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Friday 31 July 2026

SPIL AI packaging investment boosts CTSP Erlin Park as first standard factory opens in 2H26

The Central Taiwan Science Park's (CTSP) Erlin Park is set to reach a long-awaited milestone when its first standard factory building begins operations in the second half of 2026,...

Friday 31 July 2026

TAIONE foundation launches with NT$300 million to build Taiwan's open source AI push

The TAIONE Open Source Foundation was officially launched on the 30th and said it will deploy NT$300 million in private-sector resources over the next three years to advance open-source...

Friday 31 July 2026

Shield AI and Thunder Tiger demo autonomous USV swarm in Taiwan

Shield AI and Thunder Tiger Group completed their first autonomous maritime unmanned vehicle swarm demonstration in Taiwan, combining Shield AI's Hivemind AI system with Thunder Tiger's...

Friday 31 July 2026

US manufacturing push draws Taiwan suppliers; electronics investment up nearly 500%

TSMC chairman C.C. Wei has announced an additional US$100 billion investment for building capacity in the US, on top of the company's...

Friday 31 July 2026

Samsung boosts Hwaseong DRAM capacity as it converts older NAND lines

Samsung Electronics completed the shutdown and equipment transfer of an older NAND flash wafer fab at its Hwaseong campus in South Korea and is expanding DRAM production at the site...

Friday 31 July 2026

CSCC develops SiC crucibles to strengthen Taiwan’s AI data center supply chain

China Steel Corporation affiliate CSCC has developed 6N high-purity isotropic graphite blocks for 8-inch and 12-inch silicon carbide (SiC) crystal growth crucibles, aiming to reduce...

Friday 31 July 2026

Roborock sees AI and niche features driving robot vacuum growth

Roborock said the robot vacuum market still had room to expand as competition intensified across China, Europe, the US and Southeast Asia. The company outlined two main growth paths...

Thursday 30 July 2026

Samsung signs five-year memory deals as chip shortage stretches to 2028

Samsung Electronics has signed five-year memory supply agreements with five leading global data center customers and is in the final stages of talks with five more, tying a growing...

Thursday 30 July 2026

South Korean chip exports increasingly flow to Taiwan for TSMC packaging amid rising AI demand

Growing demand for AI chips is sending a larger share of South Korea's semiconductor exports to Taiwan, where Korean-made high-bandwidth...

Thursday 30 July 2026

Kumamoto quake exposes Kyushu auto supply-chain fault lines

Japan's July 28 Kumamoto earthquake disrupted vehicle and component production across Kyushu, forcing Toyota Motor Kyushu, Honda Motor, Nissan Motor and major suppliers to halt or...

Thursday 30 July 2026

South Korean suppliers win HBM4 tester orders from SK Hynix

South Korean test-equipment suppliers Digital Frontier and UniTest have secured four orders for HBM4 wafer testers from SK Hynix worth a combined KRW247.84 billion (approx. US$172...

Thursday 30 July 2026

Taiwan delays car tax cuts over supply chain concerns

Taiwan will not move ahead for now with proposed passenger car tariff cuts, as the government weighs the risk of disrupting the domestic...

Thursday 30 July 2026

US rallies global partners on 6G as competition with China intensifies

The US government has launched a multinational initiative to coordinate 6G development, signaling a new phase in the global race to shape...

Thursday 30 July 2026

Samsung memory sales up 471% in 2Q26; foundry targets double-digit second-half growth

Samsung Electronics' Device Solutions (DS) division posted the most profitable quarter in its history in 2Q26, generating operating...

Thursday 30 July 2026

Samsung says rising memory costs will lift Taiwan smartphone market value more than 8% in 2026

Rising prices for memory and other key components are weighing on smartphone demand in Taiwan, but the overall market value is still expected to grow in 2026, according to Samsung...

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