Aware of the air quality and the impact of exhaust emissions since her days studying Ph.D., Natalia Mykhaylova and her team at WeavAir created an analytics tool to help clients in hospitality, retail, transportation, commercial, logistics, and industrial to monitor the changes in the air condition and contamination on-site, space maintenance needs, and energy efficiency in a continuous and adaptive way.
Brand notebook vendors have cut back orders with suppliers in 2022, particularly orders for Chromebooks, and have also revised downward annual shipment targets, according to sources at IC design houses.
LED packaging specialist Brightek Optoelectronic has expressed caution about its business prospects for the second quarter, when sales are expected to hit bottom for 2022.
Mechanical motion control component maker Hiwin Technologies has reported net profit of NT$1.367 billion (US$46.3 million) for first-quarter 2022, the highest quarterly level since fourth-quarter 2018.
Smartphone-use lens module maker Largan Precision has reported consolidated revenues of NT$3.128 billion (US$105 million) for April, decreasing 16.73% sequentially and 7.69% on year.
Asustek Computer expects its PC shipments to drop 10% quarter-on-quarter in the second quarter of 2022, with motherboard and graphics card shipments dropping 10-15% over the previous quarter.
AMD has announced new additions to the AMD Radeon RX 6000 series product line: the AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT, the Radeon RX 6750 XT and the Radeon RX 6650 XT graphics cards.
Keyboard and CCM (compact camera module) maker Chicony Electronics expects consolidated revenues for second-quarter 2022 to slip less than 5% sequentially due to impact of COVID lockdown in China.
Intel has announced advancements across silicon, software and services, showcasing how it brings together technologies and the ecosystem to unlock business value for customers today and in the future.
Automotive cooling fan supplier Yen Sun Technology has seen no cutback in orders from the China market despite chip shortages and COVID lockdowns in Shanghai and other major Chinese cities, according to the company.
NeoGene Tech, a Guangzhou-based technology platform provider for mobile device thermal management, has unveiled a breakthrough solution for ultra-high-packaging-density power battery module, which has a very simple cell and vapor chamber integration structure to simultaneously solve the thermal management issues in both excessively high- and low-temperature battery operation scenarios.
The era of AI 2.0 is arriving along with the growing maturity and popularity of related technologies and tools, and enterprises must learn how to grasp the latest development trends and best utilize AI solutions to help them create maximum value, according to Tzi-cker Chiueh, director general of Delta Research Center, a research arm under Delta Electronics.
LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar expects its shipments in May to be impacted by COVID lockdowns in China, but shipments will return to be normal in June, according to the company.
Quanta Computer's production capacity for MacBook Pros at its Shanghai, China site so far still has not been fully restored and consumers who place orders for Apple notebooks now may not receive the devices until mid-July, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.
China's COVID lockdowns and restrictions have little impacted order placements from clients despite causing shipment delays, but supply chain players may not be able to fully resume order fulfillment momentum until after their manufacturing operations return to normal in the third quarter of the year, according to sources at PC component makers.
China-based optical component and lens maker Ofilm Group has stepped into the VR/AR supply chain by establishing a metaverse business unit, according to industry sources.
The massive new nodes created inside and outside self-driving cars will bring new business opportunities for AI solutions, and the entire creation process can be seen as a combination of "kitchen wastes" and "indestructible cockroaches," according to Wei-Bin Lee, CEO of Hon Hai Research Institute under the Foxconn Technology Group.
Switching power supply maker Chicony Power Technology has reported net EPS of NT$1.93 (US$0.067) for first-quarter 2022, the highest-ever for the period.
The rising demand for automotive applications has compelled Arm to recognize the need for novel architectures for protecting automotive IC security, said Simon Teng, senior director of the company's automotive partnership in the APAC region.
The Chinese city of Kunshan has started easing its COVID lockdown, but local supply chains are unlikely to resume normal operations until mid- or late May, according to industry sources.
Samsung Electro-Mechanics (Semco) is poised to step into the server package substrate sector with plans to build new production lines for high-end ABF substrates in South Korea and Southeast Asia to meet growing demand for server applications, according to industry sources.
AMD is expected to roll out its new-generation processors built using TSMC's 5nm process technology as early as September, according to industry sources.
China-based Goodix Technology, a supplier of fingerprint and touch ICs, saw its revenue and net profit continue to drop in the first quarter, saying its margins were affected by a combination of internal and external factors.
HTC saw its net losses narrow substantially on-year in the first quarter of 2022, but gross margin grew for the 18th consecutive month to 37.8%, thanks to robust sales of its VR and other products for the metaverse.
