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Wednesday 28 October 2026
Ex-TSMC CTO says Taiwan's research institutes get too much funding and train too little talent
Taiwan directs too much public research and development (R&D) funding to its national research institutes, according to Chenming Hu, a former chief technology officer of Taiwan...
Wednesday 28 October 2026
HTC launches Vivee AI companion pet in US
HTC Corporation announced on the 27th that it has launched Vivee, an AI companion device, first in the US, with plans to expand into Taiwan, Japan, and Europe. Alongside its recently...
Wednesday 28 October 2026
Unimicron steers resources to Taiwan AI substrates with NT$50.9B equipment orders, Japan unit sale
Unimicron Technology is reshaping its global production footprint and steering resources toward Taiwan's higher-margin AI supply chain as surging AI and high-performance computing...
Wednesday 28 October 2026
Micron recruits in South Korea for Taiwan roles as Taoyuan strike dispute persists
Micron Technology is heading to South Korea to recruit engineers for its Taiwan operations, with interviews scheduled in Seoul in late November, as a bonus dispute at its Taoyuan plant...
Wednesday 28 October 2026
FarEasTone, Elveo Mobile expand satellite-to-phone connectivity in Taiwan
FarEasTone Telecommunications signed a cooperation agreement with Direct-to-Device (D2D) satellite communications provider Elveo Mobile on October 27 to expand satellite-to-phone services...
Wednesday 28 October 2026
Germany diversifies transport fuels to cut carbon emissions as HVO 100, eSAF reshape global supply chains
Germany is advancing a pragmatically diversified transport and energy strategy centered on renewable diesel and electricity-based sustainable aviation fuel (eSAF). As the country works...
Wednesday 28 October 2026
From superconductors to optics: The six Silicon Valley startups bringing AI bottleneck solutions to Taiwan
Silicon Valley venture capital firm Playground Global returned to Taiwan with six portfolio companies spanning memory, power management, optical communications and advanced packaging,...
Wednesday 28 October 2026
For Taiwan's geothermal sector, institutional barriers outweigh drilling challenges
Geothermal energy commercialization in Taiwan has taken a major step forward with a 20-plus MW corporate power purchase agreement (CPPA) from a semiconductor giant, yet for geothermal...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
Pat Gelsinger warns AI compute efficiency must jump 10,000x amid power, memory, and fab constraints
Silicon Valley venture capital firm Playground Global has returned to Taiwan alongside a cohort of portfolio companies specializing in memory, power management, optical communications,...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
JIMTOF 2026 draws 94 Taiwan machine tool exhibitors
One of the world's three major machine tool shows, Japan's International Machine Tool Fair (JIMTOF 2026), opened this week, with 94 Taiwan companies exhibiting. The exhibitors are...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
AMD, Nvidia target substrate capacity amid 4x expansion constraints
AMD and Nvidia have separately invested in supply-chain capacity expansion, making substrates, packaging, and testing key priorities as AI demand diversifies. The moves show that chipmakers...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
Weekly news roundup: iPhone Duo shipment target revised upward amid display issues
This week's coverage highlights shifting technology supply chains and rising demand across foldable smartphones, memory, energy storage, robotics, and AI infrastructure. Apple lifted...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
Anthropic's IPO filing puts TSMC, HBM, direct leasing at the center of AI compute risk
In its preliminary IPO registration statement filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Anthropic describes how much of its capacity depends on a small group of chip and...
Monday 26 October 2026
Interview: From afterthought to bottleneck, circuit boards move to the heart of AI hardware
In the era of AI and high-performance computing (HPC), the once-separate worlds of chip design, packaging, and circuit boards are converging. According to the Global Electronics Association,...
Monday 26 October 2026
Taiwan wafer-testing supplier Hermes Testing Solutions commits more than US$215 million to advanced chip testing expansion
Hermes Testing Solutions Inc. (HTSI), a semiconductor wafer-testing solutions provider, is expanding its Taiwan operations. Its board approved budget authorisations on October 22 for...