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Friday 13 April 2018
ZenFone 5 launched in Taiwan
Asustek Computer has launched its new ZenFone 5 in the Taiwan market priced at NT$11,990 (US$410) targeting the mid-range smartphone segment.
Friday 13 April 2018
Taiwan university develops battery costing only 5% of lithium ones
Taiwan's National Cheng Kung University has developed an eco-friendly battery using sodium ion electrolyte as the source. The battery's non-corrosive, non-toxic and non-explosive...
Thursday 12 April 2018
Xilinx gearing up for FPGA market
Bolstered by its programmability trait, FPGA (field-programmable gate array) is gaining ground in the field of high-performance computing (HPC) chips and artificial neural networks...
Thursday 12 April 2018
Taiwan Mobile reports strong earnings for March
Taiwan Mobile outperformed peer telecom operators Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) and Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) in March and the first quarter of 2018 in terms of net earnings and...
Wednesday 11 April 2018
Taiwan speeding up quantum computer development
Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology will kick off a quantum computer development project in mid-April, seeking to pool the R&D resources of the domestic semiconductor...
Wednesday 11 April 2018
Taiwan diode makers seeing clear order visibility
Taiwan-based diode makers have seen clear order visibility through the third quarter of 2018 while still facing tight supply of silicon epitaxial wafers, according to industry sour...
Wednesday 11 April 2018
Taiwan Star expanding 4G network infrastructure
Taiwan Star Telecom has continued to enhance its 4G infrastructure by adding 1,163 base stations to its 4G networks in the first quarter of 2018, according to company senior marketing...
Tuesday 10 April 2018
Taiwan gearing up to create first startup unicorn
Taiwan is gearing up to improve investment environment for startups to facilitate the establishment of at least 10,000 startups to drive industrial upgrades and transformations, while...
Tuesday 10 April 2018
Taiwan March export value hits record
Taiwan's March 2018 export value totaled US$29.99 billion, the highest-ever monthly level with growth of 34.1% sequentially and 16.7% on year, while the corresponding import value...
Tuesday 10 April 2018
GIT becomes Taiwan sales agent for Nano Dimension
General Integration Technology (GIT), a 3D printing and scanning hardware/software sales agent under the Aurora Group, has become a sales agent for Israel-based 3D printing developer...
Tuesday 10 April 2018
Everlight wins patent lawsuit in Korea
LED packaging service provider Everlight Electronics has announced that South Korea's intellectual property authority has upheld the company's patent KR768539 against Seoul Semiconductor's...
Monday 9 April 2018
Future application trends highlighted at Japan AI, 4k/8k equipment shows
The 2nd AI Expo, held April 4-6 at Tokyo Bight Sight as Japan's largest artificial intelligence exhibition and conference, showcased a much greater diversity of the latest AI applications...
Monday 9 April 2018
Korea becomes largest semiconductor equipment market in 2017, says SEMI
Worldwide sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment totaled US$56.6 billion in 2017, a year-over-year increase of 37% from 2016 sales of US$41.24 billion, according to SEMI....
Tuesday 3 April 2018
DRAM supply remains tight
The average and highest contract prices of mainstream DDR4 4GB modules remained at US$33 and US$34, respectively, in March, according to DRAMeXchange. Contract prices for PC DRAM...
Tuesday 3 April 2018
Global February semiconductor sales increase 21%, says SIA
Worldwide sales of semiconductors reached US$36.8 billion for the month of February 2018, an increase of 21% compared to the February 2017 total of US$30.4 billion, according to the...