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Friday 28 August 2026
Taiwan passes drone procurement bill allocating NT$240 billion for 6 years
Taiwan's Legislative Yuan on August 27 passed a defense drone procurement bill, allocating a total of NT$240 billion (approx. US$7.59 billion) for six consecutive years for purchases...
Friday 28 August 2026
Analysis: Nvidia beats, Taiwan wins — and hyperscalers race to make AI pay
Nvidia reported revenue of US$96.221 billion in the second quarter of fiscal 2027, more than doubling from a year earlier and underscoring the global rush to build AI infrastructure...
Friday 28 August 2026
Vanguard says Taoyuan fab fire did not disrupt production
Vanguard International Semiconductor said a fire broke out late on August 27 on the roof of its Wafer Fab 3 in Taoyuan City, Taiwan, but the incident caused no major impact on production...
Friday 28 August 2026
Workday says Taiwan and Hong Kong firms lag in AI workflow integration
Enterprise AI tools are spreading quickly across Taiwan and Hong Kong, but a new Workday study found that many employees are still losing time to disconnected systems, repeated data...
Friday 28 August 2026
Taiwan's next biotech prescription: AI drug discovery, smart devices and 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
IntelliEPI says Japan substrate outage hit 2Q26 revenue
IntelliEPI said on August 27 that revenue in the second quarter of 2026 was pressured after a Japanese substrate supplier shut down for nearly three weeks during the Golden Week holiday,...
Friday 28 August 2026
China rises to No. 2 in global CMOS image sensors, overtaking Korea with 21% share
China's CMOS image sensor industry is gaining ground beyond smartphones, with robotics emerging as one of the latest areas where domestic suppliers are linking sensor technology with...
Friday 28 August 2026
US targets Singapore's Apex Logistics in widening probe into illicit Nvidia chip smuggling to China
Efforts to curb the illicit trade of advanced AI hardware to China have intensified following a series of indictments and probes targeting the supply chain.
Friday 28 August 2026
HITCON expands Taiwan's cybersecurity focus from agentic AI to post-quantum cryptography
With the recent surge of generative AI in enterprise and consumer applications, AI has begun taking on new roles, moving from simply answering questions to autonomously planning tasks...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Siemens Taiwan chief to lead European Chamber in Taiwan from September 2026
The European Chamber of Commerce Taiwan said on August 27 that Siemens Taiwan president and chief executive Frank Grunert will become its chairperson on September 1, 2026. The decision...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Rebellions targets 100-plus NPU racks as UK steps up chip spending
Rebellions is pursuing deployment of more than 100 NPU-based computing racks in the UK through a partnership with British AI infrastructure startup Callosum, giving the South Korean...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Japan bets on launch frequency as H3 moves from national program to commercial contender
The current aerospace landscape is increasingly marked by a push into satellite connectivity and space-based infrastructure, as SpaceX daringly edges deeper into the more intricate...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Samsung signals zHBF push as memory race moves beyond HBM
Samsung Electronics is signaling a push into high bandwidth flash (HBF), extending its next-generation memory ambitions beyond HBM as rivals move to establish a new NAND-based memory...
Thursday 27 August 2026
HBM hybrid bonding delayed by 300°C heat and CMP dishing
As high-bandwidth memory (HBM) stack counts continue to rise, the industry originally anticipated that hybrid bonding (HB), a next-generation packaging solution, would be officially...
Thursday 27 August 2026
KKCompany returns to Taiwan capital market
KKCompany, the parent company of KKBox, said it will list on Taiwan's emerging stock market on August 31, with Fubon Securities serving as lead underwriter and advisor, returning to...