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Tuesday 1 September 2026
Taiwan carbon fee joins UK CBAM qualifying list
Taiwan's carbon fee has been formally included in the UK government's list of Qualifying Carbon Pricing Schemes (QCPS) under its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), alongside...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Taoyuan eyes northern AIDC hub, touts Tatan and LNG cooling edge
Taiwan's limited land and heavy dependence on imported energy have made power a scarce and strategic resource in the compute era, putting AI data center (AIDC) site selection on the...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Samsung eyes early 2027 LPDDR5X-PIM production, touts 3.8x performance gain
Samsung Electronics is targeting mass production of its LPDDR5X processing-in-memory (PIM) solution in late 2026 or early 2027, moving the technology closer to commercialization as...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Japan's chip materials makers reportedly deepen Taiwan ties as AI reshapes supply chains
Japanese semiconductor materials suppliers Ajinomoto and Daikin Industries are expanding their presence in Taiwan as the AI boom fuels demand for advanced chip materials and encourages...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Safety rewired: AI, robots on the front line at K-Safety Expo 2026
Hard hats and fire extinguishers will certainly have their place at K-Safety Expo 2026, but visitors arriving at BEXCO in Busan from September 2–4 may find that the modern safety...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Autonomous driving expands into Physical AI, creating new openings for Taiwan firms
The autonomous driving industry is gaining momentum as advances in AI, sensing and semiconductor technologies expand opportunities in vehicle computing, machine vision and Physical...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Taiwan chip equipment maker Skytech opens advanced process lab with TSMC backing
Skytech and TSMC have opened an Advanced Process Laboratory focused on next-generation semiconductor manufacturing, highlighting TSMC's continued efforts to support Taiwan's domestic...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Imec CEO: AI era pushes broader ties between chip, model and CSP players
Imec CEO Patrick Vandenameele said during a media briefing at SEMICON Taiwan 2026 that the Belgian research center is broadening its collaboration base in the AI era, extending beyond...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
ASE CEO describes AI resource squeeze as a short-term problem
AI's early-stage growth is creating a short-term squeeze on land, talent, capital, and power in Taiwan, but there is no such thing as a world that cannot do without Taiwan, ASE Technology...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Micron opens Tainan plant after 6.5 months amid labor dispute
Micron's plant at the Southern Taiwan Science Park, which it purchased from AUO for NT$7.4 billion (US$233.8 million) in August 2024, is now officially in operation, marking a key...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Marvell CTO: power and density bottlenecks are driving CPO adoption in AI data centers
Speaking at the Silicon Photonics Global Summit ahead of Semicon Taiwan 2026, Marvell Technology CTO Radha Nagarajan highlighted that the core focus for upgrading connectivity in the...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Samsung Electro-Mechanics discloses major MLCC supply deal tied to AI server demand
Samsung Electro-Mechanics disclosed on September 1 that it has concluded a single sales and supply contract worth KRW1.072 trillion (about US$778.9 million) for MLCCs, equal to 9.5%...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
K-Safety Expo 2026 to open in Busan, spotlighting AI-driven safety technologies
K-Safety Expo 2026, one of South Korea's leading exhibitions dedicated to the safety industry, will open September 2 at BEXCO in Busan, bringing together companies, government agencies,...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Samsung Electro-Mechanics takes glass substrates to Semicon Taiwan
As AI packages grow larger, the next substrate battleground is rapidly extending from traditional organic materials to glass. Samsung Electro-Mechanics (SEMCO) will make its first...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
ASML says High NA EUV has reached its first high-volume logic product
ASML told a SEMICON Taiwan audience that its High NA EUV platform has been used for a high-volume logic product for the first time, a threshold the company frames as the point at which...