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Friday 5 December 2025
China's rare-metal clamp creates a tungsten void; Lianyou builds high-value lines to capture demand
China's rare metal export controls have created a clear global supply gap. Lianyou Metals, a key recycler and smelter of tungsten and cobalt, expects to gain from offshore demand...
Friday 5 December 2025
Glotech sees growing demand for quartz cloth on M9 CCL shift
Glotech Industrial said it is increasing shipments of quartz-fiber yarn samples to Japanese customers as the supply chain prepares for Nvidia Corp.'s next-generation Rubin AI server...
Wednesday 3 December 2025
Germany and Taiwan strike a chord: Merck's 357-year legacy meets new chip investments
Germany and Taiwan marked a symbolic convergence of politics, culture, and industrial strategy on the evening of December 2, 2025, as the Deutsche Philharmonie Merck performed at...
Wednesday 3 December 2025
China's Kingboard raises prices again as copper and fiberglass costs soar

Following price-hike announcements from Taiwan's major copper-clad laminate (CCL) makers, including Nan Ya, China's market leader Kingboard...

Tuesday 2 December 2025
Merck launches Kaohsiung semiconductor flagship campus to target AI and silicon photonics
Merck Group's Kaohsiung semiconductor technology flagship campus officially completed phase one on December 1, marking Merck's first large-scale semiconductor materials technology...
Tuesday 2 December 2025
Copper shock, AI PCB demand recasts global CCL pricing
Costs for copper foil and electronic-grade glass fibre cloth are climbing at the same time that AI infrastructure build-out is fuelling strong demand for high-frequency, high-speed...
Monday 1 December 2025
Nittobo, Nan Ya Plastics join forces to meet AI glass-fiber fabric demand
The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) applications has significantly boosted demand for specialized glass-fiber fabrics in recent years, creating a growing supply shortage...
Monday 1 December 2025
Shinkong’s new growth story starts with GPU packaging and e-paper
Shinkong Synthetic Fibers Corporation (SSFC) told investors on November 28 that it is navigating a challenging operating environment marked by raw material price volatility, Chinese...
Monday 1 December 2025
Export controls drive CSCC to advance domestic compound semiconductor materials
Power demands of AI servers are boosting growth in the power semiconductor market. However, Taiwan's advanced carbon materials have long relied on imports, and China's recent graphite...
Friday 28 November 2025
Huawei's 'genius youth' takes over as Swancor chair
Swancor Advanced Materials, the STAR Market–listed maker of high-performance composites and corrosion-resistant materials, has entered a new phase after naming Peng Zhihui —...
Friday 28 November 2025
Jufan rides the ‘clean-tech squeeze’ as hydraulics push into chips, clinics, and robots
Driven by a global upgrade in advanced manufacturing, hydraulic components are expanding beyond traditional heavy industries into semiconductor, medical, and precision equipment sectors...
Friday 28 November 2025
AI servers fuel interconnect boom as suppliers race to integrate signal, power, and cooling
As AI computing power rapidly scales, electronic system interconnect demands are shifting from traditional terminal structure optimization to comprehensive integration of high-speed...
Thursday 27 November 2025
Nan Ya Plastics raises CCL and PP prices by 8% amid raw material cost surge
Nan Ya Plastics, a subsidiary of Formosa Plastics Group, has notified customers of an 8% price increase across its entire copper-clad laminate (CCL) and prepreg (PP) product lines...
Thursday 27 November 2025
Taiwanese firms expand 5G glass fiber capacity to challenge Japan's dominance
The surge in global AI infrastructure demand is driving major upgrades in PCB material specifications, but it has also exposed supply shortages of critical upstream materials such...
Tuesday 25 November 2025
Google's Nano Banana Pro boosts text-accurate AI imagery but still shows reasoning limits
Google has introduced Nano Banana Pro, a Gemini 3 Pro–based image model that improves multilingual text rendering and visual consistency while enabling more reliable infographics...