While China's biggest foundry house SMIC is still waiting for the axe to fall, specualtion has already emerged about the next targets of the US trade sanctions that threaten to nip China's semiconductor push in the bud. China's memory makers could be the next targets...
The global IC foundry industry output is forecast to increase 17% to US$70 billion in 2020, and rise another 6.8% in 2021, according to Digitimes Research's latest report.
Taiwan General Textile Technology (TGTT) has developed Frontier cloud computing platform that helps shorten time taken in the entire process from design, production to launch of clothing items, according to company CEO Victor Chao.
Taiwan Advanced Instrumentation Project (TAIP) is a project in the digital infrastructure category of the government's Forward-looking Infrastructure Development Program. It aims at promoting Taiwan's R&D, manufacture and utilization of advanced instruments...
Following the announcement of an investment of NT$4.5 billion in Taiwan Tech Arena (TTA) in northern Taiwan for promoting entrepreneurship and innovation, Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) is also set to give a boost to emerging industries in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan.
EMS giant Foxconn and leading passive components vendor Yageo have teamed up eyeing emerging applications segments, such as digital healthcare and EV. The Foxconn-Yageo alliance will seek to incoporate the two companies' resources, as well as those of their end customers...
Taiwan-based Gogolook, the developer of Whoscall app that instantly identifies phone callers to prevent frauds, has cooperated with six local banks to launch a platform for users to compare personal credit loans offered by these banks, according to company co-founder and CEO Jeff Kuo.
As remote work activities are expected to continue in 2021, notebook brand vendors are now considering adopting a dual-lenses design for their commercial models because of growing need of online meetings and presentations of products. TSMC's procurement of EUV litho equipment is expected to reach a total of 55 sets before the end of 2021 as the foundry is expanding related capacity...
A total of three sets of new video coding technologies that are being formulated by related international standards setting organizations are likely to be rolled out in 2020 that will be conducive for addressing the two shortcomings related to unsatisfied compression rates and unfair licensing mechanism of current HEVC (high efficiency video coding) technology for coding and decoding of...
Demand for TSMC's advanced process support has been strong. The foundry is set to move the 3nm node to volume production in 2022, with monthly output expected to reach 100,000 wafers in 2023. It remains to be seen whether Huawei - banished by the US from large parts of the IT world - could receive capacity support from TSMC again...
