The "Smart Electronic Chip Development Plan" was directed by the Ministry of Economic Development Administration, and hosted by the National Sun Yat-sen University South Promotion Industry Development Research Center (simplified as Zhongsh...
The "Smart Electronic Chip Development Plan" was directed by the Ministry of Economic Development Administration, and hosted by the National Sun Yat-sen University South Promotion Industry Development Research Center (simplified as Zhongshan Development) and the Electric Power Association. The "From Design to Application, Cross-domain Creation, AI Driven Semiconductor Industry Evolution Forum" was held on July 31. It specially invited Zhongshan Development and ELSA Speak, Sibo Technology, Qijing Optoelectronics, 104 Human Resources Bank and the National Institute of Integral Circuit Design, etc. jointly explored how AI can earn energy innovation and drive organizational transformation. The "Smart Electronic Chip Development Plan" aims to promote the implementation of IC design in the south, create a complete industrial settlement, and promote enterprise development. By integrating talent, academic resources and industry energy, we will establish a complete link from R&D to application to create the best industrial settlement environment for enterprises. We hope to use this to gather IC design energy at home and abroad, strengthen the competition of southern semiconductors, and drive industrial innovation and regional economic growth.
A super personal chemistry learning path created using AI, realizing Learning Everywhere
▲ Guo Qingyuan shared AI-driven hyper-personal talent development strategy (Source: TechNews)
ELSA Speak senior business development manager Guo Qingyuan said that the evolution of corporate talent learning and development (L&D) started with E-Learning in 1998, and experienced talent-oriented learning, microLearning, and learning in workflows. After 2024, ELSA’s ultra-personal chemistry learning path created by AI has truly realized Learning. Everywhere, let learning no longer be limited to time and location.
According to PWC's research, since 2022, the revenue of AI-based industries has accounted for nearly 4 times. The demand for AI talents in various industries has increased, among which the demand for information technology industry is the highest. Guo Jingyuan quoted the PWC's "2025 Global Executive Survey" and pointed out that 70% of executives believe that AI changes the way enterprises create value, and 82% of executives increase or remain unchanged after entering AI. This shows that AI improves work value rather than replaces manpower.
Guo Guiyuan further pointed out that research data from Deloitte, Cisco and McKenxi respectively showed that 43% of enterprises that have already introduced AI to human resource management are using AI in the field of employee L& D; through AI-driven personalized voice and reading, they can improve their understanding by 32%; and AI-enhanced training plans can improve production capacity by 40%, which fully demonstrates AI Driven learning has become the key force in changing game rules.
In addition, the personalization of AI drive is changing the enterprise L&D. The survey pointed out that AI enterprise training provides a personalized learning path, which can greatly improve employee production capacity and achieve a growth rate of up to 57%. In addition, Deloitte invested $1.4 billion to use AI to build a personalized learning path.
ELSA invested by Google Gradient Ventures uses AI, voice recognition technology and in-depth learning to create a set of ultra-personal solutions focused on language training. The program was selected as the number one in education app and the top five in AI apps by ProductHunt and Research Sniper respectively. It also ranked more than 30 national App Store popular apps, with more than 60 million downloads worldwide, including more than 7,700 classes. At present, nearly 1,000 companies, organizations, schools and government agencies have been used.
Global ICT service provider FPT Software, Henan Branch of Vietnam and Tyme Group, Singapore's multinational digital banking group, both invested ELSA courses for employees. As a result, 85% of the former employees increased their EPS evaluation indicators by 14% after 3 months of learning; the latter, 77.2% of the latter achieved significant improvement in EPS during the course.
Dedicated to supplement the upstream design gap of semiconductors, the key points for the transformation of semiconductors in the main southern part of the {twenty one}▲ Cai Qinyu shares resources for the semiconductor industry in South Taiwan (Source: TechNews)
The Southern chip design industry promotion base of the Ministry of Economic Affairs stated that as an important organization to promote the transformation of high-tech industries in the south, the base provides one-stop IC services, aiming to enhance southern industries and implement central ministries' policies. In order to help semiconductor industry enter new applications such as smart electronics, Internet of Things and AI, the Ministry of Economics has specially promoted the "Smart Electronic Chip Development Plan" and officially launched the chip design promotion base in southern Asia in August 2024. At present, Asia 1.0, which has complained about the final application and information industry, has fully promoted to the development of IC The Bay 2.0 plan for semiconductor industries such as design, manufacturing and sealing are used to supplement the design gaps upstream of the semiconductor.
Chen Guanzhong, deputy director of CAE, Sibo Technology, emphasized the importance of high-speed IC testing and simulation integration in the AI era in the lecture. He also explored the latest trends of AI chips, high-speed transmission technology and multi-physics field integration design. In his speech, he provided several suggestions, including the industrial talent flow and local development, and should pay attention to local industry upgrades and talent return; before mass production, we should fully consider testing interface design and reliability verification; high-speed AI chip design needs to synchronously integrate packaging, heat management and signal integrity; promote automatic report generation to improve design and verification efficiency; make good use of AI aid tools to improve engineering design and problem solving efficiency.
▲ Xie Dongyou shared the creation of the Southern IC design settlement development and industry (Source: TechNews)
Xie Dongyou, professor and director of the Institute of Organic Circuit Design at National Sun Yat-sen University, said that when talking about Taiwanese semiconductors in the past, the first thing he would think of bamboo science and manufacturing. But as we enter the AI era, IC design, system integration, and cross-domain innovation are quickly becoming the new core of competition, and the South is standing at this key point of transformation. Although the south is currently short of challenges such as the headquarters/points of large IC design companies, incomplete layout of EDA/IP suppliers, insufficient supply of IC design professional talents, insufficient production linkage, etc., it lacks opportunities for a complete EDA cloud platform and test-volume testing facilities, and the use of the most advanced chip Tape-Out resources in the academic world. President Xie Dongyou said that the southern IC design settlement is in the golden start period, which will be the key to the growth of Taiwan's semiconductor industry in the next twenty years.
AI can improve life experience, and AI can help everyone make good use of experience.Cai Zongqian, director of Qijing Optoelectronics Technology, said that AI does not just help you directly, but quietly improves your usage experience in your life process. Our technology can continuously record events at low power consumption, so that safety is not limited by data. Among them, the door-ban monitoring of smart homes can use low-power technology and wireless design, which can facilitate installation and long-term power supply, and at the same time combine palm static identification technology to improve safety protection. The HiMax platform launched by Qijing Optoelectronics combines its own AI model, low-power sound sensor and palm recognition to achieve special detection and data extraction for various application scenarios (such as smart homes, smart buildings and smart wearable devices).
104 Zhang Shichun, a research and development agency at the Human Resources Bank Information Services, said that according to the company's latest statistics, the overall market demand for AI talents in 2025 grew by 9.1% compared with the same period last year, highlighting that digital transformation of enterprises and talent cultivation have become keys to this new trend. Currently, the corporate personnel department faces the orphan problem of experience inherited by "Old Bird Memory". Using AI can realize the transformation of HR knowledge, allowing new employees to actively recommend relevant knowledge and experience by AI. General Zhang Shichun pointed out that "the value of experience is not about who knows it, but about everyone being able to make good use of it", and AI is the key catalyst that realizes this goal.
