As businesses face dramatic changes in the global market environment, companies worldwide are accelerating their digital transformation efforts, seeking competitive advantages through innovative technologies. Yet, while many departments have embraced automation, legal teams often remain the slowest to digitalize. Manual contract review still dominates daily operations, with a single document taking one to two weeks to pass from sales to legal approval.Such delays not only disrupt decision-making but also affect overall business performance. Addressing this long-standing challenge, LegalSign.ai has launched an end-to-end generative AI legal workflow management platform that accelerates contract and document review with precision and transparency, fundamentally redefining corporate legal operations.According to Chih-Tung Chen, CEO of LegalSign.ai, lengthy manual reviews often force companies to ship products before contracts are finalized - taking on significant legal risk just to maintain business momentum. To tackle these inefficiencies, LegalSign.ai's cross-disciplinary team of legal and AI experts has created a one-stop generative AI legal workflow platform that resolves these long-ignored bottlenecks. The solution is already trusted by leading enterprises such as Acer, CTBC Bank, Cathay Financial Holdings, and ezTravel, proving its value across industries.Integrating legal expertise and generative AI to address three core challengesFounded in 2019 by experienced lawyers and patent attorneys with over 25 years of combined practice, LegalSign.ai operates across Taiwan, the United States, and China. The company's founding mission is to ensure that "legal work is no longer an island buried in paperwork." By combining deep legal expertise with generative AI, LegalSign.ai transforms legal operations into a streamlined, digital, and automated process, helping enterprises manage contracts and risks more efficiently and intelligently.LegalSign.ai's all-in-one platform addresses three major pain points for legal departments - workflow management, compliance auditing, and risk control. Through generative AI, the platform digitalizes the entire contract lifecycle, covering drafting, review, negotiation, signing, execution, archiving, retrieval, and risk management. This comprehensive approach enables enterprises to significantly improve productivity while cutting costs and mitigating legal exposure.Chen explained that the platform integrates three core capabilities: generative AI-powered compliance management, legal workflow lifecycle management, and electronic signature services. For instance, the AI assistant draws on a library of over 400 contract templates to generate legally sound drafts, minimizing hallucinations or logic errors. It can also translate and compare documents, automatically highlighting high-risk clauses to assist in compliance monitoring.Building trustworthy legal AI services on AWSFollowing its recognition with the AWS Generative AI Rising Star Award in 2024, LegalSign.ai joined the Startup Terrace Kaohsiung AWS Joint Innovation Center (JIC) program in 2025 to further expand its visibility and pursue new business collaborations. The company is implementing Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to leverage cloud GPUs for enhanced AI computation and inference efficiency, aiming to deliver trusted, enterprise-grade legal AI cloud services globally through AWS cloud infrastructure.Chen emphasized that legal AI differs from typical generative AI applications due to its high data sensitivity and territorial restrictions. Given ongoing data security and regulatory concerns in China, Taiwan has emerged as a trusted hub for legal AI solutions serving international enterprises. Leveraging AWS's global cloud infrastructure, LegalSign.ai is executing a "Chinese-language legal AI + AWS Cloud" strategy to bring Taiwan's legal technology to the world. The company's initial overseas expansion targets Japan and the United States, with current collaboration focused on a bilingual legal AI platform serving multinational corporations.附檔:1114_1_LegalSign.jpgLegalSign.ai's generative AI platform empowers enterprise legal teams in digital transformation.
Invest 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 and Climate Policy, 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 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 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-related sector, eg CHROMA, DELTA ELECTRONICS, MIC, ADVANTECHInvest 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 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 Dutch market EUROPEAN 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 power protection 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 the reliable and innovative uninterruptible power 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 that stores energy in a mechanical flywheel to ensure rapid immediate emergency response and stable power supply in the event of power anomalies. Normally, Once an emergency power outage is detected, the flywheel energy storage system will be activated to deliver stored energy very quickly instantly, and within 5 seconds starting transfers smoothly to connect 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 imported 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.
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 supporting, 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 providinges power module back-end packaging equipment and toolingmanufacturing processes. 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 orand 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-flashinglabeling, 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 aimshopes to work together with Taiwanese supply chain partnerscustomers to create new opportunities.
Tempress is a leading manufacturer of diffusion and thin film deposition equipment, with over 55 years of experience in thermal process technology. We support innovators in semiconductors, power, MEMS, photonics, memory, life sciences, and coating industries in producing high-value materials and devices.Our production systems are built for R&D applications but also for automated, high-volume production and meet the rigorous standards of modern chip manufacturing. Tempress solutions cover essential thermal processes such as oxidation, annealing, diffusion, and LPCVD, offering precise temperature control to achieve optimal properties in silicon wafers.Tempress established an early presence in Taiwan (1999), earning recognition across the region's semiconductor sector. Our local experts ensure smooth coordination between customers and our product team in the Netherlands, providing hands-on support and technical guidance.We collaborate globally with universities and research institutes to drive innovation and continuously improve our technology. At Tempress, we deliver more than equipment-we build lasting partnerships backed by dependable service and worldwide support.
Founded in 1993, Prodrive Technologies designs and manufactures mission-critical products that combine advanced engineering, innovative manufacturing, and global expertise. The company empowers semiconductor equipment manufacturers and customers across multiple industries to accelerate innovation and achieve operational excellence.Headquartered in the Netherlands, with regional hubs in the USA, Japan, and China, Prodrive Technologies serves the semiconductor, medical, life sciences, energy, infrastructure, and industrial markets. Its customer-centric approach, deep engineering expertise, and vertically integrated manufacturing enable fast time-to-market, superior quality, and scalable systems.The company's portfolio spans optical and e-beam cameras, embedded computing systems, high-precision motion control and drives, and RF plasma power solutions. These offerings are available as off-the-shelf products, customized systems, or turnkey solutions.With its broad product range, flexible business model, and decades of experience in the semiconductor sector, Prodrive Technologies is now also exploring opportunities in Taiwan. As home to the world's largest semiconductor foundry and a growing ecosystem of equipment manufacturers, Taiwan represents a potentially strategic market where Prodrive's innovation, quality, and speed-enabled by its unique vertical integration-can create 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.
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.
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.
XIVER, 120 employees, located in High Tech Center of the Netherlands, a carve out from Philips Research started its business on January 2025.XIVER is unique in that they combine the strength of a pure-play foundry with more than 20 years of MEMS process development knowledge and experience in high tech micro systems solutions. A state-of-the art cleanroom of 2600m2 (28,000 sqf), independent positioning in the market and European ownership.XIVERs increasing share of wallet of its top-tier customers in medical, semiconductor equipment and defense are driving its initial growth and success. Secured by high barriers of entry and scarce availability of available manufacturing, make XIVER a first option for innovations in high tech market segments like data centers/AI and IR applications. Further strategic investments in Photonics and Transducers will provide longevity and will be driving accelerated growth in mid to long term.