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Monday 25 May 2026

Samsung's China exit shows Korean brands under pressure

Samsung Electronics' retreat from China's TV and home-appliance market is raising broader questions for South Korean industry, as Chinese...

Monday 25 May 2026

AI data centers drive UPS recycling demand; Jin Lian Cheng targets 98% refining rate by 2H27

Jin Lian Cheng (JLC) the lead-acid battery processing subsidiary under Ming Fu Group, Taiwan's largest end-of-life vehicle processing company, has recently entered the uninterruptible...

Sunday 24 May 2026

Geopolitics disrupts chips — can Taiwan and South Korea cooperate to hold the line?

The global semiconductor industry is being pulled in two directions. On one side, the cost of building a single advanced chip factory has ballooned to as much as US$40 billion, concentrating...

Sunday 24 May 2026

AI server boom squeezes Samsung Electro-Mechanics' component supply

Samsung Electro-Mechanics is emerging as another beneficiary of the AI data center buildout, as demand for high-end capacitors and package...

Saturday 23 May 2026

Jensen Huang says he uses Claude at work and his son runs AI agents at home to manage the family

Jensen Huang fielded a wide-ranging set of questions during his Taiwan visit this week, touching on China market access, rising memory costs, silicon photonics, the LPU versus GPU...

Saturday 23 May 2026

Jensen Huang lands in Taiwan, calls Vera Rubin biggest product ramp in computer history

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang arrived in Taiwan on May 23 ahead of COMPUTEX, telling reporters that the company's next-generation AI server platform — codenamed Vera Rubin —...

Saturday 23 May 2026

Hengs lists on Taiwan Innovation Board to scale solar-plus-storage across Asia-Pacific

Hengs listed on the Taiwan Innovation Board on May 22, positioning the firm to expand its solar-plus-storage and energy management services across the Asia-Pacific as corporate demand...

Saturday 23 May 2026

SK Hynix weighs opening Seoul office at SK Group headquarters

SK Hynix is reportedly considering opening a Seoul office and sales operation inside SK Group's Seorin Building in Jongno, Seoul, a symbolic...

Saturday 23 May 2026

Seoul as next frontier for global startups

At the Plug and Play Silicon Valley May Summit 2026, industry leaders gathered for the "Seoul Forward: Where Global Startups Scale Next" session to discuss the city's rapid evolution...

Saturday 23 May 2026

Hotai to build Taiwan production for Toyota Noah and Voxy, exports to Japan start October 2026

Hotai Motor Co. said it will produce Toyota's Noah and Voxy models in Taiwan and begin exporting them to Japan in October 2026, a move aimed at deepening Taiwan's role in the global...

Saturday 23 May 2026

Japan's five major companies form PSC battery alliance to lead next-gen solar market

The perovskite solar cell (PSC) market is still in its early stages, and in an effort to secure leadership, five major Japanese companies have announced the establishment of the Japan...

Saturday 23 May 2026

Trump revives chip theft claim, heaping pressure on Taiwan semiconductor firms

US President Donald Trump has again repeated the false claim that Taiwan stole America's chip industry after his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping earlier this month, sparking...

Friday 22 May 2026

Taiwan broadband CPE industry, 1Q 2026: 10G upgrades drive volume but pricing pressures linger

Global broadband CPE shipments in the second quarter of 2026 are estimated to see a yearly growth of 3.4%, with PON CPE supporting shipment growth.

Friday 22 May 2026

Taiwan moves to govern AI across risk, talent, and education

Taiwan's cabinet approved three sweeping AI policy initiatives in a single sitting on May 21, signaling a rare moment of whole-of-government alignment on artificial intelligence. The...

Friday 22 May 2026

Japan, South Korea deepen energy ties: LNG, supply chains and AI security top summit agenda

Japan and South Korea have agreed to deepen cooperation on energy security and supply chain resilience, placing crude oil, petroleum products,...

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