Taiwan Mobile is aggressively expanding its domestic telecom ecosystem integrating equipment suppliers and terminal application service providers while seeking to export solutions created by the ecosystem through overseas partners, according to the firm's chief operating officer CH Wu.

Taiwan startup GranDen, devoted to integrating AR, VR and MR technologies into interactive services since its inception in 2018, is heading towards the next XR generation by offering interactive content in O2O marketing, according to company co-founder and CEO Dochin Lai.

Quanta is looking for components that are not made in China to avoid issues concerning country of origin for its server shipments to the US in the wake of the US-China trade war. But most of Taiwan's components makers have shown little interest in reestablishing their local production capacity...

The trade tensions between Japan and Korea are expected to drive up memory prices, prompting the chip and module vendors to accelerate inventory adjustments, after which they will increase orders for their supply chain partners, including backend service providers...

Taiwan-based startup BlockChain Security has launched Blockchain Witness app for preserving digital data as evidences for legal purposes, according company CEO Po Huang.

TSMC plans to increase its capex this year to support chipmaking on 7nm and 5nm processes, demand for which will be mainly driven by 5G applications. During TSMC's migration to even more advanced nodes, EUV will be crucial to cutting costs...

Osense Technology, founded in 2017, is a developer of artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR) applications, mainly developing object recognition solutions for in-door space, according to company CEO Joseph Wang.

AR can create brand-new gaming experience, but for industry applications, AR can help firms tackle their long-existing pain points, according to Roger Lu, founder and CEO of Mind & Idea Fly (Mifly), a Taiwan startup dedicated to multimedia AR/VR content development solutions.

Content distribution network (CDN), which has been around for over 20 years, is still enjoying strong growth every year, as consumers' demand for digital content's quality has grown from HD to Full HD and then 4K and now the latest 8K, according to Light Lin, founder of Poseidon Network, a provider of CDN solutions.

TSMC's positive outlook for the rest of 2019 has lifted the cloud over the semiconductor supply chain. For passive component makers, business improvements may not come right away, but they are banking on 5G applications - a key factor underlying TSMC's optimism - to revive their momentum...