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Monday 11 August 2025

TSMC eyes record-breaking 2025 as AI chip boom fuels 3nm dominance

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) reported consolidated revenue of approximately NT$323.166 billion (US$10.82 billion) in July, marking a 22.5% increase from June and...

Monday 11 August 2025

TSMC fine-tunes advanced packaging, delays projects, and trims low-return ops

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) has undergone a reorganization of its advanced packaging capacity and workforce, even as it publicly emphasizes expansion efforts. The...

Monday 11 August 2025

Taiwan chipmakers sidestep HBM giants with tailored edge-AI memory

Taiwanese memory chipmakers are intensifying efforts to capture growth in customized AI applications, unveiling low-power, high-bandwidth alternatives to High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)...

Monday 11 August 2025

Samsung, SK Hynix rush to secure Nvidia's SOCAMM supply chain — before it becomes the next HBM

After vying for leadership in the high-bandwidth memory (HBM) market, South Korea's top memory chipmakers, Samsung Electronics and SK...

Sunday 10 August 2025

China's EV makers slashing prices, ignoring government warnings

Despite repeated clear statements from the Chinese central government urging automakers to stop vicious price-cutting, the market's price war has not eased. Instead, it has intensi...

Sunday 10 August 2025

Trump's 100% tariff hint stirs concerns despite South Korea's MFN status

US President Donald Trump recently announced tariffs as high as 100% on certain semiconductor products. Although South Korea holds a commitment to "most favored-nation" (MFN) treatment,...

Sunday 10 August 2025

Far EasTone participates in LiTV's new funding round to deepen video streaming content

Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) held its earnings call for the second quarter of 2025 on August 6, during which the company also revealed that its board of directors has approved...

Sunday 10 August 2025

Satellite insurance raises cost for Taiwan's satellite push

Taiwan Space Agency (TASA) is taking a bold step toward industrializing its satellite manufacturing sector, announcing a NT$24.9 billion (US$833 million) initiative to develop a commercial...

Saturday 9 August 2025

Tesla orders boost Samsung's Taylor plant; OCI expands semiconductor-grade phosphoric acid production

South Korean materials company OCI recently announced plans to expand its production capacity of semiconductor-grade phosphoric acid. This expansion comes in response to surging customer...

Saturday 9 August 2025

Qisda reports US assembly not necessarily cost-effective under 20% tariff

Qisda's consolidated revenue for July 2025 was NT$17.473 billion (approx. US$583.2 million), down 6.99% monthly but up 7.25% annually. For the first seven months of 2025, consolidated...

Saturday 9 August 2025

Exein expands globally to address IoT security challenges, leveraging Taiwan's advanced manufacturing ecosystem

Rising concerns over vulnerabilities in Internet of Things (IoT) devices—estimated to account for nearly one-third of global cybersecurity risks—are fueling a surge in...

Saturday 9 August 2025

South Korea's quintet of alliances for sovereign AI: Kakao notably left out

South Korea is progressing its autonomous AI model development by choosing five key industry alliances—Naver Cloud, SK Telecom, NC AI, LG AI Research, and Upstage. The government...

Friday 8 August 2025

Samsung revives Z-NAND after 7 years to supercharge AI with 15x speed gains

Samsung Electronics is reviving its Z-NAND memory technology after a seven-year hiatus, positioning it as a high-performance solution...

Friday 8 August 2025

Tariff clarity and car market recovery boost IKKA-KY outlook for 2H25

Japanese company IKKA-KY, which is listed in Taiwan, announced on August 7 its consolidated financial report for the first half of 2025. Consolidated revenue for the period reached...

Friday 8 August 2025

Aleees expands global footprint, seizes restructuring opportunities for LFP technology

Lithium intellectual property supplier Advanced Lithium Electrochemistry (Aleees) issued on August 7 an update to its customer certification progress, in which the company counted...

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