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Friday 29 June 2018
Taiwan kicks off NT$4 billion semiconductor project to foster AI chip talent
A total of 20 out of 45 academic applicants have been selected to join the four-year Semiconductor Moonshot Project hosted by Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), which...
Friday 29 June 2018
HTC, China Mobile team up for 5G program
HTC has signed a MoU agreement with China Mobile to join forces on a 5G program in China, according to a company announcement.
Friday 29 June 2018
Taiwan needs internationalized talent, says Wretch Chien, AME Cloud Venture principal
Wretch Chien, principal of AME Cloud Venture, was himself an entrepreneur when he founded a community website Wretch.cc in Taiwan. Since then his career has taken several turns, taking...
Friday 29 June 2018
IIoT is emerging but when will the market really take off?
Foxconn Industrial Internet (FII), a subsidiary of Foxconn Group (Hon Hai), recently launched its initial public offering (IPO) in China at CNY13.77 (US$2.08). However, FII's share...
Thursday 28 June 2018
MWC Shanghai 2018 highlighting 5G, AI, IoT
MWC Shanghai 2018 running from June 27-29 is highlighting 5G, AI, IoT and autonomous driving to serve as major agenda of the annual event held under the theme of "Discover a Better...
Thursday 28 June 2018
Wistron Medical in joint smart hospital project
Wistron Medical Technology (WMT), Maya International and En Chu Kong Hospital have signed a deal to jointly make the hospital a smart one by setting up a digital medical data platform...
Thursday 28 June 2018
Gigabyte graphics card shipments to fall 20% in 2Q18
A slowdown in cryptocurrency mining demand is dragging down Gigabyte Technology's graphics card shipments in the second quarter, which are set to fall about 20% sequentially with...
Thursday 28 June 2018
Entrepreneurs should aim at creating world-class products, says ASVDA CTO TC Wu
Currently the CTO of Taiwan's Asia Silicon Valley Development Agency (ASVDA), TC Wu had spent 35 years working in the bona fide Silicon Valley's semiconductor industry. He retired...
Thursday 28 June 2018
Global chipmakers developing IoT SoCs as warm-up for 5G
As part of their efforts to develop a preemptive presence in the 5G era, global chipmakers are stepping up the development of IoT chipset solutions as a warm-up game for exploring...
Thursday 28 June 2018
Huawei to launch commercial 5G solutions, mobile chips in March 2019
To embrace the advent of the 5G era, Huawei plans to launch commercial 5G solutions as well as 5G chips for smartphones in March 2019, according to company rotating and acting CEO...
Thursday 28 June 2018
Demand for electronic shelf labels booming, says EIH president
The proliferation of IoT applications in commercial and daily life activities such as smart retailing, manufacturing, and smart city has brought a boom to the EPD industry, particularly...
Thursday 28 June 2018
Taiwan firm sets up health examination matching platform
In an effort to better serve both the supply and demand sides involved in health examination, Taiwan-based Medicrowd Smarthealth has recently set up a medical service platform to...
Thursday 28 June 2018
MediaTek and Ericsson collaborate to accelerate and expand NB-IoT device ecosystem
MediaTek and Ericsson have announced a collaborative effort to extend the commercial ecosystem for NB-IoT devices. This announcement follows months of work by both companies to test...
Thursday 28 June 2018
Socionext implements AV1 encoder on FPGA over cloud service
Socionext, a vendor of SoC technology for video and imaging systems, has developed a prototype implementation of video encoder functionalities of the latest video compression format...
Thursday 28 June 2018
Asia set to become largest 5G region by 2025, says GSMA
Asia Pacific is on track to become the world's largest 5G region by 2025, led by pioneering 5G markets such as Australia, China, Japan and South Korea, according to the latest edition...