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Wednesday 22 May 2019
Huawei development of sub-6GHz 5G chips remains on track
Despite the escalating US-China trade war and US ban on the transfer of technology to Huawei, the Chinese firm's development of application processors and modem chips for sub-6GHz...
Wednesday 22 May 2019
Escalating US-China trade war brings uncertainty to memory market in 2H19
With the US and China raising tariffs on each other's goods, coupled with the US ban on Huawei, uncertainty has emerged over the memory market outlook for the rest of 2019.
Tuesday 21 May 2019
Taiwan server, network equipment makers gaining from US-China trade war
Taiwan suppliers of servers and network communication modules have seen orders mount significantly as their clients in the US and Europe have moved to boost ratios of shipments from...
Tuesday 21 May 2019
Huawei piling up inventory
Huawei has been piling up inventory since around the end of 2018, according to industry sources in Taiwan. Inventory levels at the China-based vendor should be able to sustain its...
Monday 20 May 2019
Taiwan optical communication module makers likely to land windfall orders
Some Taiwan-based optical communication module makers are expected to land windfall orders after the US government imposed a 25% punitive tariffs covering US$200 billion worth of...
Monday 20 May 2019
Huawei seeking capacity increases at Taiwan partners despite US ban
Huawei has reportedly promised not to cut its orders with Taiwan's upstream and downstream supply chain partners and also inquired about the possibility of increasing their production...
Monday 20 May 2019
Taiwan 1Q19 international Internet bandwidth over 2,979Gbps
Taiwan's direct Internet connection with 12 countries/areas (including Hong Kong and Macau) reached total bandwidth of 2,979.743Gbps as of the end of first-quarter 2019, increasing...
Monday 20 May 2019
LG develops AI chip
As part of its strategy to accelerate the development of AI devices for the home, LG has developed its own artificial intelligence (AI) chip with proprietary LG Neural Engine to mimic...
Monday 20 May 2019
Oppo, Xiaomi see competition from their own sub-brands
Efforts by China's smartphone vendors Oppo and Xiaomi to push sales of sub-brand models with high price/performance ratios could affect the own-brand sales of the parent companies...
Friday 17 May 2019
Taiwan AI supercomputer comes into trial operation
The Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) has announced the beginning of trial operation of Taiwania 2, a domestically developed AI supercomputer, and the inauguration of Taiwan...
Friday 17 May 2019
Cloud enables Taiwan healthcare exports to Southeast Asia
The availability of quality medical resources is one of Taiwan's most powerful competitiveness, but how the resources can be better utilized to not only take care of the health of...
Friday 17 May 2019
Asustek pinning hopes on ZenFone 6, new ROG Phone
Asustek Computer has officially launched its next-generation ZenFone 6 smartphone at a product event in Spain, as it seeks to make a turnaround of its money-losing smartphone busin...
Friday 17 May 2019
TSMC obtains orders for 5G modem from fabless firms
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reportedly grabbed orders for all the 5G modem chips that have been introduced by fabless chipmakers, such as Qualcomm's Snapdragon...
Friday 17 May 2019
Huawei tightening ties with Taiwan IC supply chain
China's largest telecom equipment maker Huawei and its chipmaking arm HiSilicon are ambitiously proceeding with their vertical and horizontal deployments in diverse chip solutions...
Thursday 16 May 2019
Blockchain to play only supporting role in diverse applications, says ioeX CEO
Blockchain technology can be applied to diverse industries in the future, but it should be playing a supporting role rather than a leading one, according to Aryan Hung, founder and...