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Friday 26 September 2025
Southern Taiwan Science Park rides AI wave to surpass NT$1 trillion revenue in 1H25
Driven by the global AI boom, the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP) surpassed the NT$1 trillion revenue mark in the first half of 2025. The total operating revenue reached NT$1.38...
Friday 26 September 2025
South Korean startup to launch Samsung 4nm-process LPU chip, at one-tenth cost of Nvidia's H100
South Korean startup HyperAccel—an IC design firm focusing on AI semiconductors for large language models (LLM)—will launch a language processing unit (LPU) AI chip using...
Friday 26 September 2025
Rising defense budgets push Taiwan IPC firms toward aerospace markets
As fighter jets patrol the skies and geopolitical tensions rise worldwide, a new arms race is taking place inside Taiwan's leading technology sector. The island's industrial PC makers—known...
Friday 26 September 2025
Samsung reportedly cuts 2nm foundry prices by 30% to counter TSMC's 50% hike
The global race to build the future of technology just got dramatically more expensive. TSMC is reportedly planning a staggering 50% price increase for its next-generation 2nm chips...
Friday 26 September 2025
Apple, Qualcomm, and MediaTek pivot toward AI accelerators as 3nm era closes

The 2025 generation of flagship smartphone chips will mark the final run for 3nm processors — closing a chapter in semiconductor...

Friday 26 September 2025
Ennostar advances AI optical communication with X-Celeprint partnership to promote SiPh integration
Ennostar, a Taiwan-based developer of optoelectronic semiconductors, is actively expanding its presence in the AI optical communication market. It has announced a collaboration with...
Friday 26 September 2025
China to command 42% of global chipmaking capacity by 2028, SEMI says
The global semiconductor industry is entering an unprecedented growth phase driven by artificial intelligence, with market forecasts projecting the sector to exceed US$1 trillion...
Friday 26 September 2025
ASE plans major expansion of advanced packaging capacity in Southern Taiwan
ASE Technology Holdings' subsidiary, ASE Semiconductor, announced the construction of a new advanced packaging plant in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, aiming to boost production capacity to meet...
Friday 26 September 2025
Taiwan struggles to attract Indian tech talent despite semiconductor ambitions
The Indian government is advancing a Swadeshi movement—a self-reliance initiative—with a budget allocation of INR760 billion (approximately US$8.621 billion) to build...
Friday 26 September 2025
TSMC in Intel’s investment talks, as Andrew Ng flags Taiwan risk
Intel is reportedly stepping up efforts to raise capital and secure partnerships as part of its turnaround strategy, approaching firms including Apple and TSMC. The push has intensified...
Friday 26 September 2025
Micron rises to second in global HBM market as Samsung slips
Micron Technology has, for the first time, overtaken Samsung Electronics in the high-bandwidth memory (HBM) market, securing second place in global shipments during the second quarter...
Friday 26 September 2025
Tata Electronics reportedly in talks with ASML, JT Corp for fab and OSAT projects in India
Tata Electronics is in discussions with several global semiconductor equipment makers, including Dutch giant ASML and South Korea's JT Corp, to supply its upcoming fabrication plant...
Thursday 25 September 2025
TSMC and EDA partners use AI to boost chip design energy efficiency tenfold
TSMC and its partners have leveraged artificial intelligence (AI) software to enhance the energy efficiency of AI computing chips by roughly ten times. The company presented its latest...
Thursday 25 September 2025
Foxconn set to gain from US$400b data center expansion in US by big names
Tech giants OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank on September 23 have announced a US$400 billion plan to build five new artificial intelligence data centers across the US, a massive infrastructure...
Thursday 25 September 2025
TSMC reshuffles Arizona leadership as executive succession accelerates
TSMC announced on September 25 that Y.L. Wang has resigned from his role as director and CEO of TSMC Arizona Corporation, effective October 1. Wang's departure marks the completion...