Ads arrive without warning or permission Keyboard software from mainland China company preloaded on Taiwanese-made smartphones Suspicions that all typing commands, emails and texts being harvested and spied upon Shades of the Carrier IQ scandal? ( read original story ...)
Taiwan Excellence side by side with IoT revolution at Taiwan Expo 2017
Taiwan Excellence Experiencing Zoneis one of the main attractions. Here, products are on display by 66 leading Taiwanese brands covering multifaceted categories including information communication technology (ICT), home appliances, health care equipment ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan sees 2015 technology trade deficit of NT$123.9 billion, says MOEA
Taiwan recorded total revenues of NT$36.2 billion (US$1.19 billion) from exporting technologies, including royalty, licensing and consulting fees, and total costs of NT$160.1 billion from importing technologies in 2015, resulting in a trade deficit of NT$ ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan to set up innovation service platform to integrate technology R&D forces
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs will spend NT$5 billion (US$170 million) in the next four years setting up an open innovation service platform (OISP) to facilitate cooperative R&D programs by a total of 12,000 researchers from major R&D organizations ... ( read original story ...)
Michigan still in the hunt for Foxconn Technology plant
Michigan still in the hunt for Foxconn Technology plant The Taiwan-based contract manufacturer is said to be mulling investments in the United States that could total as much $10 billion and create thousands of jobs. Such a massive prospect has pushed ... ( read original story ...)
Neousys Launches Industrial-grade GPU Platform, Nuvo-6108GC
ZHONGHE, Taiwan - July 25, 2017 - PRLog-- Neousys Technology today launched Nuvo-6108GC, the world's first industrial-grade GPU computer integrating NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1080 or TITAN X and an Intel® Xeon® processor. Powered by Intel® Xeon® E3 v5 or ... ( read original story ...)
Apple said to be developing its own OLED technology in order to reduce reliance on Samsung
Apple has purchased evaporators from Korea-based Sunic System to build a 2.5G OLED panel line to develop related technology and products in Taiwan, according to a Korea-based ET News report. “Apple is eagerly developing its own OLED technology in order ... ( read original story ...)
Samsung takes aim at TSMC with plans to triple chip foundry market share
Analysts estimate Samsung lost Apple to TSMC in 2015 and the Taiwan firm has had 100 percent of Apple's mobile processor business in 2016 and 2017. "You need a technology that can wow your clients. Without such advanced technology, it'll be difficult to ... ( read original story ...)
Steve Doyle skeptical of luring Foxconn to Wisconsin with millions in incentives
Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group, which assembles Apple Inc.'s iPhones, is nearing a decision to invest in Wisconsin and could hold an event in Washington, D.C., as soon as this week to discuss USA investment plans, people familiar with the matter said. ( read original story ...)
China’s military preparing for a potential crisis with North Korea
“If you’re going to make me place bets on where I think the US and China would first get into a conflict, it’s not Taiwan, the South China Sea or the East China Sea: I think it’s the Korean Peninsula.” Despite the People’s Liberation Army’s ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan heavily dependent on U.S. for technology
Taipei, July 25 (CNA) Taiwan depends heavily on technology provided by the United States, with Washington accounting for almost 80 percent of Taipei's total imported technology costs, the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) said on Tuesday. In the latest ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan market: Mobile e-payments monopoly is unlikely
Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and Android Pay successively landed the Taiwan market in late March, late May and early June 2017 respectively, and several local smartphone-based mobile third-party e-payment services have started operations. The large number of ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan to spend US$33 million over five years on AI research centres
TAIPEI: Taiwan plans to spend TUS$1 billion (US$32.73 million) every year over a period of five years on artificial intelligence research centres, the government said, in a move that will help its technology firms enter the fledgling sector. "The ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing – A Bright Past And Future
Invest in the low cost producer. We think the company known as the first semiconductor foundry is poised to benefit from the future wave of technology developments. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSM) appears undervalued based on a discounted ... ( read original story ...)
Forecast of Taiwan’s manufacturing output growth upgraded
Taipei, July 22 (CNA) The Industrial Economics and Knowledge Center (IEK) under the government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute has raised its forecast of output growth for Taiwan's manufacturing sector due to a growing global economy. ( read original story ...)
TSMC InFO packaging brings more competitiveness to its 7nm process technology
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) integrated fan-out (InFO) wafer-level packaging technology is about to enter its second generation, which will bring more competitiveness to the foundry's 7nm FinFET process technology, according to ... ( read original story ...)