According to Reuters, citing sources, silicon IP vendor Arm is in talk with at least ten companies to bring one or more anchor investors in Arm's initial public offering (IPO), though the talks are preliminary and any decsion about an anchor investment won't come till August. The ten companies reportedly in talks with Arm are Intel, Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft, Samsung and TSMC.

Many IC design firms have already seen their customers place orders in advance and are on track to report brisk sales results for the second quarter of 2023. However, the fabless firms are aware that customers may slow their pace of orders to maintain inventory levels, which could result in a particularly weak third quarter, according to industry sources in Taiwan.

Despite a low base, India's imports of chipmaking equipment grew by almost 8-fold year-on-year in the past fiscal year, implying importers have begun developing a local semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem in the country that is eager to be self-reliant in the chip industry.

A sort of alliance is brewing among Taiwanese semiconductor and LCD equipment manufacturers, and the realization of such partnership will help related makers expand sales and services at home and abroad, according to industry sources.

Benefiting from the clearance of IT product inventory, LED backlight unit (BLU) specialist Darwin Precisions has seen its order visibility improve, ramping up its capacity utilization rate.

Taiwan-based LCD panel makers will continue to experience sequential revenue growth in June, having enjoyed revenue gains in May, buoyed by rising TV panel prices.

On June 13, National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) and long-time partner Microsoft Taiwan jointly announced a mixed reality (MR) application project. The NTU Hospital team will utilize Microsoft's HoloLens 2 head-mounted display and related systems to convert 10 years' worth of CT images into 3D stereoscopic hologram images that can be projected in mid-air. Application scenarios include doctor-patient communication, preoperative planning, gross anatomy teaching, and more.

NTUH vice superintendent I-Rue Lai pointed out that Taiwan's advanced ICT sector is an important driving force behind improvements in healthcare quality. This joint project with Microsoft will utilize the HoloLens 2 and systems like the Microsoft Teams video conferencing platform to improve the efficiency of internal teaching, doctor-patient communication, and remote consultations. A remote consulting session with NTUH's Yunlin branch was also demonstrated live.

Rugged industrial personal computer (IPC) manufacturers have observed that geopolitical shifts and the digital transformation of national defense have accelerated the demand for defense-related equipment, thereby generating a sustainable growth momentum for the coming years.

Despite the heated competition between Nvidia and AMD following the latter's latest offering of MI300X, the global data center market has slowed as enterprises tighten their belts.

At the Next Generation Communications Technology Summit on June 14, mobile industry leaders Apple and MediaTek projected a mid-2029 commercial rollout for 6G technology. The tech behemoths also outlined how 3GPP Release 21, which incorporates 6G specifications, would make its debut in 2028, marking the beginning of a full-scale 6G deployment process.

India may account for nearly 20% of global iPhone production in the next two years, but India's value addition for mobile phones is still falling behind China and Vietnam.

The foldable phone market is entering a competitive phase, with incumbent market leader Samsung Electronics' position being seriously challenged. Compared to its peak in 2020, Samsung has already seen its market share in foldable phones cut in half due to the likes of Motorola and Huawei.