Taiwan appears to be turning US-China trade tensions to its own advantage. While the US has been imposing restrictions on any exchanges of high technology with China, a complex web of supply chains, also buffeted by the COVID-19 crisis, has been seeking to adjust. Taiwan is now proposing that its own high-tech base might be the solution.
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China Starts to Un-lockdown, Production Lines Power Back On
As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to grip most countries of the world, some definite shoots of recovery are taking hold, not least in China.
Techworks Asia Clients Carry off Four CEM Editor’s Choice Awards 2019
Techworks Asia clients have picked up several prestigious and much-coveted “Editor’s Choice” accolades in recent CEM magazine awards.
Wounded Wuhan: What Lies Behind the Name?
Now plunged into absolute crisis by the outbreak of coronavirus Covid-19, Wuhan, capital of Hubei Province, is an astonishing dynamo at the heart of China’s push for high-tech development, building directly on the city’s growth into an established industrial base. Home to 11 million, this huge manufacturing centre is frequently dubbed ‘the Chicago of the East’, and ‘four times the size of London’.
The Great Las Vegas Invasion: Techworks Clients Attend CES 2020
Between January 7-10, four Techworks Asia clients attended this mammoth event: CEVA Inc.; Navitas Semiconductor; Nordic Semiconductor; and Silicon Mitus. If you couldn’t manage to see them on the show floor, here’s what you missed.
Happy Lunar New Year 2020 from Techworks Asia
A very happy, prosperous and peaceful Lunar New Year 2020 to all of our clients, partners, suppliers and friends. Happy Year of the Rat.
China’s Bold AI Plan: Global Dominance by 2030 (part 2)
While China is often assumed to be a generation or two behind in chip-making skills, design engineers are now flocking to a bunch of ‘disruptive’ AI startups in China.
China’s Bold AI Plan: Global Dominance by 2030 (part 1)
By 2025, China is to be the world’s leader in some AI technologies and their applications, while making major breakthroughs in fundamental AI theory. Applications will include smart manufacturing, smart healthcare, smart cities, smart agriculture, and national defence, with the value of core AI industries reaching 400 billion RMB (US$57.41 billion), while AI-related industries reach 5 trillion RMB (US$717.69 billion).
Engineering design to the fore in UK’s own ‘Middle Kingdom’
In Chinese, ‘China’ translates literally as Middle Kingdom. From 16th to 17th of October 2019, the Engineering Design Show (https://www.engineeringdesignshows.co.uk/) took place in the UK’s very own Middle Kingdom, or somewhat more modestly, the Midlands of England. Two members of the Techworks Asia team went on tour to explore the show, and also to present a workshop on ‘Marketing in China: Challenges, Pitfalls, Opportunities’.
The world’s longest sea crossing: Interconnecting China’s Greater Bay Area
A recently completed eye-catching engineering feat at the heart of China’s Pearl River Delta is the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge-tunnel (HZMB), claiming the title of the world’s longest sea crossing, with a total 55 kilometres (34 miles) of roads, bridges and 6.7km tunnel.