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Wednesday 8 July 2026

Grab's Uber-affiliated director steps down from board with foodpanda Taiwan acquisition in process

Grab Holdings Limited (NASDAQ: GRAB) announced that Uber Technologies CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has resigned from its board of directors, effective July 6, 2026, as the Singapore-based...

Wednesday 8 July 2026

Asia VC leaders call for deeper cross-border tech investment at inaugural regional summit

Heads of venture capital associations from Taiwan, Japan, and Korea gathered in Taipei today for the first Asia Venture Capital (VC) Summit, a historic trilateral meeting aimed at...

Wednesday 8 July 2026

Taiwan and South Korea to deepen startup investment ties

Taiwan and South Korea's venture capital groups have signed a pact to expand cross-border funding and exit opportunities, a move that...

Wednesday 8 July 2026

France-Taiwan tech ties move from talks to factory floor

France's push into Taiwan's tech ecosystem has entered a new phase. After three years of cultural outreach and research exchanges,...

Wednesday 8 July 2026

AI memory boom turns price hikes into antitrust flashpoint across supply chain

As AI demand drives record price increases in the memory market, the aftermath of such volatility is weighing on the wider supply chain, rippling into downstream industries where manufacturers...

Wednesday 8 July 2026

National Center for Instrumentation Research helps academia break 2D materials bottleneck

As AI infrastructure chip orders flood in and TSMC runs near nonstop, academia has found it difficult to carry out industry-academia collaboration with the world's top foundry house...

Wednesday 8 July 2026

Samsung widens Nvidia Vera Rubin memory play with PCIe 6.0 eSSD

Samsung Electronics has started mass production of its PM1763 enterprise SSD, a PCIe 6.0-based drive built for AI infrastructure and slated...

Wednesday 8 July 2026

Samsung's HBM4 comeback hinges on one chip-level advantage

Samsung Electronics is using HBM4 to test whether its memory, logic, foundry, and advanced packaging businesses can finally work as...

Wednesday 8 July 2026

Dongfeng Nissan seeks turnaround amid weak Chinese auto market

China's car market is increasingly divided between weak domestic demand and strong overseas growth, with electric vehicles (EVs) pushing further into the Middle East, Europe, and Africa...

Wednesday 8 July 2026

AI servers squeeze MOSFET supply while PC slump tests power component pricing power

AI servers are tightening Taiwan's power component supply chain, lifting demand for MOSFETs, PMICs, cooling motors and power management...

Wednesday 8 July 2026

ASE expands globally as Hanmi Semiconductor targets CoWoS packaging demand

South Korean equipment maker Hanmi Semiconductor is moving beyond high-bandwidth memory (HBM) tools into advanced chip packaging, a shift that could affect the global semiconductor...

Wednesday 8 July 2026

Satellite sovereignty goes global: Asia and Europe move to cut the Starlink cord

Governments across Asia and Europe are moving to build or protect homegrown satellite communications, driven by a shared anxiety: that...

Wednesday 8 July 2026

Pegatron chairman downplays Intel CPU price hike worries

Intel confirmed on July 6 that it will raise suggested prices for consumer and server CPUs, stirring questions about whether the move will push up PC costs and affect consumer demand...

Wednesday 8 July 2026

Foxsemicon June, 1H26 revenue hits record on AI orders

Foxsemicon Integrated Technology (FITI) posted record consolidated revenue of NT$2.451 billion (US$76.3 million) in June 2026, up 24.22% from May and 39.75% year-over-year. First-half...

Wednesday 8 July 2026

Foxconn pivots to strategic investing, says timing and team trump tech

Speaking at the Taiwan Venture Capital and Private Equity Annual Conference on July 7, Foxconn Chairman Young Liu outlined the company's...

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