Data transmission skyrockets on New Year’s Eve

Taipei, Jan. 1 (CNA) Data transmission exploded in Taiwan on New Year's Eve on Sunday, with the country's three largest telecommunications companies recording abrupt surges in data transmission during nationwide countdown parties that rang in 2018. ( read original story ...)

Taiwan stages sci-tech show, promoting AI development

The island's scientific and technological affairs authorities have recently announced an investment of 16 billion new Taiwan dollars ($537 million) to develop AI technology in the coming five years. The plan includes constructing AI research centers and ... ( read original story ...)

MediaTek eyes US expansion, beyond China, smartphones

TAIPEI -- Taiwan's MediaTek, the world's no.2 mobile chip provider after Qualcomm, said it would expand its footprint in the U.S. and seek growth beyond smartphones and China, its largest market in 2018. The remarks by Rick Tsai, co-chief executive of ... ( read original story ...)

State-run Chunghwa Struggles With Taiwan’s Surging Data Use

Nearly all of Taiwan enjoys 4G network coverage, and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the global industry organization, anticipates that 5G technology will be introduced to the market as early as 2020. Mobile internet access employs ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan to open national pavilion at CES 2018

CES is one of the largest consumer electronics shows in the world. At a news conference, Science and Technology Minister Chen Liang-gee (陳良基) said Taiwan's delegation will be made up of 32 representatives from local start-up companies. In addition ... ( read original story ...)

Manufacturers cautious in November but property sellers upbeat

The TIER's sub-index for the property market hit a 55-month high, however, after a significant rebound in residential and commercial housing transactions in the six largest cities in Taiwan in November, the organization said. TIER, one of the leading ... ( read original story ...)

Smartphone sales rebound in Taiwan in November

Smartphone sales in the Taiwan market expanded 11.88% on month and 3.17% on year to a nine-month high of 650,000 units in November, according to data compiled by local retail channels. Powered by strong sales of iPhone 8 and iPhone X devices, Apple ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan’s Nanya Completes Own 20nm 8GB DDR4 DRAM | CTIMES

Taiwan has great semiconductor technology. However, in the memory market, Taiwan lacks the economic scale to compete effectively against Samsung, SK Hynix (South Korean), and Micron (US). DDR4 DRAM technology is the latest RAM technology. "DDR4 is the best ... ( read original story ...)

China sentences 44 Taiwanese to prison for telecom fraud

Taipei has in the past accused Beijing of "abducting" Taiwanese ... "We insist that Taiwanese suspects involved in cross-border telecom fraud cases should return to Taiwan to face investigation, trial and serve the sentence according to the law," he ... ( read original story ...)

Didi Chuxing Revs Engine for Taiwan

China’s largest ride-hailing firm Didi Chuxing is expanding into Taiwan, months after rival Uber quit then re-entered the market. Didi has awarded local company Ledi Technology Co. the exclusive rights to promote and use the Didi brand and platform in ... ( read original story ...)

China sentences 13 Taiwanese nationals for telecom fraud

China sentenced 13 Taiwanese to prison on Thursday for telecom fraud following their extradition from ... Taiwanese arrested abroad have become a sensitive diplomatic issue, with Taipei protesting that suspects should be returned to the self-ruled island ... ( read original story ...)

China jails 13 Taiwanese for telecoms fraud

Over the past two years countries including Kenya, Spain, Vietnam and Cambodia have deported hundreds of people from Taiwan to China for telecoms fraud, sparking accusations from Taipei that Beijing ... contain an explosion of telecom crime it says has ... ( read original story ...)

Commercial property transactions up only slightly in 2017

Taipei, Dec. 19 (CNA) Transactions of commercial properties around Taiwan rose only slightly in 2017, as a fall in investment by life insurers compromised growth, property management firm Savills plc said Tuesday. Transactions in Taiwan of large commercial ... ( read original story ...)