Taiwanese Students Win GNSS.asia Challenge Award in Brunei
TAINAN, Taiwan- A Tainan-based student team from National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) had been awarded the first runner-up GNSS.asia Challenge Award during the Multi-GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) Asia Conference for its innovation, HappyQ, the university revealed today...
Less Than 1% Computers Are Powerful Enough to Support VR, Nvidia Says
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Virtual reality has been viewed as the most important growth driver of the IT industry in 2016, VR headsets, which create immersive 3D environments the wearer can interact with and explore, are poised to be the highlight of CES 2016...
TSMC Wins a Land Slide Victory Over Samsung by the 16nm Technology
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Source from the semiconductor equipment revealed that Samsung has informed its equipment partners to postpone the expansion of its logic chip plants due to less-than-expected orders of its 14nm chips. However, it is widely circulated that TSMC has won a land slide victory over Samsung by the 16nm manufacturing process technology...
Outmatched by TSMC, Samsung Suspends 14nm Expansion Plan
TAIPEI, Taiwan - According to information from Taiwan’s Economic Daily News, Samsung recently has informed relevant equipment suppliers that they will suspend expansion of their logic chip plants. This is mainly because the expansion of their 14nm manufacturing process operations is weaker then than that of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s (TSMC) 16nm operations...
NARL, NTU Launches Disposable SPR Biosensor System
TAIPEI, Taiwan — The National Applied Research Laboratories (NARL) teamed up with the National Taiwan University in rolling out the Taiwan version of Stanford Spark course, and launced the Disposable SPR Biosensor and Imaging SPR system (METAPLAS) on Thursday in a bid to shorten the time of medical test...
Qualcomm and Tianyu Sign 3G/4G Chinese Patent License Agreement
Qualcomm Incorporated and Beijing Tianyu Communication Equipment Co., Ltd. (Tianyu), yesterday announced that they have entered into a new 3G and 4G Chinese patent license agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, Qualcomm has granted Tianyu a royalty-bearing patent license to manufacture and sell 3G WCDMA and CDMA2000 (including EV-DO), and 4G LTE (including “3-mode” GSM, TD-SCDMA and LTE-TDD) subscriber units for use in China...