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Thursday 8 October 2026
TSMC's third-quarter revenue rises 51% to NT$1.49 trillion as September sales stay near record
TSMC reported consolidated revenue of about NT$511.86 billion (approx. US$16.1 billion) for September 2026. That was up 54.6% from NT$330.98 billion a year earlier and down 0.6% from...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Samsung to exit in-house automotive AP, focus on high-margin chips
Samsung Electronics' System LSI division is reportedly planning a retreat from the automotive application processor (AP) business and launching a major restructuring, with a future...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Malaysia's chip push: a new island and pressure from Washington and Beijing
Malaysia's plan to climb the semiconductor value chain is colliding with two constraints: a shortage of land in Penang, the heart of its chip industry, and mounting pressure to pick...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Wolfspeed secures conditional US$1.5B US defense loan for SiC, GaN expansion
Wolfspeed has received a conditional commitment for up to US$1.5 billion in long-term financing from the US Department of War to expand domestic production of silicon carbide (SiC)...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Nvidia's RTX Spark hits order books, taking on Apple's Macs
Nvidia's RTX Spark superchip for Windows PCs moved from stage demos to order books on October 7, as pre-orders opened for Windows laptops built to rival Apple's unified-memory Macs...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Kingston retains 62% memory module share as B2B AI demand surges
Memory module maker Kingston Technology announced that, according to TrendForce's revenue rankings, it held a 62% share of the global third-party dynamic random-access memory (DRAM)...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Column: Robots have learned to move. They haven't learned to think
At IROS 2026, one of the world's top robotics conferences, held in Pittsburgh at the end of September, a robot startup's booth featured a dual-arm robot catching, in midair, sticks...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
TSMC tops global FDI ranking as AI infrastructure redraws overseas investment
The direction of global corporate investment in physical assets is becoming clearer. According to the fDi Report 2026 and an analysis by Visual Capitalist, announced greenfield...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
China National Day EV charging surges 49% as highway grid faces peak-load test
China's National Day holidays have driven a massive surge in long-distance electric vehicle (EV) travel. According to data from China's National Energy Administration cited by The...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
Sony to transfer 418 XR patents to Meta
Sony plans to transfer 418 extended reality (XR) patents to Meta, with 43 of those transfers already completed. Analysts say the move signals Sony's retrenchment from XR hardware,...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
NTT Data bets on India to lift its AI business as data center race heats up
NTT Data expects India to contribute a larger share of its global artificial intelligence (AI) business than it does of its overall IT services business, as the Japanese company pushes...
Monday 5 October 2026
Foxconn move smart long-term care pilot into real care settings
Foxconn and Shiangbao Longterm Care Group have advanced their smart long-term care collaboration into proof-of-concept trials at three care sites in Taiwan. The pilot, launched in...
Monday 5 October 2026
Largan Precision sees steady smartphone lens demand as CPO fibre arrays near production
Largan Precision reported September consolidated revenue of NT$5.78 billion (US$181.99 million), up 15% from August but down 7% from a year earlier. Third-quarter revenue rose 15%...
Monday 5 October 2026
AI hardware is propping up world trade, and pulling it toward East Asia and North America
The resilience of global goods trade amid tariff escalation and an energy shock is real, but it rests on a narrow base. A breakdown of ITC Trade Map export data shows that a handful...
Monday 5 October 2026
ESMT 3Q26 revenue jumps 58%, sets another record
Elite Semiconductor Microelectronics Technology (ESMT) reported September consolidated revenue of NT$7.461 billion (approx. US$234 million), up 470.23% from NT$1.308 billion a year...