Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan used his Computex 2026 keynote in Taipei to frame Intel's AI-era reset around execution, infrastructure, and deeper ties with Taiwan's PC and semiconductor supply chain.
South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy announced on June 2, 2026, that it would sharply streamline domestic approval procedures for extreme ultraviolet equipment used in semiconductor fabrication, reducing installation lead times from 34 days to 9 days to accelerate advanced production lines. The ministry said the change reclassifies EUV tools from high-pressure gas manufacturing facilities to a new "specific equipment" category after a partial revision to the Enforcement Decree of the High-Pressure Gas Safety Control Act.
Nvidia GTC Taipei opened on June 1 with a packed keynote by CEO Jensen Huang, who kicked off the event by unveiling the widely watched Taiwan supply chain board.
When Marvell CEO Matt Murphy asked ASE Group CEO Tien Wu what makes Taiwan's technology ecosystem unique — and why it is so hard to replicate elsewhere — the answer was less about technology than about time.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made a surprise guest appearance during Marvell Technology CEO Matt Murphy's keynote at Computex 2026 in Taipei on June 2, joining Murphy on stage for about 10 minutes in what became the most-talked-about moment of the one-hour presentation.
In 2026, a global compute shortage spanning chips, cloud services, servers, and data-center components is sweeping across the industry. The scarcity of compute and broad price hikes are running through the entire AI sector, pushing Nvidia's market value higher, lifting cloud revenue and profits at Amazon, Microsoft, and Google to record levels, and driving the valuations of AI startups OpenAI and Anthropic to nearly US$1 trillion.
Nvidia announced at its GTC Taipei 2026 event that it will significantly expand the ecosystem of its Nvidia Drive Hyperion robotaxi-ready platform, bringing together global automakers, autonomous driving software developers, and shared mobility service providers.
Semiconductor testing company King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) recently convened its 2026 shareholders' meeting, during which it completed the election of nine board directors. Longtime chairman C.K. Lee unexpectedly stepped down from the chairmanship but remains a regular director. The board subsequently elected vice chairman Chi-chun Hsieh as the new chairman, a move that has drawn significant attention from the industry.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang held a global media session on June 2 with an unusual guest: MediaTek vice chairman and CEO Rick Tsai, who joined Huang to share the inside story of how the two companies developed RTX Spark, the AI PC platform that Huang described as the beginning of the agent computing era.
Intel's foundry revival may depend less on beating TSMC at the most advanced process nodes than on whether it can turn AI-driven demand into a profitable advanced packaging business.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has repeatedly backed TSMC's price hikes, saying its advanced process and supply-chain services are difficult and highly valuable. As AI chip demand surges, TSMC, Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, Micron, and other top semiconductor makers are also reshaping their supply-chain strategy to deepen cooperation on mature-node foundry services and advanced packaging.
At a Korea Partner Night event held in Taipei, Taiwan, ahead of Computex 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Taiwan and South Korea occupy distinctly different positions in the technology industry and do not need to be compared nor does a choice between the two need to be made.
SK Hynix's Cheongju campus was hit by a fire on June 1, 2026, prompting the emergency evacuation of all 3,600 workers from the M15 and M15X plants. Seven people were taken to the hospital after hydrogen fluoride (HF) leaked in the incident, which came less than a week after a separate fire-related event at the site.
Formosa Plastics Group (FPG) is stepping up its transformation into higher-value businesses, with AI, semiconductors, and power grid opportunities emerging as key new growth engines as the petrochemical industry faces a downcycle that started in 2023.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced at GTC Taipei on June 1st that the Vera Rubin platform has entered full production, with Taiwan's server makers and global supply chain partners manufacturing systems at scale for AI labs, cloud providers, and hyperscalers worldwide.
After Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wrapped up his "trillion-dollar banquet" for Taiwan AI supply-chain giants, GTC Taipei is set to become a highlight of Computex 2026. Nvidia will also host its first "South Korean partners night" in Taiwan.
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said the artificial intelligence industry is entering a rapid growth phase that could keep revenue rising sharply into 2027, while supply-chain bottlenecks are likely to persist as demand continues to outstrip capacity.
Computex 2026 will open under the theme "AI Together," with attention shifting beyond Nvidia's training-focused hardware to AI computing, robotics, smart mobility, and next-generation technologies. The event is likely to highlight a wider set of suppliers as AI moves deeper into inference, edge applications, and custom chips.
The global semiconductor industry is at an inflection point, split between those who can still shrink transistors and those who can no longer do so. US export controls and the denial of EUV lithography equipment have effectively capped China's front-end chip manufacturing at older process nodes, while Taiwan's TSMC extends its lead by layering chips vertically in three dimensions — a technique known as 3D stacking — binding the world's top AI chip designers ever more tightly to its ecosystem.
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang's pre-Computex meetings in Taipei are drawing close attention from South Korean companies seeking a bigger role in the global AI supply chain. With demand for AI infrastructure rising, their interest reflects how the next phase of AI development could shape worldwide competition, partnerships, and technology access.
Taiwan has secured preferential treatment under US Section 232 tariffs for most exports other than semiconductors after months of negotiations with Washington, but uncertainty remains over proposed semiconductor measures. With chips accounting for the bulk of Taiwan's exports to the US, Taipei is seeking tariff-free quotas and company-specific exemptions before any new duties are imposed.
MediaTek held a pre-Computex 2026 media event in Taipei, Taiwan, on May 29, after which president and COO Joe Chen and CFO and co-COO David Ku spoke with reporters. Ku shared his views on supply chain capacity planning as well as a range of capital market-related issues.
Ion Electronic Materials announced that its Tongluo plant in Miaoli has completed construction of Phase 1 and Phase 2 and is entering a mass-production stage for new products and a fluorine-based cleaning gas filling line, the firm said after its shareholders meeting on the 29th. The company said the planned filling line will be one of only two in Taiwan and will create the world's largest single-site implant gas production capacity, aimed at meeting demand from advanced semiconductor and display manufacturers.
