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.
Xinyx IC Design B.V. is a 100% Filipino owned IC Design house and has been in operations since 2009, with more than a decade of experience in the field of integrated circuit design, giving its clients scalability and access to highly qualified Filipino engineers. Xinyx provides end-to-end semiconductor design solutions, spanning front-end architecture, circuit realization, and physical implementation for analog, digital, and mixed-signal domains.Xinyx offers comprehensive IC design services customized to meet each customer's unique requirements. The company's capabilities span digital, analog, and mixed-signal design and layout, enabling it to support projects across a wide range of applications and technologies. Xinyx provides flexible engagement models, from full turnkey solutions to project-based and specialized design services, allowing clients to leverage its expertise at any stage of the design process to achieve faster turnaround times and optimized results. With over 16 years of experience, Xinyx has grown from a 15-person team into a 400-strong engineering and service organization, operating across five sites in the Philippines and one in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Built on the strength of its large pool of talented young Filipino engineers, the company helps customers bring innovative silicon solutions to market. As Xinyx continues to expand its global footprint, it is optimistic about the booming Taiwanese semiconductor industry and is eager to collaborate with Taiwanese IC design firms to broaden its reach and explore mutually beneficial opportunities.As part of its commitment to developing the IC design ecosystem, Xinyx actively drives its flagship Campus Connect Program, which focuses on nurturing IC design talent at the university level. The program bridges industry and academia by providing a pathway for Filipino students to enter the IC design field through collaborative learning opportunities, internships, and training programs. In line with this vision, Xinyx continues to explore strategic partnerships with universities abroad, including recent engagements with Chung Yuan Christian University in Zhongli District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
