DIGITIMES regularly interviews leading industry executives, inviting them to talk frankly about the technology issues and the business challenges that need to be addressed in an industry that is marked by constant change. We always welcome the opportunity to discuss industry trends and issues face-to-face, via email or during a conference call, especially for companies that are targeting the Greater China market.
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Jumping on the EUV bandwagon: Q&A with Gudeng chairman Bill Chiu
Gudeng Precision Industrial, a member of TSMC Grand Alliance and Taiwan's first semiconductor equipment maker allowed to join SEMI in setting next-generation equipment...
Disrupting the hiring process with AI: Q&A with Terminal 1 Recruitment CEO Edwin Shao
The coronavirus pandemic is driving more companies to embrace digital transformation, but the biggest pain point in the process for many corporate CTOs is the...
Beyond ruggedized IPCs: Q&A with Getac chairman James Hwang
Taiwan-based ruggedized industrial PC (IPC) maker Getac has been transforming its business and is adopting a business model of a system integrator (SI) to expand...
Materials challenges for IC substrate production: Q&A with Unimicron vice CEO CP Lee
IC substrates are set to enter a golden growth period driven by ever-increasing applications of 5G and AI chips solutions. To secure a preemptive presence in the...
Food delivery by robots: Q&A with Kiwi Campus founder Felipe Chavez Cortes
Silicon Valley-based Kiwi Campus is a startup dedicated to operating a semi-autonomous robotic platform for delivering foods, beverages and groceries to consumers...
Digital transformation via AI enablement: Q&A with dTran Smart Consulting executives
A serach for "digital transformation" on Google will come up with more than 350 million results - an indication of the attention it has been drawing. But many...
Positioned as LaaS provider: Q&A with WPG CEO Frank Yeh
As the largest electronics distributor in Asia, WPG Holdings continues to expand and diversify its offerings particularly those for 5G, AI and automotive electronics...
Advanced packaging, mini LED rising as new growth driver: Q&A with Kulicke & Soffa SVP CP Chong
US-based semiconductor assembly equipment supplier Kulicke & Soffa (K&S) is optimistic that 5G and AI applications will drive demand for advanced IC packaging...
Enterprise AI to be key growth driver: Q&A with IBM Greater China CTO Dong Xie
IBM has been looking to expand its presence in the cloud computing industry via the releases of its AI+ and the offering of hybrid cloud solutions, and expects...
Taiwan hardware capability is best nutrient for AI development: Q&A with Microsoft Taiwan COO Hedy Ho
Microsoft keeps investing in Taiwan, having set up an IoT innovation center in October 2016, an AI R&D center in January 2018. It alsto introduced an AI 100...
Science minister Chen Liang-gee shows confidence and ambition in promoting Taiwan entrepreneurship
Science minister Chen Liang-gee has been making a lot of efforts grooming Taiwan's startups, a clear example being his ministry's arrangement of a large delegation...
Quanta making AI push, says chairman
AI will usher in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and Taiwan must manage to develop a solid presence in the AI era that will persist into the next decades, Quanta...
Memory long-term outlook promising: Q&A with Micron EVP Sumit Sadana
The memory-chip market conditions will start to improve later in 2019, followed by several years of prosperity, according to Sumit Sadana, executive VP and chief...
AI-enhanced manufacutring: Q&A with Seagate executive VP Jeffrey Nygaard
Seagate has teamed up with HPE and Nvidia to release an AI-based manufacturing platform, Project Athena, in line with the concepts of Industry 4.0, as artificial...
Heterogeneous integration bringing more innovation: Q&A with Etron chairman Nicky Lu
The Taiwan semiconductor industry is gearing up to tap huge business opportunities arising from AI and IoT applications, such as machine learning, cloud to edge...
Industry 4.0 brings lucrative opportunities for chipmakers: Q&A with TI manager Matthieu Chervier
Global chipmakers have been racing to develop chip solutions associated with Industry 4.0 applications to tap huge business opportunities arising from smart manufacturing...
Taiwan must run faster in IC development: Q&A with science minister Chen Liang-gee
TSMC is likely to kick off volume production of 3nm manufacturing process in 2022-2023, when AI and 5G applications are seen to explode to drastically drive the...
Quanta chair issues prescriptions for AI healthcare development in Taiwan
AI applications can usher in brand-new values for Taiwan's medical sector, given the growing integration of health insurance data and technological resources and...
Focus on stability: Q&A with Globalfoundries executives
Globalfoundries announced in August 2018 its decision to put 7nm FinFET R&D on hold indefinitely in a move to intensify the company's focus on delivering differentiated...
Innovations count most for AI startups: Q&A with Xilinx president Victor Peng
While Intel and Nvidia have developed leading presence in the CPU and GPU fields, respectively, Xilinx has demonstrated solid innovation prowess in the FPGA space,...
Stay focused: Q&A with NXP executive Steve Owen
NXP Semiconductors has gone through several periods of restructuring since its departure from Philips, followed by privatization, and mergers and acquisitions...
Wonders develops diverse smart city solutions with new techs
Wonders Information, a major smart city service provider in Shanghai, China, is aggressively utilizing such newly emerging technologies as cloud computing, big...
Investments in startups provide good opportunities for large enterprises, says Jackie Yang, co-founder of Translink Capital
Co-founder of Translink Capital Jackie Yang has accumulated 21 years of experience in venture capitalism since he first set foot in the field in 1996. Having witnessed...
National alliance needed to help Taiwan firms better tap IoT opportunities, says ITRI executive
As IoT and AI applications will enter a substantive growth period amid the imminent advent of the 5G era, Taiwan's government-funded Industrial Technology Research...
