Today, iCatch Technology proudly announces that it has accomplished the SGS-TUV Saar ISO 26262 functional safety process certification, achieving the highest level, "ASIL D." This certification underscores iCatch Technology's commitment to adhering to ISO 26262:2018 standards, establishing a comprehensive SoC product development process system that complies with the highest level of functional safety. iCatch Technology's achievements in functional safety development and management capabilities now align with international excellence.With the ongoing evolution of electric vehicles, advanced smart automotive electronic products have become a major trend in recent years. This trend has attracted the active participation of numerous international giants in the automotive electronics industry. Product reliability and security are the two most crucial indicators for quality verification in automotive electronics. The ISO 26262 functional safety standard verifies whether automotive electronic suppliers meet the requirements for Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL).iCatch Technology has long been dedicated to the research and development of high-quality smart imaging SoC products and application services. In recent years, they have robustly expanded into the field of smart cabins and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). To penetrate in the automotive OEM market, iCatch Technology began collaborating with SGS Taiwan's localized expert team in 2022 for technical consulting and verification services. Today, they proudly announce their successful compliance with the world's highest functional safety standard for automotive electronics, ISO 26262.In the future, building upon the verification requirements of the ISO 26262 highest level specification, iCatch Technology will continue to design and develop automotive image processing and computer vision SoCs. They aim to provide automotive electronics solutions with high quality and functional safety, meeting the needs of the high-quality automotive electronics market.Jack Kuo, Vice President of SGS Taiwan, said, "iCatch Technology's acquisition of the ISO 26262 process certificate is based on its development strength in product functional safety, complying with the highest standards of car safety and quality requirements. Only by achieving this can it become a trusted partner of global automotive OEM and gain a competitive advantage in the automotive field."Weber Hsu, CEO of iCatch Technology, stated, "Through this certification, iCatch has laid a solid foundation for penetrating in the automotive OEM market. In the future, iCatch will continue to innovate and conduct research and development while considering the functional safety and quality requirements of automotive SoCs. We aim to compete in the smart automotive supply chain."iCatch Technology Receives SGS-TÜV Saar ISO 26262 ASIL D Functional Safety Process Certificate – Penetrate in Global Automotive OEM Smart Imaging IC DesignPhoto: iCatch

In SEMICON 2023, alongside digital technology, the continuous surge in the sustainability trend has garnered extensive attention.With the international momentum behind carbon reduction efforts, there is a growing focus on energy conservation, carbon reduction, product efficiency, and sustainable living across various end applications, all with the ultimate aim of achieving net-zero carbon emissions. Taiwan's 3rd Gen semiconductor (Wide Band Gap Semiconductors, GaN/SiC) sector, primarily centered on wafers, has also been investing in sustainable technology development related to the environmental aspects of wafer use.Taiwan-based company Precious Mountain, a subsidiary of the local industry, has pioneered "PACER Bio-Mass" disposable gloves made from bio-mass source. This innovative technology has taken center stage at the exhibition. Guided by the philosophy of "Assisting in societal improvement and advocating for sustainability," Precious Mountain has seamlessly integrated ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) principles into its corporate operations and product manufacturing. They have successfully developed the world's first PVC eco-friendly Bio-Mass gloves, garnering patents from multiple countries and meeting the environmental standards for high-tech cleanrooms and pharmaceutical clean environments. The Bio-Mass gloves have secured three major international bio-based product certifications, and manufacturers in Europe and Japan have already begun their adoption. Mr. Lin Guo-Tang, CEO of Precious Mountain, stated that their future goals include adhering to ESG principles, maintaining quality, and exercising cost control. Furthermore, they plan to elevate the perfect ratio of biobased technology gloves, increasing the proportion of biobased materials, with the aim of advancing their research breakthroughs. Precious Mountain will continue to develop an array of gloves and products rich in biobased materials, with the intention of curbing the use of petrochemical raw materials by augmenting the biobased content and fostering the establishment of a recycling supply chain ecosystem.PACER Bio-Mass gloves not only possess eco-friendly attributes but also meet the ISO Cleanroom standards for "high cleanliness" and "low ionization." These gloves have undergone rigorous process control and testing and have received independent verification from impartial third-party tests, rendering them invaluable tools in assisting businesses in implementing ESG practices.The atmospheric cycle is intrinsically linked to the process of photosynthesis in trees, constituting a static biological cycle involving the release and absorption of carbon dioxide. PACER Bio-Mass employs patented technology to substitute a portion of the petrochemical raw materials in gloves with biobased materials. After disposal and incineration, biobased carbon continues to circulate within the original photosynthesis environment, undergoing transformation into organic matter. Subsequently, postmortem or oxidation, this organic matter re-enters the atmosphere in the form of carbon dioxide (CO2), thereby embodying a "carbon-neutral" characteristic. In contrast, many eco-friendly gloves on the market employ biodegradable plastics, necessitating specific temperature and humidity conditions for degradation or partial breakdown into small particles. This approach does not constitute genuine decomposition and may still pose environmental and wildlife survival concerns. PACER Bio-Mass gloves reduce the utilization of petrochemical raw materials at the source, ultimately achieving the goal of "carbon reduction."In this semiconductor exhibition, Taiwanese companies once again shine on the international stage. Every facet of the manufacturing industry should not be underestimated, as precision technology emanates from scrupulous attention to detail. The utilization of gloves has become indispensable in daily life, particularly in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, with widespread applications. While safeguarding human health, the extensive use of gloves also necessitates our commitment to the preservation of wildlife and the environment. The integration of technology into a healthy living environment, the preservation of ecological harmony, the mitigation of global warming, and the pursuit of eco-friendly business practices form the core values underpinning the attainment of ESG objectives and the progression towards the goal of net-zero carbon emissions for sustainable development.Precious Mountain has pioneered the world's first eco-friendly PVC biobased gloves, known as "PACER Bio-Mass."

Chain Reaction, an Israel-based startup founded in 2019, is leveraging Taiwan's cutting-edge semiconductor manufacturing capability to build a privacy processor chip using a privacy enhancing technology called Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) which transforms the public cloud into a trusted environment. This empowers use cases and workloads from big pharma, finance, aerospace, defense, and government where data needs to be securely and efficiently processed. This enablement solves the challenge commonly referred as the holy grail of cloud computing.As more and more corporations transit into digitization and cloud expansion as a vital part of their business strategy, concerns over data security in the cloud have prevented companies from undergoing digital transformation. While encrypted data such as medical records, financial statements, manufacturing inferences, secret recipes, etc., are forbidden to be stored and analyzed in the cloud by current regulations, Chain Reaction's privacy processor will equip the cloud service providers to overcome the regulatory hurdles.According to the company, the privacy processor chip built on the optimized architecture for FHE, is designed by their Israeli R&D team and will be manufactured in Taiwan. In addition to securing data processing in the cloud, the privacy processor also accelerates the encrypted computing with much better performance comparing to CPU and GPU chips currently available in the market.Chain Reaction targets hyperscale cloud service business market such as Amazon AWS, Google GCP, and Microsoft Azure which are generally headquartered in the US.For Taiwanese server suppliers, the chip opens up new business opportunities in the encrypted computing field. Based on a research survey, the market value of cloud computing is expected to reach over US$2 trillion in the coming years. Chain Reaction's solution is helping Taiwan's server suppliers to capitalize novel business opportunities as it offers optimal security and performance for applications ranging from server, AI, 5G network, IoT, and more.Chain Reaction earns the 1st place in the semiconductor application and will present their innovation at TIE Awards in Taipei on October 12-14.Chain Reaction's Privacy Processor for the Holy Grail of Cloud Computing

Climate change has shaken the world. Taiwan as an island is no exception and has been stricken with rising heat, abnormal weather patterns, and drought. In the last two years, Taiwan has seen such severe droughts that the central government set up a drought emergency response center to take all necessary measures to conserve water.The emergency response center, when not in times of drought, has begun constructing seawater desalination plants to ensure water supply. However, the costs of commonly-used technologies to desalinate seawater remain prohibitively high. There are also technical issues remaining to be solved. For example, the water can hardly be used by the semiconductor industry for cooling, and processing the minerals in seawater is still a challenge.CryoDesalination, a US-based startup specializing in processing seawater in a sustainable way, which has won the first place of this years' TIE Awards for net-zero emission, said it has developed a much simpler and lower cost way to turn seawater into drinking water. CryoDesalination uses a natural phenomenon as the centerpiece of its process: when saltwater freezes, the ice is pure. CryoDesalination's patented process has much lower capital and operating costs than the legacy seawater desalination technologies.According to public information, the reverse osmosis desalination plant built by Formosa Petrochemical Corporation in Yunlin county, Taiwan required a total investment of NT$6.8 billion (US$210 million) and more than 70 million kWh in energy, emitting around 6,000 tonnes of carbon, to eventually produce 100,000 tonnesof desalinated water per day.In contrast, according to industry researchers, integrating CryoDesalination's zero carbon solution with the liquefied natural gas (LNG) plants in Taichung and Yung -An would require a fraction of the investment, which is estimated to be NT$787 million (US$24 million), the CryoDesalination plants would not use any electrical power or have any carbon emissions; the estimated daily production of desalinated water could reach 66,000 tonnes.CryoDesalination: powered by waste energyThese exceptionally low costs are possible because Taiwan's LNG regasification terminals release cold waste energy that CryoDesalination can use as a clean power source to desalinate water. Co-locating LNG terminals with CryoDesalination eliminates power costs for freezing the seawater and significantly simplifies the CryoDesalination Units.Re-using the waste energy released from the vaporization of liquified natural gas is part of sustainable cycle the company envisions. Company CEO and co-founder William Buchsbaum added that LNG regasification plants are located on the coast where seawater is available to be processed into clean water to satisfy industrial, agricultural, and residential demand.CryoDesalination will present its zero-carbon solution at the TIE Awards on October 12-14 in Taipei. The company has expressed high interest in connecting with industrial players in Taiwan to process seawater.CryoDesalination Process

With the rapid development of various digital innovations such as Generative AI, the demand for high-performance chips in the market has surged dramatically, leading to increased complexity in chip design. Take Nvidia's H100 GPU, for example, which contains 80 billion transistors. Managing such a vast number of transistors, coupled with increasingly tight market schedules and shrinking product lifecycles, makes relying solely on manual development nearly impossible. To address this challenge, Maxeda Technology has partnered with international IC design giants to offer a range of production-validated AI-assisted EDA (Electronic Design Automation) solutions. We hope that our participation in the TIE Award competition will allow more international companies to see Taiwan's innovative achievements in EDA and create opportunities for further collaboration.Strong R&D Team with Customers Among the Top Ten Global IC Design Fabless CompaniesFounded in 2015, Maxeda Technology specializes in EDA. We offer solutions in the field of digital design for integrated circuits, including dataflow analysis, layout automation, placement optimization, and tailored solutions.The dataflow analysis and Floorplan exploration tools developed by Maxeda Technology can significantly enhance chip design efficiency.Dr. Yao-Wen Chang is one of Maxeda Technology's co-founders and he is the Dean of EECS at National Taiwan University, and also the mentor of the company's CEO, Dr. Tung-Chieh Chen. Under Professor Chang's leadership and with the support of Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology's incubation program and the support of the Business Angel Investment Program of the National Development Fund, Maxeda Technology was established. With outstanding R&D capabilities, Maxeda Technology has successfully attracted investments from companies like Raydium and MediaTek. And also successfully introduced products to multiple top-ten global IC design fabless companies."Our team possesses robust R&D capabilities and we have accumulated numerous core technologies", Dr. Chen describes. Currently, the company boasts a team of over 25 R&D engineers, with core members holding extensive experience in the EDA field. The team includes two researchers who were crowned champions in different editions of the ACM CADathlon at ICCAD (known as the Olympiad for EDA). Furthermore, four team members have secured championship titles in Taiwan IC/CAD Contest. Dr. Chen himself was honored by the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) with Under-40 Innovators Award in 2021, recognizing his outstanding contributions and achievements in advancing the field of EDAIt is worth mentioning that the paper co-published by Maxeda, MediaTek, and NTU titled "Flexible Chip Placement via Reinforcement Learning" was selected as a publicity paper for the DAC. The AI-assisted EDA Solution also received third place in the semiconductor category of the TIE Award this year.The Trends: Enhancing Chip Design Efficiency with AI-assisted EDA SolutionsEDA, revered as the 'Mother of Chips,' is the Key to Achieving Digital Innovation. IC design engineers utilize EDA tools to design chip functions, convert the code into actual circuit designs, and verify the correctness of designs before mass production. Consequently, in the face of rapidly increasing transistor counts within chips and the growing complexity of processes, EDA will determine chip design schedules and performance. Embracing the trend of integrating AI into the EDA field becomes a crucial factor in determining whether future IC design can overcome challenges in the post-Moore era.Dr. Tung-Chieh Chen points out that Google and Nvidia are integrating AI technology into IC design now. Consequently, an increasing number of IC design engineers are considering how to adopt AI technology into the IC design process, particularly through techniques like Reinforcement Learning.However, even for tech giants like Google, incorporating reinforcement learning into the chip design process presents challenges. This is because reinforcement learning requires over 100,000 iterations to achieve optimized results. Consequently, it is a very time-consuming method and requires extremely high machine resources."In addition, existing commercial solutions are primarily focused on achieving precise placement and routing to meet IC tape-out criteria. However, this time-consuming approach is not well-suited for reinforcement learning, as it requires even more resources and processing time. Therefore, when introducing AI technology, reducing the resources required for applying reinforcement learning while maintaining a high correlation to the final results becomes a crucial point of AI technology adoption.To address this challenge, Maxeda Technology has introduced the MaxPlace RL Reward Platform. This platform overcomes the limitations of machine resources and processing time by 100 times faster placement while maintaining high correlation rewards. Through real-world production validation, it has been demonstrated that the floorplan results produced by reinforcement learning significantly outperform the original reference design flow. This effectively optimizes chip performance and reduces the physical design from several months to just a few days.MaxPlace RL Reward PlatformDr. Tung-Chieh Chen uses the analogy of architecture to describe Maxeda Technology's role in chip design, emphasizing their focus on early-stage floorplanning, much like an architect designing a house. In architecture, the initial floorplanning involves designing the overall structure, layout, and flow of spaces like bathrooms, living rooms, and corridors before delving into detailed design elements. A good start is half the success, when floorplanning is done correctly, coupled with precise placement and routing EDA tools, it can assist IC design engineers in shortening design time and achieving better chip performance.As an EDA company with a vision to develop innovative solutions, Maxeda Technology continues to collaborate closely with partners to develop validated AI-assisted EDA solutions. These solutions support engineers in overcoming the challenges of chip design and optimizing chip performance to accelerate digital innovation. Additionally, Maxeda Technology looks forward to leveraging the exposure by TIE to create more opportunities for collaboration with global chip design companies and further enhance Taiwan's resilience and competitiveness in the semiconductor industry.

Entomal Biotech is bringing a new, sustainable way of processing food waste to the table. It has come up with an idea of circling food waste from the kitchen, home, to the dump and then back to animals or, ultimately in the future, human's stomach.The Kuala Lumpur-based biotech startup is now seeking funding to set up both decentralized containers for small volume food waste from every household and large, centralized food waste treatment plant for restaurants and corporations.It is working from the top down with local authorities to make impactful policy changes so that food waste treatment can be decarbonized. It has also received requests from private corporations for solutions to large-scale food waste treatment. According to the United Nation (UN)'s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the world produces 1.3 billion tonnes of edible food wastage every year. And the carbon footprint the total food wastage releases into the atmosphere is estimated at 3.3 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent of greenhouse gas.Through Entomal Biotech, treating food waste is now much more innovative. The company focuses on treating food waste for clients including city councils, corporations, plantations, shopping malls, hotels, and communities, cooking their "secret recipe" that turn the food waste into nutritious insect protein extracted from black soldier fly larvae.The company has helped set up black soldier fly farms internationally as it is equipped with a thorough technical understanding of the expertise. In addition to the farms existing in South Korea, China, Singapore, and Malaysia, Entomal Biotech is now working with new farms coming up in Thailand and Indonesia. The insect-based protein will be processed into animal feed, starting from pet food and eventually to livestock feed, as animal feed is the company's largest downstream market.Yanni Ching, the "Fly Lady" of Entomal Biotech, who is also the CCO of the company with her two wingmen of the team - the co-founder and the CTO, said the insect-protein is an excellent choice to feed cats, chickens, and pigs as the protein is nutritious and beneficial. "Essentially, the nutrition makes them healthier and happier," she said.In the future ahead, humans might be allowed to consume the insect-based protein as well, but it is still under extensive research and will need verification before it gets served. Entomal Biotech's vision is to work with UNICEF and distribute protein bars to countries with nutrition needs.Tera cat food, the company's first product, has launched in Malaysia, where 70% of the population have cats as pets. The pet food market in southeast Asia, Ching said, is very competitive, but their sales are looking good. The company is also working to connect with distributors of Tera in Europe, where cat owners, or pet owners in general, are more willing to pay for a green premium for pet food. Their first stop might be the store shelves in the UK.In addition to pet food, the company is developing a wound-healing cream for pets too. The anti-microbial peptides extracted from black solider fly protein is effective in healing and preventing infections.Entomal Biotech has been in contact with black soldier fly farm operators in Taiwan. Although most of them are still in the early stage of development, said Ching, the industry will grow with support from the government. She is confident that the company's expertise would be a huge benefit for Taiwanese players.Well-equipped to pioneer the niche market of food waste management around the world, the company is looking to work with waste management sector and black soldier fly farms. It has started pre-series A fundraising. The technology to produce larvae feed by treating food waste will be presented by the company at the TIE Awards held in Taipei on October 12-14, 2023.

Trends in smart wearables head towards multi-functional integration, longer battery life, and smoother user experience, placing higher requirements on chips to deliver smaller size, better power consumption, improved performance, better application tuning, and more. ePOP storage chips are ideal for smart wearable devices for their small size, low power consumption, high performance, and high reliability. Now BIWIN brings the LPDDR4X 144-Ball ePOP for high-end smart watches, offering 128.6% higher frequency and 32% less chip size compared with LPDDR3.Having passed the Qualcomm 5100 SOC platform certification, BIWIN LPDDR4X ePOP integrates eMMC 5.1 and LPDDR4X in a compact dimension of 8 mm x 9.5 mm x 0.8 mm, delivering ROM sequential read and write speeds of up to 310 MB/s and 240 MB/s respectively. With RAM frequency up to 4266 Mpbs and capacity up to 32 GB + 16 Gb (with a 64 GB+16 Gb version coming soon), BIWIN ePOP is a flagship storage solution for high-end smart watches.BIWIN LPDDR4X 144-Ball ePOP Advantages:Complies with JEDEC standards, integrates eMMC 5.1 and LPDDR4X, and allows smart watches to have a more compact design (by mounting directly on the SoC chip).Low power consumption and high performance (with frequency up by 128.6%), powered by low-power LPDRAM and optimized firmware.Works faultlessly in extended temperature from -20 �J ~ 85 �J, featuring Wear Leveling, LDPC (Low-Density Parity Check) codes, and FFU (Field Firmware Update).Simplifies system design and speed up your product's time-to-market with Qualcomm 5100 SoC platform certification.With high performance, low power consumption and high reliability, BIWIN LPDDR4X 144-Ball ePOP significantly improves user experience for smart wearables. BIWIN ePOP provides high data storage efficiency, smooth switching on/off, APP start/shutdown, screen-off and lock. It efficiently deals with different loads of sensors and the demand for multi-threaded storage to ensure fast response to the user's operations and commands. Featuring low power consumption, BIWIN ePOP reduces heat dissipation in multi-threaded, high-load, and long-work time scenarios, preventing the overheating which can cause system collapse and bad user experience. In addition, BIWIN ePOP is highly reliable in dealing with abnormalities such as blue screen error, cold start, and reset.Compared with memory chips in cell phones, storage solutions for smart wearables require higher responsiveness and more customized service. BIWIN ePOP features high performance, low power consumption, small size, and high reliability, showing the advantages in BIWIN R&D, packaging and testing. BIWIN storage solutions for smart wearables already serve the supply chain system of world-class customers, capturing a dominant share of the market. BIWIN offers proven storage solutions that bring compatibility with their existing SOC platform, system, and application. Moving forward, BIWIN will continue to optimize user experience for different user scenarios, helping customers increase the competitiveness of their terminal products.BIWIN Embedded Storage Solution for High-end Smart Watches BIWIN LPDDR4X 144-ball ePOP with Qualcomm 5100 SoC Platform CertificationBIWIN LPDDR4X 144-Ball ePOP SpecificationsBIWIN LPDDR4X 144-Ball ePOP Advantages

PCIe SSD prices continue to drop in 2022, the cost of purchasing high-performance, high-capacity PCIe SSDs for PCs has also decreased. This has expanded the application of PCIe 4.0 SSDs in the PC OEM market, driving a significant increase in the market share of consumer PCIe 4.0 SSDs. BIWIN has extended a new DRAM-less PCIe 4.0 SSD-- AP860 for desktops, laptops, and all-in-one computers. This new product offer high performance, large capacity, excellent compatibility, quality consistency, and supply stability.Powered by self-developed firmware, BIWIN AP860 delivers up to 7100 MB/s sequential read and up to 6600 MB/s sequential write using the PCIe Gen4×4 interface and NVMe 1.4. AP860 is two times faster than its predecessor, the AP423 PCIe 3.0 SSD, both in read and write speed. With a capacity up to 4 TB, it offers random read / write speed up to 1070K IOPS / 980K IOPS, bringing improved responsiveness and smooth user experience. AP860 also adopts a cost-saving DRAM-less solution and supports HMB to achieve ultimate performance.With built-in Power Management Unit (PMU), AP860 achieves ultra-low power consumption both in the working and idle mode through the precise control and optimization of its firmware. The read / write / idle power consumption of AP860 is 2.2 W / 2.4 W / 0.7 W, which shows that it is more power-efficient than AP423.And this AP860 comes with a 1.5 million hour MTBF as well as a 3-year warranty, ensuring stable performance for hours of operation. Featuring unparalleled performance, low power consumption and high reliability, AP860 works across Win10, Win11, Linux, Ubuntu, CentOS and other operation systems that support Intel and AMD PCIe Gen4.Putting the integration of R&D and IC packaging first, BIWIN will continue to leverage its advantages in storage media characteristic analysis, firmware algorithm development, IC packaging, test solution development, and global brand operations. Also, the company will make great efforts to bring new PCIe 5.0 SSDs to process big data at faster speed.BIWIN Announces New PCIe Gen4 SSD for PC OEMsHigher standard PCle offers improved bandwidth, higher transfer rate,and better performanceAP860 VS AP426 Performance Comparison

Xiphera, founded in 2017 by Matti Tommiska and Kimmo Jarvinen, has designed hardware-based cryptographic algorithms that can be implemented directly on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) or Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC). Xiphera has partnerships with Intel, AMD, Lattice, Microchip, Bittware, Spinnaker Systems, and Muspark.The company will present its Crypto Cores and Security Protocols at the TIE Awards on October 12-14 in Taipei.Xiphera's goal is to enable its customers to enhance the security level of their products, such as data centers and industrial control systems, since they are increasingly likely to fall victims of malware attacks.Back in 2016, the two co-founders of Xiphera thought that cryptography is most securely implemented in hardware. Most of the current implementations of cryptographic algorithms are in software, where for example the underlying operating system, third-party cryptographic libraries, and the processor microarchitecture interact in a complex way, and any loophole or weakness in any of these component may compromise the security of the entire system. Hardware-based cryptography, in contrast, decreases the attack surface of the system, and additionally increases performance and lowers power consumption.The company, founded by two electrical engineering PhDs who have been working on cryptography for years, developed Crypto Cores and Crypto Solutions to protect industrial, communications, and defense customers. The solutions are licensed globally, and Xiphera intends to increase its business and footprint in Taiwan as well.Xiphera, Ltd, protects critical systems by designing security directly into hard-ware

ChatGPT, the latest artificial intelligence (AI) trend, has continued to create surprises in our daily lives. The trend has naturally spread to the field of medicine which generates a wave of new smart healthcare applications that combine biomedicine with AI. The development has driven massive growth in biomedical technology which drastically reduces the analysis and interpretation time, thereby increasing the accuracy and efficiency of diagnosis. The AI-oriented medicine is creating new opportunities as smart technology has become an indispensable force that drives the development of biomedical science.Using Software as a Service (SaaS) as the core, and supported by AI technologies such as natural language processing, computer vision, deep learning, and big data analytics, ASUS Intelligent Cloud Services (AICS) utilizes valuable medical data to accelerate the development of intelligent applications and improve the operational performance of hospitals. Upon receiving an invitation from Danyu Bai, Deputy Director of Trade and Investment of the Canadian Trade Office in Taipei (CTOT), AICS and the Center of Intelligent Healthcare of the National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) jointly participated in a smart medicine reverse pitch forum as heavy hitters in the healthcare industry, to help healthcare startups better understand the pain points in the clinical field. Additionally, the event allowed hospitals to find better solutions to address their problems and achieve win-win situations.Dr. Chien-Chang Lee, Deputy Director of the Center of Intelligent Healthcare at NTUH, pointed out that AI technology is a critical foundation for hospitals in embarking on the next phase of smart healthcare and precision health technology. The application of AI technologies in providing a series of precise medical predictions, guidance, and treatment is bringing about significant changes in the doctor-patient relationship and the clinical healthcare environment. Furthermore, a greater revolution has emerged through AI deep learning or machine learning.Federated Learning Technology Achieves Balance Between "Innovative Technology," "Privacy Protection"AI algorithms rely on training using large volumes of medical data and samples to become increasingly reliable. Thus, medical images and data accumulated by NTUH over an extended period have become the key to resolving the development of smart healthcare. However, medical data is a key asset protected by government regulations, as it involves critical issues of patient privacy protection.From the perspective of achieving a balance between "innovative technology" and "privacy protections," NTUH is optimistic about the ability of federated learning technology in catering to the ardent need. By applying complex encryption technology on medical data, cloud services are provided such that AI algorithms and learning frameworks are put onto the cloud. Consequently, encrypted data from other hospitals can be used for training different AI models via federated learning technology.Not only can patient data be protected from leaks, training can also be provided to train AI models to solve medical diagnosis and precise prediction issues. All of this requires finding a partner among suppliers of information technology and cloud services that can build a smart healthcare system to satisfy legality requirements, while catering to privacy and data protection.AICS xHIS Cloud Platform as Role Model in Medical Resource Sharing, ComplianceMichael Wu, Director of Business Development at ASUS Intelligent Cloud Services (AICS) said that in the past, Asus actively participated in large-scale supercomputer projects executed by the government and research institutions, so as to accumulate comprehensive technological experience. Since being founded in 2019, AICS has been dedicated to developing AI software and targeting businesses related to healthcare institutions. Currently, an engineering team totaling 150 members has been established in both Taiwan and Singapore. They have since developed over 20 AI-based smart software products, serving over 30,000 customers, and the service volume have reached 1.2 million times per month.Based on major smart healthcare development trends observed during AICS's participation in building hospital systems, Wu believes that the greatest challenge and bottleneck faced by hospitals are the dispersion of large volumes of data across different locations and data silos issues due to heterogeneous formats. Therefore, to solve the issues, AICS focus on providing and establishing smart healthcare information and hybrid cloud platforms. By revolutionizing cloud architecture, AICS works to change the rules of the game.To address data silos issues, ASUS xHIS platform, a healthcare cloud platform, is used for developing information systems for hospitals. Standardized data formats that conform to international norms are established, allowing doctors and professionals to design different types of AI software on the platform that can create and share standardized processes for medical images and data. As a result, collaborations on medical image data with international startups that offer innovative technologies can be formed on the platform. Such innovative technologies can provide timely and legally compliant solutions to improve hospital procedures, thereby completing the construction of a smart healthcare ecosystem.Many AI suppliers from North America or Europe are attracted to Taiwan's smart healthcare ecosystem because of the high-quality medical image data, such as those provided by NTUH. This gives Western tech companies an opportunity to test AI data from the Asia Pacific region. Furthermore, the affordable costs of medical data allow Western companies to drastically reduce their development costs of smart solutions. Meanwhile, Taiwan has accumulated a large amount of data due to its robust health insurance system, thus providing an advantage for the development of global AI solutions. The large data is important in testing or training complex AI models using examples that satisfy legal compliance requirements and have economic value. The joint effort in building a smart healthcare ecosystem by the Center of Intelligent Healthcare at NTUH, and AICS will position Taiwan to make key contributions to the global smart healthcare industry.