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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...
Saturday 5 September 2026
SiPh, optical lens demand ignite laser race
Silicon photonics (SiPh) is emerging as a core theme at SEMICON Taiwan 2026, and while the sector is still in an early, fast-growing stage, production-line investments are already...
Saturday 5 September 2026
Micron looks to lock in Taiwanese construction capacity with long-term deals
The global rush to build semiconductor fabs is creating a historic opportunity for Taiwan's construction and facility engineering supply chain, and Micron Technology is looking to...
Saturday 5 September 2026
Taiwan auto parts makers face exit-or-overseas dilemma
Taiwan's auto market remains under pressure in 2026, and even as recent months have shown signs of bottoming out, auto parts makers remain cautious or outright pessimistic about the...
Saturday 5 September 2026
Jmem Tek's PQC security chip nears mass production
Taiwanese IC design startup Jmem Tek showcased its in-house physical unclonable function (PUF) and post-quantum cryptography (PQC) hardware security technologies at SEMICON Taiwan...
Saturday 5 September 2026
Taiwan satellite ground equipment output grows 13%, nears NT$300B

Taiwan's satellite ground equipment industry posted 13% year-over-year growth in 2025 as local firms push deeper into the low-Earth...

Friday 4 September 2026
TSMC urges HBM makers to design for X-ray inspection as packaging grows more complex
TSMC is calling for future HBM and DRAM designs to become more compatible with X-ray inspection, as increasingly complex advanced packaging makes buried defects harder to detect while...
Friday 4 September 2026
From chips to physical AI: Experts urge Taiwan-US push for trusted drone supply chains at Semicon Taiwan 2026
Trustworthy supply chain concerns are extending beyond semiconductors to drones and other autonomous systems, now emerging as national strategic industries. At a Semicon Taiwan 2026...
Friday 4 September 2026
South Korea taps chip windfall for next tech push
South Korea is turning a semiconductor-driven tax windfall into a broader technology investment push, directing record fiscal firepower toward chips, Nvidia's Vera Rubin computing...