Taiwan-based automation solution developer Solomon has cooperated with Denmark-based Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) to release disinfection robots that could help prevent the spread of viruses, while Taiwan-based Papago has also devoted efforts to developing a facial recognition system that can identify mask-wearing people.
China-based Suning Holdings is trialing unmanned last-mile delivery of online purchased merchandise items to buyers in place of conventional delivery by couriers to avoid possible coronavirus infections via person-to-person contact, according to China-based media reports.
In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, many firms in the IT world have revised their business outlook for first-quarter 2020. But TSMC still sees significant demand for its foundry services, reportedly seeing its upcoming 5nm capacity fully book by clients. Its major handset chip clients, such as MediaTek, are all gearing up shipments for 5G applications...
Astra, a Taiwan-based startup specialized in commercializing facial recognition technology, began to cooperate with Japanese telecom carrier NTT East to provide cloud computing-based image streaming and subscription-based facial recognition services for small- to medium-size enterprises in Japan three years ago, and the cooperative business has since accumlated over 1,000 monthly paid users,...
Memory vendors have been cautious about increasing output in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, despite significant demand from certain maket segments, such as datacenters and enterprise-class SSDs. It is foreseeable that memory prices will continue to climb in the second quarter of 2020. Foundry services are another sector that has been left almost unscathed by the outbreak...
Taiwan-based startup JWI Intelligent Technology has developed an in-house-developed automated machine learning engine as an educational tool to help enterprises introduce machine learning as an initial step to realizing smart manufacturing, according to company president Jerry Huang.
Apple's ban on its engineers from traveling to Asia in the wake of the coronavirus has reportedly affected the development of its next-generation iPhone devices that are supposed to be launched in fall this year. The travel restrictions has reportedly delayed the engineering verification test for the 5G iPhones at manufacturing facilities in China...
Taiwan-based Hugreen has cooperated with Netherlands-based developers of greenhouses to make greenhouses smart through establishing sensing networks and monitoring systems, according to company founder and CEO Clement Lee.
Supply chains had been keen to move their production lines out of China amid intensifying trade tensions between the world's two superpowers before the coronavirus hit. Now they have turned concervative about relocating their manufacuring as the fast spreading outbreak clouds the global economy...
Handset shipments by Taiwan's brand vendors and ODMs totaled 14.59 million units in the fourth quarter of 2019, up by a single-digit rate from the previous quarter but fell 35% from a year earlier, Digitimes Research has found.
