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Friday 22 May 2026
AMD deepens Taiwan supply chain ties with US$10B-plus push
AMD CEO Lisa Su arrived in Taiwan on May 20, 2026, on a private jet and largely followed the same itinerary as her April 2025 visit, including a meeting with TSMC, a technology forum...
Friday 22 May 2026
US-Japan cooperation could protect Taiwan '99%', defense investors told at Silicon Valley summit
Taiwan's semiconductor industry and the military implications of a potential cross-strait conflict dominated the aerospace and defense track on the second day of the Plug and Play...
Friday 22 May 2026
Lam Research launches PLP Center of Excellence, replacing wafers with panels
Advanced packaging designs are approaching the physical limitations of wafers as AI, HPC, and heterogeneous integration rapidly evolve. Subsequently, Panel Level Packaging (PLP) technology...
Thursday 21 May 2026
Commentary: Trump's Taiwan chip claim tests TSMC's silence
US President Donald Trump, after recently concluding a visit to China, again publicly accused Taiwan of having "stolen our chip industry." This was not the first time he had made such...
Thursday 21 May 2026
AMD commits over US$10 billion to Taiwan ecosystem to expand AI packaging and infrastructure capacity
AMD said on May 21 that it plans to invest more than US$10 billion across Taiwan's semiconductor ecosystem to deepen strategic partnerships and expand advanced packaging capacity for...
Thursday 21 May 2026
LG Innotek wins long-term substrate deals as Intel and cloud giants secure supply
LG Innotek has secured substrate supply terms with major technology customers that increasingly resemble long-term agreements used in the memory-chip sector, boosting the South Korean...
Thursday 21 May 2026
Tokyo Electron Taiwan drops appeal after court fines unit and jails ex-engineer in TSMC trade secrets case
Tokyo Electron's Taiwan unit said on May 21 that it respected judicial proceedings and would not appeal following a ruling in a trade secrets case involving TSMC. The decision came...
Thursday 21 May 2026
China uses iron-fist policies to expel inefficient TOPCon capacity from solar supply chain
China's top-down policies are creating a tech elimination battle in its solar supply chain. Because of severe oversupply in the mainstream N-type tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon)...
Thursday 21 May 2026
Grab's Taiwan push goes beyond food delivery
As Grab Holdings pushes ahead with its proposed acquisition of foodpanda's Taiwan business, the Southeast Asian technology giant is betting that the future of delivery is no longer...
Thursday 21 May 2026
Exclusive: TOPCon faces funding cuts while HJT and BC receive government support
As China's solar market enters a downfall, market sources indicate that China's central government is reshaping the industry landscape through an aggressive dual-track strategy. On...
Thursday 21 May 2026
Tech Forum 2026: How much longer can semiconductors sustain Taiwan?
During a keynote discussion session at Tech Forum 2026, DIGITIMES senior reporter Monica Chen and semiconductor analyst Andrew Lu shared their views on current AI server technology...
Thursday 21 May 2026
South Korea bets on KIST, LG to catch up in humanoid robots
South Korea has launched a five-year public-private project to build a domestic AI humanoid robot platform, bringing together KIST, LG affiliates, universities, and a hospital as the...
Thursday 21 May 2026
TSMC's COUPE push puts Samsung's silicon photonics ambitions under pressure
Samsung Electronics has launched silicon photonics foundry services and entered pilot production, signaling during its latest earnings call that optical communication modules will...
Wednesday 20 May 2026
ASML to deliver first High-NA chips within months despite cost concerns
ASML expects its first advanced semiconductors made using next-generation High-Numerical Aperture (High-NA) extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography equipment to ship within months.
Wednesday 20 May 2026
Tech Forum 2026: Physical AI poised to accelerate autonomous driving and robotics, analysts say
Physical AI is set to reshape autonomous driving and robotics. At the DIGITIMES Tech Forum 2026, held ahead of COMPUTEX 2026, analysts said advances in perception, decision-making,...