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Monday 5 January 2026
Foxconn opens year with dual push into automotive electronics and AI computing at CES 2026

Against a backdrop of cyclical adjustment and structural transformation in the global electronics industry, Foxconn Technology Group...

Monday 5 January 2026
Taiwan fortifies silicon shield with 2026 push to set global chip agenda
As AI server and semiconductor companies look set to close out a profitable 2025, recent Chinese military encirclement exercises and live-fire drills around Taiwan have once again...
Saturday 3 January 2026
Asus halts 2026 smartphone plans, eyes entry into drone and AI glass markets
Asustek Computer has confirmed it will not launch any new smartphones in 2026, effectively scaling back its mobile device business. At the same time, the company emphasized that after-sales...
Saturday 3 January 2026
Commentary: When the grid can't keep up with the algorithm
Artificial intelligence continues to be the central force behind the upcoming productivity revolution. Yet in the US, foundational energy constraints threaten to stall progress. The...
Friday 2 January 2026
Asus to pause new smartphone launches in 2026, maintain mobile operations
Smartphone distributors in Taiwan have recently said they are no longer able to obtain Asus handsets through local agents and claimed they had received information indicating that...
Friday 2 January 2026
Taiwan networking firms expect 2026 growth as AI drives switch upgrades and Wi‑Fi 7 adoption
Taiwanese networking companies are broadly optimistic about returning to growth in 2026 as an AI-driven expansion moves beyond chips and servers into network transmission layers,...
Friday 2 January 2026
Twoway chair indicted in Taiwan for alleged attempted breach of trust
Twoway Group announced on December 31, 2025, that its chairperson, Bi-shuang Chen, along with other business personnel, has been indicted by the Taoyuan District Prosecutors' Office...
Friday 2 January 2026
Budget impasse halts Taiwan's first quantum-classical hybrid platform, undermining computing sovereignty
Taiwan's push to build strategic AI, robotics, and quantum computing infrastructure is facing delays after the National Science and Technology Council's (NSTC) NT$10.85 billion (approx...
Friday 2 January 2026
Power supply chain weighs price hikes, long-term contracts as copper price increases
In the midst of the global energy transition, expanding AI infrastructure, and rising electricity demand, international copper prices have recently remained at high levels, bringing...
Friday 2 January 2026
Smartphones and notebook prices could increase as memory lead times extend
Demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) is crowding out production capacity for consumer memory. Despite capacity expansions by major memory makers, including Micron, Samsung, and...
Friday 2 January 2026
Chunghwa Telecom upgrades certificate governance, applies for Chrome root trust list
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) announced on December 31, 2025, that its CHT Trust Root CA has completed a six-month systematic overhaul and top-level comprehensive review, achieving an organizational...
Friday 2 January 2026
South Korea's quantum equipment makers anticipate major orders as data centers adopt QPU
As quantum technology, one of South Korea's national strategic technologies, gradually shifts from government-led R&D to the private sector, growing AI computing workloads have...
Friday 2 January 2026
Edge AI poised for commercial breakthrough in 2026, driving industrial PC market shifts
As artificial intelligence (AI) moves beyond its infrastructure build-out phase, the industrial PC (IPC) sector anticipates 2026 as a key year for scaling AI from centralized cloud...
Friday 2 January 2026
Galaxy S26 mirror predecessor specs, sparking Samsung's cost-cutting strategy debate
Samsung Electronics' 2026 spring flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S26/S26 Plus, are rumored to feature specifications similar to those of the previous generation. Analysts have revealed...
Thursday 1 January 2026
AI competition moves beyond LLMs into distribution and hardware channels
As frontier AI models reach practical usability, competition is shifting from incremental improvements in model performance to a broader battle over distribution, application integration,...