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Wednesday 29 October 2025
Column: How China's rare earth chokehold is reshaping the global tech landscape
In the first half of 2025, China tightened rare earth export rules, affecting semiconductors and AI, straining global supply chains, and pushing Taiwan to diversify sourcing.
Wednesday 29 October 2025
Column: Niche markets and circular economy drive Taiwan battery industry's new growth strategy
The future development of Taiwan's battery industry must be grounded in the global competitive landscape and domestic industrial conditions, implementing differentiated, niche, and...
Sunday 26 October 2025
Taiwan's secret: A century of elite talent driving chips, electronics, and healthcare
Taiwan currently shines on the global stage with three standout industries: its healthcare system, electronics manufacturing services (EMS), and semiconductors. Though each sector's...
Tuesday 21 October 2025
Column: Advanced packaging's standardization challenge

While advanced packaging technologies first gained traction in high-end smartphones, it was the supply crunch of AI chips in 2023 that...

Thursday 16 October 2025
Column: Macroscopic quantum tunneling discovery redefines limits of quantum mechanics and fuels quantum technology advances
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis for their groundbreaking experimental work demonstrating macroscopic quantum tunneling,...
Thursday 2 October 2025
Column: Pentagon boosts investment in Quantum navigation as GPS limitations drive search for alternatives
Quantum technologies, long confined to academic theory, are now laying the groundwork for a revolution in navigation. While the term "quantum computing" often raises fears about data...
Wednesday 3 September 2025
Column: Quantum boost for chip R&D
Artificial intelligence (AI) benefits many industries but is limited by the so-called "curse of dimensionality," which arises when machine learning models handle data with many features...
Monday 1 September 2025
Column: Modern computational methods transform semiconductor manufacturing landscape
Since 2000, semiconductor manufacturing has increasingly depended on advanced computational techniques, notably first principles calculations and machine learning, with quantum computing...
Friday 22 August 2025
Column: AI's growing role in transforming energy systems worldwide
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping energy systems by enhancing their resilience, efficiency, and sustainability. The relationship between AI and energy is reciprocal: AI relies...
Friday 22 August 2025
Energy + Intelligence: Energy challenges and industry opportunities in the AI era
History shows that past productivity improvements have always been accompanied by high-density energy conversion and industrial efficiency enhancements: from hydropower, steam, electrification,...
Tuesday 29 July 2025
Counter-drone market set to reach US$14.3 billion by 2032 as warfare evolves
The global counter-drone systems market is projected to reach US$14.32 billion by 2032 as small unmanned aerial vehicles transform modern warfare, driving demand for detection and...
Monday 21 July 2025
US and China race to set post-quantum cryptography standards
As the era of commercial quantum computing inches closer, the United States and China are accelerating efforts to secure the digital world against quantum threats. In July 2024, the...
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
How Taiwan's EMS evolved (2): Resilience and regionalized supply chains
As of 2024, the global electronic manufacturing services (EMS) industry is valued at approximately US$700 billion, with about half originating from Taiwan. Starting in 1966 with basic...
Tuesday 8 July 2025
How Taiwan's EMS industry grew from black-and-white TV assembly
The recent documentary on Taiwan's semiconductor development history, A Chip Odyssey, highlights how the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) licensed and transferred semiconductor...