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Thursday 4 June 2026

HBM4 supply in focus as SK's Chey meets TSMC's Wei

SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won met TSMC chairman C.C. Wei in Taiwan on June 3, as SK Hynix and TSMC map out future cooperation in HBM4 base dies, advanced logic processes, and custom...

Thursday 4 June 2026

TSMC chair says CoPoS could scale within years while downplaying risk from Terafab

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) told shareholders on June 4 that the AI surge is creating major opportunities, but also leaving TSMC with the bulk of the investment and...

Thursday 4 June 2026

Southern Taiwan Science Park January-April 2026 revenue tops NT$1 trillion on AI boom

Driven by the booming semiconductor industry, the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP) posted revenue of nearly NT$1.1 trillion (approx. US$35.04 billion) for January to April 2026,...

Thursday 4 June 2026

TSMC sees no sign of capex slowdown as demand stays strong

TSMC chairman C.C. Wei told shareholders on June 4 that the company sees no reason to cut capital spending, citing strong demand for advanced chips, continuing expansion in the US,...

Thursday 4 June 2026

EU launches Technology Sovereignty Package to strengthen chips, AI, and cloud infrastructure

The European Commission has unveiled a comprehensive Technology Sovereignty Package aimed at strengthening Europe's capabilities in semiconductors, AI, cloud infrastructure, open-source...

Thursday 4 June 2026

Taiwan's defense institute unveils 3 military robot dogs built on Ghost Robotics platform

Taiwan's state-owned defense research body, the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science & Technology (NCSIST), has unveiled three military robot dog variants developed on a platform...

Thursday 4 June 2026

SK and TSMC deepen HBM, advanced packaging tie-up

SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won met TSMC Chairman C.C. Wei in Taiwan on June 3, as the two sides exchanged views on the latest trends in next-generation AI technologies and discussed...

Thursday 4 June 2026

MiTAC Computing confident in 2026 growth amid AI server expansion

MiTAC Computing Technology, a subsidiary of MiTAC Holdings, has no doubt that operations will grow in 2026, according to company president Rick Hwang. The company has two new US facilities...

Thursday 4 June 2026

Pegatron sees AI server expansion accelerating as organizational overhaul nears completion

Pegatron is betting that the AI server market will keep expanding, even though it entered later than some peers. The company said 2026 will mark the start of a full-speed push as generative...

Thursday 4 June 2026

BOE races Samsung for Gen 8.6 OLED title despite low yield

BOE is preparing to hold a mass-production shipment ceremony for its Gen 8.6 IT OLED line in mid-June, positioning the Chinese display...

Thursday 4 June 2026

Taiwan's green energy industry shifts from manufacturing race to resilience strategy

Taiwan's green energy industry is emerging from more than two decades of boom, retreats, and shakeouts with a different strategic focus. What began as a contest in hardware manufacturing...

Thursday 4 June 2026

Japan's robotics legacy faces a new challenge: commercial success

At the close of his keynote address at the Humanoids Summit in Tokyo, Hiroshi Ishiguro — one of the pioneers of humanoid robotics — offered a candid assessment of the industry's...

Thursday 4 June 2026

Chip test equipment makers hit by FPGA, CPU supply crunch

Semiconductor test equipment makers are facing severe shortages of key components, with lead times for FPGAs, CPUs, GPUs, and driver ICs...

Thursday 4 June 2026

Kioxia weighs new NAND fab as AI demand drives long-term expansion plans

Kioxia is evaluating the construction of a new NAND flash manufacturing facility at its Kitakami site in Iwate Prefecture, aiming for production to begin after 2029-2030 as the company...

Thursday 4 June 2026

Taiwan courts the world's AI startups in a bid to secure chip future

Taiwan is stepping up its efforts to position itself as a global hub for artificial intelligence and semiconductor innovation, deepening ties between international startups and its...

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