Judges watch a humanoid robot perform at the gymnastics floor exercise competition during the second World Humanoid Robot Games at the National Speed Skating Oval in Beijing yesterday.
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Taiwan and other technology democracies have a "golden but narrowing" three-to-five-year window to lay the foundations for an advanced robotics supply chain outside China, particularly for humanoid robots, a Taiwan-based researcher said yesterday. A report released on Monday by the Research Institute for Democracy, Society and Emerging Technology (DSET) examines China-West competition in physical artificial intelligence (AI) and Taiwan’s potential role in developing alternatives to Chinese robot supply chains. Humanoid robots remain unproven, meaning China’s lead in shipments currently has a limited impact on the real economy, Nathanael Cheng (鄭秉信), a policy analyst in the DSET Economic Security Program, said in a
SPECIALTY SUPPLIES: Taiwan is ushering in a major shift in industrial upgrades and a local alliance will reinforce supply chain resilience, SEMI president Terry Tsao said SEMI Taiwan launched a semiconductor materials alliance yesterday to fortify industry resilience, capitalizing on surging domestic demand fueled by advanced nodes and next-generation packaging. Taiwan has been the world’s largest semiconductor materials consumer for 16 years in a row, the industry association said. Taiwan purchased about US$21.7 billion of semiconductor materials last year, driven by artificial intelligence (AI)-related demand, SEMI data showed. The spending accounted for 30 percent of global semiconductor materials consumption, totaling US$73.2 billion, the data showed. “Demand for specialty gases, chemicals and key raw materials are rising in Taiwan, fueled by the technology advancements to 2-nanometer and advanced packaging technologies,” SEMI
Outbound investments approved by Taiwan’s government surged more than 200 percent from the year before during the January to July period largely due to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) spending heavily overseas, the Ministry of Economic Affairs reported on Monday. The Department of Investment Review approved US$61.26 billion of outbound investment in 395 applications during the first seven months of this year, up 208.43 percent from a year earlier, the ministry said in a statement. Significant growth came after TSMC, the world’s largest contract chipmaker, secured approval to raise capital investments by US$20 billion in its US subsidiary TSMC Arizona Corp,
YouTube is offering millions of dollars to popular channels if they upload their videos to the site exclusively for a certain period of time, in an effort to halt Netflix Inc’s pursuit of its biggest stars, people familiar with the conversations said. The payment would come in a couple of different forms. YouTube has discussed directly financing some programs, and it has also offered to allot a portion of major brand deals to creators. Although YouTube has not finalized deals with any creators, it is close an agreement with several partners, said the people, who declined to be identified because
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