National Taiwan University (NTU) and AU Optronics Corp. announced the establishment of the "AUO-Taiwan Joint Research and Development Center" , and the inauguration ceremony was held today (May 6). After more than a year of efforts, the joint R&D center was established in the Minda Pavilion, which was donated to NTU by the AUO Group in 2007. In their speeches, both parties expressed their deep expectations for the joint R&D center and gave their best wishes.
The vision of NTU for the 21st century is "Asia's Top, World's Best". To achieve this goal, NTU is committed to promoting academic development across the university, building an excellent research environment, and actively seeking excellent industrial partners in order to achieve the advantage of integrating industry and academia. In his speech, President Guan Zhongmin of NTU said, "This partnership is of great significance to both parties. We hope that by combining NTU's R&D capabilities with AUO's profound panel technology capabilities and practical experience, we can create more international competitive advantages in a long-term and stable cooperation. At the same time, through close industry-academia cooperation, we hope to seamlessly connect NTU with the industry and nurture more professional talents needed for future development.
The joint R&D center will initially provide more than $10 million in R&D funds per year for a minimum of three years and $30 million in cooperation, and will focus on medium- and long-term forward-looking technology cooperation under the auspices of Professor Wu Chung-Chi of the Department of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering at NTU. In recent years, the industry has been under the pressure of digitalization and smart transformation, facing not only transient changes in decision making, manufacturing, supply chain and sales, but also a crisis that affects the survival of enterprises. Taking into account the expertise of both NTU and AUO and the actual needs of the industry, the R&D center will focus on panel display, sensor technology, AIoT, and technologies related to smart field applications as the theme of R&D. We hope that the combination of both parties will stimulate further innovative ideas and energy.
As the largest research university in Taiwan, NTU has accumulated decades of abundant energy in R&D technology and talent cultivation, while AUO has a full range of technologies and profound innovative energy in display technology and smart field applications. The establishment of AUO's Joint R&D Center is not only a milestone in industry-academia cooperation, but also a significant contribution to the breakthrough of industry technology.
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