iPhone 8 rumours we hope are true

More rumoured details of the iPhone 8, Apple’s 10th anniversary smartphone, have surfaced this week, following Apple’s quarterly earnings announcement last week. According to a recent video released by Taiwanese smartphone store Hao, which showed an ... ( read original story ...)

Curing the ‘Ghost Island’: Why Taiwan Needs Basic Income

Sun Yat-sen believed that the benefits from natural resources, monopolies, and property should be shared amongst all citizens. This is precisely the philosophy behind UBI, argues Tyler Prochazka. Ask any college aged student in Taiwan about their financial ... ( read original story ...)

Apple CEO will not attend TSMC’s anniversary ceremony

Taipei, Aug. 7 (CNA) Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC ... co-founder and CEO of graphics integrated circuit designer NVIDIA Corp. and Steve Mollenkopf of smartphone IC designer Qualcomm. Both NVIDIA and Qualcomm are heavyweight clients of ... ( read original story ...)

Largan sales up 15% in July; firm expects better August

Taipei, Aug. 5 (CNA) Taiwan-based Largan Precision Co. (大立光), a smartphone camera lens supplier to Apple Inc., said on Saturday that its sales for July rose about 15 percent from a month earlier at a time when its U.S. client started to increase ... ( read original story ...)

New trends developing in emerging markets

Technology stocks have been part of the reason for the strong ... Analysts and investors alike are increasingly looking at a range of EM nations including Korea, Taiwan, China, Latin America, Russia and some of the smaller African countries for the latest ... ( read original story ...)

How This U.S. Tech Giant Is Backing China’s Tech Ambitions

And to help make Chinese chip manufacturing more competitive, Qualcomm has pledged to shift more of its high-end production — long done by outside contractors in Taiwan and South Korea — to China. Beijing is pressing American technology giants to form ... ( read original story ...)