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Saturday 15 August 2026

Taiwan Gold Card approvals for finance professionals top 1,000

Taiwan has approved more than 1,000 Employment Gold Cards for finance professionals as the government broadens its push to attract overseas talent and develop Taiwan into an Asian...

Saturday 15 August 2026

Century Group pivots beyond offshore wind with four-pronged energy strategy

Century Iron and Steel Industrial (CIS) and Century Wind Power (CWP) held a joint investor conference on August 13. Driven by a significant...

Saturday 15 August 2026

Taiwan offshore wind lifts marine engineering and ocean industry output

Taiwan's ocean-related industries generated NT$1.5108 trillion in 2024, according to reports presented to the Cabinet on the 13th by the National Science and Technology Council and...

Saturday 15 August 2026

Taiwan approves NT$8 billion ocean tech program for security and industry

Taiwan's government approved a four-year ocean technology and industry development program for 2027-2030 and will seek more than NT$8 billion in funding. The plan was designed to strengthen...

Friday 14 August 2026

AI server tracker: Demand drives July revenue gains across Taiwan infrastructure suppliers

Data center infrastructure providers reported revenue gains across baseboard management controllers (BMCs), optical modules, power supply components, and thermal management products...

Friday 14 August 2026

South Korea chip cluster could expand to nine fabs as SK plans new investment

South Korea's planned southwestern semiconductor cluster could eventually expand from four fabs to as many as nine as the government accelerates land, power, and infrastructure work...

Friday 14 August 2026

South Korea's memory-chip exports surge 277% as system chips slip

South Korea's semiconductor export boom was heavily concentrated in memory in July. Memory-chip export value surged 276.9% year over...

Friday 14 August 2026

Samsung weighs moving legacy memory backend work to Vietnam to free up capacity for HBM

Samsung Electronics may move part of the general-purpose DRAM and NAND packaging and testing now handled at its Cheonan and Onyang sites in South Korea to Vietnam, potentially freeing...

Friday 14 August 2026

Analysis: Taiwan Mobile takes control of Systex to close ICT gap with Chunghwa Telecom, Far EasTone

Taiwan Mobile announced on August 13 that it will acquire additional common shares of Systex through its wholly owned subsidiary Taiwan...

Friday 14 August 2026

SK Hynix looks beyond memory with new global growth team

SK Hynix has set up a dedicated team to search for growth opportunities beyond its core memory business and has put a senior group executive in charge, a move aimed at turning the...

Friday 14 August 2026

Taiwan machine tool exports return to growth in July

Driven by sustained momentum in AI and semiconductor demand, Taiwan's machinery exports continued their upward trajectory in July,...

Friday 14 August 2026

Samsung Electro-Mechanics glass substrate plan slips, with mass production now seen after 2028

Samsung Electro-Mechanics has again delayed its semiconductor glass substrate commercialization schedule after a prototype reportedly failed a customer's reliability review. The setback...

Friday 14 August 2026

Taiwan tech dividend expansion to accelerate non-tech industry upgrades

Taiwan is seeking to sign an agreement with the US to avoid double taxation, seen as the last major hurdle to unlocking Taiwanese investment in the US. Taiwan's technology dividend...

Friday 14 August 2026

Taiwan's AIDC sees homegrown drone complete GPS-denied flight tests

Taiwanese aerospace manufacturer Aerospace Industrial Development (AIDC) stated that its AIxVNAV vision-based unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigation and positioning system has passed...

Friday 14 August 2026

China PCB makers pour billions into AI server, HPC, optical markets

Chinese printed circuit board (PCB) makers are stepping up investment in higher-value markets including AI servers, high-performance computing (HPC) and optical communications. Following...

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