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Monday 25 May 2026
Taiwan to showcase Open Source Team Taiwan pavilion at COMPUTEX to highlight AI and industry collaboration
Open Source Team Taiwan will debut at COMPUTEX / InnoVEX 2026 as a government-backed pavilion showcasing how open-source frameworks underpin corporate product strategy, AI commercialization,...
Monday 25 May 2026
BenQ Materials secures US$190M loan to fund shift into medical, semiconductor and display materials
BenQ Materials, part of the BenQ Qisda Group, announced on May 22 that it completed a five-year syndicated loan of NT$6 billion (US$190.4 million) led by E.SUN Bank to refinance debt...
Monday 25 May 2026
Grok falters across government and enterprise as SpaceX pivots to lease idle compute
Elon Musk's AI startup xAI faced weak uptake for its chatbot Grok across US government, corporate, and consumer markets, and SpaceX moved to lease idle computing capacity to Anthropic...
Monday 25 May 2026
AI spending forces enterprises to shorten SaaS deals and demand new pricing protections
Rising enterprise investment in AI tools is prompting customers to compress traditional software-as-a-service contracts and extract stronger commercial protections, executives and...
Monday 25 May 2026
Nichidenbo appoints WT Microelectronics representative as chairman to cement share-swap tie-up
Nichidenbo's May 22 board changes and planned equity link with WT Microelectronics signal a strategic pivot that could influence global component supply chains, as leadership shifts...
Monday 25 May 2026
Column: World Models—taxonomy and technical foundations in embodied AI
"World models" have risen swiftly to prominence in AI discourse—and just as quickly become a source of confusion. Over the past two years, the term has grown simultaneously ubiquitous...
Monday 25 May 2026
Column: US summit signals shift to trusted supply chains, reshaping global manufacturing partnerships
At the 2026 SelectUS Investment Summit in Maryland, US officials used the flagship investment forum to outline a national industrial strategy prioritizing supply chain reconstruction...
Monday 25 May 2026
Samsung's China exit shows Korean brands under pressure

Samsung Electronics' retreat from China's TV and home-appliance market is raising broader questions for South Korean industry, as Chinese...

Monday 25 May 2026
India roundup: India accelerates chip ambitions, but ecosystem gaps remain a key challenge

India is advancing its technology and semiconductor ambitions through new fab projects, packaging...

Monday 25 May 2026
Syntec Technology profit hits record as AI drives factory automation demand

Syntec Technology reported record quarterly revenue and profit for the first quarter of 2026, as demand for high-end control systems and...

Monday 25 May 2026
AI data centers drive UPS recycling demand; Jin Lian Cheng targets 98% refining rate by 2H27
Jin Lian Cheng (JLC) the lead-acid battery processing subsidiary under Ming Fu Group, Taiwan's largest end-of-life vehicle processing company, has recently entered the uninterruptible...
Monday 25 May 2026
Embedded substrates draw AI chip interest as packaging turns strategic
Rising interest in embedded substrates among Nvidia, AMD, and Intel signals potential shifts in AI data‑center supply chains, as the technology promises improved signal integrity...
Sunday 24 May 2026
OpenAI opens first lab outside the US in Singapore as Google deepens government AI ties
Google and OpenAI's expanded cooperation with Singapore aims to accelerate AI adoption, workforce training, and safety measures, providing a model for other countries. The moves could...
Sunday 24 May 2026
Geopolitics disrupts chips — can Taiwan and South Korea cooperate to hold the line?
The global semiconductor industry is being pulled in two directions. On one side, the cost of building a single advanced chip factory has ballooned to as much as US$40 billion, concentrating...
Saturday 23 May 2026
Jensen Huang says he uses Claude at work and his son runs AI agents at home to manage the family
Jensen Huang fielded a wide-ranging set of questions during his Taiwan visit this week, touching on China market access, rising memory costs, silicon photonics, the LPU versus GPU...