TSMC is expected to have another strong year in 2020, driven by demand for its advanced manufacturing processes, including the 5nm node that is on course to start volume production in the first half of the year. And the Taiwan-based foundry house has also obtained orders for making Intel's automotive AI chips, whose production will also involve KYEC's testing services...
Time Banking Cloud Services has introduced a blockchain-based cloud computing-based time banking platform to enourage enterprises' and non-profit organizations' volunteers to offer help for elderly people, according to company general manager CJ Lin.
With the launch of the world's first smart home soap maker Soapmaker 1.0, Taiwan-based Lessdo raised over NT$1 million (US$33,275) on the first day its crowdfunding campaign went online in May 2019 and later accumulated more than NT$3 million during the funding period.
Acusense Biomedical is looking to digitally transform Taiwan's medical care industry with AI, medical IoT architectures and sensor systems, said company CEO Kuanyu Chen.
Huawei's smartphone business is likely to continue to be affected by the US trade ban in 2020 and beyond, and the performance of global shipments of 5G phones and foldable devices will vary in 2020, according to Digitimes Research.
The world has been as curious as ever about Apple's upcoming lineup of iPhone for 2020, and the latest news coming from the supply chain claims that the vendor may launch as many as six iPhone models this year, and that it will continue to keep LCD screens for two of them. And for the new 5G iPhones, TSMC is said to be processing antenna modules for them using its InFO_AiP technology...
While the number of lower-power wide-area networks (LPWAN) in commercial operations and the number of connected devices of these networks both expanded exponentially in 2019, NB-IoT networks ended the year to account for 70% of these LPWA networks, with its connected devices six times those situated on eMTC (enhanced Machine Type Communication or LTE-M)-based networks, Digitimes Research has...
Taiwan startup NADI System, dedicated to smart city solutions, has penetrated its 3D visualization management solutions into Southeast Asia by joining the Taipei Smart City@AMATA project now undertaken in Thailand by Taiwan's Sinotech Engineering Consultants, according to the firm's overseas representative CC Wu.
The output value of China's IC design industry is forecast to rise 22.5% on year to top CNY300 billion (US$43.06 billion) in 2019, according to Digitimes Research.
Taiwan-based startup KaiKuTek has developed a system-on-chip (SoC) solution that combines mmWave radar technologies, antennas and AI accelerators to realize close-distance fine gesture recognition.
