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Thursday 13 August 2026
LSE Semiconductor wins strategic investment from TIS

Lithography Semiconductor Equipment Co. (LSE) officially announced on August 11 that TECO Image Systems Co. (TIS) had completed a strategic...

Thursday 13 August 2026
From lab bench to IPO: How Taiwan's top university aims to turn professors into founders, campus into a unicorn factory

National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), one of Taiwan's leading research universities, has spent more than a decade cultivating a campus...

Thursday 13 August 2026
South Korea widens chip strategy beyond Samsung and SK Hynix with KRW5 trillion ecosystem fund
As market momentum spirals into an intensifying race over AI infrastructure buildouts, the global landscape has entered a more aggressive round of AI-centered investment, with national-scale...
Thursday 13 August 2026
Taoyuan plans AI manufacturing park in Guanyin to support server supply chain
Taoyuan is moving to develop Guanyin into an AI computing park as demand for AI servers drives heavier power requirements and a new round of factory expansion. The city said it had...
Wednesday 12 August 2026
OCP APAC 2026: AMD sees AI agents pushing CPU-GPU ratio toward 1:1
AMD expects the shift from chatbots to agentic AI to sharply increase CPU demand alongside GPU acceleration, potentially moving the traditional CPU-to-GPU ratio from roughly 1:4 toward...
Wednesday 12 August 2026
Tesla emerges as biggest winner from Germany's EV subsidies, while China-made models gain ground
Whether Germany's renewed electric vehicle (EV) subsidies are inadvertently helping Chinese brands accelerate their push into Europe has become a closely watched issue across the global...
Wednesday 12 August 2026
Sercomm expands beyond broadband into 5G, edge AI and IoT as 2Q26 revenue hits record high
Taiwan's Sercomm Corporation is repositioning itself for the next phase of network infrastructure demand by expanding beyond traditional broadband equipment into 5G, fixed wireless...
Wednesday 12 August 2026
Zhong Yang ramps up Thailand production as drone orders shift from China

Taiwan-based optical lens maker Zhong Yang Technology is benefiting from redirected orders from Europe and the US as customers seek alternatives to China-made components,...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
Japan's US$430B 2040 chip plan hinges on Rapidus 2nm

Japan has drawn up a plan for more than JPY370 trillion (approx. US$2.33 trillion) in combined public and private investment across 17 strategic...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
OCP APAC 2026: Microsoft leans on Taiwan supply chain for 'silicon-to-systems' AI buildout

Microsoft sources roughly 70% of the hardware content in its cloud infrastructure from Taiwan and the wider Asia-Pacific region, executives...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
MediaTek, Realtek, Himax, Elan eye optical communications boom in 2027
The use of optical communications in cloud AI data-center interconnect architectures is rising sharply, and Taiwan IC design firms including MediaTek, Realtek Semiconductor, Himax...
Wednesday 12 August 2026
DB HiTek profit jumps 43% as TSMC, Samsung scale back 8-inch capacity
DB HiTek posted a 43% jump in second-quarter operating profit as tighter 8-inch foundry supply and stronger power semiconductor demand kept its fabs running near full capacity, with...
Wednesday 12 August 2026
SPIL breaks ground on NT$100B Douliu plant, targeting operations in 2028

Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL), a subsidiary of ASE Technology Holding (ASEH), broke ground on a new plant in Douliu, Yunlin...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
South Korea deepens semiconductor ceramics collaboration amid chip industry expansion

South Korea is moving to reinforce its semiconductor materials and components ecosystem as chipmakers accelerate capacity expansion...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
AI server tracker: King Slide, Quanta and AIC lead July growth

July revenue trends across Taiwan's server supply chain remained broadly positive year over year, although sequential performance varied...