
IBM, GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Samsung Builds New Transistor for 5nm Technology
IBM, its Research Alliance partners GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Samsung, and equipment suppliers have developed an industry-first process to build silicon nanosheet transistors that will enable 5 nanometer (nm) chips. The resulting increase in performance will help accelerate cognitive computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), and other data-intensive applications delivered in the cloud...

NEC Launches Center of Excellence for Analytics Platform & Solutions in India
NEC Corporation and NEC Technologies India Private Limited (NTI) today announced the launch of a "Center of Excellence for Analytics Platform & Solutions" (COE-APS) for promoting solutions and services of NEC's Big Data & Analytics Platform, "Data Platform for Hadoop (DPH)"...

Worldwide Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment Billings Reached US$13.1 billion for Q1
SEMI today reported that worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings reached US$13.1 billion for the first quarter of 2017. The quarter ended very strong, with March billings reaching $5.6 billion, an all-time monthly record...

COMPUTEX Shifts Attention to New Startups
TAIPEI, Taiwan - The closing press conference for COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2017 was held on June 3. At the conference it was announced that this year 41,378 industry professionals from 16 countries around the world visited to take part in the exhibition, and this was an increase of 1% from last year...

IBM Announces Partnership with Baheal Group to Bring Watson for Oncology to China
IBM today announced that Baheal Pharmaceutical Group is extending the reach of Watson for Oncology to clinicians across China through a new multi-year strategic alliance. Baheal has a proven track record delivering value to hospitals across China working with more than 12...

Voice-Based Assistant Robots Made Up Nearly 50% of Service Robot Sales in 2016
Rapid progress in the development artificial intelligence (AI) has allowed humans to communicate with robots using natural languages. TrendForce’s breakdown of global sales of service robots for 2016 reveals that voice-based assistant robots accounted for the majority share of the total sales at nearly 50%...