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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...
Monday 12 February 2018
Taiwan eases rules to drive investment in AI, big data, biomedicine
Taiwan's National Development Council (NDC) has relaxed regulations on applications for funding under its jurisdiction to better support and encourage investments in AI (artificial...
Friday 9 February 2018
Dassault Systemes aims to be like Amazon in design, engineering software sector
After scoring impressive revenue and profit performances in 2017, Dassault Systemes, a France-based specialist in offering 3D design and engineering software products, will move to...
Tuesday 6 February 2018
AI-based facial ID accuracy sees dramatic upgrade, says SenseTime executive
AI-based facial recognition technology has advanced drastically to achieve a negligible deviation after outperforming human eyes for the first time in 2014, according to Xiaogang...
Tuesday 6 February 2018
Semiconductor sales hit record US$412 billion in 2017, says SIA
The global semiconductor industry posted sales totaling US$412.2 billion in 2017, the industry's highest-ever annual sales and an increase of 21.6% compared to the 2016 total, according...
Monday 5 February 2018
Foxconn to invest NT$10 billion to develop AI applications
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) will invest NT$10 billion (US$341 million) over the next five years to develop AI (artificial intelligence) applications for industrial...
Monday 5 February 2018
NTU Hospital, Deep Force cooperate in research on medical image analysis
National Taiwan University (NTU) Hospital and Deep Force, a provider of deep learning platform for mobile devices, have been jointly conducting a research on processing and analyzing...
Friday 2 February 2018
Taiwan readies blueprints to develop smart machinery
Taiwan's economics ministry has released a set of blueprints for promoting the development of smart machinery, seeking to make the country the world's research and manufacturing center...
Friday 2 February 2018
Mobile SoC designs, embedded processing lift microprocessor market
The fastest growing types of microprocessors in 2012-2017 were mobile system-on-chip (SoC) designs for smartphones and tablets, and microprocessors used in embedded-processing applications,...
Friday 2 February 2018
Intel, MediaTek well galvanized to perform better in 2018
Though not scoring good revenue and profit performances in most part of 2017, chipmakers Intel and MediaTek have both witnessed significantly improved gross margins in the fourth...
Wednesday 31 January 2018
CoWoS, SiP to be key packaging processes for AI chips
High performance computing (HPC) will become the most crucial platform in the development of process technologies for AI (artificial intelligence) chips, and CoWoS (chip on wafer...
Wednesday 31 January 2018
Oppo to push 5G, AI developments to maintain smartphone momentum
China-based smartphone vendor Oppo will commit more resources to developing related 5G and AI technologies and applications as it seeks to enhance its presence in the global smartphone...
Tuesday 30 January 2018
Cryptocurrency mining, AI applications to drive up demand for analog, MOSFET chips
Taiwan-based suppliers of analog ICs, MOSFET chips and protection components are braced for strong shipment growths in the first quarter of 2018 as demand for graphics cards for cryptocurrency...
Monday 29 January 2018
IBM to enhance private cloud business in Taiwan in 2018
IBM will step up promoting its Cloud Private software platform in Taiwan in 2018 to help enterprise customers in the country better access microservice architectures to create new...