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Saturday 8 August 2026
TSMC, ASE, WPG: the white-knight battles that built Taiwan's chip empire

Powerchip chairman Frank Huang, who spent much of his career mirroring the trajectory of Taiwan's memory and foundry industries and...

Saturday 8 August 2026
Interview: Lightmatter maps CPO future with Nvidia NVLink, Taiwan supply chain
The 2026 OCP APAC Summit will take place in Taipei on August 11-12. Ahead of the event, Lightmatter founder and CEO Nicholas Harris spoke exclusively with DIGITIMES about the company's...
Saturday 8 August 2026
Taiwan team builds high-performance MoS2 transistor to ease 2D semiconductor limits
Taiwan researchers announced on August 6 that they had developed a high-performance monolayer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) top-gate transistor designed to address a long-standing interface...
Saturday 8 August 2026
Interview: SailPoint says Taiwan hardware leads but identity governance lags
Taiwan's hardware manufacturing sector leads globally, but the country's level of investment in cybersecurity software and identity governance still ranks in the back half of the Asia-Pacific...
Saturday 8 August 2026
Chenbro revenue climbs in the second quarter as July shipments hit a record
Chenbro Micom reported consolidated revenue of NT$7.82 billion (US$242.4 million) in the second quarter of 2026, up 10% quarter-over-quarter and 43.7% year-over-year. The server chassis...
Friday 7 August 2026
Analysis: TSMC expands Japan footprint with 3nm fab, advanced packaging push
TSMC is expanding Japan's role in its global network as it prepares to add 3nm production in Kumamoto and deepens local capabilities in advanced packaging, chip design and next-generation...
Friday 7 August 2026
NCSIST and Shield AI complete autonomous drone mission
Shield AI and Taiwan's National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) said on August 6, 2026, that they have successfully completed a live demonstration of a multi-drone...
Friday 7 August 2026
Taiwan advances efforts to become global drone hub with non-China supply chain edge

Amid the escalation of geopolitical tensions and extreme weather events, Taiwan has stepped up efforts to become a global hub for drone...

Friday 7 August 2026
Chunghwa Telecom to launch dedicated Astranis satellite, Matsu cable in September
As geopolitical tensions and natural disasters continue to highlight the importance of resilient communications infrastructure, Chunghwa Telecom is accelerating investments in both...
Friday 7 August 2026
Ibiden raises full-year profit forecast as AI server and substrate demand strengthens
Ibiden said on August 4 that it raised its fiscal 2026 outlook after stronger-than-expected demand from generative AI and a recovery in the general-purpose server market lifted results...
Friday 7 August 2026
Integrated ecosystems become focus of AI-driven smart vehicle development
The global automobile industry has been at the cusp of a critical transition into electrification and smart technologies, and the focus of future competition in the industry will move...
Friday 7 August 2026
Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala weighs US$6.3B investment in Japan AI data center

The United Arab Emirates is considering investing as much as JPY1 trillion (approx. US$6.3 billion) in a 500MW artificial intelligence...

Friday 7 August 2026
SK Hynix commits US$39 billion to new Yongin and Cheongju fabs as AI memory demand builds
SK Hynix has approved roughly KRW54 trillion (approx. US$39 billion) in new fab construction across two domestic sites, allocating KRW35.2 trillion to a second Yongin fab and KRW19.1...
Friday 7 August 2026
South Korea welcomes Trump polysilicon rules as boost to non-China suppliers
US President Donald Trump's new import rules on polysilicon, ingots, wafers, and solar products could ripple through global clean energy and semiconductor markets, affecting pricing,...
Friday 7 August 2026
SK Hynix's Solidigm weighs up to US$7 billion in pre-IPO funding

Solidigm, SK Hynix's US NAND and enterprise storage unit, is weighing a pre-IPO funding round of KRW5 trillion to KRW10 trillion, roughly US$3.5 billion to US$7 billion,...