Facing the modern trade environment and supply chain restructuring in the Donald Trump 2.0 era, industry players have many approaches to respond. At the DIGITIMES Tech Forum on December 3, 2025, DIGITIMES deputy director Tom Lo and analyst Chou Yen shared that, whether from a policy or supply chain perspective, the market in 2025 has already shown clear nonlinear changes.
WiseChip Semiconductor general manager Wen-Qin Ye stated that overall operations have suffered from macroeconomic conditions and tariff impacts, falling short of expectations. However, the company has stabilized operations through inventory management and strengthened organizational efficiency, while actively developing new products. By diversifying its business, the company aims to pursue profitability and hopes that new applications in 2026 will contribute to revenue.
Denmark's state-owned power and gas operator Energinet has revised its green energy connection review process, aiming to improve the integration of green energy into its power grid and address grid bottlenecks. The company has recently shifted from a first-come-first-served queue system to an evaluation based on project readiness.
Power demands of AI servers are boosting growth in the power semiconductor market. However, Taiwan's advanced carbon materials have long relied on imports, and China's recent graphite export restrictions have once again emphasized the importance of localized supply chains.
As AI computing power surges exponentially, electricity has become a critical strategic resource for the tech industry. With traditional power supply models struggling to meet the rapidly growing demand from data centers, US tech giants are transforming from mere consumers into active investors and traders in energy.
TSMC, seeking to balance advanced manufacturing with ecological stewardship, has launched a biodiversity initiative centered on one of the planet's most essential pollinators: the honeybee. In partnership with Tunghai University's Department of Life Sciences and local beekeepers in Hsinchu, Taichung, and Tainan, the company has introduced the "Ji Mi" program—TSMC-branded honey—to support bee conservation and strengthen local ecosystems.
China's industrial overcapacity and a prolonged real estate slump continue to weigh on cement demand across both sides of the Taiwan Strait, prompting Taiwan Cement Corporation (TCC) to accelerate its overseas expansion. The company is leaning on high-margin, low-carbon cement operations in Turkey and Portugal, along with its fast-growing European energy-storage business, as its next major growth engines. TCC said its Europe-Africa cement operations and new-energy ventures have become its third and fourth pillars, and it is targeting Europe's coming wave of urban renewal and a EUR10 billion (approx. US$11.5 billion) electricity-market opportunity.
Chinese wind turbine manufacturer Envision Group is evaluating the establishment of a battery plant in India. As the Indian government encourages increased use of renewable energy, energy storage is increasingly being accepted as a new opportunity.
Raymond Huang, chairman of water pump leader Walrus Pump, stated that 2026 will see four main growth drivers: this includes the launch of the new Kaohsiung Luzhu Global Factory, industrial water pumps entering the supply chains of major US and Japanese machine tool makers, shipments of server-grade technology pumps, and the launch of newly developed submersible pumps. The company is very optimistic about its 2026 business outlook.
At its investor conference on November 27, 2025, Gigastorage Corporation shared details regarding its strategic shift from its early photovoltaic (PV) business toward AI computing, cooling, and personal health micro-sensing. In the HPC and AI fields, Gigastorage has invested in direct forming technology (DFT). This technique leverages the high hardness of diamond abrasives to directly machine deep, tall two-dimensional fin structures onto heat-dissipating materials, improving thermal resistance performance by approximately 20%. It overcomes the technical bottlenecks of traditional cooling solutions, allowing fins to be directly integrated into GPU modules while precisely controlling the base thickness below 0.2mm, targeting top-tier applications such as HPC and vertical AI cooling.
Amid rising global demand for green energy and geopolitical supply chain shifts, solar engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) firm Teinco Technology is harnessing its expertise in electromechanical engineering to develop a renewable energy trading platform and enter the green energy storage market in the US. The company aims to expand its operational footprint by leveraging these two growth engines.
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