Global shipments of AR/VR headsets are expected to surge 29% on year in 2020, driven by rapidly growing demand for such gears for consumer and commercial applications to support remote work and study activities in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, according to Digitimes Research.
Sony has postponed the launch of PS5, but makers in its supply chain remain busy preparing shipments for the client's next-generation games console. Backend partners say SoC shipments for PS5 will start next week before peaking in third-quarter 2020. PCB and IC substrate suppliers expect PS5 to be a major growth driver of the sales this year...
The US sanctions against Huawei will not affect only the Chinese tech giant. Its supply chain partners, particularly TSMC, will also take a hit from trade restrictions taking effect in September on tech support for Huawei. The Chinese smartphone and telecom equipment vendor knows well that the US will not let it off the hook easily, and it has geared up chip purchases from Taiwan-based MediaTek...
Compal Electronics has established a 5G lab for its clients and partners to showcase their innovations, according to Sheng-Hua Peng, Compal's executive vice president of smart device business.
Global shipments of automotive CID (central information display) panels (including those for aftermarket but excluding white-box models) are forecast to fall 9.9% on year to 80 million units in 2020 amid weakening demand for automobiles in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and high penetration rates for cars in developed countries, Digitimes Research estimates.
Government-sponsored Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) has disclosed it will establish a development fund for incubating cultural content creation projects.
Electric scooter sharing service operator WeMo Scooter and Taiwan Mobile has cooperated to equip the former's bikes with the latter's high-accuracy PM2.5 sensors to dynamically collect real-time air pollution data in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan.
The coronavirus pandemic has fueled demand for a number of devices, including notebooks, to support stay-at-home activities, with chip vendors expect shipments to these segments to remain strong till October. Networking ASICs will likely see prices rising in the second half of 2020...
Startup Atgenomix has developed SeqsLab, a NGS (next-generation sequencing) platform featuring high-performance computing, scalability and reliability, for providing cloud-based genome sequencing analysis services on a subscription basis, according to company co-founder and CEO Allen Chang.
HTC-developed VR technology has been adopted for FLAIM Trainer, a system to simulate fire scenarios based on VR for training fire fighters, according to HTC.
