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Wednesday 7 March 2018
Aaeon partners with Intel for AI
Taiwan-based IPC player Aaeon has cooperated with Intel to unveil an artificial intelligence (AI) Core module that is equipped with Intel's Movidius Myriad 2 VPU, at Embedded World...
Wednesday 7 March 2018
Chicony posts 2017 EPS of NT$4.21
Chicony Electronics has reported net profits increased 16.5% from a year earlier to NT$1.56 billion (US$53.5 million) in 2017. EPS for the year came to NT$4.21.
Wednesday 7 March 2018
Nanya February revenues increase
DRAM maker Nanya Technology has announced consolidated revenues of NT$5.93 billion (US$202.3 million) for February 2018, up 49.3% on year.
Tuesday 6 March 2018
Sigurd revenues rise 51% on year in February
Taiwan IC tester Sigurd Microelectronics saw its revenues for February 2018 surge 51% on year to NT$692 million (US$23.63 million) despite the Lunar New Year holidays in the month,...
Monday 5 March 2018
Global January semiconductor sales increase 22.7%, says SIA
Worldwide sales of semiconductors reached US$37.6 billion for the month of January 2018, an increase of 22.7% compared to the January 2017 total of US$30.6 billion, according to the...
Friday 2 March 2018
Micron announces mobile 3D NAND solutions for flagship smartphones
Micron Technology has announced three new 64-layer, second-generation 3D NAND storage products, which support the high-speed Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 2.1 standard. Micron's new...
Tuesday 27 February 2018
KYEC, Sigurd obtain orders for new MediaTek AI chips
IC testing service providers King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) and Sigurd Microelectronics have both obtained orders for MediaTek's recently-introduced 12nm mobile SoC that brings AI features...
Tuesday 27 February 2018
MediaTek unveils Helio P60 chipset
MediaTek has unveiled its Helio P60 system-on-chip (SoC), the first SoC platform featuring a multi-core AI processing unit (mobile APU) and the firm's NeuroPilot AI technology. The...
Friday 23 February 2018
Alibaba Cloud applies AI to pig farming
Alibaba Cloud has partnered with China-based Tequ Group and Dekon Group to apply its ET Brain artificial intelligence (AI) platform to raising pigs, aiming to enable each sow to give...
Wednesday 21 February 2018
Some AI chip startups may bow out in 2018, says Alibaba academy
The number of startup developers of AI (artificial intelligence) chips has increased fast over the past two years but some of them may bow out in 2018, according to predictions by...
Wednesday 21 February 2018
Beijing AI research institute founded
In a bid to turn China's capital city into a hub for talent in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), an AI research institute in Beijing was newly inaugurated, with Kai-fu Lee...
Wednesday 21 February 2018
Taiwan tech startups present innovative AIoT solutions
AI (artificial intelligence) is deemed as the last integral part of the IoT (Internet of Things) architecture, and the integration of AI and IoT can generate brand new AIoT business...
Wednesday 14 February 2018
Taiwan moving to set up national AI research network
The Taiwan government will move to implement five action plans in line with eight major international AI (artificial intelligence) development trends to turn Taiwan into one of the...
Wednesday 14 February 2018
Taiwan IC backend production value to rise 4-5% in 2018, says IEK
The production value of Taiwan's IC packaging and testing industry sector is expected to increase 4-5% in 2018, according to the government-funded Industrial Economics and Knowledge...
Monday 12 February 2018
Notebook ODMs see January revenues bolstered by non-PC segments
Taiwan's four major notebook ODMs - Quanta Computer, Compal Electronics, Wistron and Inventec - have reported better-than-expected revenues in January despite declines in notebook...