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Top Taiwan chip designer MediaTek ‘rapidly’ shifts focus to autos, AI – ET Auto

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Taiwan’s top chip design company MediaTek is focusing more resources on chips for cars and AI computing as its smartphone clients face a supply glut and inflation and macroeconomic uncertainty dent demand for consumer electronics. The critical thing is to allocate those precious resources,” he said.

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FREYR Battery and Aleees to pursue LFP cathode manufacturing joint venture in Nordic region

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Norway-based FREYR Battery and Taiwan-based Aleees, a producer of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cathode materials for batteries, have signed a Head of Terms agreement to pursue a joint venture with the ambition to establish an LFP cathode plant in the Nordic region. Aleees is an approved supplier of cathode material to 24M Technologies, Inc.

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Ford launches Hsuehshan Tunnel Transformer Challenge in Taiwan; Mobility Challenge Series 2.0

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in 2014 ( earlier post ), Ford has launched the Hsuehshan Tunnel Transformer Challenge in Taiwan, which asks developers to submit traffic-busting solutions for the main highway artery between Taipei and popular tourist destination Yilan. Building on the success of Ford’s Innovate Mobility Challenge Series (IMCS) 1.0

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‘Chinese language hurricane’ looming over Europe’s EV sector, Renault chairman warns

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“We are capable of making electric vehicles, but we are fighting to ensure the safety of our supplies,” he stated, including that China’s EV trade and provide chain for uncooked fabrics resulted from years of investments that will value billions of euros to copy.

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Economics Drives Ray-Gun Resurgence

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In March, Taiwan News reported that Chinese researchers had built a microwave weapon that in principle could be placed in orbit from where its 5-megawatt pulses could fry the electronic heart of an enemy satellite. With an airplane you have the least amount of resources—least volume, least weight—that is available to you.

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Clever Compression of Some Neural Nets Improves Performance

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To learn speech recognition using only supervised learning, software requires a lot of existing audio-text pairings, which are in short supply for some languages. The group’s research, Lai says, is part of an ongoing collaboration on low-resource language learning between MIT CSAIL and MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab. OMP created no such boost.

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Honda Speaks About Near Future, EV Plans

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Honda is touting increased relationships with semiconductor manufacturers, including Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited. Honda is planning to dive deeper into the charging business too, using the power supply provided by EVs. Like many OEMs, Honda has ambitious EV goals -- goals we've generally been skeptical about.

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