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May
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May
VESA launches industry’s first open standard for display VRR performance
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May
IC price hikes may only target popular nodes
Taiwan’s IC manufacturers are reportedly mulling price hikes later this year, while sources in the IC design sector reckoned the impact would be limited as the hikes might only target popular manufacturing nodes.
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May
UMC may resume 14/12nm nodes for new-gen car, networking chips
Taiwan-based foundry United Microelectronics (UMC) is very likely to resume its 14/12nm process production soon at the request of major clients who are keenly eyeing next-generation automotive or networking chips, according to industry sources.
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May
SEA roundup: Toyota Thailand receives subsidies for BEV
Toyota Motor Thailand has signed an agreement with Thailand’s Excise Department to receive tax incentives and a subsidy for Toyota’s battery electric vehicle (BEV) model bZ4X, the Bangkok Post reported on April 29. According to the department, Great Wall Motor Thailand and MG Sales Thailand have also signed such an agreement, which brings BEV taxes down from 8% to 2% until 2026 and provides a subsidy of THB70,000-150,000 to each BEV buyer. Furthermore, import duty on BEV from Japan, South Korea, and Europe will decrease to 20%, 40%, and 40% respectively.
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May
Taiwan’s new recruit from NASA aims to enhance tech innovation and industrial transformation through HPC
High-performance computing technology has been widely adopted in advanced countries to facilitate technological innovation, commercial big-data analytics, and aerospace missions. Taiwan’s National Center for High-Performance Computing (NCHC), an institution under the National Applied Research Laboratories (NARLabs), also provides important high-speed computing resources such as high-speed network infrastructure and computing capabilities to support academia and industries in Taiwan. DIGITIMES interviewed NCHPC’s new director-general Chau-Lyan Chang, a former senior researcher in the Computational Aeronautics Science Division at NASA Langley Research Center. He returned to Taiwan in April 2022 to lead the Center. We asked him about his vision for the center and his perspective on high-performance computing technology’s future outlook.
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May
Infra, clean water, and power key to chip partnership in India
The success of India’s semiconductor manufacturing plans depends heavily on partnerships with global companies. Vedanta’s recent tie-up with Foxconn underscores this. But setting up chip-making factories requires a lot of other factors, including adequate infrastructure, clean water, and power, according to Sanjeev Keskar, CEO of Arvind Consultancy.
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May
Porotech showcases native full color microLED display projections
Porotech, a developer of microLED and GaN-based semiconductor technology, showcased what it called the world’s first set of native indium gallium nitride (InGaN)-based red, green and blue microLED displays at 1920×1080 resolution with at least two million nits of brightness (≥ 2M nits) at Touch Taiwan 2022.
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May
Motion Gestures using AI to enhance camera-based gesture recognition technology
Move a thumb to unlock a car door. Self-check-in at an airport without touching the kiosk. These are no longer scenes in the movies but what technology is capable of nowadays. Motion Gestures, a Canada-based startup, has brought sophisticated camera-based hand tracking and gesture recognition solutions to various industry verticals, offering transformative experience to the modern world.
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May
China ODM Wingtech taps deeper into semiconductor sector
China-based ODM Wingtech Technology has seen semiconductor sales significantly bolster its profits since acquiring in late 2019 Nexperia, a Dutch supplier of discrete and MOSFET components as well as analog and logic chips, and is on track to expand its presence in the semiconductor sector through more acquisition and R&D projects, according to industry sources.