Taiwan has signed an agreement with the APEC Digital Opportunity Center (ADOC) program in Peru to upgrade an aid program aimed at “narrowing the digital divide” in APEC member countries.
The agreement to implement ADOC 2.0 was signed on Tuesday at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Lima and is expected to help 25,000 Peruvian micro-enterprises generate more profits, Taiwan’s representative to Peru Huang Rong-kuo (黃榮國) said.
The ADOC project was established by Taiwan in 2004 in countries of the APEC forum, Huang said during the signing ceremony.
The first phase of the ADOC project in Peru was launched in 2005. Ten ADOC centers have been set up in Peru and the project had helped more than 20,000 Peruvians by last year, Huang said.
Taiwan’s Institute for Information Industry president Ke Jyh-sheng (柯志昇), who is responsible for the implementation of the project, said the institute has set up 53 ADOC centers with the cooperation of countries including Peru, Chile, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Mexico and Papua New Guinea.
More than 10 institutions in Peru are participating in the ADOC 2.0 project, including export and tourism agency Prom Peru, the Commission for the Promotion of Peruvian Exports and Tourism and the Peruvian Exporters’ Association.
Representatives from some of the institutions expressed gratitude to Taiwan for sharing its digital knowledge and said the ADOC program had improved access to computer-related knowledge and introduced technologies to micro-enterprises, schoolchildren and disadvantaged groups.
As part of the ADOC 2.0 project, the ADOC Secretariat Office will donate laptop and desktop computers and LCD screens to Peru’s ADOC centers, Ke said.
Nvidia Corp CEO Jensen Huang (黃仁勳) is expected to miss the inauguration of US president-elect Donald Trump on Monday, bucking a trend among high-profile US technology leaders. Huang is visiting East Asia this week, as he typically does around the time of the Lunar New Year, a person familiar with the situation said. He has never previously attended a US presidential inauguration, said the person, who asked not to be identified, because the plans have not been announced. That makes Nvidia an exception among the most valuable technology companies, most of which are sending cofounders or CEOs to the event. That includes
TARIFF TRADE-OFF: Machinery exports to China dropped after Beijing ended its tariff reductions in June, while potential new tariffs fueled ‘front-loaded’ orders to the US The nation’s machinery exports to the US amounted to US$7.19 billion last year, surpassing the US$6.86 billion to China to become the largest export destination for the local machinery industry, the Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry (TAMI, 台灣機械公會) said in a report on Jan. 10. It came as some manufacturers brought forward or “front-loaded” US-bound shipments as required by customers ahead of potential tariffs imposed by the new US administration, the association said. During his campaign, US president-elect Donald Trump threatened tariffs of as high as 60 percent on Chinese goods and 10 percent to 20 percent on imports from other countries.
Taiwanese manufacturers have a chance to play a key role in the humanoid robot supply chain, Tongtai Machine and Tool Co (東台精機) chairman Yen Jui-hsiung (嚴瑞雄) said yesterday. That is because Taiwanese companies are capable of making key parts needed for humanoid robots to move, such as harmonic drives and planetary gearboxes, Yen said. This ability to produce these key elements could help Taiwanese manufacturers “become part of the US supply chain,” he added. Yen made the remarks a day after Nvidia Corp cofounder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang (黃仁勳) said his company and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) are jointly
United Microelectronics Corp (UMC, 聯電) expects its addressable market to grow by a low single-digit percentage this year, lower than the overall foundry industry’s 15 percent expansion and the global semiconductor industry’s 10 percent growth, the contract chipmaker said yesterday after reporting the worst profit in four-and-a-half years in the fourth quarter of last year. Growth would be fueled by demand for artificial intelligence (AI) servers, a moderate recovery in consumer electronics and an increase in semiconductor content, UMC said. “UMC’s goal is to outgrow our addressable market while maintaining our structural profitability,” UMC copresident Jason Wang (王石) told an online earnings
RSS