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Tuesday 7 July 2026
US grid strain from AI power demand extends order boom for Taiwan equipment makers

A US emergency order to stabilize electricity supplies during an extreme heat wave has underscored a deepening structural imbalance...

Tuesday 7 July 2026
World models can lift South Korea in self-driving tech
The global autonomous-driving industry is locked in fierce competition around end-to-end (E2E) self-driving technology, but a world model that can reason through unknown scenarios...
Tuesday 7 July 2026
AI's bottleneck has shifted from chips to infrastructure — China plans it centrally, US fights it out locally

The cancellation of Blackstone-owned QTS' planned Digital Gateway data center project in Virginia underscores a new challenge for the...

Tuesday 7 July 2026
Taiwan pushes care robots as eldercare shortages expose legal gaps
Taiwan is accelerating efforts to bring care robots into eldercare as labor shortages deepen, while lawmakers and regulators continue to debate how the devices should be classified...
Tuesday 7 July 2026
Samsung SDI secures AI data center battery supply deal with Simplo
Samsung SDI has started supplying battery cells for AI data centers to Taiwan-based Simplo Technology, according to The Elec. The deal connects a South Korean cell maker with...
Tuesday 7 July 2026
BBU demand lifts Taiwanese battery module makers as AI server adoption expands
Battery backup (BBU) module demand from AI servers continued to rise in June, supporting revenue growth at Taiwanese suppliers AES-KY, Simplo Technology and STL. These companies have...
Tuesday 7 July 2026
SK data center bet sets sights on intelligence exports

South Korea is moving to position itself as an exporter of "intelligence" rather than just the chips and equipment that go into building...

Monday 6 July 2026
South Korea's chip hub push, led by Samsung, SK, draws KRW896 trillion — and a market selloff

SK Group, Samsung Electronics, and Amkor will invest a combined KRW896 trillion (US$585.2 billion) to build South Korea's second major...

Monday 6 July 2026
South Korea lines up US$204 billion Yeongnam manufacturing push

South Korean conglomerates will invest a combined KRW312 trillion (approx. US$203.6 billion) in the Yeongnam region, as the government...

Monday 6 July 2026
Huawei chip chief proposes Tau Law V2 centered on time-based scaling
Huawei's semiconductor chief is promoting a post-Moore roadmap that shifts industry focus from shrinking transistors to reducing time across the computing stack, a framework backed...
Monday 6 July 2026
Analysis: Taiwan's semiconductor sector enters 2026 helium crunch, with nearly 90% dependent on Qatar
Taiwan's chipmakers walked into the 2026 helium supply shock more exposed to Qatar than any other major buyer, sourcing nearly 88% of their rare-gas imports from the Gulf state in...
Sunday 5 July 2026
Advantest and OpenLight join forces on silicon photonics test platform for mass production
Advantest said it has partnered with OpenLight to develop a scalable silicon photonics (SiPh) test solution for mass production environments. The announcement comes as artificial intelligence...
Sunday 5 July 2026
Why enterprise AI in manufacturing is stuck at the pilot stage

At a late-June industry forum, experts from Taiwan's TPIsoftware, the Institute for Information Industry (III), and Phison Electronics...

Saturday 4 July 2026
TSMC's median pay trails four smaller IC design houses, filings show

Fabless chip designers dominate the upper ranks of Taiwan's newly disclosed non-managerial employee pay data for fiscal year 2025,...

Friday 3 July 2026
Microsoft launches US$2.5 B unit to guide enterprise AI adoption using embedded engineers
Microsoft unveiled plans for a new business unit called "Microsoft Frontier Company," which is aimed at helping large organizations move beyond pilot projects and turn AI investments...