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Thursday 4 December 2025
Tera Auto Tech eyes military and AI growth, optimistic for 2026
Tera Auto Tech held an online earnings call on December 3, 2025, with its management team expressing confidence in two major growth drivers. As Taiwan's defense budget increases annually,...
Thursday 4 December 2025
Taiwan's president invokes past chip curbs as US weighs Nvidia sales to China
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te used an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin at The New York Times DealBook Summit to frame semiconductors as a shared global resource and signal...
Thursday 4 December 2025
PC makers face 20% price hikes amid worsening memory shortage
PC manufacturers are planning significant price increases on 2026 models as an acute shortage of conventional memory chips, driven by soaring demand for artificial intelligence hardware,...
Thursday 4 December 2025
Exclusive: Qualcomm SVP says AI PC still in early stage, focuses on tech and market education
Qualcomm is hosting another summit with Taiwan's local PC ecosystem by the end of 2025, following its 2023 event. Kedar Kondap, Qualcomm's senior vice president responsible for PC...
Thursday 4 December 2025
Chunghwa Telecom expands Southeast Asia presence
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) officially established its Malaysia subsidiary, Chunghwa Telecom Malaysia Sdn. Bhd., on December 1. CHT chairman Chih-Cheng Chien said during a digital empowerment...
Wednesday 3 December 2025
TEL pledges tighter oversight after prosecutors link Taiwan unit to TSMC leak case

Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL) sought to clarify its position after Taiwan's High Prosecutors Office indicted its subsidiary, Tokyo Electron...

Wednesday 3 December 2025
Kyocera pulls plug on 5G base-station project, cites fierce global competition

Kyocera has abandoned its bid to enter the 5G base-station market, shelving a plan it once hoped would help Japan reclaim a foothold in...

Wednesday 3 December 2025
Germany and Taiwan strike a chord: Merck's 357-year legacy meets new chip investments
Germany and Taiwan marked a symbolic convergence of politics, culture, and industrial strategy on the evening of December 2, 2025, as the Deutsche Philharmonie Merck performed at...
Wednesday 3 December 2025
Tesla and BYD confront slowing sales as global EV momentum falters

Tesla and BYD are both facing increasing sales pressure, with the two electric vehicle (EV) giants showing signs of fatigue in their key...

Wednesday 3 December 2025
Eleven Japanese and American companies file lawsuits seeking refunds for Trump tariffs
Eleven companies from Japan and the US, including Toyota Tsusho, Sumitomo Chemical, Ricoh, and Costco Wholesale, have filed lawsuits demanding refunds for reciprocal tariffs imposed...
Wednesday 3 December 2025
How Gelsinger's 'Made in America' vision challenges TSMC's Arizona ambitions
Pat Gelsinger describes himself as a born-again Christian who lives "at the intersection of faith and technology." For the former Intel CEO, reviving American semiconductor manufacturing...
Wednesday 3 December 2025
Japan's humanoid robot alliance expands to counter Chinese dominance
The Kyoto Humanoid Association (KyoHA), a coalition initiated by Waseda University and Murata Manufacturing Co., has welcomed several new members, including Renesas Electronics, in...
Wednesday 3 December 2025
Supply chain strains mount as Europe's carmakers lag in electrification and software
The global wave of automotive electronics and electrification was supposed to be Europe's biggest opportunity for reinvention in a century. Instead, sluggish transformation and geopolitical...
Wednesday 3 December 2025
South Korea receives first 13,000 Nvidia GPUs under Jensen Huang's AI infrastructure pledge
Following Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's commitment to supply 260,000 GPUs to South Korea, the government has received its first shipment of approximately 13,000 units, including the latest...
Wednesday 3 December 2025
China props up global EV market as growth slows
As global demand for electric vehicles cools, suppliers across the EV supply chain are shifting toward hybrid and plug-in hybrid models to maintain steady growth. Yet despite intensifying...