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Sunday 6 September 2026
TEL sees AI-driven packaging, memory demand reshaping Taiwan strategy
Tokyo Electron's Taiwan president said AI is pushing semiconductor demand into new areas, with advanced packaging, DRAM, high-bandwidth memory, and NAND flash all gaining momentum...
Sunday 6 September 2026
K-Safety Expo 2026: Safety gets smarter as six innovators win foreign media honors
The BEST OF K-SAFETY EXPO Global Media Awards on September 3 offered a revealing snapshot of where safety technology is heading: away from passive protection and toward systems that...
Sunday 6 September 2026
Hanmi's 2.5D bonders pass Taiwan foundry qualification as packaging outsourcing expands
South Korea's Hanmi Semiconductor has reportedly begun supplying 2.5D packaging bonders to an unnamed Taiwanese foundry after the equipment passed mass-production qualification, giving...
Sunday 6 September 2026
Taiwan thermal supplier I-Chiun launches AI chip cooling venture targeting US$19.2B liquid-cooling market
I-Chiun Precision Industry and Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) have established Huizhi Advanced, the country's first startup focused on AI chip thermal design,...
Sunday 6 September 2026
Podcast highlights: SoIC vs CoWoS, HBM5 hybrid bonding, and EMIB-T's yield problem
In a podcast, DIGITIMES analyst Luke Lin said hybrid bonding is drawing fresh attention at SEMICON Taiwan 2026 and could become a key driver of advanced packaging capacity expansion...
Sunday 6 September 2026
Taiwan chip equipment maker Scientech sees orders into 2028, may turn away customers in 2027
AI and high-performance computing (HPC) demand is extending order visibility for Taiwanese semiconductor equipment supplier Scientech into 2028, while capacity constraints may force...
Sunday 6 September 2026
K-Safety Expo 2026: Beyond AI, Korea re-engineers the human layer of industrial safety
Not every safety breakthrough spotted across the K-Safety Expo 2026 floor in Busan came with an AI camera attached.
Sunday 6 September 2026
Google's quantum boss says five years; his engineer says not so fast
Quantum computing has a trust problem. When a quantum machine produces an answer no ordinary computer can feasibly produce, there is no obvious way to tell whether the answer is ri...
Saturday 5 September 2026
Exclusive: South Korea's safety AI boom is being built from the top down, BEXCO says
South Korea's safety-tech sector may be increasingly filled with AI cameras, robots, drones, and predictive systems, but BEXCO general manager Tom Choi argues that the force pushing...
Saturday 5 September 2026
Samsung, SK chiefs to meet Nvidia's Huang in New York amid US investment pressure
Samsung Electronics Chairman Jay Y. Lee and SK Group Chairman Tae-won Chey are traveling to New York at the end of September 2026 to meet Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang again as Washington...
Saturday 5 September 2026
NYCU wins Nobel laureate for Taiwan job card
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) has recruited 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate Arieh Warshel to work in Taiwan, and the National Development Council (NDC) has...
Saturday 5 September 2026
Semicon Taiwan 2026: A windmill in the die bonder, and a Dutch bet on photonics
Dutch equipment maker ITEC used Semicon Taiwan to promote a die-bonding architecture that it says triples throughput over earlier versions of the design by removing the largest source...
Saturday 5 September 2026
Taiwan semiconductor output targets NT$8 trillion
As Semicon Taiwan kicked off at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) announced that, based on forecasts compiled from multiple research institutions,...
Saturday 5 September 2026
Exclusive: Taiwan's first tokamak to begin plasma testing by end of 2026
Fusion energy, often referred to as an artificial sun, has become a central focus of global sustainable energy development in recent years. However, despite nearly 70 years of worldwide...
Saturday 5 September 2026
Samsung SDI nears solid-state battery mass production, eyes China supply chain
Reports that Samsung SDI's procurement team recently visited the Chinese production facilities of battery material maker Tinci Materials have drawn significant attention within China's...