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Thursday 16 May 2024
Hardware supply chain's pivotal value recognized in Nvidia's strategies
To maintain its leading position in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Nvidia has mastered its CUDA software, constantly emphasized its affiliation with Taiwan and TSMC, and has even secured...
Thursday 16 May 2024
Semiconductor firms' ranking as 'most-desired employers' rising fast in Japan
Several media reports that young American engineers complained about working at TSMC. How about Japanese engineers? Would they be holding grudges too?
Wednesday 15 May 2024
Artificial intelligence is bringing an epic change to our lives
From Nvidia and Microsft to Taiwan's TSMC, Quanta, Wistron, and Foxconn, companies are constantly exploring the future of their businesses with the theme of Artificial Intelligence...
Tuesday 14 May 2024
Are Taiwan's own LEO satellite programs combat-ready?
Taiwan's recent efforts to build its own "Starlink" have received growing attention as satellite communication has proven itself inalienable to wartime resilience, but to what degree...
Monday 13 May 2024
Taiwan should redefine the value of its supply chain
In 2000, Bill Gates visited Taiwan for the World Congress of Information Technology (WCIT), and in 2009, Steve Ballmer, the second president of Microsoft, visited Taiwan only for...
Friday 10 May 2024
GF's approach to AI: silicon photonics and power semiconductors
Compared to TSMC, Samsung Electronics, and even Intel Foundry, which have moved into sub-7nm advanced processes, GlobalFoundries (GF), which announced in August 2018 that it would...
Thursday 9 May 2024
The secret sauce for excellent foundry yields: perseverance, EUV, and respect for supernatural forces
Since the official shipment of the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine in 2017, ASML has sold about 200 units of EUV equipment, critical to manufacturing advanced chips.
Wednesday 8 May 2024
What is Apple's best option for a foldable device?
As expected, Apple's late product announcement on May 7 included new iPad Pros powered by the M4 processor and a new Apple Pencil Pro. With these new gadgets now official, industry...
Friday 3 May 2024
Japan takes ambitious action on advanced packaging technology to capture Chiplet and AI chip opportunities
The potential of advanced packaging technology to upgrade chip performance has attracted many Japanese equipment and material suppliers to allocate their resources in this highly...
Friday 3 May 2024
China's chip self-sufficiency dream a 21st Century Great Leap Forward? How much longer can it subsidize?
Against the backdrop of a secular slowdown in economic growth and a real-estate bubble burst that added debt burdens, how much longer can China continue to subsidize its industries...
Monday 29 April 2024
Intel faces a transition dilemma as foundry business unlikely to break even in 3 years
Intel Corp. is trying to strike a balance between design and manufacturing.
Friday 26 April 2024
Should TSMC run fabs in Arizona, Dresden, or even Kumamoto the way they do in Taiwan?
Recently a Delaware-based non-profit media Rest of World interview roused widespread attention and discussion regarding TSMC's Asian management model and hierarchy system.
Thursday 25 April 2024
China's domestic EDA market share doubled, thanks to support from 3,451 local IC design firms
As the US-China technology war enters its seventh year, with the process of domestic substitution policy of China's semiconductor industry continuing to deepen, China's local Electronic...
Thursday 25 April 2024
China feeds on lucrative semiconductor business created by US
Although US sanctions have significantly slowed down the development of China's semiconductor industry towards the advanced nodes, it is not the time to be content that China is lagging...
Thursday 25 April 2024
Taiwan's 'semiconductor diplomacy' under scrutiny amid new challenges
The Taiwan Chip-driven Industrial Innovation Program (TCIIP) has taken a significant step by establishing an office in Prague, Czech Republic, focusing on nurturing chip design talent...