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Saturday 29 November 2025

OT vulnerabilities push cybersecurity to core competency in manufacturing

As global supply chains realign and tariff barriers rise, Taiwan's manufacturing sector—at the heart of this storm—feels the uncertainty acutely. At the Fortinet Cybersecurity...

Saturday 29 November 2025

Taiwan's TCC accelerates expansion abroad as the Chinese market stumbles

China's industrial overcapacity and a prolonged real estate slump continue to weigh on cement demand across both sides of the Taiwan...

Saturday 29 November 2025

Taiwan left out of supercapacitors while AI server capacitor boom builds

As the surge in AI compute drives a shift in data-center power design, backup battery units (BBUs) have secured adoption from at least three cloud service providers, boosting their...

Saturday 29 November 2025

Taiwan optics firms shift to AR glasses as China cuts costs

Taiwan's optical component makers are stepping up spending on augmented reality glasses to capture rising demand worldwide, while Chinese competitors accelerate development of cheaper,...

Saturday 29 November 2025

Taiwan seeks 48,000 military drones in US$1.5 billion procurement push

Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense has opened bidding for what officials say will be the country's largest military drone purchase yet, a five-model...

Friday 28 November 2025

Taiwan top-6 ODMs/EMS providers net-zero strategy

Taiwan's top-6 electronic ODMs, the Big Six, upgrade net-zero strategies, pushing from green power adoption to co-creating sustainable supply chains.

Friday 28 November 2025

Samsung races to seal HBM4 deal with Nvidia, targets early 2026 shipments

Samsung Electronics is reportedly nearing a deal with Nvidia on 2026 HBM4 pricing, aiming to match SK Hynix's rates as the company accelerates capacity expansion and reorganizes its...

Friday 28 November 2025

Meta and Nvidia reportedly push to integrate GPUs into HBM for AI boost

To enhance artificial intelligence (AI) performance, Meta and Nvidia are advancing plans to embed GPU compute cores directly into the base die of high-bandwidth memory (HBM). This...

Friday 28 November 2025

Japan plans 600-kilometer quantum communication network by 2027

Following the lead of China, the European Union (EU), and South Korea, Japan has unveiled plans to build its own long-distance quantum...

Friday 28 November 2025

Rapidus reportedly plans second Hokkaido fab for 1.4nm chips as funding gap widens, but company pushes back on timeline

Rapidus plans to begin construction on a second fabrication plant in Chitose, Hokkaido, in fiscal 2027 to produce 1.4nm and eventually...

Friday 28 November 2025

Daikin targets AI cooling boom with plan to triple North America revenue

Daikin Industries said at a 27 November briefing in Osaka that soaring server-cooling demand from the rapid uptake of generative AI has led the company to target over JPY300 billion...

Friday 28 November 2025

Samsung Display cautious on OLEDoS ramp as yields stay low

Samsung Display has started producing OLED on Silicon panels for extended-reality devices, but the company is holding back on mass production as low yields and a still-nascent XR...

Friday 28 November 2025

Trump-Xi détente could unleash another wave of Taiwan AI chip boom

The US Genesis Mission, a major AI infrastructure project, has boosted Taiwan's AI chip supply chain, as all global AI inference chips come from Taiwanese firms. With 76% of TSMC's...

Friday 28 November 2025

Apple's IT demand lifts global OLED material spending 6.2% in 3Q25

Global OLED panel makers ramped up emissive-material purchases in the third quarter of 2025, largely fueled by stronger sales of Apple's iPhone and iPad lines.

Friday 28 November 2025

Teinco expands green energy trading, US operations, steady through Taiwan solar industry overhaul

Amid rising global demand for green energy and geopolitical supply chain shifts, solar engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) firm Teinco Technology is harnessing its expertise...

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