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Tuesday 5 June 2018
TSMC names new chairman
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced Mark Liu, currently co-CEO and president of the pure-play foundry, has been promoted to chairman effective immediate...
Tuesday 5 June 2018
Chengdu speeding up market opening for financial services, high-tech sectors
As the largest and most-developed economic area in the midwest are of China, Chengdu is accelerating its internationalization drive and aggressively developing globally competitive...
Tuesday 5 June 2018
Arm China JV planning IPO
Arm China will be dedicated to developing products exclusively for the China market, and plans for an IPO on the local stock exchange, according to Rene Haas, president of Arm's IP...
Tuesday 5 June 2018
Nvidia debuts AI platform, computer to power autonomous robots
US GPU chipmaker Nvidia has unveiled two new products at Computex 2018: the Isaac developer platform and Jetson Xavier, both built to power autonomous robots and bring AI (artificial...
Tuesday 5 June 2018
Computex 2018 adds new focuses on 5G, blockchain
Computex has added two new themes to the 2018 edition in response to some of the hottest trends in the tech industry: 5G and blockchain - along with the mainstays that have been featured...
Tuesday 5 June 2018
IoV, AI and embedded computing are essential to the development of autonomous driving
American and European market trends have always steered automotive industry developments. The same is true for the new generation self-driving vehicle sector, where American and European...
Tuesday 5 June 2018
The new era of GPU computing has arrived
NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) Taiwan attracted more than 2,200 technologists, developers, researchers, government officials and media last week in Taipei. GTC Taiwan is...
Monday 4 June 2018
Taiwan 2nd-tier backend firms enjoy pick-up of orders
Taiwan-based second-tier packaging and testing houses have enjoyed a pick-up of orders for flash memory, and 3D sensing and other optical components recently as their downstream clients...
Monday 4 June 2018
Chengdu CEC Panda Display expanding TV panel output
As one of the major IT hubs in China, Chengdu, the capital city of the southwestern province of Sichuan, is actively developing a mega complex in the suburban Shuangliu District to...
Monday 4 June 2018
Automotive IC market on pace for 3rd consecutive record year
The automotive IC market is on pace to grow 18.5% to a new record high of US$32.3 billion in 2018, surpassing the previous record of US$27.2 billion set last year, according to IC...
Friday 1 June 2018
GEM embracing robust orders for packaging diverse MOSFETs
Power semiconductor backend specialist GEM Services is embracing strong orders for packaging all types of MOSFET chips, and is expected to post 30-40% annual growth in revenues contributed...
Friday 1 June 2018
Arm intros new Cortex-A76 CPU suite
Arm has introduced its Cortex-A76 CPU, a new microarchitecture enabling 35% more performance and 40% less power, and the ARM Mali-G76 GPU and Mali-V76 VPU to deliver "laptop-class...
Friday 1 June 2018
Foundries eyeing AI chip orders with advanced process technologies
Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC), and the China-based production subsidiaries of both Globalfoundries and United Microelectronics (UMC) are looking to expand their...
Thursday 31 May 2018
GPU computing accelerating AI development, says Nvidia CEO
The time for GPU computing has come, and such computing is accelerating the development of AI (artificial intelligence), with demand for GPU computing power to see a 100-fold increase,...
Thursday 31 May 2018
Global 2017 smartphone AP market drops while growth resumes in tablet AP sector, says Strategy Analytics
The global smartphone applications processor (AP) market declined 5% on year to US$20.2 billion in 2017, while the tablet AP market grew 3% to US$2 billion, according to Strategy...