With the rising business opportunity of 5G applications, orders for related technologies and components have continued to pick up and are expected to benefit TSMC over its InFO-AiP and Taiwan-based CCL makers in 2020. Meanwhile, China-based DRAM maker CXMT has been pushing its LPDDR4x memory for the adoption into the handsets of China-based second-tier vendors.
China's overall IC production capacity will continue to expand in 2020 as both IDMs and foundry houses there have readied expansion plans covering 4-, 6-, 8- and 12-inch wafer fabs and will enter 14nm node next year, according to Digitimes Research.
Foldable phones are already a commerical reality, and the market can expect to see more from multiple vendors in 2020. But those who are looking forward to foldable-screen notebooks may have to wait a little longer...
Taiwan-based medical management consulting company Concord Medical has helped Hua Yang Hospital and Kangyu Clinic, both in northern Taiwan, set up robotic rehabilitation centers.
Taiwan-based startup businesses tapping the Southeast Asia market should offer one-stop solutions via integrating various innovations developed by different startups, according to Vincent Lu, vice managing director for Jumpway, a Thailand-based electronics manufacturer established by Taiwanese entrepreneurs over 30 years ago.
Bitmark has created a specialized blockchain application to convert personal medical data - with patients' authorization - into digital assets that can be sold, licensed and transferred peer-to-peer, a practice that can be feasible in Taiwan, which boasts sound environment for medical innovations, according to company CEO Sean Moss-Pultz.
The world's two superpowers may be heading towards a truce in their trade war, but the US reportedly is not letting Chinese tech giant Huawei off the hook easily. Washington may tighten control on Huawei's access to US technology, with Taiwanese IC designers bracing for mixed impacts...
Taiwan has strong demand for AI talent in volume and quality, and the supply of AI experts can only rely on domestic cultivation rather than overseas recruitments, according to Kung Hsiang-tsung, president for Taiwan AI Academy.
Foxconn Electronics has offered a high-performance computing (HPC) facility for use by National Taiwan University (NTU) Cancer Center, according to Yong Lin Health Care Foundation established by former company chairman Terry Gou.
