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Tuesday 10 November 2026
UK space firms eye Taiwan's chip and hardware ecosystem, global satellite production scales up
As the global satellite industry shifts toward standardization and high-volume production, demand is accelerating for satellite subsystems, communications hardware, and onboard computing...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Qisda ramps up AI investment, sees data-center slowdown as short-term
Qisda is increasing its investment in AI, with chairman Peter Chen saying a short-term slowdown in data-center construction would not derail the long-term AI trend and could ease component...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Nvidia showcases factory AI at Seoul event; Jensen Huang's daughter absent
Nvidia showcased its work with South Korean manufacturers on robot simulation, precision sanding and factory digital twins as its AI Day Seoul event opened on November 9, despite the...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Taiwan's GIS targets 800G/1.6T AI optics, with laser packaging ramp-up starting 4Q26
GIS is shifting from touch displays to semiconductor optics, with laser packaging entering small-volume production in the fourth quarter of 2026 and full capacity expected by the second...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
SK Hynix-backed Trinity Fab to test chipmaking tools in 2027
Trinity Fab, a semiconductor testing facility backed by SK Hynix and South Korean public bodies, will begin testing chipmaking equipment and materials in October 2027, The Elec...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Anthropic breach exposes 100+ South Korean enterprise Claude accounts
Anthropic’s generative AI service Claude suffered a data breach affecting more than 100 South Korean enterprise accounts, exposing customer names, email addresses, account IDs,...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
South Korea approves advanced display research platform
South Korea has approved a seven-year national research program to support display technology development and provide companies with shared testing and commercialization facilities...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Rebellions calls for govt support to test AI chips in space
Space-based data centers could open a new market for low-power AI chips, but moving computing workloads into orbit presents challenges involving radiation, cooling, and hardware reliability...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Sharp eyes AI server deliveries in Japan as early as March 2027
Sharp said it could begin delivering its new AI servers to customers as early as March 2027, leveraging parent company Foxconn's procurement and manufacturing capabilities to target...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Nvidia probe fuels push for China chip curbs, raising risks for Samsung, SK Hynix
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix face uncertainty over demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) as US lawmakers press for tighter controls on AI chip exports to China following allegations...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Mitsui Chemicals to acquire JSR for US$11.6 billion, targeting semiconductor materials growth
Mitsui Chemicals plans to acquire semiconductor materials maker JSR in a transaction valued at JPY1.84 trillion (approx. US$11.6 billion), including assumed debt, as it seeks to strengthen...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Taiwan's proposed Amazon Leo network would broaden emergency communications
Taiwan's proposed 2027 government budget would fund a low Earth orbit satellite network using Amazon Leo, adding backup communications for critical sites during disasters and emergencies...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
TIER sees Taiwan growth slowing to 6.45% in 2027
Taiwan's growth is expected to ease in 2027 as a surge in AI-related exports and business investment lifts this year's comparison base. However, continued spending on AI infrastructure...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Commentary: China's emerging semiconductor investment empire takes quieter route to dominance
A decade ago, China's Tsinghua Unigroup alarmed Taiwan's semiconductor industry with an aggressive acquisition campaign. Under then-chairman Zhao Weiguo, the group acquired Spreadtrum...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Exclusive: Quantum without quantum computers — Quinas bets on quantum tunneling to break AI's memory bottleneck
As artificial intelligence pushes computing systems toward unprecedented processing demands, another technological bottleneck is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore: the energy...