Fonontech B.V. is a device solution provider and startup company based on Impulse Printing technology. Impulse printing technology can be described as a novel additive manufacturing technology that allows for parallel transfers high-resolution conductive patterns to enable the rapid and precise printing of micrometer scale interconnections. This technology offers high-speed low-cost manufacturing, is well suited for process equipment to create complex 3D structures and achieve further miniaturization of electronic devices. The rapidly growing opportunities in AI-driven electronics push the technology forward. These unique solutions have considerable potential, and on May 16, 2025, Fonontech received the good news of a $9.5 million seed round investment.Currently, Fonontech equipment is being used to address wire bonding speed issues in chip packaging. Wire bonding is a viable solution for connecting chips to external pins or for silicon interlayer structures in advanced packaging. This process is typically used in back-end chip manufacturing, particularly flip-chip bonding. Fonontech equipment offers higher pin density, optimized electrical performance, and smaller package sizes.While conventional wire bonders can only print one line at a time, Fonontech Impulse Printing technology is much faster. Because its parallel printing solution can transfer contacts covering an entire area at a time, the speed increase is astonishing. According to on-site testing and monitoring, Fonontech Impulse Printing technology can achieve speeds up to 100 times faster than wire bonders.Currently, Fonontech equipment can successfully bonding with a minimum size of 20 micrometers, and in the future it will further achieve a dimensional accuracy down to a few micrometers. In the booth of Fonontech showcased the Impulse Printing demo kit, a scaled down version of the industrial equipment. In addition to selling the equipment itself, the company also integrates Impulse Printing print head modules into customers' production lines for special tailored applications.The equipment can be used for transfer printing onto wafers, PCBs, or other manufacturing processes, such as connecting signal pins on the side of a display chip to the signal contacts on the back side of the display panel. The bestselling point of this equipment is speed and cost effectiveness to reduce material waste and carbon emissions. The company's product is marketed as a replacement for wire bonding machines. Furthermore, the company currently is developing Taiwan market and running ongoing collaborative projects through testing and verification with potential clients.

Axelera AI is a startup targeting Edge AI applications. Leveraging its Metis AI Processing Unit (AIPU) chip, embedded hardware AI inference acceleration cards, and Voyager SDK software solutions, the company specializes in imaging application solutions for applications in edge nodes. Unlike AI systems developed in high-density cloud data centers, Edge AI computing offers energy efficiency, information security, low latency, and fast speed of response, rapidly powering real-time vision and smart detection applications for embedded AI systems. Axelera AI's technology offerings span 4K/8K image resolution real-time image recognition, security surveillance, campus safety, and drone imaging, pioneering a new model for the development of high-performance AI inference in diverse fields. The company's Metis chip boasts a computing performance of up to 214 TOPS (TeraOPS) of inference performance at INT8 precision. For example, using ResNet-50 Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model doing object segmentation and analysis, a single Metis chip can achieve a high processing speed of 3200 frames per second (FPS), providing stable, real-time analysis capabilities while consuming only approximately 10W. This balance of performance and environmental benefits has attracted significant market attention.Meanwhile, the AI inference acceleration cards integrated with Metis chips are also a major product line. There are two types of accelerator cards that support M.2 and PCIe interfaces, which can quickly meet the needs of system integrators, OEM customers and industrial PC (IPC) makers. With these flexible connection interface, Axelera could engage the business with various embedded AI system makers.In addition to the hardware lineups, Axelera's software support is also a key factor in its success. The Voyager SDK software suite facilitates hardware and software integration for system integrators. There are open source software framework currently available on GitHub for computer vision and enabling customers to solve their AI business requirements. This Voyager SDK comes with a Model Zoo, a catalog of turnkey AI models, allowing customers either to import their own AI models or choose from Model Zoo models. These offerings significantly reduce developing time and excels in functional completeness and efficiency.Axelera AI's business model is based on collaboration with system integrators and OEM clients, encompassing joint development of AI projects and customized data architectures, providing clients with one-stop, high-performance Edge AI solutions. Axelera AI is working closely with major Taiwanese industrial PC vendors and OEM/ODM clients to develop key applications for financial and research institutions, medical solution providers and other public facilities that prioritize data security, privacy, and safety. This initiative aims to create emerging applications for Edge AI and unlock its significant value.

Brainport Industries Campus (BIC) is a development project for an industrial park in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Phase one (BIC 1) has been completed, encompassing 105,000 square meters of existing buildings, surrounding public space, and parking. The site is home to several high-tech manufacturing companies and educational institutions. Expansion plans are currently underway, with the newly expanded BIC 2 campus expected to double the size of BIC 1, reaching 300,000 square meters. More than 40 pioneering companies are already established on the campus. BIC is the largest campus expansion in the Netherlands for years to come. Notably, ASML, the Dutch EUV lithography equipment giant, is considering expanding to the northern part of the BIC 2 campus. In 2024, ASML announced plans to establish a subsidiary in the BIC Industrial Park by 2030, accommodating thousands of employees. The Brainport Industries Campus development company stated that it aims to provide startup facilities, co-innovation spaces and built to suit manufacturing space for high-tech companies.In partnership with Invest Holland and the Brabant Development Agency (BOM), the park will offer Taiwanese companies the option of establishing regional business units or research centers in the Netherlands through support services provided by the industrial park.The campus aims to attract leading companies in cutting-edge technology fields, including semiconductor related technologies, photonics, quantum and additive manufacturing. BIC and Invest Holland jointly unveiled this plan at Semicon Taiwan 2025, offering the access to advanced facilities, a strong open innovation ecosystems and encouraging Taiwan's high-tech industries participating in this collaboration opportunity.

HQ Pack is a global leader in high-tech packaging solutions. The company is expert at designing, producing, (precision) cleaning, and making packaging solutions reusable again after use, as well as manage the packaging logistics of high-quality industrial products. They do so for clients in the semiconductor and other high-tech industries.The process procedures and packaging solutions ensure the parts, modules or components of highly sophisticated equipment are fully protected during transportation and logistical arrangements. And at the same time, the system will meet the customer demand for protection of valuable products during transit while adhering to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles. The packaging design incorporates features like sustainable materials, waste reduction strategies, and carbon footprint minimization, alongside ensuring the integrity of high-value goods through robust physical protection.The company provides complete packaging solutions, starting with the development and sourcing of customized packaging materials. HQ Pack's regional Service Centers ensure that reusable packaging materials are ready to use again by cleaning and repairing them to like-new condition. They can also support reuse of parts by harvesting them before scrapping for new build packaging. If there is material destined for waste management, HQ Pack supports this at the same time. Because most of its high-tech clients operate on a global scale, HQ Pack operates not only at its headquarters in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, but also in Johor and Penang in Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore, Germany, and in the United States (locations in Brookfield (CT), Newark (CA), and San Diego (CA)) providing the same quality and service at each location. With their Service Centers they support both their customers' sustainability goals as well as their own.Their slogan "We Create to Protect" is exactly what they do. The high-quality packaging solutions ensure that valuable and fragile products, modules, components and/or parts can be safely transported worldwide. With over 40 years of experience and global presence, no compromission on quality, flexibility at the heart of our organization, they are a full-service provider with fast, reliable and sustainable packaging solutions.

Trymax Semiconductor B.V. provides plasma-based etching, stripping, and curing process equipment for advanced semiconductor packaging, targeting applications in dry descum, ashing, surface preparation, light etching and processing, as well as UV photoresist curing and charge erase. It also manufactures UV curing equipment, focusing on equipment used in compound semiconductor processes. These equipment are used in the production of wide-bandgap semiconductor power devices such as silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN), as well as other important processes such as communication power amplifiers (PAs).Trymax has been established for over 25 years and has a considerable customer base and brand recognition in the Taiwanese market. At Semicon Taiwan 2025, the company primarily serves to promote its products and connect with key clients. With a product portfolio ranging from 100mm to 300mm wafer size, Trymax's clients are on both sides of the Taiwan Strait becoming major suppliers to the manufacturers of power amplifiers and RF components. In the global presence, Trymax has significant market shares at foundries, IDMs and wafer level packaging houses for end applications in Power semiconductor, automotive, MEMS, LED and CMOS.Trymax's NEO series plasma dry descum systems are suitable for cleaning and activation processes in the semiconductor industry, offering high efficiency, uniformity, and repeatability. These systems utilize RF/microwave power to generate high-energy, disordered plasma under vacuum conditions. They can process a wide range of substrate sizes and offer a variety of processing technologies for flexible customer selection, meeting the needs of diverse semiconductor process technologies.Trymax continuously innovates to support its customers’ needs. In addition to the compound semiconductor processes, it is also widely used in application fields such as MEMS microelectromechanical systems, microfluidic devices, SOI substrate manufacturing, advanced packaging and optoelectronic displays. Among them, the global installed capacity of NEO system equipment has exceeded 300 sets.

Founded in 2020, Powertrim Technologies is a provider of back-end packaging equipment for power modules. Rooted in over 40 years of semiconductor trim and form toolmaking heritage, the company offers product design support, prototyping, and manufacturing services for power modules used in electric vehicles, the energy industry, and industrial applications. The rapidly growing automotive industry is driving significant demand for compound semiconductors and back-end packaging to support the growth of power modules, creating a strong demand for power module packaging and manufacturing technologies. The company offers full support to allow power module manufacturers to predictably build quality products at the most competitive price.The Powertrim Flex Line, the flagship manufacturing platform, provides high performance handling, assembly and testing technology for automated power module manufacturing. With its modular architecture, the Flex Line covers the core trim and form processes as well as adjacent process steps like laser marking, laser de-flashing, optical inspection, quality control, testing, loading and unloading.The main focus of Powertrim Technologies is in providing power module back-end packaging equipment and tooling. Through different modular machine designs, they are assembled into production configurations that meet the customized needs of various power module products. The company also provides the well-designed tools to help customers implementing both prototyping, qualification and rapid serial or mass production of power modules.Furthermore, electrification of the automotive transmission system by either battery or hybrid electric motors, new industrial power applications and the massive growth of renewable energy solutions accelerate the need for power modules. With these, Powertrim provides manufacturing equipment, supporting a wide range of power electronics applications, and is strategically collaborating with supply chain partners to centralize services and resources for the EV market, a move designed to meet fluctuating demands efficiently.The existing flagship production line implements a system designed to adapt quickly to changes in product type and quantity, allowing for the efficient production of a variety of power module products on one single machine, hence Flex Line. With this concept, the company is capable of switching between complex product sizes in under 15 minutes. In addition, it can also provide a series of optional add-on units, including loading/offloading modules, laser marking & de-flashing, automatic optical inspection, MES integrated system, which providing software linking to ERP/MES enterprise software platforms. These different arrangements can be flexibly matched and assembled to meet the manufacturing needs.With a presence in the Netherlands, known for its cutting edge semiconductor front-end and back-end equipment, Powertrim Technologies combines precision engineering with scalable automation to unlock markets such as automotive, energy and industrial power applications. At Semicon Taiwan 2025, Powertrim aims to work together with Taiwanese customers to create new opportunities.

Empowered by the Startup Terrace Kaohsiung AWS Joint Innovation Center (JIC), eNeural is redefining the landscape of edge AI with two flagship innovations - AI-Craft, an automated AI development platform, and an edge AI self-learning solution. These breakthroughs aim to make AI truly self-learning and self-evolving, helping industries overcome long-standing barriers in deploying AI at the edge.As AI applications rapidly expand across industries, enterprises have realized that beyond computing power, the biggest barriers to AI implementation lie in the high cost and lengthy cycle of model training. For system integrators, success increasingly depends on the ability to integrate optimized AI models into lightweight edge devices to deliver reliable inference services in real time.A spin-off startup from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), eNeural combines strong academic research foundations with practical AI R&D experience. The company has already forged partnerships with major electronics manufacturers including Quanta, Compal, and Lite-On, and is collaborating with a North American e-commerce logistics fleet on developing an AI-based collision warning system.According to eNeural CEO Eric Huang, edge devices are typically designed to be small, lightweight, and energy-efficient, which makes AI model optimization particularly challenging. "Our AI-Craft platform provides a one-stop, modular, and standardized AI development workflow," said Huang. "It allows developers to automatically generate optimized models as efficiently as products rolling off an intelligent production line."Edge AI self-learning accelerates model optimization and reduces costsFounded in 2022, eNeural focuses on proprietary AI technology R&D, with AI-Craft serving as the backbone of its innovation. The platform integrates four key technology modules - automated annotation, model pruning, model quantization, and generative AI data augmentation - to make AI development faster, more scalable, and more energy-efficient.Using pre-trained AI models and advanced image analysis algorithms, AI-Craft boosts data labeling efficiency by 10 to 100 times, significantly shortening AI project launch time. Model pruning removes redundant parameters to enhance computational efficiency by up to 90% without compromising accuracy, while reducing the memory and processor load.Model quantization converts floating-point operations into 8-bit, 4-bit, or even 2-bit precision, dramatically lowering power consumption and enabling smooth deployment of AI models on compact edge devices. Meanwhile, generative AI data augmentation automatically creates training data for rare yet critical conditions - such as night, rain, snow, or backlight - improving AI model robustness and generalization.Traditionally, AI models deployed on edge devices must send large amounts of data back to the cloud for retraining - a process that consumes time and resources. eNeural's Edge AI Self-Learning technology allows models to learn and recalibrate autonomously in real time, reducing the need for cloud data transfer."For example," Huang explained, "when fleet vehicles operate under different weather, lighting, or road conditions, the AI model can automatically adjust its decision logic to maintain accuracy. With federated learning, training results are securely shared across thousands of vehicles." This innovation reduces retraining cycles from months to weeks and significantly lowers AI operation and maintenance costs.AWS JIC Accelerates cloud transformation and strategic collaborationSince joining the AWS JIC in 2025, eNeural has leveraged the expertise of AWS specialists to upgrade its AI-Craft platform using Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed machine learning (ML) service, and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) GPU computing power. This transformation has turned AI-Craft into a cloud-based development solution, enabling developers to perform automated annotation, model pruning, and quantization in the cloud. With dynamic AWS resource allocation, eNeural can efficiently run multiple AI projects in parallel with greater scalability and cost efficiency.Participation in the AWS JIC program has also opened doors for new business collaborations. Huang shared that while earlier partnership talks with Advantech did not progress, joining the AWS JIC program led to the successful signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the two companies in 2025. Under this collaboration, eNeural will feature its two flagship AI solutions on Advantech's Marketplace, paving the way for deeper engagement with system integrators worldwide.Beyond Taiwan, eNeural is actively expanding into the U.S., Japan, and India. Leveraging AWS's global cloud infrastructure and innovation ecosystem, the company is pursuing a "software-driven core + hardware collaboration" strategy, collaborating with global players to unlock new opportunities in the rapidly growing edge AI market.

HITEC Power Protection develops, manufactures, and provides dynamic uninterruptible power (UPS) solutions to support the most vital of manufacturing and business critical applications. Founded in 1956, its products are widely used in industries with high power reliability requirements, such as semiconductor fabs, banking, aviation, healthcare, and government defense, to ensure that critical missions and processes receive uninterrupted and stable power supply. HITEC Power Protection provides equipment to ensure safe, reliable, and adjustable power to support the operational needs of businesses and critical government facilities. Taking ESG and sustainability into consideration, HITEC Power Protection provides customers with solutions to meet the demanding and complex operational needs of the high-tech industries by providing immediate, reliable backup power and voltage regulation during outages.The company has accumulated over 60 years of experience in industries requiring high power stability, primarily using flywheel energy storage technology. This technology stores energy in a mechanical flywheel to ensure immediate emergency response and stable power supply in the event of power anomalies. Once an emergency power outage is detected, the flywheel energy storage system will be activated to deliver stored instantly, and within 5 seconds transfers smoothly to an integrated diesel generator to provide long term emergency power. HITEC Power Protection was introduced to the Taiwanese market in 1985 and has successfully installed over 200 units. Its customers primarily include well-known semiconductor manufacturing fabs and the display panel makers. As Taiwan's industrial demand for power stability continues to rise, the business opportunities of HITEC Power Protection continue to grow.The current product line provides a continuous power generation capacity of approximately 2,880 kW at 60 Hz per unit. And the features include power safety and protection functions, such harmonic filtration, surge protection, load stabilization, and short-circuit current protection, which outperform typical static UPS systems. HITEC Power Protection provides 100% emergency power to all manufacturing and supporting equipment, implementing precise UPS capacity design to ensure a stable power supply to customer's power loads. This not only reduces unstable power risks but also overall lowers installation and ongoing maintenance costs. After engaging the market with Taiwanese industrial clients, HITEC Power Protection is now further targeting the needs of reliable backup power systems for major government critical public facilities, such as disaster prevention and instant response systems for critical infrastructure like tunnels and airports, with the ultimate goals of improving public service quality, bolstering private sector disaster preparedness, and significantly enhancing the overall resilience of Taiwanese society.

Fastmicro B.V. is a manufacturer of surface particle defect detection systems and equipment established over 15 years ago. The main product lines include sample surface particle defect scanning, particle deposition measurement instruments, and particle defect detection systems for applications such as compound semiconductor wafers, glass wafers, masks, and EUV/DUV mask pellicles.The ranging product offerings of Fastmicro include analytics software to cover a wide variety of applications and processes, in-line defect inspection systems, transportable scanners and scanning module for system integration. The company's technology can detect particles down to 100 nanometers in size. It offers various operation modes, with inspection speeds up to 400 wafers per hour, and can provide inspection reports in ISO standards or PDF format.Fastmicro was initially established through a collaboration with the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) to develop and research surface particle detection technology. Because the cleanliness level within semiconductor front-end processing plants and cleanrooms is crucial to the stability and yield of advanced semiconductor manufacturing, detecting tiny particles significantly impacts their operational needs. Today, tiny particles have a wide variety of composition, Fastmicro equipment plays a proactive role.Because the company's equipment has the advantage of fast detection speed, it usually only takes about ten seconds to complete surface particle defect detection, which has been well recognized by customers. The standard equipment is roughly the size of a household microwave oven. The operative procedures start to use swab or sampling tool to collect a sample from the surface of an object, which is then placed into the detector to read the particle count. Fastmicro adheres to NIST standards and uses PSL (Polystyrene latex) material for calibration and particle measurement. They also provide an OEM design model, providing flexible integration scanning modules to precision semiconductor equipment customers, covering wide-area scanning and diverse testing needs.The company began expanding its international business in 2022. At Semicon Taiwan 2025, in addition to engaging with Taiwan major foundry clients, the company is also entering the semiconductor equipment manufacturing supply chains. During equipment assembly, it is necessary to first confirm that the parts and components meet the product cleanliness level requirements before entering assembly. Each manufacturing link of supply chain requires confirmation that particle defect detection meets standard requirements, so Fastmicro equipment present strong business opportunities. This is currently the company's main market opportunity for expansion in Taiwan.

Invest in Holland /Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency (NFIA) is the national investment promotion service of the Netherlands. It operates as part of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, supporting foreign companies in establishing and expanding their businesses in the Netherlands. The organization works with a network of regional partners and has a global presence through its worldwide network of offices, including one in Taipei, to facilitate foreign investment and economic development.  With 25 offices worldwide, Invest in Holland has over 40 years of service experience. The Taipei office assists Taiwanese companies in developing their businesses and R&D IN EUROPE and expanding the opportunities in the Netherlands. The services include to provide customized information on the Netherlands, relevant business locations, Dutch legislation and tax regulations, labor law, permit procedures, government incentives and much more through in-person or digital meetings. With a population of over 18 million people, the Netherlands economy relies on international trade. It is highlighting the importance of foreign investment to strengthen its innovation ecosystems and achieve future economic goals. The network of Invest in Holland actively promotes this idea by focusing on sectors like high-tech industries, and sustainable energy, where collaborations between companies, government, and knowledge institutions drive innovation and economic resilience. Right now, more than 230 Taiwanese companies have setup their European headquarter or R&D center in the Netherlands. Many of which companies are in the Semiconductor and ICT-related sector, eg CHROMA, DELTA ELECTRONICS, MIC, ADVANTECH, and etc.Invest in Holland actively creates opportunities for industrial clusters to develop in the Dutch market by attracting Taiwanese companies and fostering collaboration between businesses, high-tech research institutions, and government, enabling Taiwanese companies to quickly integrate into the local operation and accelerate business development. One important thing, Invest in Holland's services are entirely free for all foreign companies, both new and established, that are looking to expand their operations into the Netherlands. This is a benefit provided by the Netherlands government and its network of partners. These public services offer guidance, practical solutions for establishment, and connections to the right resources and partners to help international businesses succeed in the European market.