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Saturday 31 January 2026

LG Display plans KRW 2 trillion OLED investment in 2026, but holds back on next-gen IT panels

LG Display, fresh off its first profitable year in four years, is preparing to step up investment in 2026 as it seeks to strengthen its...

Saturday 31 January 2026

Samsung, SK Hynix target surging growth in automotive memory market for autonomous driving systems

Automobiles are rapidly transforming into servers/smartphones-on-wheels with the advancement of autonomous driving technologies, which has led to a surge in demand for automotive memory...

Saturday 31 January 2026

Century Group secures over NT$100 billion in wind power orders

The draft rules for vendor selection in offshore wind power Phase 3-3 have, for the first time, removed localization requirements. However, this has not slowed investment in Taiwan...

Saturday 31 January 2026

Taiwan's capital markets reach new highs, signaling broader global role

At a Lunar New Year press conference, the Financial Supervisory Commission said that combined revenues of Taiwan's listed companies surpassed...

Saturday 31 January 2026

China claims 64% of ESS battery market as South Korea scrambles to launch a comeback

The global energy storage system (ESS) market based on lithium-ion batteries expanded in 2025. According to ET News and Ddaily, SNE Research reported that global...

Saturday 31 January 2026

CIP completes first subsea foundations for Fengmiao wind farm, on track for 2027 completion

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), through its fifth flagship fund Copenhagen Infrastructure V (CI V), held a milestone event on January 29, 2026, at Taipei Port to showcase...

Friday 30 January 2026

Musk's TeraFab dream meets Nvidia reality check on chip manufacturing limits

Elon Musk's ambition to build a massive in-house semiconductor manufacturing complex has drawn fresh caution from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who stressed that advanced chip production...

Friday 30 January 2026

ASIC server demand boosts Taiwan's high-end CCL shipments

Cloud service providers (CSPs) continue to maintain strong capex, driving steady growth in AI servers and high-speed network switches markets while elevating the grade of copper-clad...

Friday 30 January 2026

SanDisk sees sevenfold profit surge in 2QFY26, extends Kioxia JV

SanDisk delivered a strong fiscal second quarter in 2026, reflecting accelerating demand across data centers, industrial applications, and consumer electronics, driven by the ongoing...

Friday 30 January 2026

Taiwan pledges full US cooperation to build new non-China supply chain

On January 28, 2026, Minister of Economic Affairs Ming-Hsin Kung highlighted Taiwan's commitment to comprehensive collaboration with the US in developing a "non-China" supply chain,...

Friday 30 January 2026

Hyundai and Kia hit hardest by Korea-US tariffs

Hyundai Motor Group's vehicle brands Hyundai and Kia saw their combined revenue exceed KRW300 trillion (US$208.6 billion) for the first time in 2025, breaking a record high. Even so,...

Friday 30 January 2026

US-China rivalry enters next phase: Nvidia's H200 chips get Beijing's nod

Recent reports from mainland China indicate that authorities have approved the import of an initial batch of Nvidia's H200 chips. The move highlights yet another turn in the intensifying...

Friday 30 January 2026

Exclusive: Tariffs and trade talks shape Suntek Motor's outlook for Taiwan's auto market

Ray Wu, CEO of Suntek Motor Group, a leading Taiwanese importer and dealer of luxury brands including Porsche and Skoda, told DIGITIMES that while Taiwan's auto market is expected...

Friday 30 January 2026

Altos taps Acer's regional footprint to ride enterprise AI boom, eyes double-digit growth in 2026

Altos Computing, Acer's AI server solutions subsidiary, is optimistic about its 2026 outlook as enterprise AI adoption gains momentum across Asia-Pacific. With a growing project pipeline...

Friday 30 January 2026

Samsung, LG hike laptop prices as memory 'chipflation' hits

Prices for laptops and consumer IT devices are climbing as a sustained rally in memory semiconductor costs ripples through the market. The trend, described by industry observers as...

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