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Friday 11 September 2026
Taiwan unfazed by Trump's renewed chip tariff threat as MOU already locks in preferential US treatment
Ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping's expected visit to the US on September 24, US President Donald Trump has again discussed the issue of bringing chip manufacturing back to the...
Friday 11 September 2026
CIOE 2026: Automotive optical-module demand could rival FTTx shipments by 2030
Automotive optical-module demand could approach the scale of the established FTTx market by around 2030 as increasingly data-intensive vehicles shift high-bandwidth connections from...
Friday 11 September 2026
AI packaging turns to glass, with TGV metallisation persisting as key technical hurdle
Taiwan supply-chain sources said low-CTE glass fibre cloth used in high-end substrates remains tight, while glass-core substrates for next-generation packaging are still in technical...
Friday 11 September 2026
Apple makes the hinge, not the screen, the centerpiece of its first foldable
Apple has built its first foldable around a component nobody sees. The iPhone Duo, unveiled 9 September and on sale from 23 October at a starting price of US$1,999, is defined less...
Friday 11 September 2026
Taiwan startup taps CMOS infrared chips to give robots an electronic 'nose'

Breaking from the industry's mainstream reliance on III-V compound semiconductors, Taiwanese startup Taiwan Nano & Micro-Photonics...

Thursday 10 September 2026
STMicroelectronics sets 2027 AI revenue plan with fiber chips at 80%
STMicroelectronics said in New York on September 9 that about 80% of its target for more than US$2 billion in artificial intelligence data-center revenue in 2027 will come from fiber-optic...
Thursday 10 September 2026
TSMC August 2026 revenue jumps 53.3% as AI chip demand drives record growth

TSMC reported strong revenue growth in August, underscoring continued momentum in AI-related semiconductor demand. TSMC said consolidated...

Thursday 10 September 2026
Phison pushes in-house AI solutions as August revenue surges to record high
Phison Electronics continues to benefit from the rapid growth in demand for artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, AI inference, and enterprise storage, with its Phison AI Data...
Thursday 10 September 2026
JD Cloud plans 100,000-GPU cluster built on Moore Threads chips
JD Cloud said on September 9 that it plans to build a 100,000-card cluster of full-function GPUs supplied by Moore Threads, a deployment the company describes as the first time domestic...
Thursday 10 September 2026
Apple's A20 Pro pushes mobile chips into the 2nm era — but AI may be the bigger disruption

For years, smartphone processors have competed through a familiar formula: faster CPUs, stronger graphics, and increasingly smaller...

Thursday 10 September 2026
Taiwan IC design firms seek government subsidies for advanced chip development
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) and National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) will hold a joint ministerial meeting in September to discuss subsidy applications submitted...
Wednesday 9 September 2026
OpenAI's deeper Samsung tie-up lands on a foundry that is running out of capacity
For Samsung Electronics' two loss-making logic businesses, OpenAI's declaration that it is jointly producing and researching next-generation chips with the Korean company matters less...
Wednesday 9 September 2026
Realtek expands cloud AI push with ASIC and SSD chips
Realtek chairman Sun-Chien Chiu, who received an honorary fellowship from Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) this week, said in a public interview that the company...
Wednesday 9 September 2026
Commentary: Huawei's Kirin comeback, Xiaomi's Xring entry widen China's chipmaking race
In September 2020, Huawei's smartphone business suffered a severe blow.
Wednesday 9 September 2026
China's AI computing plan targets sixfold growth, 100,000-card clusters
China is accelerating the large-scale deployment of AI computing infrastructure. On September 7, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) released its 15th Five-Year...