SEA roundup: Philippines sees solar energy and hybrid vehicle rise
Southeast Asian countries are promoting electrification and green energy; Vietnam sees continuous investment in its tech industry.
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AU Optronics scores points in moving toward green production
TFT-LCD panel maker AU Optronics (AUO) has been making efforts to reach green production featuring low carbon emissions, consumption of less power and water, recycling of all wastewater without pollution since 2008, and has seen significant achievements, according to the company.
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Jul
Robotaxi services progressing in the US and China
The reality of commuting with robotaxis has come closer. Cruise, a GM-owned self-driving car company, began charging for its driverless taxi rides in part of San Francisco. Two months earlier, autonomous vehicle (AV) technology companies Apollo and Pony.ai received approval for operating their self-driving taxi services without a safety driver in a suburb of Beijing.
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Jul
ASML, TSMC shed lights on advanced solutions at CSTIC 2022
Heavyweight semiconductor players including sole EUV lithography equipment vendor ASML and top foundry TSMC have lately shed lights on latest front-end lithography and backend advanced packaging solutions, respectively, needed to extend the life cycle of Moore’s Law.
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Jul
Toyota Indonesia in ‘luckier conditions’ amid chip shortages
Toyota’s official data showed that the Japanese carmaker missed its global production target in May. However, Toyota’s production in Indonesia seems to be in “luckier conditions,” the marketing director at Toyota Indonesia was cited by Indonesian-language news outlet Bisnis.
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Jul
Google considering having future Pixel phones made in Vietnam
Google, which is having a majority of its Pixel 6 smartphone made in China, is considering shifting orders for its future phones to its manufacturing partners’ plants in Vietnam to avoid the risks from the ongoing US-China trade tensions and China’s COVID-19 lockdowns, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.
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Jul
Japanese firms, universities developing materials for all-solid-state batteries
Japan-based Idemitsu Kosan and NGK Spar Plug as well as Shinshu University and Toyohashi University of Technology are developing materials used in all-solid-state lithium (Li) batteries, according to Japan-based media.
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Jul
Specific chip segments poised to embrace strong 3Q22
Despite chip demand for consumer electronics showing no signs of recovery, vendors of quite a few chip segments such as server ICs, automotive chips, high-speed transmission ICs, and networking chips will still be able to experience robust shipments in the third quarter, traditionally a peak season, according to sources from IC design houses.
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Jul
RWE plans to develop 6 offshore wind farms in Taiwan
Germany-based RWE plans to develop six offshore wind farms in sea areas to be designated by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) for open-bid development of offshore wind farms in the third phase, according to chairman Bragg Chung for RWE Renewables Taiwan.
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Jul
TSMC, GlobalWafers play vital role in driving US semiconductor supply
Taiwan’s top foundry TSMC and leading silicon wafer vendor GlobalWafers are playing crucial roles in helping the US rebooting its semiconductor supply, with the former constructing a 5nm fab in Arizona and the latter also disclosing plans to set up a 12-inch silicon wafer plant in Texas though federal government subsidies are still not in place.