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Thursday 1 October 2026
Jensen Huang wins Van Fleet Award as Nvidia, South Korea trio reunites
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attended the Korea Society's annual dinner in New York on September 28 local time and received the 2026 Van Fleet Award, with Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee...
Thursday 1 October 2026
AI boom drives Southern Taiwan Science Park revenue past NT$1.7 trillion in 1H26
The Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP) posted revenue of NT$1.77 trillion (approx. US$55.66 billion) in the first half of 2026, up 28.57% from the same period in 2025. Growth was...
Thursday 1 October 2026
How a TSMC veteran is steering Singapore's lab-to-fab chip strategy
Yee-Chia Yeo, vice president for innovation and enterprise at A*STAR, returned to Singapore in 2022 and has since turned years of industry experience into a strategy for advancing...
Thursday 1 October 2026
ChainSea targets fourth-quarter OTC listing as AI transformation business takes shape
Digital transformation integrator ChainSea Information Integration plans to list on Taiwan's over-the-counter (OTC) market in the fourth quarter of 2026, with the process expected...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Speed 3D Showcases On-Device AI Generation with Snapdragon X2 Elite

Speed 3D Inc., a Taiwan-based AI software company specializing in computer vision, generative AI and hardware integration, will showcase Picbot Edge at Snapdragon Summit...

Wednesday 30 September 2026
Taiwan backs TSMC's US push but insists core R&D stays home
Taiwan's semiconductor industry, which originated in the Hsinchu Science Park and later expanded to the Central and Southern Taiwan Science Parks, now encompasses manufacturing bases...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Taiwan identifies electricity supply as national strength, with plans to expand gas and green energy
As power infrastructure is now widely regarded as the foundation of a nation's strength, Taiwan is accelerating investment in gas-fired generation, green energy and energy storage...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Leisure vehicles become Eurocharm's largest segment with capacity expanding in Vietnam, North America
Taiwan's Eurocharm Holdings, an OEM automotive and motorcycle parts maker, said at an earnings call on September 29 that leisure vehicles had become its largest product segment, as...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
China auto market cools as Taiwan suppliers brace for 2H26 inventory cuts
China's auto market is under pressure from high oil prices and shrinking subsidies, weakening domestic sales even as exports keep growing. Taiwanese supply-chain companies are responding...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Chief Telecom, Google Cloud launch backup services to bolster cable resilience
Chief Telecom said on September 30 that it is working with Google Cloud to combine international submarine cable resources and deploy Cross-Site Interconnect (CSI) technology. The...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
SK Hynix resumes DDR4, DDR5 packaging orders with Winpac
SK Hynix has resumed outsourcing DRAM packaging to South Korean outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) provider Winpac, reviving a supplier relationship that ended in 2023...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Interview: iFLYTEK Medical sees clinical integration as key to healthcare AI expansion in South Korea
Xunfei Healthcare (iFLYTEK Medical), the healthcare AI arm of China's iFlytek, is using its Spark Medical Large Model to support diagnosis and medical record generation while tackling...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Samsung SDI targets AI data centers with cylindrical LFP batteries and fire-propagation safeguards
Samsung SDI is accelerating its push into the artificial intelligence (AI) data center battery market, unveiling, for the first time, a cylindrical lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Tatung pivots to AI infrastructure integration
Amid continued debate over AI, demand for computing power keeps climbing. Tatung Co. on September 30 unveiled its AI infrastructure solution, "TTG AIDC CUBE," at a launch event titled...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Samsung Electro-Mechanics' disclosed 2026 supply agreements total US$2.6 billion as server demand surges
Samsung Electro-Mechanics has signed another long-term supply agreement for server components, bringing the value of its disclosed supply agreements this year to about US$2.6 billion...