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NAND flash memory prices are unlikely to stabilize until after the third quarter of 2023, according to Wallace Kou, president and CEO of flash device controller specialist Silicon Motion.
China-based Black Sesame Technologies announced on May 19 that it will provide local carmaker Hongqi Auto with its Huashan-2 A1000L series chips to enable an autonomous driving platform. In addition, the pair plan to start mass-producing vehicles based on the chip next year.
Chang Wah Technology (CWTC) has inaugurated a new facility in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, where it will manufacture leadframes for advanced quad flat no-lead (aQFN) packaging, third-generation semiconductors and miniLED backlighting.
I was invited to be a seminar moderator at the 2023 Taiwan Supercomputing Conference themed on AI 2.0, supercomputing, and the new ecosystem, recently organized by Taiwan Web Service (TWS). After TWS president Peter Wu finished his keynote speech, I asked him how he feels about the ongoing generative AI boom. He replied, "Quite excited!"
According to a report by SEMI Japan and, seven out of nine major global semiconductor equipment manufacturers experienced falling revenue in the second quarter of 2023, impacted by the downturn in the semiconductor industry. However, the reports suggest that contraction in the global chip industry has started to ease in the second quarter, with the market expected to gradually recover from the third quarter onwards.