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Friday 13 November 2026
DIGITIMES Chairman urges Taiwan to become sovereign AI partner
Digitimes Chairman and CEO Colley Hwang said Taiwan should leverage its strengths in chip manufacturing, advanced packaging, and ICT hardware production to pursue sovereign AI opportunities...
Friday 13 November 2026
Samsung weighs separating memory and mobile leadership
Samsung Electronics may appoint separate heads of its memory and mobile businesses in an upcoming executive reshuffle, as record semiconductor profits contrast with losses in its consumer...
Friday 13 November 2026
Korean labor minister hears chipmakers on 52-hour cap amid dragging special-zone talks
South Korea's labor minister met semiconductor companies on November 13 to hear how the 52-hour workweek cap affects their research and development staff, as unions, employers, and...
Friday 13 November 2026
Samsung reportedly in talks to acquire data center cooling firm Modine
Samsung Electronics is in talks to acquire US data center cooling equipment maker Modine Manufacturing, Bloomberg reported on November 12, as the South Korean company expands...
Friday 13 November 2026
China's eSSD order opens up US market opportunity for Samsung, SK Hynix
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are redirecting some enterprise solid-state drive (eSSD) supplies originally intended for Chinese customers to US cloud service providers (CSPs), following...
Friday 13 November 2026
Samsung reportedly wins more AI chip orders from US cloud firms
Samsung Electronics has reportedly secured new AI chip manufacturing orders from major US cloud service providers for a second consecutive quarter, with commercial shipments expected...
Friday 13 November 2026
SK Hynix, Intel explore shared memory to ease AI bottlenecks
SK Hynix is working with Intel and other industry partners to develop memory-centric computing architectures that would allow AI servers to share memory resources, as agentic AI drives...
Friday 13 November 2026
Acer targets education market with AI teaching assistants and agents
Acer is expanding its smart-campus business with the unveiling of a classroom-of-the-future platform at the 2026 IT Month and EdTech Taiwan trade show, spanning AI teaching assistants,...
Friday 13 November 2026
Exclusive: Made in Britain, enabled by Taiwan — the hidden dependencies behind critical chips
Imagine a maintenance robot operating inside a fusion reactor, exposed to temperatures reaching 600 degrees Celsius and intense radiation, with an expected service life of 25 years...
Friday 13 November 2026
China's economy faces structural strain as supply outpaces demand
Taiwan is benefiting from the global AI infrastructure boom, with GDP...
Friday 13 November 2026
Samsung expands HBM packaging at Onyang as Cheonan runs short of space
Samsung Electronics is expanding its high-bandwidth memory (HBM) packaging operations in South Korea as its Cheonan campus runs short of space, prompting the company to develop nearby...
Friday 13 November 2026
Europe's AI ambitions hinge on power semiconductors, and on fending off Chinese rivals
AI has propelled the global semiconductor market to record highs, but growth remains concentrated in memory, advanced logic and advanced packaging, areas in which Europe has limited...
Friday 13 November 2026
Taiwan GDP per capita tops US$46,000, Premier Cho says
Taiwan's GDP per capita is projected to exceed US$46,000 in 2026, while the economy is forecast to grow 11.05%, Premier Jung-tai Cho said, crediting the achievement to the combined...
Friday 13 November 2026
SK Hynix's HBM4 yield tops 70% as Samsung expands chip packaging capacity
SK Hynix's sixth-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM4) production yield has reportedly surpassed 70%, Chosun Biz reported on November 12, citing semiconductor industry sources,...
Friday 13 November 2026
Analysis: Nvidia's leadership change leaves Taiwan suppliers confident in near-term demand
Jensen Huang's resignation is expected to have short-term effects on Taiwan's server suppliers, which are developing Nvidia's Vera Rubin and Feynman platforms. However, suppliers say...