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Wednesday 5 September 2018
FCBGA substrate supply tight on packaging demand for pre-5G chips
Taiwan IC backend service firms have seen increasing flip-chip packaging orders from China chipmaker HiSilicon now actively carrying out volume production of pre-5G chip products,...
Wednesday 5 September 2018
GIGA-TMS unveils UHF RFID system for pre-shipment tracking
Taiwan-based RFID (radio frequency identification) solutions specialist GIGA-TMS has newly released its Scannel-branded RFID tunnel system designed mainly to track pre-shipment production...
Wednesday 5 September 2018
NXP acquires OmniPHY to accelerate autonomous driving and vehicle networks
NXP Semiconductors has disclosed it has acquired OmniPHY, a provider of automotive Ethernet subsystem technology. OmniPHY's expertise includes automotive Ethernet, a technology that...
Wednesday 5 September 2018
Taiwan tech firms, startups urged to enhance cooperation with Israel
Taiwan's colleges, tech enterprises and startups can move to enhance technology and talent exchanges with Israel and step up bilateral cooperation on a variety of tech fields, so...
Tuesday 4 September 2018
Coretronic Robotics conducting POC field tests for smart drones
Coretronic Intelligent Robotics, a robot-manufacturing arm of BLU maker Coretronic, is currently conducting POC (proof of concept) field tests for its smart drone products designed...
Tuesday 4 September 2018
China records over 801 million Internet users in June
The number of Internet users in China increased to 801.66 million as of June 2018, according to the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC).
Tuesday 4 September 2018
Quanta, NCKU team up for smart geriatrics
Quanta Computer and Taiwan's National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) have signed a deal for working together to apply AI (artificial intelligence), IoT (Internet of Things) and other...
Monday 3 September 2018
Global smartphone market positive in 2H18 and beyond, says IDC
The worldwide smartphone market will return to positive growth in the second half of 2018 with volumes up 1.1% compared to a year earlier, according to IDC.
Monday 3 September 2018
ITRI unveils bionic palm with six degrees of freedom
Taiwan government-funded Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) has newly developed a bionic palm that can catch objects in a more agile way and can be applied to the medical...
Monday 3 September 2018
Zukku to come to Taiwan
Zukku, a palm-size service robot selected to guide visitors to the Tokyo Olympic Games 2020, will be introduced to the Taiwan market for use in retail stores, restaurants and service...
Monday 3 September 2018
New Taipei keen on becoming smart city, says deputy mayor
New Taipei City, the largest municipality in northern Taiwan, has been selected by Intelligent Community Forum, an international organization, as one of the global top-7 smart cities...
Monday 3 September 2018
Hiwin unveils robots with 3D vision for fast biscuit packaging
3D machine vision is increasingly applied to production lines as it can achieve fast and accurate vision that human eyes can hardly do, and a typical application is seen in an automated...
Friday 31 August 2018
Acer going beyond pure holding company, says chairman
Taiwan-based PC brand vendor Acer will be developed into a group company, instead of a pure holding company, in the next 3-5 years to head a fleet of subsidiaries which the company...
Friday 31 August 2018
HTC unveils HTC U12 life in Taiwan
HTC has expanded its HTC U12 lineup by introducing a new model, the U12 life, into the Taiwan market. Price of the new model, which targets the mid-range segment, will be announced...
Friday 31 August 2018
Human-machine collaboration in growing use
Unmanned factories are usually considered the ultimate achievement in smart manufacturing but they are actually rare because key technologies needed to construct them far complicated...