After months of negotiations, Taiwan and the U.S. signed the first agreement under the U.S.-Taiwan Initiative on 21st-Century Trade on June 1 in Washington D.C. It outlines practices...
ChatGPT has swept across the world with roaring momentum, accumulating a million users in just five days. For comparison, Facebook and Netflix took 10 months and 41 months respectively...
Chinese smartphone maker Oppo disbanded its chip design house Zeku in May, stimulating commentary on Zeku being the latest victim of the US-China chip war among the media in China...
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC), the leading chip foundry company in China, is missing out on the opportunity brought by chiplet technologies, as Beijing Municipal...
Google Trends is a useful tool to observe how trends are changing for specific topics. This time, I entered the three phrases that represent paradigm shifts in AI technology: "Expert...
The US defense industry is attempting to regear itself in preparation for potential large-scale military conflicts, waking up from a post-Cold War investment hiatus during which counterinsurgency...
Compared to other industry sectors, IC design has been more impacted by low birth rates and a lack of local IT manpower. In India, there are 56,000 IC design engineers; in the US,...
During the Asia Economic Dialogue held in India, Ajit Manocha, the President of Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI), expressed his belief that the semiconductor...
The vast stretch of land lying a kilometer north of the German city of Grossenhain, Saxony has long been a part of the country's military history: at the onset of World War 1, the...
Apple has actively been developing micro LED technology since it acquired LuxVue in 2014 and aims at initial application of micro LED panels to sports-use Apple Watch Ultra in 2024-2025...
LiDAR, a light sensing technology that creates a 3D map of a car's surroundings, is used in partial automation as a short-term objective, and is set to help achieve fully autonomous...
Taiwan's government announced a plan to phase out gas-powered vehicles by 2040. The high population density could make Taiwan a world leader in the frequency and efficiency of charging...
Mainstream solar cell technology is expected to shift from PERC (passivated emitter and rear cell) to TOPCon (tunnel oxide passivated contact) in 2023, and this is likely to pose...
Chip shortage resulted in around 4 million fewer vehicles being built in 2022. We can expect automotive chip shortages to continue throughout 2023. Since many automotive microcontrollers...
