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Monday 31 August 2026
Taiwan vendors chase India's wireless broadband opportunity, with Alpha Networks in the lead
India's market for Wi-Fi millimeter-wave (mmWave) fixed wireless access (FWA) remains at an early stage, with formal commercial standards still dependent on operators completing field...
Monday 31 August 2026
Asus launches physical AI business group, shifting from EMS to humanoid robots
Asustek Computer (Asus) is accelerating its artificial intelligence (AI) transformation plan, announcing the rebranding of its AIoT Business Group into the Physical AI Solutions Business...
Monday 31 August 2026
Taiwan manufacturing know-how is key physical AI asset
As artificial intelligence (AI) technology rapidly evolves, physical AI for industrial applications is drawing growing attention because repeatable and scalable tasks play to AI's...
Monday 31 August 2026
Weekly news roundup: US pressures Korea chip investment, MediaTek wins Google TPU, Apple debuts 2nm M6
Semiconductor investment, AI chips, advanced packaging and data center infrastructure dominated the week, with South Korea facing US pressure, India scaling chip manufacturing, and...
Monday 31 August 2026
India roundup: India broadens semiconductor and AI ambitions across manufacturing, design, materials and data centers
India's semiconductor ambitions are expanding from packaging and testing to chip design, materials, mobile devices and data centers. New investments by CG Power, Infineon, Foxconn,...
Monday 31 August 2026
USI advances optical interconnect push with ELSFP laser module
Universal Scientific Industrial (USI), part of ASE Technology Holding, is expanding its optical interconnect footprint for AI data centers. EugenLight Technologies, in which USI holds...
Saturday 29 August 2026
Research Insight: Humanoid robots near mass production as suppliers face precision, ramp-up test
Research Insight: Humanoid robots near mass production as suppliers face precision and ramp-up test
Friday 28 August 2026
Foxconn eyes higher margins with push beyond contract manufacturing
AI adoption continues to expand, but putting the technology to work and integrating it into everyday operations remain key hurdles. Speaking at the 2026 Taiwan Sustainability Summit,...
Friday 28 August 2026
China chip profits jump 18.5-fold on AI demand; advanced-node self-sufficiency seen at 66% by 2035
China's AI investment boom is translating into sharply higher semiconductor profits while accelerating a longer-term expansion of domestic advanced-node capacity, memory production...
Friday 28 August 2026
China's Kaizhong eyes data centers and dexterous hands
At GATE 2026, Kaizhong, a major Chinese commutator maker, used its display to showcase how its automotive business has laid the groundwork for expansion into data centers, dexterous...
Friday 28 August 2026
Samsung diverges from TSMC on FOPLP: retains 415×510mm panel size, targets 2028 mass production
Samsung Electronics' packaging technology lead, Lee Hee-seok, outlined the company's advanced semiconductor packaging roadmap at Advanced Semiconductor Packaging & Chiplet Show...
Friday 28 August 2026
Lam Research breaks ground on Oregon lab expansion for AI chip development
Lam Research has begun work on a new Oregon research lab as part of a more than US$3 billion global investment aimed at speeding development of advanced AI chips. The expansion could...
Friday 28 August 2026
Kioxia, Sandisk plan more than US$31 billion in Japan investments
A major chipmaking investment in Japan could ripple through global supply chains as demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure accelerates. Kioxia and Sandisk say the spending...
Friday 28 August 2026
Taiwan's next biotech prescription: AI drug discovery, smart devices, biomedical chips
Taiwan is charting a new direction for its biomedical industry, drawing on its strengths in semiconductors, AI hardware, precision manufacturing and healthcare. AI-powered drug discovery,...
Friday 28 August 2026
China reshapes helium supply chain as semiconductor demand rises, import risks persist
China is accelerating efforts to secure helium supplies as semiconductor manufacturing, commercial space launches, and medical imaging lift demand for a resource the country still...