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Thursday 1 October 2026
ASE expands smart OSAT push with six university research partnerships
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) held its 11th Automation Industry-Academia Project Results Presentation on September 30, unveiling 12 technology projects developed with six...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Synopsys and OpenAI to share revenue from AI model built to run chip design tools
Synopsys is betting that the surest way to keep generative AI from eroding its electronic design automation (EDA) franchise is to build the model together with the AI developer and...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
RoboTechnik completes Hong Kong listing to fund ficonTEC expansion in silicon photonics
RoboTechnik completed a Hong Kong listing on September 29 and began trading on the Hong Kong stock exchange, according to its German photonics automation subsidiary ficonTEC. The new...
Tuesday 22 September 2026
AirTAC sees pneumatic demand cycle extending through 2027 on China automation growth

AirTAC International Group said demand for pneumatic components in China's automation market has entered a more gradual expansion phase,...

Monday 21 September 2026
Samsung builds fab robot team, targets chip equipment maintenance

Samsung Electronics has formed a dedicated organization to develop and deploy robots in its semiconductor fabs, with equipment preventive...

Thursday 17 September 2026
Taiwan machine tool makers target aerospace, semiconductor boom at major trade shows
Taiwanese machine tool manufacturers are taking part in two major manufacturing trade shows in Europe and the US this September. The participation reflects a shift in Taiwan's machine...
Thursday 17 September 2026
Onsemi puts power density at the center of its next-decade strategy

Onsemi is seeking to capture more value from AI, electrification, and automation by expanding from individual semiconductors into integrated...

Monday 14 September 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: Taiwanese firms lead in FOPLP as overseas rivals race to catch up
Taiwanese chip packaging firms are advancing fan-out panel-level packaging (FOPLP) and glass-substrate development as AI processors demand ever-larger reticle sizes and more complex...
Monday 14 September 2026
Scaling Photonics: Assembly, Test and Fiber Automation at SEMICON Taiwan
As AI continues to accelerate demand for high-speed optical connectivity, technologies such as silicon photonics, CPO, LPO, NPO and OCS are moving rapidly toward commercial deployment...
Sunday 13 September 2026
Column: What is SLAM? The first step in Physical AI
We previously discussed how automation removes environmental uncertainty, while autonomy requires systems to operate in complex settings. The biggest difference is that autonomous...
Thursday 10 September 2026
Samsung SDS broadens AI push from software to factory robots
Samsung SDS is using its enterprise AI strategy to move beyond office automation and into factory robotics, betting that its systems-integration experience can turn fragmented robot...
Monday 7 September 2026
Dark fab cybersecurity: Why autonomous manufacturing needs zero trust
AI-driven automation is reshaping the cybersecurity requirements of semiconductor manufacturing, with zero-trust architecture, trusted data, and interoperable standards becoming increasingly...
Friday 4 September 2026
Taiwan automation specialist Kenmec targets semiconductor packaging plants with low-clearance OHT, AI digital twins
Rising semiconductor packaging and testing demand is exposing space and logistics constraints at existing plants. Kenmec Mechanical Engineering is targeting the upgrade market with...
Thursday 3 September 2026
Column: From automation to autonomy—what robotics still needs to make the leap
I visited Automation Taipei 2026 in mid-August, where the show looked lively and occupied a footprint 7% larger than in 2025. Physical AI and vision-language-action (VLA) models dominated...
Monday 31 August 2026
Agentrys, agentic chip design startup backed by MediaTek, raises US$24.5M in funding
Chip design company Agentrys announced last week that it raised US$24.5 million in funding from backers including MediaTek. It is one among an emerging crop of startups using agentic...