Misha Lu

Jul 15, 2024 | digitimes.com | Misha Lu |DIGITIMES Asia

Observing the Chinese military's rapid pace of modernization and the war in Ukraine, where drones and satellites have shown their tactical values, Taiwan is gradually waking up to the reality of modern warfare and has stepped up its modernization pace. For the first time since 2022, Taiwan's defense ministry turned to domestic suppliers in the private sector to build commercial-grade military drones as well as anti-drone systems.

Jul 3, 2024 | digitimes.com | Misha Lu |DIGITIMES Asia

VIGO Photonics, a Polish company specializing in mid-wave infrared (MWIR) and long-wave infrared (LWIR) detectors and modules, is becoming increasingly central to European efforts to gain greater autonomy on key semiconductor technologies, especially when the photonics sector sees growing aerospace and defense applications in sensing, optical communication, and laser-based weapons.

Jun 27, 2024 | digitimes.com | Misha Lu |DIGITIMES Asia

Ever since the Polish scientist Jan Czochralski discovered a way to grow single crystals of semiconductors with high purity in 1915, the technique now known as the Czochralski method has long underpinned the global semiconductor industry with its ability...

Jun 26, 2024 | digitimes.com | Misha Lu |DIGITIMES Asia

One of the largest high-tech R&D investment projects in Poland, the Centre for Advanced Materials and Technology (CEZAMAT) under the Warsaw University of Technology has been a pillar underpinning the semiconductor ambitions of Poland, especially the country's vibrant photonics ecosystem.

Jun 21, 2024 | digitimes.com | Misha Lu |DIGITIMES Asia

Silesia, a region in southwestern Poland, is long renowned for its industry. Back in the middle of the 18th century, the region became an economic powerhouse due to its burgeoning coal mining and metallurgy industries, and as the government plans to gradually cease coal mining, Silesia's rich reserve of copper ore - 7th largest in the world - gives Poland a foothold in the electromobility industry.