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Monday 23 July 2018
Pegatron chairman expects AI to bring multi-billion business opportunities
Pegatron chairman TH Tung has noted that once artificial intelligence (AI) has penetrated into the market, achieved success and gradually grown mature, the technology will have a...
Monday 23 July 2018
IoT combining AI, blockchain, CarTech to create huge opportunities, says Ayla Networks co-founder
IoT (Internet of Things) does not promise a turnkey solution serving all needs but is a wide variety of solutions tailored to meet different needs of multiple products and services,...
Thursday 19 July 2018
Bitmain to launch IPO in Hong Kong Stock Exchange
China Bitcoin ASIC supplier Bitmain plans to launch an initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong early 2019 at the latest, and is seeking a pre-IPO financing of US$1 billion to boost...
Thursday 19 July 2018
AI-based xPUs proliferating as new growth driver for IC supply chains
With the advent of the 5G era, artificial intelligence (AI) applications will be in full swing, prompting chipmakers to develop multiple xPU chips beyond Intel's CPU and Nvidia's...
Thursday 19 July 2018
AI chip orders to boost KYEC revenues in 3Q18
IC testing service provider King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) is expected to report about 10% sequential growth in third-quarter revenues, driven by a ramp-up of orders for artificial...
Wednesday 18 July 2018
Xilinx acquires China AI chip startup
Xilinx has acquired DeePhi Technology, a Beijing-based AI chip startup specializing in deep compression, pruning and system-level optimization for neural networks, according to the...
Wednesday 18 July 2018
Crypto mining supply chains see dim growth prospects for 2H18
Taiwan makers of mining graphic cards and motherboards will see their revenue and profit prospects for the second half of 2018 dimmed by the sustained crypto mining chill as demand...
Wednesday 18 July 2018
New MediaTek Helio A SoC brings AI to budget smartphones
MediaTek has unveiled its new Helio A SoC family for low-end to mid-range smartphones, with the first product of the series already adopted by Xiaomi.
Tuesday 17 July 2018
Samsung intros 8Gb LPDDR5 DRAM for 5G and AI-powered mobile applications
Samsung Electronics has announced its 10nm class 8-gigabit (Gb) LPDDR5 DRAM. Since bringing the first 8Gb LPDDR4 to mass production in 2014, Samsung has been setting the stage to...
Tuesday 17 July 2018
Belgium-based Sogepa to invest EUR150 million in Hong Kong-based Thunder Power Holdings
Belgium-based investment fund Sogepa will invest EUR150 million (US$176 million) in Hong Kong-based electric vehicle (EV) maker Thunder Power Holdings and help the latter establish...
Friday 13 July 2018
Criteo kicks off AI lab in Paris
Criteo, a France-based advertisement technology development company, has kicked off operations of its AI lab in Paris, designated to work on AI-related projects, according to Hanming...
Friday 13 July 2018
Tapping global blockchain, IoT opportunities: Q&A with OwlTing founder Darren Wang
Founded in 2010 as a Taiwan blockchain startup dedicated to e-commerce and blockchain services in global travel, food safety, social media platforms, and more, OwlTing has launched...
Thursday 12 July 2018
Globalfoundries surpasses US$2 billion in design win revenues on 22FDX technology
Globalfoundries has announced that the company's 22nm FD-SOI (22FDX) technology has delivered more than US$2 billion of client design win revenues.
Wednesday 11 July 2018
YouCam beauty apps most downloaded for virtual makeup
YouCam beauty apps offered by Taiwan-based Perfect Corp have become the world's most downloaded beauty apps, scoring over 600 million global app downloads, with global beauty and...
Wednesday 11 July 2018
MediaTek 2Q18 revenues beat guidance
MediaTek has reported revenues surged 21.8% sequentially to NT$60.48 billion (US$1.99 billion) in the second quarter of 2018, which topped the company's guidance range from NT$55.6...