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Monday 9 November 2026
Fire breaks out at Foxlink’s Tucheng plant in Taiwan; crisis team formed
A fire broke out at Foxlink’s plant in Tucheng, New Taipei City, at around 8 a.m. on November 9, prompting the city’s fire department to dispatch multiple vehicles and...
Wednesday 4 November 2026
Explosion at Panasonic CCL plant in Taiwan injures five, two missing
Panasonic Industrial Devices Materials Taiwan's Hukou plant experienced an explosion and fire early on November 4, injuring five employees and leaving two others unaccounted for. The...
Friday 30 October 2026
Episil-Precision fire hits under 10% of capacity, 6- and 8-inch lines to restart within two weeks
Semiconductor epitaxy maker Episil-Precision said a localized fire broke out on October 28 at its plant on Innovation First Road in Hsinchu Science Park, but caused no injuries or...
Thursday 29 October 2026
Commentary: fire at Episil threatens tight epitaxial wafer supply
A fire broke out at the Innovation Plant of semiconductor epitaxial wafer maker Episil on October 28. The extent of equipment damage, the scope of production stoppages, and the recovery...
Thursday 15 October 2026
Intel Israel fab explosion kills 1, seriously injures 2 workers
An explosion and fire at Intel's wafer fab in Kiryat Gat, southern Israel, on October 14, 2026, seriously injured three employees, one of whom later died of his injuries. Authorities...
Thursday 8 October 2026
GlobalWafers September revenue rises 7.65% on stronger demand
GlobalWafers' September and third-quarter sales showed a mixed picture for the semiconductor materials supplier, with artificial intelligence (AI)-related demand helping offset a lingering...
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
Chunghwa Telecom's Simplified Modular Data Center delivers fast turnkey deployment

As AI applications gradually expand from the cloud to enterprise private clouds, smart factories, logistics centers, and edge nodes, enterprise compute density continues...

Tuesday 6 October 2026
ITRI sees hardware, AI, sensing drive quadruped robot rollout
As AI advances rapidly, the robotics industry is evolving from traditional automation equipment into a productivity tool for every industry, Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research...
Friday 2 October 2026
Samsung SDI's new LFP battery shows how AI is reshaping battery markets beyond EVs
The aggressive rollout of large-scale infrastructure projects has brought increasingly visible changes across global economies and major technology supply chains, with much of that...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Samsung SDI targets AI data centers with cylindrical LFP batteries and fire-propagation safeguards
Samsung SDI is accelerating its push into the artificial intelligence (AI) data center battery market, unveiling, for the first time, a cylindrical lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
GlobalWafers partially resumes Italy plant, restarts EPI production
GlobalWafers announced on September 14 that recovery work is continuing at its Novara plant in Italy following a fire that broke out on the facility's 8-inch line on July 20, 2026,...
Sunday 6 September 2026
K-Safety Expo 2026: Beyond AI, Korea re-engineers the human layer of industrial safety
Not every safety breakthrough spotted across the K-Safety Expo 2026 floor in Busan came with an AI camera attached.
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Safety rewired: AI, robots on the front line at K-Safety Expo 2026
Hard hats and fire extinguishers will certainly have their place at K-Safety Expo 2026, but visitors arriving at BEXCO in Busan from September 2–4 may find that the modern safety...
Friday 28 August 2026
Vanguard says Taoyuan fab fire did not disrupt production
Vanguard International Semiconductor said a fire broke out late on August 27 on the roof of its Wafer Fab 3 in Taoyuan City, Taiwan, but the incident caused no major impact on production...