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Monday 31 August 2026

Chinese robotaxis head for Seoul as Pony.ai and FutureLink plan a 200-vehicle fleet

A Chinese autonomous driving vendor is set to take a commercial position in a market whose own robotaxi industry has yet to clear the hurdle to commercialization. Pony.ai and South...

Monday 31 August 2026

Taisic Materials produces Taiwan's first 12-inch SiC boule with homegrown crystal growth furnace

Taisic Materials, a subsidiary of Kenmec Mechanical Engineering, has successfully produced Taiwan's first 12-inch silicon carbide (SiC) boule using a crystal growth furnace independently...

Monday 31 August 2026

France draws Taiwanese investment projects worth EUR7.5 billion

Taiwanese investment projects announced or under implementation in France are worth about EUR7.5 billion (approx. US$8.7 billion), according to the French Office in Taipei, led by...

Monday 31 August 2026

Tescan Connects Buried Defect Localization to Nanoscale Analysis at SEMICON

Tescan will participate in SEMICON Taiwan 2026 from September 2 to 4 at Booth R8201, 4F, Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center Hall 2 (TaiNEX 2). Under the theme "Streamlined...

Monday 31 August 2026

China optical display investment shrinks 80% in 1H26

China's optical display industry is cooling after years of aggressive panel fab construction that has reshaped the global display landscape. Investments in China's optical display...

Monday 31 August 2026

Tex Year's specialty chemicals push could reshape its growth mix as AI and optics expand

Tex Year is widening its specialty chemicals business beyond LCDs and electronics into AI servers, in-vehicle electronics, Mini LED, and optical lenses, while also targeting optical...

Monday 31 August 2026

Taiwan boosts talent retention with innovation law changes

Taiwan's Legislative Yuan on August 27 passed amendments to parts of the Industrial Innovation Act, extending the startup eligibility period from under 5 years to under 8 years and...

Saturday 29 August 2026

Commentary: China's robot games offer Taiwan a reality check

China's second humanoid robot games, held in Beijing from August 22 to August 26, 2026, sent videos and clips racing across social media and underscored how fast humanoid robotics...

Saturday 29 August 2026

Qualcomm's HBC play pulls Samsung and SK hynix into a new race beyond HBM

The AI infrastructure race has spent the past few years fixated on high-bandwidth memory as one of the most indispensable building blocks of accelerated compute. Yet as model sizes,...

Saturday 29 August 2026

A smuggled motorcycle exposes what Taiwan's makers stopped building

The seizure of a Zhang Xue 820RR, a Chinese heavyweight motorcycle smuggled into Taiwan as parts and hand-assembled locally, has expanded far beyond a customs enforcement case. Following...

Saturday 29 August 2026

Inside TSMC's 238-page sustainability report: nine things that matter more than they look

Buried in 238 pages of targets and inventories are the things nobody puts in a press release: a formal corporate policy on shoe soles, a fish that lives in a fab, a lizard evacuation...

Saturday 29 August 2026

Exclusive Interview: Turning scale into value — AUO chair's post-LCD ambition

Price wars. Capacity races. Years of losses steep enough to earn a lasting nickname.

Friday 28 August 2026

Update: ABF substrate maker Unimicron searched in origin-labeling probe

(The latest status of the probe as of August 29th is updated below.)

Friday 28 August 2026

Foxconn eyes higher margins with push beyond contract manufacturing

AI adoption continues to expand, but putting the technology to work and integrating it into everyday operations remain key hurdles. Speaking at the 2026 Taiwan Sustainability Summit,...

Friday 28 August 2026

AI packaging race heats up: Taiwan OSATs plan US$14.6 billion capex

The AI investment cycle is spreading from leading-edge wafer fabrication into semiconductor packaging and testing, with Taiwan's largest...

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