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Tuesday 13 October 2026
Grab plays up Singapore roots, rules out Huawei maps in Taiwan as Foodpanda deal nears decision
Southeast Asian super-app Grab is trying to ease concerns in Taiwan about its ties to China as regulators near a decision on its proposed acquisition of Foodpanda's Taiwan business...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
Energy law overhaul drives Taiwan storage demand
Taiwan's Energy Management Act is undergoing its first major revision in nearly a decade, driving businesses to reassess self-generation and energy storage systems (ESS) as the market...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
SK Hynix unveils low-power processor design for SSDs
SK Hynix has unveiled a new processor architecture designed to reduce power consumption and chip area in solid-state drive (SSD) controllers, expanding its efforts to address storage...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
Samsung's US$9B chip expansion faces funding, supply hurdles
Samsung affiliates plan to invest a combined KRW12.26 trillion (approx. US$9.18 billion) in semiconductor operations across South Korea and Vietnam, but the projects face different...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
Stellantis rejects brand split, urges EU to reward local carmaking
At the Paris Motor Show, Stellantis NV CEO Antonio Filosa rejected proposals to split the company's European and US brands and said the company would not sell Maserati. The automaker...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
Taiwan seeks to produce more Nobel laureates
Taiwan has not seen a locally born and educated Nobel Prize winner in the last 40 years since Yuan-Tseh Lee became a laureate in chemistry in 1986. Thus, Taiwan President Ching-te...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
Formosa Smart Energy draws interest from global cloud providers for AI data centers
Formosa Smart Energy, an energy affiliate of Taiwan's Formosa Plastics Group, said global cloud service providers have approached it about building AI data centers at the group's industrial...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
AI demand squeezes capacitor, resistor capacity as Taiwan suppliers eye price hikes
Rising capital expenditures by global cloud service providers (CSPs) are accelerating orders for AI computing infrastructure, boosting both the specifications and volumes of passive...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
Omron to buy US industrial PC maker OnLogic for US$675 million
Japan's Omron has agreed to acquire US industrial computer (IPC) maker OnLogic and its parent company, Interlogic, at an enterprise value of US$675 million, seeking to expand its presence...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
Taiwan seeks new grid, renewable energy solutions as AI computing hubs hit power constraints
As the global AI industry and AI data centers (AIDCs) experience explosive growth, developing compute hubs presents severe power supply challenges alongside stringent international...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
Column: From 3D NAND to 3D DRAM — how vertical stacking is reshaping memory chip manufacturing
After 2013, planar NAND flash memory began reaching its scaling limits at the 15–16nm process node. Capacitive coupling between the floating gates of adjacent memory cells increasingly...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
Taiwan optical suppliers post record sales as Lumentum warns of shortages
Taiwanese optical networking suppliers reported strong September and third-quarter 2026 revenue growth, with EZconn and LuxNet posting record monthly sales as demand for high-speed...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
AI server tracker: Taiwan's CCL, PCB and IC substrate suppliers see widening growth gap despite AI boom

Taiwan's copper-clad laminate (CCL), printed circuit board (PCB) and IC substrate suppliers are seeing uneven returns from AI infrastructure spending...

Tuesday 13 October 2026
Foxconn's Vietnam unit Fukang Technology more than doubles registered capital to US$710.4 million
Fukang Technology, a northern Vietnam subsidiary of Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry (Foxconn), has raised its registered capital by more than 109% to nearly VND17.47 trillion (US$710.4...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
South Korea's YMT targets fivefold rise in glass-substrate plating capacity
South Korean electronic materials supplier YMT is accelerating its expansion into glass-substrate electroplating. The company plans to increase related capacity to roughly four times...