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Thursday 13 November 2025
Xinyx IC Design B.V. - Customized IC design service and solution provider
Xinyx IC Design B.V. is a 100% Filipino owned IC Design house and has been in operations since 2009, with more than a decade of experience in the field of integrated circuit design, giving its clients scalability and access to highly qualified Filipino engineers. Xinyx provides end-to-end semiconductor design solutions, spanning front-end architecture, circuit realization, and physical implementation for analog, digital, and mixed-signal domains.Xinyx offers comprehensive IC design services customized to meet each customer's unique requirements. The company's capabilities span digital, analog, and mixed-signal design and layout, enabling it to support projects across a wide range of applications and technologies. Xinyx provides flexible engagement models, from full turnkey solutions to project-based and specialized design services, allowing clients to leverage its expertise at any stage of the design process to achieve faster turnaround times and optimized results. With over 16 years of experience, Xinyx has grown from a 15-person team into a 400-strong engineering and service organization, operating across five sites in the Philippines and one in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Built on the strength of its large pool of talented young Filipino engineers, the company helps customers bring innovative silicon solutions to market. As Xinyx continues to expand its global footprint, it is optimistic about the booming Taiwanese semiconductor industry and is eager to collaborate with Taiwanese IC design firms to broaden its reach and explore mutually beneficial opportunities.As part of its commitment to developing the IC design ecosystem, Xinyx actively drives its flagship Campus Connect Program, which focuses on nurturing IC design talent at the university level. The program bridges industry and academia by providing a pathway for Filipino students to enter the IC design field through collaborative learning opportunities, internships, and training programs. In line with this vision, Xinyx continues to explore strategic partnerships with universities abroad, including recent engagements with Chung Yuan Christian University in Zhongli District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan.
Wednesday 12 November 2025
Linker Vision Gains International Recognition, Expands into Middle East, Southeast Asia, and U.S. Markets
As global urbanization accelerates and populations significantly age, cities worldwide are investing heavily in smart city development. The goal is to create safer and more efficient urban environments through AI and digital technologies, enhancing citizens' quality of life. With the emergence of Vision-Language Models (VLM) combined with generative AI, smart city applications have entered a new phase - enabling systems to automatically interpret traffic flow, pedestrian behavior, and unexpected incidents from video footage, and thereby supporting real-time decision-making.In his keynote address ahead of COMPUTEX 2025 in Taipei, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang highlighted Kaohsiung's "Smart Kaohsiung Lighthouse Project," which leverages a VLM-based digital twin architecture to interconnect tens of thousands of city surveillance cameras, significantly improving the efficiency and service capabilities of the municipal government. The key technology driving this initiative comes from Linker Vision, a company renowned for its expertise in computer vision technology.Joining the NVIDIA ecosystem to advance smart applicationsWith more than a decade of experience in AI-powered image recognition, Linker Vision has become a trusted partner for many leading global brands. Following the rapid rise of generative AI in 2023, the company began applying VLM's powerful visual comprehension and semantic reasoning capabilities to achieve a deeper understanding of real-world scenes.Unlike traditional object recognition models, VLM can identify a broad range of objects without additional training while discerning contextual relationships among them. This enables the system to detect complex incidents and assess damage that conventional models often fail to recognize. Building on its solid foundation in visual recognition, Linker Vision utilizes VLM's multimodal data processing capabilities to develop a suite of solutions for smart city and smart factory applications.Yi-Ting Liu, Senior Sales Manager at Linker Vision, explained that the company's smart factory solutions are designed to address enterprises' dual challenges of improving workplace safety and operational efficiency. In smart safety applications, the system can accurately detect fires, chemical leaks, or safety violations - such as workers entering restricted areas or failing to wear protective gear - and even identify complex behaviors like "smoking within a restricted zone," triggering composite alerts in real time. Beyond safety, the solution also monitors employee productivity, status, and compliance with standard operating procedures (SOPs), providing factory managers with a visualized, data-driven management tool that effectively reduces human error.Building global presence through AWSLinker Vision has built its solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for many years, achieving outstanding results in the smart city and smart factory domains through modular and standardized system architectures. Yi-Hsuan Lin, Product Manager at Linker Vision, noted that the company extensively utilizes AWS's AI computing power and services, including Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), and Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) and tools to deploy and operate agents.The key advantage, Lin said, lies in AWS's on-demand flexibility, which enables the team to access the latest GPU resources anywhere in the world, substantially reducing hardware procurement and maintenance costs. When conducting proof-of-concept (PoC) trials across borders, deployments can be launched instantly on AWS's local infrastructure closest to customers, eliminating the time and expense required for purchasing and installing physical hardware. Amid the global push toward Sovereign AI, Linker Vision also offers hybrid cloud and on-premises services, helping enterprises optimize AI models, develop tailored solutions, and ensure data privacy compliance.Expanding internationally with AWS JIC supportLiu emphasized that participation in the AWS Joint Innovation Center (JIC) has laid a strong foundation for Linker Vision's market development and international expansion. Beyond providing abundant cloud resources and technical expertise, the JIC offers a comprehensive set of empowerment services, including business networking, corporate matchmaking, and marketing exposure, helping Linker Vision connect with strategic partners and accelerate business growth.With rapid momentum in the Taiwan market, the company now aims to expand globally-targeting the Middle East, Southeast Asia and the United States-to capture the vast opportunities in smart city and smart factory development.
Wednesday 12 November 2025
StatsInsight develops a home-grown baseball Hawk-Eye system with AWS hybrid cloud architecture
In modern competitive sports, the margin between victory and defeat often depends on who can capture and analyze data more effectively. Taiwan's triumph at the 2024 WBSC Premier 12 was not only the result of exceptional player performance and precise coaching but also the scouting team's ability to provide rapid, on-site opponent analysis. As a key member of the scouting team, StatsInsight played a pivotal role. Leveraging its stadium optical tracking system and StatsInsight analytics platform - both built on Amazon Web Services (AWS) - the company provided real-time data insights to players and coaches, making it one of the unsung heroes behind Taiwan's championship win.StatsInsight co-founder Leh Shyu noted, "As sports technology evolves rapidly, baseball has long moved beyond the era of paper scorecards. Professional leagues in both the U.S. and Taiwan have adopted electronic and camera-based systems to record every detail of practices and games. StatsInsight is the only company in Taiwan focused exclusively on baseball analytics and sports technology integration. Our goal is to build a solid foundation for the next generation of baseball data development in Taiwan by delivering comprehensive solutions and customized services that bring technology into every ballpark."Products validated through real-world performance: adopted by pro and national teamsBaseball is a sport defined by subtle details and strategy that are difficult to capture with the naked eye. Founded in 2020, StatsInsight has long specialized in baseball data collection and analysis. Its "Electronic Strike Zone" system has become a familiar presence to Taiwanese baseball fans, offering advanced statistics derived from ball flight trajectories and player motion reconstruction.StatsInsight's scouting data systems and analytics services have been widely adopted and highly recognized by both professional baseball teams and the national team.A former baseball player himself, Shyu entered the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) draft in 2019. Although not selected, his deep knowledge and experience earned him a place on the national team's scouting staff. That opportunity inspired him to co-found StatsInsight with like-minded partners to develop Taiwan's own baseball scouting system.Shyu explained that while the U.S. has a more mature sports technology ecosystem, its systems are often expensive and come with language and support barriers for Taiwanese teams. StatsInsight, though a later entrant, built its system in-house and proved its reliability through multiple competitions. With its ability to deliver customized solutions and localized support, the company successfully partnered with the national team to build an international scouting platform and has since collaborated with professional clubs.Leveraging AWS services to realize a hybrid cloud architectureStatsInsight has deployed its full system and website on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and uses Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for managed database operations. Video data is securely stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), while Amazon CloudFront Content Delivery Network (CDN) ensures smooth and fast content delivery for optimal user experience. The company is also developing an optical computer vision system and, through resources provided by the Startup Terrace Kaohsiung AWS Joint Innovation Center (JIC), received direct technical guidance from AWS experts to implement and validate its hybrid cloud architecture.Shyu shared, "U.S.-made Hawk-Eye systems are highly advanced and purpose-built for baseball stadiums, but renting one costs around NT$7 million per year, with a minimum four-year lease. Including technical support, total expenses can exceed NT$30 million. Our vision system is designed to match the performance of those systems, combining similar-grade cameras with small on-premises servers and AWS cloud services to deliver a more cost-effective hybrid solution. Taiwan's next baseball era will require comprehensive data and biomechanical analysis. By developing our own system, we aim to provide an affordable and effective option to drive Taiwan's baseball technology transformation."Currently, StatsInsight is collaborating with the National Sports Science Institute in Kaohsiung to deploy its system in baseball stadiums and create a next-generation smart baseball field. This collaboration will also serve as a testbed for validating the company's self-developed optical vision system and as a model for future smart stadiums in Taiwan.