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Wednesday 21 January 2026
Taiwan's industrial park model goes global
Taiwan's tech sector is advancing its global layout amid a worldwide push for restructuring supply chains and promoting localized manufacturing. As evidenced in the recent trade agreement...
Wednesday 21 January 2026
South Korea plans US talks as chip tariffs heighten risks for Samsung, SK Hynix
South Korea said it will seek negotiations with the US after Washington imposed a 25% tariff on selected semiconductor products, a move that has placed the country's leading chipmakers,...
Wednesday 21 January 2026
China races to catch up with memory chip leaders in LPDDR6
China's semiconductor supply chain is accelerating plans to bring sixth-generation low-power DRAM, known as LPDDR6, into commercial use in 2026, seeking to close a long-standing technology...
Wednesday 21 January 2026
Taiwan rolls out tiered electricity rates for data centers amid AI power crunch
Taiwan's comprehensive industrial supply chain, ICT talent pool, and competitive land and utility costs have attracted global tech giants like Microsoft and Google to establish data...
Tuesday 20 January 2026
Taiwan ramps up semiconductor research while US chip relocation debate rages on
Following the conclusion of tariff negotiations between Taiwan and the US, both sides have presented differing interpretations: Taiwan's Executive Yuan has expressed satisfaction with...
Tuesday 20 January 2026
AI server watch: AI servers lift Taiwan supply chain broadly in 2025, gains center on ODM/EMS, cooling, optical
Taiwan's AI server supply chain delivered broad-based growth in 2025, fueled by surging generative AI and cloud data center spending, but the biggest gains clustered around two areas:...
Tuesday 20 January 2026
Samsung foundry utilization reportedly nears 60% as losses narrow
Samsung Electronics' foundry business is showing signs of a gradual recovery, with fab utilization expected to average in the low-60% range in the first half of 2026, up from the 50%...
Tuesday 20 January 2026
Trump's Greenland ambition triggers EU tariff war, shipping rates plunge
The four-year Russia-Ukraine war stalemate persists, while escalating US-EU tensions linked to the US attempt to purchase Greenland have triggered retaliatory tariffs and market disruptions...
Tuesday 20 January 2026
Supply chain shifts strategies as China tightens rare earth export controls
Amid escalating geopolitical tensions between China and Japan, China has recently imposed stricter review measures on rare earth exports to Japan. Chinese authorities now reportedly...
Tuesday 20 January 2026
Nvidia Alpamayo sparks VLA computing power race as South Korea preps for autonomous ecosystem
At CES 2026 in the US, Nvidia unveiled its open-source vision-language-action (VLA) model series, Alpamayo, signaling a new phase in the development of autonomous driving technologies...
Tuesday 20 January 2026
Micron's DRAM licensing to Powerchip reshapes DDR4 supply
After more than two months of negotiations, Micron has signed an exclusive letter of intent (LOI) with Powerchip, agreeing to acquire the latter's 12-inch wafer fab (P5) in Tongluo,...
Tuesday 20 January 2026
HTC accelerates AI glasses ecosystem with AR roadmap and China-focused LLM partnerships
Taiwan's HTC Corporation is rapidly expanding its AI glasses ecosystem following the debut of its first AI eyewear, Vive Eagle, as it scales distribution, deepens AI partnerships,...
Tuesday 20 January 2026
AI bubble concerns ease with Taiwan's IT sector-driven economic growth
Nvidia Corporation's market value has surged to US$4.5 trillion amid the expansion of the AI industry, overtaking Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corporation, while Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing...
Tuesday 20 January 2026
Naver Cloud fails South Korea's AI foundation model selection
Based on the results of the first phase of South Korea's independent AI foundation model selection, LG AI Research, SK Telecom, and Upstage have advanced to the next stage. However,...
Tuesday 20 January 2026
Taiwan's Ubiqconn bets on drones and edge AI to rebalance its business

Ubiqconn Technology says its accumulated strengths in maritime communications and satellite applications are continuing to underpin expansion...