More than 500 visitors from 21 economies participated in the Asian-Oceanian Computing Industry Organization Summit (ASOCIO) in Taipei to facilitate greater cooperation in the sector, the Information Service Industry Association of the ROC (中華民國資訊軟體協會) said yesterday.
This is the first time in the past 16 years that the summit has been held in Taipei, the association said.
Wistron Information Technology & Services Corp (緯創軟體), MiTAC Inc (神通電腦) and Systex Corp (精誠資訊) are among the 15 local participants showcasing their latest services and solutions during the two-day summit at the Taipei International Conventional Center, according to the association.
Yesterday, local information service company Syscom Group (凌群電腦) inked a letter of intent with its Malaysian peer 1001tech Group to join forces in developing -information service businesses.
The summit highlighted that global information service providers are able to provide multiple services to sectors other than the technology sector, the association said in a statement released yesterday after wrapping up the two-day meeting.
Some companies have expanded to provide supply chain management services to steel mills, real-time information for the transportation sector and global software leasing services, it said.
Among the rows of vibrators, rubber torsos and leather harnesses at a Chinese sex toys exhibition in Shanghai this weekend, the beginnings of an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven shift in the industry quietly pulsed. China manufactures about 70 percent of the world’s sex toys, most of it the “hardware” on display at the fair — whether that be technicolor tentacled dildos or hyper-realistic personalized silicone dolls. Yet smart toys have been rising in popularity for some time. Many major European and US brands already offer tech-enhanced products that can enable long-distance love, monitor well-being and even bring people one step closer to
Malaysia’s leader yesterday announced plans to build a massive semiconductor design park, aiming to boost the Southeast Asian nation’s role in the global chip industry. A prominent player in the semiconductor industry for decades, Malaysia accounts for an estimated 13 percent of global back-end manufacturing, according to German tech giant Bosch. Now it wants to go beyond production and emerge as a chip design powerhouse too, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said. “I am pleased to announce the largest IC (integrated circuit) Design Park in Southeast Asia, that will house world-class anchor tenants and collaborate with global companies such as Arm [Holdings PLC],”
Sales in the retail, and food and beverage sectors last month continued to rise, increasing 0.7 percent and 13.6 percent respectively from a year earlier, setting record highs for the month of March, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said yesterday. Sales in the wholesale sector also grew last month by 4.6 annually, mainly due to the business opportunities for emerging applications related to artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing technologies, the ministry said in a report. The ministry forecast that retail, and food and beverage sales this month would retain their growth momentum as the former would benefit from Tomb Sweeping Day
Thousands of parents in Singapore are furious after a Cordlife Group Ltd (康盛人生集團), a major operator of cord blood banks in Asia, irreparably damaged their children’s samples through improper handling, with some now pursuing legal action. The ongoing case, one of the worst to hit the largely untested industry, has renewed concerns over companies marketing themselves to anxious parents with mostly unproven assurances. This has implications across the region, given Cordlife’s operations in Hong Kong, Macau, Indonesia, the Philippines and India. The parents paid for years to have their infants’ cord blood stored, with the understanding that the stem cells they contained