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Thursday 5 November 2026
EU launches EUR525 million push to close chip design gap
The European Union has launched a EUR525 million (approx. US$590 million) initiative to strengthen its semiconductor design industry, seeking to narrow the gap with the US and China...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Price hikes, market saturation curb global telecom, consumer electronics export growth
Rising global oil prices have driven up food costs, squeezing consumer discretionary budgets for products with higher price elasticity, such as smartphones and consumer electronics...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Ukraine's top unmanned fleet developer looks to Taiwan for critical components
Ukrainian defense tech company UFORCE, creator of the Magura unmanned surface vessel credited with disabling or sinking 19 Russian warships in the Black Sea and emerging as a primary...
Thursday 5 November 2026
South Korea's Moreh claims AMD MI355X delivers over twice Nvidia B200's inference throughput
South Korean AI software developer Moreh says AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs running its inference software delivered more than twice the throughput of Nvidia B200 GPUs in company tests,...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Naver Cloud ramps up use of AMD EPYC, citing high Intel CPU costs
South Korean cloud services provider Naver Cloud now runs AMD EPYC processors in about 35,000 servers and plans to deploy 144-core fifth-generation EPYC chips in its public cloud services...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Taiwan accelerates unmanned boat fleet as experts urge allied cooperation
The Research Institute for Democracy, Society and Emerging Technology (DSET) released a report on November 4 at the 2026 Taiwan Marine Tech & Unmanned Robotics Expo (MATURE Taiwan),...
Thursday 5 November 2026
ELAN, Thunder Tiger, Gallopwave team up on 11 chips for all-domestic AI drones
Taiwan-based IC design house ELAN Microelectronics has announced that a joint proposal submitted with Thunder Tiger and Gallopwave—titled the "Domestic AI Smart Dual-Use Drone...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Taiwan digs deep: 2,049-meter geothermal well strikes 140°C in Taitung
Taiwan's deep geothermal sector is reporting fresh progress after a 2,049-meter well that reached temperatures of 140 degrees Celsius was completed in a challenging metamorphic rock...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Samsung reportedly plans 2nm fab to boost HBM base-die output
Samsung Electronics is preparing to build a 2nm- and 4nm-class foundry fab at its Giheung campus in Yongin, South Korea, to expand production of logic base dies used in high-bandwidth...
Thursday 5 November 2026
MUFG, SMBC to renew JPY600 billion credit lines for scandal-hit Nidec
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group's MUFG Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group's Sumitomo Mitsui Banking (SMBC) plan to renew a combined JPY600 billion (approx. US$3.8 billion) in...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Mitsui Chemicals reportedly plans US$8.2B acquisition of JSR in Japan chip materials push
Mitsui Chemicals is planning to acquire semiconductor materials maker JSR from state-backed Japan Investment (JIC) in a deal potentially worth more than JPY1.3 trillion (US$8.2 billion),...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Taiwan-Netherlands launch four photonics R&D partnerships
Taiwan and the Netherlands announced four joint research and development collaborations on November 4 under their bilateral Technology Bridge Program, targeting photonic packaging,...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Empyrean's EDA acquisitions could give Korean chip designers cheaper tools—and stronger Chinese rivals
China's efforts to build a complete domestic chip-design software stack are gathering pace through acquisitions and strategic investments. Empyrean Technology's latest transactions...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Subsidies pave the way as cheap cells squeeze Taiwan's energy storage players into a profit battle
With Taiwan's electricity prices poised to rise, large power users set to bear the brunt, and the government planning to broaden the definition of large power users, pairing electricity...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Taiwan's power density tops Japan, South Korea as AI drives Southern Taiwan Science Park load
AI expansion and rising household electricity demand are pushing Taiwan's power consumption higher, with Taipower forecasting that the Southern Taiwan Science Park's electricity load...