Taiwan blockchain startup Bincentive is striving to provide investors with decentralized assets management solutions and serve as an incentivized matchmaking platform for vetted crypto traders and investors, according to company CEO CM Cho.
The US-China trade war has put Huawei, and in general the smartphone market, in limbo. Huawei has sharply cut orders for flagship smartphones, according to supply chain information available to Digitimes Research. The woeful smartphone market means bad business for both device vendors and their upstream partners, with mobile chip suppliers reporting low visibility...
Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) has achieved satisfactory results from applying AI to detect defects on packaging lines following nine months of efforts, according to KH Wan, director of technology development at the Taiwan-based semiconductor backend service provider.
Moving out of China seems to be an irreversible trend for many IT products manufacturers at the moment. But where are they relocating? For Wistron, India is a key destination; for HHD vendors, their contract manufacturers are converging in Thailand. For some, the US seems to be the last destination they would consider.
Wistron has adopted AI technology to inspect defects of products at three of its factories and will extend such inspection to other plants, according to company senior software manger Liang Wei-quo.
The worldwide top-5 notebook brands saw their combined shipments rise 10% on month in May, a growth weaker than that of the same month a year ago. Although the US-China trade tensions have prompted notebook vendors to stock extra inventory, their efforts have been hampered by Intel's ongoing CPU shortages, according to Digitimes Research's figures.
The US ban on Huawei does not seem to have dampened the industry players' interests in 5G, with many still expecting explosive growths to come soon. Handset vendors remain as keen as ever on rolling out 5G smartphones sooner rather than later. The networking/communications device sector also remains optimistic about 5G...
Taiwan startup Yallvend is ready to promote its newly developed vending upgrade kits (VUK) designed to make vending machines smart and able to perform mobile payment functions, according to company CEO CY Huang.
The escalating US-China trade war is sending IT firms moving their manufacturing operations from China to avoid the tariffs imposed on Chinese products. But plant relocation is much easier said than done, as it is a complicated process involving the entire supply chain from the upstream to the downstream apart from the necessary expenses...
Foxconn has introduced a new committee for collective management for the "post-Terry Gou era," as the chairman is stepping down soon to facilitate his bid for Taiwan's presidency. The company has also disclosed it has not seen clients asking it to move production our of China despite the rising trade war, but its global production capacity is enough to support its clients' needs.
