Samsung Electronics has decided to restart negotiations on wages and collective agreements, temporarily halting a planned large-scale strike scheduled for late May. The risk of strike action remains, however, as major differences between management and unions remain unresolved.
As the global AI arms race intensifies, Taiwan is positioning itself as the primary AI partner for nations besides the US and China. Wedged between these two geopolitical giants, Taiwan is leveraging its dominance in AI servers and semiconductors to foster deeper collaborations with Germany, France, and neighboring nations.
Amid ongoing memory shortages and widespread component price hikes, research firms and major industry players have confirmed that PC shipments will fall in 2026 compared to 2025. Recent forecasts have grown more pessimistic, with IDC revising its shipment decline estimate from 8.9% in January down to 11.3%.
Amid a growing wave of enterprises adopting GenAI technologies, the National Center for High Performance Computing (NCHC) is showcasing national-level computing resources and AI development platforms at the AI Expo Taiwan 2026, including the Jingchuang 26 supercomputer, currently Taiwan's highest-computing-density supercomputer, and the Taiwan AI RAP platform for accelerating enterprise AI deployment. Held this year from March 25-27 at the Yuanshan Expo Dome in Taipei, the annual AI Expo Taiwan is the premier event for Taiwan's AI industry.
Taiwan's key technology hub in Hsinchu is experiencing severe water supply tensions amid a booming memory, AI, and advanced chip manufacturing cycle. On March 26, 2026, Yuan-Peng Lin, Director-General of the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) Water Resources Agency, revealed that since winter 2025, western Taiwan has recorded its lowest winter rainfall in 75 years. The inflow to Hsinchu's Baoshan reservoirs is only 77% of levels seen during the "century drought" five years ago.
The rapid rise of artificial intelligence is transforming how companies measure productivity and reward employees, with "tokens" — the units that quantify AI model usage — increasingly serving as a new benchmark for workplace performance.
C SUN and Contrel have announced a significant equity partnership, as C SUN agreed to invest approximately NT$1.02 billion (approx. US$32 million) as a strategic investor to acquire 20,000 private placement shares in Contrel, becoming its largest single shareholder with a 10.82% stake. The deal also formally brings Contrel into the G2C+ alliance, a growing consortium focused on advanced semiconductor equipment.
Google has introduced TurboQuant, a compression algorithm that reduces large language model (LLM) memory usage by at least 6x while boosting performance, targeting one of AI's most persistent bottlenecks: memory. The breakthrough lowers inference costs and expands deployment across cloud and edge environments.
While sharing insights on quantum technology investment, commercialization, and development, Ching-Ray Chang, a Global Quantum 100 honoree, emphasizes that as quantum tech matures, its impact could surpass even the Industrial Revolution.
With AI technologies now entering large-scale applications, a key challenge for corporations is to turn lab-based proofs-of-concept (PoC) into tangible business outcomes. Speaking at the AI Expo Taiwan 2026, Eric Leung, director of sales engineering at Dell Technologies, shared insights on the theme of "Building enterprise AI factories: from PoC to deployment," and detailed how Dell assists the global financial and manufacturing sectors in building high-performance AI-powered production lines.
Taiwan's Legislative Yuan Internal Administration Committee held its second public hearing on proposed amendments to the National Security Act on March 26. Attendance from civil society groups and academic experts was limited, and only a small number of lawmakers spoke.
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