Cobotics: the future of work is a blended mix of the human and the bot, says ActiveOps co-founder
The requirement for improved artificial intelligence in the world of human management is more likely to be ‘decision support’ rather than ‘decision replacement’ Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is making waves with predictions ranging from the overkill that we are seeing the end of jobs as we know it, all the way through to businesses can […]
Contact Cadence @ DAC 2018: Electronic systems and semiconductor design for cloud

India bloggist Pradeep Chakraborty reports from DAC at the Moscone Center in San Francisco on his conversations with Carl Siva, VP of Information Technology and Craig Johnson, VP of Cloud Business Development with Cadence Design Systems.
Tariff Wars Escalate: USTR Announces Tariff Increases on a Wide Range of Chinese Products and China Responds with Tariffs on U.S. Products
Originally published on Pillsbury’s Global Trade Law Blog Following President Trump’s direction in connection with the Section 301 investigation into China’s acts, policies and practices related to intellectual property (discussed here), on June 15, 2018, the Office of U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) announced a 25% tariff increase on Chinese products valued at approximately $34 billion in […]
China’s Semi Capex Forecast to be Larger than Europe and Japan Combined in 2018
Chinese semi firms to spend $11.0 billion in capex this year, up from only $2.2 billion in 2015. Figure 1 shows that IC Insights forecasts that China-headquartered companies will spend $11.0 billion in semiconductor industry capex in 2018, which would represent 10.6% of the expected worldwide outlays of $103.5 billion. Not only would this amount […]
SMTo & ViTrox Participate in 2018 SMTA Queretaro Exhibition & Tech Forum
Penang, Malaysia– ViTrox, a solutions provider of innovative and market leading Total Machine Vision, announces that it will co-participate with Mexico business partner, SMTo in SMTA Queretaro Exhibition &Tech Forum, which is scheduled to take place on 12th July, 2018 in Queretaro, Mexico. V-ONE will be the highlighted product. V-ONE is a real time monitoring system […]