The Norwegian vessel “Norwegian Sun” is docked at the Port of Kaohsiung yesterday. The ship with 1,924 foreign passengers is on an 11-day voyage from Japan. It is to continue to Hong Kong and Keelung after leaving Kaohsiung.
Photo courtesy of Taiwan International Ports Corp
INNOCENT? The High Prosecutors’ Office opened a case and ordered a search of Lo’s residences, while Intel claimed he was welcomed back to ‘revitalize’ the company The Ministry of Economic Affairs yesterday dismissed Intel Corp’s comment questioning evidence in the case surrounding alleged leaks of trade secrets from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電), saying that all allegations must be determined by judicial authorities rather than by any one party. Relevant evidence should be determined through the prosecutors’ investigation and the court’s verification, and “cannot be concluded based on one side’s claims,” Minister of Economic Affairs Kung Ming-hsin (龔明鑫) told reporters before the ministry’s weekly business meeting. As the case involves national security and core technologies, the High Prosecutors’ Office has launched an investigation, and the government will
INTERGRATION: Jensen Huang said that every Nvidia department and function of the company should be using AI, after reportedly saying staff were ‘insane’ not to Nvidia Corp is in a “unique” position in the market, despite facing intensifying competition, chief executive officer Jensen Huang (黃仁勳) said during a brief visit to Taiwan yesterday amid a potentially growing challenge from Google for the artificial intelligence (AI) chip market. Huang told reporters that the AI market is “extremely large” and that while there is a lot of competition, Nvidia’s “condition is very strong and our position is very unique.” Huang, who arrived in Taipei on Thursday, was responding to questions about the possible threat posed by Google. According to a report in The Information on Tuesday, Meta has been in
Charming US President Donald Trump one week, angering China the next, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has had a busy start and is riding high in the polls, all on a few hours of sleep a night. However, the honeymoon might end soon for the Margaret Thatcher-admiring leader if a spat with China escalates further and she fails to keep inflation in check. “I believe Prime Minister Takaichi will surely do what she needs to do, so I trust her,” Kozue Otsuka, 50, told reporters at a festival this week for business owners seeking good fortune. While buying a lucky kumade rake featuring
RAPID GROWTH: Analysts said that the firm’s sales of tensor processing units used for AI functions would increase to US$4 billion from an earlier US$1.8 billion estimate MediaTek Inc (聯發科) shares posted their best week since 2002, as artificial intelligence (AI) advances at its client Google help reshape the growth outlook for the Taiwanese chip designer. The stock yesterday rose for a fifth-straight day in Taipei, taking its weekly gain to 22 percent, on investor enthusiasm over Google’s latest Gemini model and AI chip deals. MediaTek has reportedly partnered with the Alphabet Inc unit on design of tensor processing units (TPUs), seen as a potential rival to Nvidia Corp chips in AI applications. The stock price of MediaTek rallied 4.1 percent to NT$1,395 yesterday, ending the week 21.3 percent
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