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Monday 14 July 2025
As Nvidia soars, Taiwan's AI OEMs outpace TSMC in growth
Nvidia's landmark surge to a US$4 trillion market capitalization on July 10 has reverberated across the global tech landscape—but nowhere more profoundly than in Taiwan. As...
Monday 14 July 2025
US judges diverge on AI but land on same legal ground
Meta Platforms and Anthropic secured separate legal victories in copyright disputes over using books to train artificial intelligence models, with federal judges ruling the practice...
Monday 14 July 2025
Taiwan launches smart robotics talent program to compete with semiconductor sector
Taiwan is positioning robotics as a national growth engine, with Premier Cho Jung-tai naming it a top strategic priority alongside semiconductors and drones. To accelerate progress...
Monday 14 July 2025
Trans-sun Materials' revenue rises 4.6% month-over-month in June 2025 on AI demand
Trans-Sun Materials Technology, a Taiwan-based electronic functional materials manufacturer, posted June revenue of NT$116 million (approx. US$3.98 million), up 4.64% from May but...
Sunday 13 July 2025
South Korea races to catch up in global humanoid robot competition
AI is already driving cars, writing papers, and coding computers. Society has now upgraded to humanoids and is on track to potentially become the norm.
Sunday 13 July 2025
China plots desert AI hub with 115,000 Nvidia chips, skirting US export bans
China plans to build at least 39 data centers in the desert regions of Xinjiang and Qinghai, outfitted with over 115,000 Nvidia H100 and H200 GPUs. These advanced chips have been...
Saturday 12 July 2025
Chipmakers bet on premium smartphones to weather 2H25 headwinds
Despite a generally negative outlook for the second half of the year, Largan, a key market indicator, stressed during its earnings call that the demand momentum for new flagship smartphones...
Saturday 12 July 2025
Google brings Gemini AI to Wear OS, boosting Samsung's new smartwatch and foldables

Google is bringing its Gemini artificial intelligence model to smartwatches running Wear OS, marking a significant expansion beyond smartphones...

Friday 11 July 2025
Google DeepMind spinoff Biotech moves AI-designed drug to human trials
The biotechnology sector is hailing a major milestone as Isomorphic Labs, a startup incubated by Google DeepMind, prepares to enter human trials with a drug candidate designed using...
Friday 11 July 2025
Bionet, Dassault team up for AI foundry model in drug development
With AI promising to massively transform research and development in the biomedical industry, Bionet Corp. has launched its AI foundry platform for human and animal pharmaceutical...
Friday 11 July 2025
How Taiwan's EMS evolved: From PCs and smartphones to AI servers and deep semiconductor integration
The advent of the personal computer (PC) provided an opportunity for Taiwan's manufacturing services to further evolve.
Friday 11 July 2025
US weighs new export controls on AI chips to Thailand and Malaysia

The US Department of Commerce is reportedly preparing new regulations that would restrict the export of advanced AI chips to Thailand...

Friday 11 July 2025
Malaysia's Penang eyes semiconductor upgrade as AI demand reshapes industry
Malaysia's Penang state, home to about 13% of global semiconductor assembly and testing capacity, is positioning itself to capture more advanced chip manufacturing as artificial intelligence...
Friday 11 July 2025
SiPearl raises EUR130 million to mass-produce Rhea1 chip with TSMC, advancing Europe's AI and HPC goals
French microprocessor startup SiPearl has secured EUR130 million (US$152.53 million) in a Series A funding round, with investors including Taiwan's Cathay Venture Inc. The company...
Friday 11 July 2025
China's embodied AI race just got real — Robot Era, DEEP Robotics raises CNY1 billion

China's embodied AI and humanoid robotics market is experiencing a funding surge, with leading startups Robot Era and DEEP Robotics jointly securing...