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Sunday 18 October 2026
Exclusive: EnterpriseSG positions Singapore's semiconductor SMEs for bigger roles in global chip supply chains
Singapore is targeting high-value semiconductor manufacturing, advanced packaging, and silicon photonics, building on its strengths in engineering, precision manufacturing, and reliability,...
Saturday 17 October 2026
Singapore's AI bet shifts from model race to deployment, resilience and trusted adoption
Singapore is moving its AI strategy beyond pilot-heavy experimentation toward a more deployment-focused model centered on enterprise adoption, sector transformation and resilient access...
Saturday 17 October 2026
Interview: SEMI CEO sees US$3 trillion chip industry by 2035, as trusted partners reshape supply chain
The semiconductor industry reached the US$1 trillion revenue milestone several years earlier than originally forecast, and with growth driven by AI and quantum computing, reaching...
Friday 16 October 2026
Interview: The AI economy needs US$6T in funding — but from where?
AI is clearly making an enormous impact on the global economy, with capabilities extending from language chatbots to agentic teams and the physical realm within just a few years. A...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
Interview: Microsoft's Maia GM on Maia 300, Taiwan and HBM supply
Microsoft's in-house Azure Maia chips will become the main platform for its own AI services, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Foundry. However, the company...
Friday 9 October 2026
Interview: How AI forecasting and energy scheduling are raising the bar for green power sellers
As the demand for green energy surges in parallel with order volumes and production capacity, scheduling for energy storage systems has become a critical technology to solve the problem...
Friday 9 October 2026
Interview: Europe's enterprise networking market returns to growth as pandemic inventory hangover clears
The European enterprise networking market has cleared its multi-year inventory digestion period. According to CONTEXT, sell-through via European distribution channels is growing in...
Monday 5 October 2026
Exclusive: A*STAR IME's Yu-chieh Chien targets next-gen SiC through 8-inch R&D, reliability gains

Singapore is building a semiconductor R&D hub by attracting both multinational investment and overseas research talent. Dr Yu-chieh Chien,...

Saturday 3 October 2026
Interview: AI PCs reach 65% of Europe's notebook channel, but what brings buyers to the market?
The rapid iteration of AI-capable hardware, following an industry-wide push toward integrating AI-processing capabilities into PCs, is bringing renewed attention to what AI could offer...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Interview: iFLYTEK Medical sees clinical integration as key to healthcare AI expansion in South Korea
Xunfei Healthcare (iFLYTEK Medical), the healthcare AI arm of China's iFlytek, is using its Spark Medical Large Model to support diagnosis and medical record generation while tackling...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Behind CoWoS (part 2): How TSMC turned a niche packaging experiment into an industry standard
As chip design enters the AI era, heterogeneous integration is driving foundry giants like TSMC, Samsung, and Intel to bring advanced front-end fab capabilities into back-end packaging...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Behind CoWoS (part 1)—How a 0% yield crisis led to TSMC's first advanced packaging win
In a recent interview on the DIGITIMES podcast, Dr. Shin-Puu Jeng, chairman of the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS) and a former longtime TSMC...
Saturday 26 September 2026
Interview: Taiwan's H2U helps companies manage employee health with AI, eyes third markets with South Korea
When companies discuss ESG, they often emphasize environmental issues and compliance while paying less attention to employee health, a key component of the social dimension, according...
Friday 25 September 2026
Interview: Intel director talks physical AI, business models, and robotics' future
Physical AI is accelerating like never before. Autonomous intelligent machines can walk, run, fly, swim, and assemble car parts in under a minute. New advances in AI models and technologies...
Friday 25 September 2026
Interview: GMI Cloud bets on Taiwan as a proving ground for global AI expansion
GMI Cloud is making Taiwan a key part of its global AI infrastructure expansion, with a US$500 million investment in an AI factory powered by Nvidia's Blackwell GPUs. Announced in...