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

Baua Electric

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. “In this very demanding environment, we are not reducing people. .”

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Honda Releases Battery Swap Kiosk For Electric Motorcycles & Scooters

CleanTechnica EVs

In some past articles, we’ve been pretty excited about Gogoro. The Taiwan-based company offers an innovative battery swap system that’s ideal for electric scooters and motorcycles parked in places where a power plug might not be available.

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The “Stealth Bomber” Drops A Bomb: Foxconn-Fisker Vehicle Confirmed

CleanTechnica EVs

In a previous series of articles, I explained that Taiwan-based Foxconn (aka Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., or ????????????) is going to be a serious player in the EV industry, but that you probably won’t hear much about it. Because it is going to be the “stealth bomber” of manufacturers.

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TSMC considering advanced chip packaging capacity in Japan, sources say – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Taiwan’s TSMC is looking at building advanced packaging capacity in Japan, according to two sources familiar with the matter, a move that would add momentum to Japan’s efforts to reboot its semiconductor industry. Currently, all of TSMC’s CoWoS capacity is in Taiwan.

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TSMC bullish on AI demand, forecasts 20% revenue growth this year – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC), the world’s largest contract chipmaker and a major Apple Inc and Nvidia supplier, said at an earnings conference that AI represented a major opportunity. “We are a key enabler for AI applications. The stock rose 1.2% on Thursday ahead of the results versus a 0.4%

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First chip from Dholera plant by 2026 end: PSMC chairman Frank Huang – ET Auto

Baua Electric

“This is the beginning of India’s serious acceleration in the manufacturing and chip space,” Huang said in a virtual interaction from PSMC’s headquarters in Taiwan. The Hsinchu, Taiwan-headquartered company reported net sales of NT$3.429 billion in 2023. This fab will take India one step ahead.

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How the AI Boom is a Windfall for Tiny Anguilla

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Somebody else saw that and convinced the government to give it to them, so it went to this company in Taiwan. This article appears in the February 2024 print issue as “5 Questions for Vince Cate.” So I changed the [IANA] admin contact to be the government of Anguilla. After a couple of years, they disappeared. And we got it back.

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