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Friday 7 August 2026
Taiwan Innotech Expo to showcase application-ready tech research

The government-organized 2026 Taiwan Innotech Expo (TIE) will open in Taipei on September 17, with the National Science and Technology...

Friday 7 August 2026
China's MLCC supply chain ramps up as AI boom drives global component shortage

China's multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) supply chain is accelerating capacity expansion as surging demand from AI servers and automotive...

Friday 7 August 2026
Nvidia tests leaner Rubin Ultra memory designs with 2027 HBM supply in question
Nvidia is testing sharply lower-memory versions of its next-generation Rubin Ultra GPU, a sign that the worsening high-bandwidth memory (HBM) shortage is beginning to reshape the specifications...
Friday 7 August 2026
Transcend July 2026 revenue tops NT$5 billion as AI boosts high-end memory demand
Memory module maker Transcend Information reported July 2026 consolidated revenue of NT$5.2 billion (approx. US$161.44 million), surging 308% from a year earlier and 3% from the previous...
Friday 7 August 2026
AMD to buy Taalas in push for faster AI inference chips

AMD said on August 6 that it has agreed to buy Taalas, a Toronto-based startup focused on specialized AI inference silicon, in a move...

Friday 7 August 2026
US sets price floors and tariffs on polysilicon, sharpening tech decoupling from China

US President Donald Trump said imports of polysilicon and related products threaten national security and ordered new trade measures...

Friday 7 August 2026
Taiwan raises 2027 central government spending to NT$3.6 trillion
Taiwan's central government said it would lift 2027 spending to NT$3.6 trillion, as President Lai Ching-te outlined a budget plan aimed at boosting industrial upgrading, technological...
Friday 7 August 2026
NEO seeks partner by end-2026 for fivefold-density X-SRAM

AI memory startup NEO Semiconductor has unveiled X-SRAM, a new architecture designed to address the difficulty of scaling conventional...

Friday 7 August 2026
Huawei's Richard Yu warns of smartphone price hikes as memory costs soar
Huawei executive director and Consumer Business Group chairman Richard Yu warned on August 5 that sharply rising memory costs could trigger widespread smartphone price increases, saying...
Friday 7 August 2026
Ex-White House official urges South Korea to avoid excessive digital regulation
Former White House National Security Council chief of staff Alexander Gray has called on South Korea to deepen supply chain cooperation with the US and avoid following the European...
Friday 7 August 2026
Transcend warns memory shortage could extend through 2027
Transcend Information said the global memory shortage remained severe and could persist through 2027, with little sign of improvement in 2026. The Taiwanese storage maker said upstream...
Friday 7 August 2026
V5 July revenue reaches NT$273 million on AI chip demand, packaging expansion
V5 Technologies reported record consolidated revenue of NT$273 million in July 2026, as demand for AI chips and semiconductor packaging capacity expansion lifted orders. Revenue rose...
Thursday 6 August 2026
Apple scrambles to secure DRAM as US$1 billion worth of iPhone 18 chips reportedly await packaging

Apple and its manufacturing partners are rushing to secure mobile DRAM ahead of the expected launch of the iPhone 18 lineup, as about...

Thursday 6 August 2026
Samsung to pay Netlist up to US$897 million to settle memory patent dispute

Samsung Electronics will pay Netlist up to US$897 million in gross licensing fees over five years under a series of agreements that settle...

Thursday 6 August 2026
Largan July 2026 revenue rises 11% as CPO samples progress

Largan announced on August 5 that July revenue reached NT$4.877 billion (US$150.8 million), up 31% month-over-month and 11% year-over-year...