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Friday 21 August 2026

Automation Taipei 2026: German suppliers target aerospace's hidden manufacturing bottlenecks

Aircraft and spacecraft may be judged by thrust, payload capacity, and range, but the German Industry Solutions Session held at Automation Taipei 2026 on August 20 suggested that some...

Friday 21 August 2026

SK hynix weighs Japan memory fab in Miyagi, but says no investment is final

SK hynix is considering a large-scale memory semiconductor investment in Japan, with Miyagi Prefecture emerging as a potential site, although the company has stressed that no decision...

Friday 21 August 2026

HP Korea localizes AI strategy with Upstage in healthcare, finance

HP Korea is sharpening its localized AI strategy through a partnership with large language model (LLM) startup Upstage, and has already moved into AI transformation (AX), eyeing demand...

Friday 21 August 2026

Explainer: Why South Korea's semiconductor concentration may fare better than Taiwan's

As South Korea's semiconductor exports continue to power its economic expansion, market concerns are growing regarding the risks of excessive concentration in the tech sector. Recent...

Friday 21 August 2026

FOPLP's race to scale: Taiwan leads while three technical hurdles test mass production

Rising demand for AI computing power is increasing chip package sizes, bringing fan-out panel-level packaging (FOPLP) into sharper focus...

Friday 21 August 2026

Taiwan export orders near US$98 billion in July, with US as top buyer

Taiwan's export orders climbed by US$207.3 billion, or 52.5%, in the first seven months of 2026 compared with the same period in 2025, according to data released on August 20 by the...

Friday 21 August 2026

Charts: TSMC's share of Taiwan chip manufacturing revenue falls to 81.8% as memory makers scale up

Foundry leader Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) grew 37% year to date — and still lost four percentage points of the sub-sector's revenue share, because the...

Friday 21 August 2026

US ban on robot dogs clears the way for Taiwan's Swancor

To safeguard national security and the development of the AI supply chain, the US has banned imports of advanced humanoid robots. Against that backdrop, Taiwan-based Swancor unveiled...

Friday 21 August 2026

Elice to build South Korea's first warm-water-cooled AI data center, unveils coding agent

South Korean AI infrastructure provider Elice Group is expanding on two fronts, adding enterprise AI transformation (AX) solutions while building what it says will be the country's...

Friday 21 August 2026

Korean display makers step up OLED patent push as China narrows technology gap

Korean display makers are stepping up patent licensing and cross-border enforcement as Chinese rivals have sharply narrowed the technology and market-share gap in OLED since 2020,...

Friday 21 August 2026

Samsung holds off on High-NA EUV until 1nm production

Samsung Electronics does not expect to move High-NA EUV lithography into volume production until its 1nm-class generation, a timeline that points to around 2030, after it had earlier...

Friday 21 August 2026

DIGITIMES's Colley Hwang warns Taiwan AI data center capacity lags South Korea

The inference economy has arrived, and Taiwan's tech industry must transition from the "knowledge economy" to the "inference economy,"...

Friday 21 August 2026

Charts: Foxconn is losing share of Taiwan's EMS revenue as Quanta and Wistron near double

The sub-sector's dominant supplier grew 37.9% year to date and still ranks only seventh of 20, while the other 19 companies grew 56.9% between them.

Thursday 20 August 2026

Samsung gains foundry pricing power as 4nm capacity stays tight through 2027

Samsung Electronics is gaining pricing power in its foundry business as AI and high-bandwidth memory (HBM) demand tightens advanced-node...

Thursday 20 August 2026

China reportedly delays germanium, quartz clearances, impacting Taiwan optics and aerospace suppliers

China has reportedly delayed customs clearance for critical materials — including germanium, quartz-based materials and neodymium magnets — since 2025, lengthening delivery...

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