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Friday 16 October 2026
Taiwan forecasts 6.04% growth in 2027 on AI-driven exports
Taiwan's economy is projected to grow 6.04% in 2027 as expanding global AI-related capital spending boosts the island's exports, despite geopolitical conflicts and trade barriers weighing...
Friday 16 October 2026
Analysis: Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan's power of humility — how one phone call helped reshape the chip giant's comeback
As the semiconductor industry enters the artificial intelligence (AI) era, Intel, once the dominant force in the PC market, has increasingly been viewed as a company that fell behind...
Friday 16 October 2026
AI traffic reshapes e-commerce as Shopline GMV rises 20% in 2026
As GenAI accelerates, e-commerce is shifting from traditional traffic management toward AI-assisted shopping and intelligent operations. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) e-commerce platform...
Friday 16 October 2026
Samsung SDI targets 2027 LFP BBU battery production
Samsung SDI will begin mass-producing cylindrical lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries for AI servers as early as June 2027, marking the first adoption of cylindrical LFP backup...
Friday 16 October 2026
Samsung's Austin chip workforce shrinks 32% as Taylor 2nm fab nears opening
Samsung Electronics' semiconductor workforce in Austin, Texas, shrank 32% in 2025 as local operating expenditures plunged nearly 75%, contrasting with increased activity at its nearby...
Thursday 15 October 2026
Toyota targets 1,000 e-Palette sales ahead of 2027 autonomous launch
Toyota Motor Corp. plans to sell 1,000 units of its compact electric bus, the e-Palette, within five to six years as it prepares to introduce a Level 4 autonomous driving version in...
Thursday 15 October 2026
AI server tracker: AIC accelerates as Taiwan's connector and chassis suppliers post uneven growth
Taiwan's connector and server-chassis suppliers posted broadly higher September revenue, although their growth trajectories differed. Seven of eight tracked companies recorded annual...
Thursday 15 October 2026
AI server tracker: Taiwanese ODM/EMS players post NT$2.18T in September 2026, up 56% YoY
Six Taiwanese server and networking contract manufacturers booked combined revenue of NT$2.18 trillion (US$67.3 billion) in September 2026, up 55.9% year-over-year and 4.9% month-over-month,...
Thursday 15 October 2026
Nvidia showcases French AI deployments from orbit to quantum ahead of GTC Berlin
France's artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem is putting agentic computing into production on Nvidia hardware and open models, according to an Nvidia blog post published on October...
Wednesday 14 October 2026
BOE struggles with glass breakage at US$9.4 billion OLED plant as it seeks Apple iPad orders

China's BOE has spent approximately six months trying to resolve recurring glass substrate breakage at its Gen 8.6 OLED plant in Chengdu, raising...

Wednesday 14 October 2026
KYEC signs advanced payment deal with Nvidia for US testing expansion
Taiwanese semiconductor testing services provider King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) is expanding its US footprint, with its board approving an advance payment agreement with Nvidia. Under...
Wednesday 14 October 2026
GlobalFoundries revives 7nm-class ambitions with an EUV-free FD-SOI bet on physical AI
GlobalFoundries' plan to build a 7nm-class chip process in Dresden without extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography tests how a second-tier foundry can stay relevant while TSMC holds...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
Taiwan seeks to produce more Nobel laureates
Taiwan has not seen a locally born and educated Nobel Prize winner in the last 40 years since Yuan-Tseh Lee became a laureate in chemistry in 1986. Thus, Taiwan President Ching-te...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
AI server tracker: Taiwan's CCL, PCB and IC substrate suppliers see widening growth gap despite AI boom

Taiwan's copper-clad laminate (CCL), printed circuit board (PCB) and IC substrate suppliers are seeing uneven returns from AI infrastructure spending...

Tuesday 13 October 2026
Foxconn's Vietnam unit Fukang Technology more than doubles registered capital to US$710.4 million
Fukang Technology, a northern Vietnam subsidiary of Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry (Foxconn), has raised its registered capital by more than 109% to nearly VND17.47 trillion (US$710.4...