According to DIGITIMES Research’s observations, amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, worldwide inflation and interest rate hikes, 2022 global tablet shipments are estimated to further decline 1.5% to come to 139 million units. Looking into the next five years, governments around the world raise interest rates to fight inflation, which however curbs economic growth.

Environmental destruction and excessive use of fossil fuels have increased the average global temperature. The world is experiencing unusual but frequent El Nino and La Nina events, melting glaciers of the North and South poles. Even worse, droughts, wildfires, and rainstorms are happening worldwide. Based on the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, The Paris Climate Agreement was an international treaty on climate change, adopted at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change. A long-term temperature goal is set to mitigate the global warming effects, which is keeping the rise in mean global temperature well below two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and preferably limiting the increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

qScire, a startup established by Chilean EDA engineers, has been selected as one of the honorary mentions of the Tech Innovation Excellence (TIE) Award at Taiwan InnoTech Expo 2022 held between October 13-15, 2022.