Following the release of Flexible Access in 2019, Arm, a subsidiary of SoftBank, is opening up the project to startups with no charge, helping newcomers to reduce costs for product developments. Arm will only begin charging licensing fees from these companies until they begin selling products to make income.
TSMC is clearly the leader in the foundry business, with a big gap separating the Taiwanese firm from its competitors, including Korea's Samsung and China's SMIC. Samsung has already migrated to 5nm process manufacturing, but reportedly is struggling to raise the yield rates for node...
Bio Asia-Taiwan 2020, which opens on July 22, 2020, will be held in an unprecedented "Online + Live" format. The event will be the first global biotechnology conference taking place in Asia amid the COVID-19 pandemic...
Smartphone sales have been weak in the wake of the cornavirus pandemic, but TSMC has disclosed it has seen the supply chain actively preparing for new 5G smartphone launches...
TSMC has reported strong results for second-quarter 2020, thanks to continued robust demand for 5G infrastructure deployments and HPC-related products that was able to offset weaknesses in demand for other applications. Now the foundry house has raise its outlook for 2020, expecting sales growth of more than 20% for the year...
The coronavirus pandemic has hardly dented the business of the world's top contract chipmaker, and instead market observers believe TSMC will see strong results for the third quarter and the entire 2020, driven mainly by a ramp-up in 5nm and 7nm chip orders. And the foundry house is also seeing strong orders for its mature manufacturing processes...
Taiwan is stepping up fostering startups with more innovations in the biotech sector aiming to build a major biotech and medicine R&D base in the Asia-Pacific region, with a focus on precision health and medicine, according to government sources.
Kingwaytek Technology, a provider of digital maps for car navigation, is testing autonomous driving using C-V2X wireless communication infrastructure at an open experimental field in northern Taiwan, according to company president San Huang.
IT companies generally believe server demand will remain robust in second-half of 2020, thanks to the persistent coronavirus pandemic. For Wistron, it is set to increase server shipments to Fujitsu, which started shifting orders to the ODM from Quanta Computer in 2019. IT firms are mixed about the outlook of the notebook market in the second half, but Acer remains optimistic...
