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Thursday 30 October 2025
Nexperia's export ban sparks Brazil auto shutdown fears
Brazil's government has warned of an impending semiconductor shortage that could halt car production within weeks, the latest fallout from the Dutch government's takeover of Chinese-owned...
Thursday 30 October 2025
A hundred years of quantum physics — and Taiwan wants in
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics to University of California, Berkeley professor John Clarke and two other scientists for identifying...
Thursday 30 October 2025
Wistron, Nvidia bring digital twin manufacturing to the US AI supply chain
Taiwan's Wistron Corporation is investing US$761 million to build an AI supercomputing and smart manufacturing center in Texas, as the company deepens its role in the global artificial...
Thursday 30 October 2025
Glass substrates edge toward prime time in PCB and chip packaging sector

As Moore's Law nears its physical and commercial limits, advanced packaging has become the new battleground defining the evolution of...

Thursday 30 October 2025
Pegatron eyes 1Q26 production launch for Texas plant with Nvidia GB300 servers
Pegatron has revealed progress on its US manufacturing expansion, announcing that its Texas factory is set to begin mass production in March 2026. The facility will produce Nvidia's...
Thursday 30 October 2025
Taiwan's 1H25 drone exports surge sevenfold as EU certification hurdles persist
Taiwan's drone exports surged sevenfold in the first half of 2025, with Europe emerging as the largest destination. However, industry experts note that the main challenge for Taiwanese...
Wednesday 29 October 2025
South Korean tycoons meet Nvidia CEO as part of APEC corporate diplomacy
Leading South Korean conglomerate heads are set to engage in intensive "corporate diplomacy" during the 2025 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, meeting with global leaders...
Wednesday 29 October 2025
Taiwan semiconductor industry demands govt action over imminent energy crisis
Taiwan's semiconductor industry is sounding the alarm. The Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association (TSIA) has issued a rare public warning about critical power shortages that threaten...
Wednesday 29 October 2025
Pegatron pours NT$700 million into Kaohsiung expansion
Pegatron has launched a digital transformation training base in Kaohsiung's Asia New Bay Area, with the intention of creating a manufacturing and technology talent pipeline in southern...
Wednesday 29 October 2025
Taiwan's green energy growth exceeds expectations, boosting industrial resilience
The 2025 Energy Taiwan and Net-Zero Taiwan trade show will be held starting October 29, featuring more than 450 companies from home and abroad, including exhibitors from the UK, Belgium,...
Wednesday 29 October 2025
SK Hynix unveils new NAND line featuring HBF for AI
SK Hynix has launched a new NAND flash product family called "AIN Family," targeting the artificial intelligence (AI) market with a focus on overcoming storage bottlenecks in AI inference...
Wednesday 29 October 2025
Unified packaging standards seen as key to meeting AI and automotive demands
Taiwan's printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturers and outsourcing semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) providers are positioned for significant growth driven by artificial intelligence...
Wednesday 29 October 2025
A-SSCC to take place in South Korea, with 6 papers from Taiwan accepted
The IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), a major annual event in the semiconductor field, recently announced its paper selection results, with six papers from Taiwan...
Wednesday 29 October 2025
Chinese panel makers' low prices win over shipments but lose out on revenue
Although Chinese panel manufacturers have recently gained market share, their profitability has been weak due to the high proportion of low-priced products. In contrast, South Korean...
Wednesday 29 October 2025
Hanmi eyes AI chip packaging amid HBM market challenges
Hanmi is expanding beyond its leading position in high-bandwidth memory (HBM) bonding equipment to enter the system semiconductor equipment sector, driven by growing demand and technological...