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Tuesday 14 July 2026
Taiwan childcare subsidies face skepticism as survey shows limited birthrate impact
Taiwan's latest population policy push faced immediate skepticism despite a broad childcare package unveiled on May 27, while an Academia Sinica survey found only 12% of respondents...
Tuesday 14 July 2026
Academia Sinica lifts Taiwan 2026 growth outlook to 10.16% on AI demand
Academia Sinica's Institute of Economics raised Taiwan's 2026 real GDP growth forecast to 10.16% on July 13, citing strong AI-related demand, exports, private investment and consumer...
Tuesday 14 July 2026
Taiwan raises 2026 growth outlook as AI demand drives exports and investment
Taiwan's economy has continued to outperform expectations as research institutions repeatedly lifted growth forecasts over the past two years. According to Academia Sinica's Institute...
Wednesday 8 July 2026
National Center for Instrumentation Research helps academia break 2D materials bottleneck
As AI infrastructure chip orders flood in and TSMC runs near nonstop, academia has found it difficult to carry out industry-academia collaboration with the world's top foundry house...
Tuesday 7 July 2026
Taiwan showcases quantum computing breakthrough at biennial academician gathering, govt urges interdisciplinary collab

Academia Sinica, Taiwan's premier national academic research institution, convened its 36th Convocation of Academicians from July 6...

Friday 26 June 2026
Academia Sinica readies Taiwan-made quantum chip for engineering push
Academia Sinica has built a 20-qubit quantum chip from scratch, and the team now says the next phase is less about lab breakthroughs and more about engineering a scalable, reproducible...
Friday 26 June 2026
Academia Sinica targets quantum chip manufacturing scale with Taiwan's semiconductor tool base
Academia Sinica's Center for Quantum Computer is focusing only on hardware, not algorithms or applications, and executive director Chii-Dong Chen said that approach is similar to the...
Saturday 2 May 2026
NSTC forms task force to lead Taiwan's multimodal AI foundation model development
Amid the flourishing commercial generative AI landscape dominated by large-parameter language models, Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) has reversed earlier doubts...
Thursday 9 April 2026
Taiwan advances quantum computing with AI collab as key strategy
The Taiwanese government has launched the second phase of its quantum research subsidy program, with the National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC) set to build an HPQC...
Monday 30 March 2026
Research Insight: Perovskite solar cells push efficiency beyond silicon limits
At the 2026 Smart City Summit & Expo in Taipei, a new generation of solar technology took center stage.
Friday 27 March 2026
Nvidia says quantum computing will not replace GPUs
Nvidia said quantum computing will complement rather than replace GPUs, even as Taiwan accelerates investment in quantum technology. Speaking at an industry event, the company said...
Friday 13 March 2026
In an age of AI and Trump, even supercomputers can't tell us what comes next
James C. Liao, president of Academia Sinica — Taiwan's foremost government-funded research institution and the country's equivalent of a national academy of sciences —...
Monday 9 March 2026
US and Finland lead bids for Taiwan's quantum hybrid computing system
The Taiwanese government has decided to advance its second-phase quantum computing program. It will build a high-power quantum computing (HPQC) heterogeneous hybrid computing system...
Monday 2 February 2026
Taiwan achieves breakthrough with 20-qubit quantum computer
Taiwan has taken a significant step forward in quantum computing development. On January 29, 2026, Academia Sinica—the island's premier national research institution—announced...
Friday 16 January 2026
Taiwan opens international tender for quantum computer purchase; US export ban remains key
Following the National Science and Technology Council's (NSTC) announcement of the quantum computing mainframe construction project, attention has focused on whether Taiwan will use...