Still, the 1,800-mile distance it would take to deliver a nuke on Beijing was at the time as insurmountable as the Taiwan Strait itself. Not even Israel had the technology to assist in developing ... ( read original story ...)
HTC to launch new 5G phones, AR/VR devices in 2Q21
HTC plans to launch new 5G smartphone models, AR/VR hardware products and related solutions in the second quarter of 2021 to stimulate sales, according to industry sources. ( read original story ...)
A year after US hit Huawei, TSMC hometown basks in property boom
The boom is palpable in Hsinchu, where Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has its headquarters. There, the company's recent success has fueled a buying spree in luxury condominiums. "When we ... ( read original story ...)
Samsung 1Q profit jumps 44.2% on strong smartphone sales
Samsung leads the global smartphone market ... is also the world's largest memory chipmaker and ranks No. 2 after Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. in contract chipmaking -- making chips ... ( read original story ...)
Remembering LG’s finest (and strangest) phones
And HTC, which sold most of its smartphone business to Google and now spends its days working on VR headsets, still finds time to churn out a phone or two in its native Taiwan. Unless there are some ... ( read original story ...)
Flat-panel industry is out of the doldrums: ministry
Photo: Chen Mei-ying, Taipei Times However, the boom last year due to demand for information and communications technology (ICT) products amid work-from-home and distance-learning trends caused the ... ( read original story ...)
Worldwide Datacenter Supplier QCT Selects Insyde® Software for Essential BIOS & BMC Firmware
About Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT) Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT ... The company is publicly held (GTSM: 6231) and headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan with U.S. headquarters in Westborough, MA. The ... ( read original story ...)
Frontken to buy property in Taiwan for RM53mil
Frontken Corp Bhd has entered into a sale and purchase agreement with MH GOPOWER Co Ltd for the acquisition of a building in Kaohsiung, Taiwan for NT$367.5mil (RM53.29mil). ( read original story ...)
Truck owner behind deadly Taiwan railway crash apologises
The owner of a construction Taiwan's worst rail accident in decades, killing 48 people, has apologised in tears while being led away from his home by police. The unmanned truck's emergency brake was ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan’s U.S.-Style Torpedoes Could Spell Trouble for China
last month, offers Taiwan vastly improved undersea defenses ... replaces the guidance-and-control hardware with updated technology, increases memory, and improves processor throughput to handle ... ( read original story ...)
Housing market slows in high season
The housing market last month slowed despite the start of the spring sales season, as presale projects bore the brunt of credit tightening, the Chinese-language Housing Monthly (住展雜誌) said in a report ... ( read original story ...)
The poorest countries are at India’s mercy for vaccines
As the UK’s COVID-19 vaccination program was “knocked off course” due to a delay in receiving 5 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine from India, a far more chilling reality was unfolding: About ... ( read original story ...)
Technology could make fighting COVID less restrictive but privacy will take a hit
Academics say the western view of individual privacy being supreme has forced the use of lockdowns as a blunt instrument when there might be another way involving the smart use of technology. ( read original story ...)
Taiwan Transport Minister Accepts Responsibility For Train Crash That Killed At Least 51
Taiwan’s Gaogong Bureau and the State Highway Administration ... he would not be shrinking responsibilities and was in charge to tackle the human lives and property damages caused by the accident. He ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan train crash: at least 51 dead after carriages derail in tunnel
Bloodied and shocked, survivors of Taiwan’s worst train crash in decades on Friday were forced to stumble across carriage roofs through a dark tunnel to escape the mangled wreckage that had claimed ... ( read original story ...)
Chip Maker Investing $100B to Grow Capacity
The company anticipates faster growth due to next-generation telecommunications and high-performance computing. ( read original story ...)