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Tuesday 8 September 2026
What to expect at CIOE, Shenzhen's optoelectronics mega-expo
This week, DIGITIMES heads to Shenzhen to cover an expo showcasing the world of optoelectronics, a class of technologies that serves as the link between electricity and light. In today's...
Tuesday 8 September 2026
Renewable power shortage puts Taiwan's chip cluster under scrutiny
As semiconductor and AI infrastructure expansions elevate Taiwan's strategic profile on the global stage, mandates for a "green chip" supply chain are intensifying pressure on major...
Monday 7 September 2026
How UC Santa Cruz's Silicon Valley lab is reverse-engineering the human brain to solve AI's chip power crisis
As the global race for artificial intelligence (AI) consumes vast oceans of electricity and pushes modern utility grids to the brink, a team of California researchers is looking to...
Monday 7 September 2026
Exclusive: Taipower's new green power sandbox could ease TSMC's surplus electricity problem
As global net-zero efforts accelerate, major technology companies are setting increasingly ambitious renewable energy targets. TSMC has pledged to reach RE60 by 2030 and RE100 by 2...
Thursday 3 September 2026
KEPCO seeks US$18 billion from Samsung, SK Hynix to fund Korea's power grid
Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) has proposed that Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix prepay as much as KRW25 trillion (approx. US$18 billion) in electricity bills as South Korea looks...
Thursday 3 September 2026
Macronix boosts sustainability spending to NT$780 million
Macronix (MXIC) said in its latest sustainability report for 2025 that greenhouse gas emissions fell 19.8% from 2024 and 32% from the business-as-usual (BAU) baseline, beating its...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Taoyuan eyes northern AIDC hub, touts Tatan and LNG cooling edge
Taiwan's limited land and heavy dependence on imported energy have made power a scarce and strategic resource in the compute era, putting AI data center (AIDC) site selection on the...
Monday 31 August 2026
Interview: Taiwan's National Atomic Research Institute eyes SMRs for AI power shift
As global net-zero efforts intensify, governments and major technology companies are investing in emerging nuclear technologies to meet the huge electricity demand from AI data centers...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Taiwan plans higher power growth to meet AI demand, officials say
Taiwan's government said it will raise electricity supply capacity as it responds to rising demand from AI and industry. The comments came on August 26 at the opening of the 2026 New...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
India's AI buildout accelerates as Vera Rubin demand meets data center expansion
India's AI infrastructure push is gaining pace, with implications that extend far beyond the country's borders. According to Bloomberg, AM Intelligence has ordered 9,000 Nvidia...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
Star Trade to highlight power services for chips and AI at Semicon Taiwan 2026
Star Trade, a unit of HD Renewable Energy, is set to debut at Semicon Taiwan 2026 next week, offering power trading and energy management services for semiconductor and AI infrastructure...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
AI's power crunch hits Taiwan: foundry capacity tightens, chip prices climb into 2H26
AI data centres are becoming a new stress point for the global power and semiconductor supply chain. As facilities shift towards megawatt-scale architectures, demand is rising for...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Taipower pushes 'information flow' strategy to ease northern Taiwan's AI data center power crunch
As artificial intelligence chip power consumption continues to rise, server racks are moving toward the megawatt (MW) scale. Amid the "electrical power is computing power" trend, the...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Applied Materials executive says data centers set new AI competition standard

Commenting on the current surge in artificial intelligence (AI), Erix Yu, group vice president of Applied Materials and president of...

Monday 24 August 2026
iCometrue to Showcase Glass-Based AI Multichip Packaging Solutions at SEMICON Taiwan 2026

Interested in solving microcrack issues in through-glass via (TGV) fabrication? Want to learn how to supply 1,000 Watts, 1 Volt and 1,000 Amperes electricity to semiconductor...