Photographers snap pictures of a Cavira all-electric sport utility vehicle developed by Foxtron Vehicle Technologies Co at a news conference in Taipei yesterday. The company said it started accepting pre-orders this month at NT$1.239 million (US$39,156) per unit for the rear-wheel drive, single-motor model and NT$1.389 million for the all-wheel drive, dual-motor model. The Cavira is scheduled to hit the market on June 17, it said.
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Poland is betting on a flood of investments and technology transfers from Taiwanese companies to reengineer its US$1 trillion economy. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said yesterday that Poland will no longer be “just an assembly hub” as it pursues further investments from the likes of Foxconn Technology Group (富士康). The firm, whose full name is Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (鴻海精密), last month agreed to build electric vehicles (EVs) in the European Union nation and now could be a partner in a semiconductor venture, he said. The government’s aim is to boost manufacturing and the country’s high-tech chops in an era
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Google DeepMind vice president John Jumper, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on artificial intelligence (AI), is leaving the company to join Anthropic PBC. Jumper has been a key member of Google’s AI coding development team and his departure strains the tech giant’s efforts to beat Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX in the race to build the most powerful AI models. Google has struggled to sell AI coding tools to businesses, according to former employees. Employees and executives at DeepMind have raised concerns in the past few months that the company does not have a clear solution for
BAD FAITH LITIGATION? The two companies, owned by a California-based private equity firm, could be seeking licensing fees or a settlement payout with the suit Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) Director-General Liao Cheng-wei (廖承威) said yesterday he suspected that two firms suing contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) for patent infringement are “patent trolls.” A patent troll refers to a company that buys patents not for manufacturing products, but to sue other companies for compensation, accusing them of using its patents. Patent trolls, formally called Non-Practicing Entities or Patent Assertion Entities, were responsible for more than 50 percent of lawsuits in the US last year, costing targeted businesses tens of billions of US dollars a year, according to the US-based LegalCharity Web site. Asked whether
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