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Wednesday 7 October 2026
iRobot reenters Taiwan market after restructuring, unveils five new models
The global household cleaning robot market grew by double digits in 2025, making it a key area for smart home development and intense competition in smart home devices. After filing...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
BOE chairman expected to meet Samsung executive as LCD panel prices rise
Chinese display makers have raised LCD panel prices as global TV makers head into the holiday season, raising costs for TV makers worldwide. BOE chairman Yanshun Chen is expected to...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Chunghwa Telecom, New Taipei fire department launch drone-based medical supply transport pilot program
Chunghwa Telecom's New Taipei operations division and the New Taipei City Fire Department signed a memorandum of understanding on October 6 to promote drone-based emergency blood transport...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Samsung Electro-Mechanics secures 2027 AI server MLCC demand as supply pressure builds
Samsung Electro-Mechanics (Semco) has secured another major AI server order, signing a KRW290 billion (about US$216 million) contract to supply multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs)...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Analysis: Kioxia's NAND pedigree meets an AI-era SSD gap

Kioxia helped create the NAND flash industry, but AI is changing what leadership in memory looks like. The Japanese supplier is benefiting from...

Wednesday 7 October 2026
Smaller batteries, smarter roads: Honda tests different EV cost model
The complexity of vehicle economics surrounding surging battery costs has long put the EV industry in a difficult position, caught between power-delivery constraints and energy-efficiency...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
Chinese LCD panel makers tighten supply to lift prices — Taiwan suppliers eye order shifts
Chinese panel makers moved to cut production during the National Day holiday after issuing their first price increase notices in September, combining pricing signals with supply controls...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
South Korea keeps sovereign AI contest on track, adds KRW4.7T frontier program after hours of confusion
South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT said its Sovereign AI Foundation Model Project will run to completion as originally planned. The statement reversed, within hours, a vice...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
China's 15th five-year plan elevates PCB role in AI supply chains
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Development and Reform Commission have released the 15th Five-Year Plan for the development of the electronic...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
Samsung secures customer backing for US$5B substrate expansion
Samsung Electro-Mechanics is investing KRW6.78 trillion (approx. US$5 billion) to expand FCBGA capacity in South Korea and Vietnam. The projects are backed by customer funding and...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
Huawei's Kirin 9050 Pro reveals new logic folding chip design
Huawei's Kirin 9050 Pro has been fully broken down by Chinese and overseas researchers, giving the market a closer look at the company's "LogicFolding" approach. Analysis from Geekerwan...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
Samsung steps up HBM cooling as TSMC expands CoWoS
Samsung Electronics is expanding its thermal-management efforts for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) beyond the memory stack as increasingly large chip packages raise heat-management ch...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
Electric scooter sales rise 33% in September but year-over-year slowdown persists
Taiwan's motorcycle market emerged from the seasonal lull in September 2026, with total registrations rising to 70,189, up 16.78% month-over-month. Electric scooter sales also rebounded,...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
September auto market beats expectations; Hotai sees stable Q4
Hotai Motor said Taiwan's auto market should remain stable in the fourth quarter, after September sales came in better than expected and the company kept its full-year 2026 forecast...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
Taiwan unveils new 5-year quantum tech program to speed adoption
The National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) has announced the details of its next five-year quantum research program as Taiwan prepares to wrap up its current NT$8 billion (US$252.14...