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Wednesday 19 July 2017
Chipbond, ChipMOS seeing robust gold bumping demand
Backend houses Chipbond Technology and ChipMOS Technologies have both cut into the supply chains of US and Korea smartphone brands with their gold bumping services, and are set to...
Wednesday 19 July 2017
Taiwan market: Asustek launches baby physiological monitor
Asustek Computer has launched Asus VivoBaby, a device to monitor a baby's heart rate, skin temperature and abdominal condition, and transfer data via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi to the cloud...
Wednesday 19 July 2017
IC vendors ramping up solutions for voice assistants
A number of China- and Taiwan-based IC design houses are ramping up their production of speaker solutions, MEMS microphones and other chips to meet increasing demand for voice assistant...
Tuesday 18 July 2017
IC Insights predicts record annual ASP growth rates for DRAM, NAND flash
Sales of both DRAM and NAND are expected to set record highs in 2017, according to IC Insights. In both cases, the strong annual upturn in sales is being driven almost entirely by...
Tuesday 18 July 2017
Taiwan firms urged to develop integrated chips for AI systems
Taiwan should strive to become an exporter of AI (artificial intelligence) system products and to develop niche-type integrated smart system chips that could reach a production value...
Tuesday 18 July 2017
Taiwan component suppliers may suffer further impact from LeEco inventory problems, says paper
With LeEco having recently stopped selling some of its smartphones on its online shopping website, several market watchers expect the company's upstream component suppliers to be...
Tuesday 18 July 2017
Applied Materials builds 2nd display equipment manufacturing center in Taiwan
Applied Materials held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new production center to be built at the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP) on July 17. The new production center will be the...
Tuesday 18 July 2017
Gogolook offers Whoscall in South Korea
Taiwan-based software developer Gogolook has announced it has signed a MoU with South Korea's Financial Services Commission (FSC) to use its Whoscall app to help prevent telephone...
Tuesday 18 July 2017
Singapore-based accelerator AIRmaker unveils office in Taiwan
AIRmaker, a Singapore-based startup accelerator focusing on IoT (Internet of Things)-based health care and smart city sectors, on July 17 unveiled its operating base at Southern Taiwan...
Monday 17 July 2017
SAS subsidiary to set up rooftop PV system at SPIL plant
Sunrise PV World, a subsidiary of solar wafer maker Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS), will set up a rooftop PV system at a plant belonging to IC packaging and testing service...
Monday 17 July 2017
Taiwan IT players to see opportunities from electric vehicle industry
Taiwan-based notebook component suppliers including chassis makers Catcher Technology, Waffer Technology and Ju Teng; cooling module makers Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industry and...
Monday 17 July 2017
US finalizes review of anti-dumping tariffs on Taiwan solar cell makers
US Department of Commerce has reviewed anti-dumping tariff rates imposed on Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers and determined final rates of below 5%.
Monday 17 July 2017
Taiwan AI Labs moving to turn Tainan into AI-backed city
Just three months after jointly setting 2017 as the first year for Taiwan's AI (artificial intelligence) development, the Taiwan AI Labs and the Ministry of Science and Technology...
Monday 17 July 2017
Taipei Medical University introduces IBM Watson for Oncology
Taipei Medical University has introduced IBM Watson for Oncology, an AI-based cognitive computing system to help oncological physicians treat cancer, to Taipei Medical University...
Monday 17 July 2017
Globalfoundries and VeriSilicon to enable single-chip solution for next-gen IoT networks
Globalfoundries and VeriSilicon have announced a collaboration to deliver a single-chip IoT solution for next-generation Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) networks. Leveraging GF's 22FDX...