, 4k/8k equipment shows
The 2nd AI Expo, held April 4-6 at Tokyo Bight Sight as Japan's largest artificial intelligence exhibition and conference, showcased a much greater diversity of the latest AI applications...
Tuesday 3 April 2018
IC packagers to see revenues bolstered by non-smartphone sectors
While strong demand for non-smartphone and 5G chips will keep foundry fabs running at full capacity in the second quarter, backend wafer test and IC packaging and testing service...
Tuesday 3 April 2018
China firms making progress in AI chip development
China-based artificial intelligence (AI) chip developers including Hisilicon Semiconductor, Cambricon, DeePhi Tech, Horizon Robotics and Bitmain have been aggressively planning new...
Tuesday 3 April 2018
ASE breaks ground for new factory in southern Taiwan
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE), a provider of semiconductor assembly and test services, on April 3 held a groundbreaking ceremony at the site of its K25 building in the...
Tuesday 3 April 2018
TSMC advanced packaging seen crucial for HPC chips
The InFO WLP (integrated fan-out wafer level packaging) and CoWoS (chip on wafer on substrate) developed by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) have emerged as two major...
Tuesday 3 April 2018
Foxconn cloud platform to transform SMEs
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) chairman Terry Guo has pointed out that his company will open its cloud computing platform to small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs),...
Tuesday 3 April 2018
EV battery demand to rise to 190GWh in 2021, estimates Digitimes Research
Along with fast growing demand for electric vehicles (EVs) and PHEVs (plug-in hybrid EVs), global demand for EV batteries rose from 28GWh in 2015 to 80GWh in 2017 and will increase...
Monday 2 April 2018
CHT revving up multi-pronged deployments to perform better in 2018
In line with the development of 5G, IoT, smart home and smart city applications, Taiwan's leading telecom operator Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) is actively proceeding with new strategic...
Monday 2 April 2018
China smartphone vendors debut new models to tap high-end market
China smartphone vendors including Huawei, Oppo and Xiaomi have lately launched their respective 2018 flagship devices boasting high price-performance ratios and multiple smart functions,...
Monday 2 April 2018
Electric Power Tech developing driverless cars
Taiwan-based Electric Power Technology (EPTECH), dedicated to manufacturing electric cars and medical devices, is actively developing autonomous driving technology, and it has shipped...
Friday 30 March 2018
Taiwan IC design houses vying for orders for ASIC
With more device vendors developing their chip solutions in-house, as well as China pushing for self-sufficiency in semiconductors, demand for custom ASIC chips has been growing substantially,...