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Monday 17 August 2026
Taiwan extends graduate stays to 2 years to ease talent shortages
Taiwan has begun allowing overseas Chinese and foreign graduates with associate degrees or higher to extend their residence for up to two years, a change that has already driven a...
Monday 17 August 2026
India draws 20 bids for rare earth magnet manufacturing scheme
India's Ministry of Heavy Industries (MHI) has received 20 bids from domestic and global companies under its scheme to promote manufacturing of sintered rare earth permanent magnets...
Monday 17 August 2026
TSMC and Micron boom drives Taiwan 'fab five's 1H26 profits

TSMC, Micron, ASE, and SPIL continue to expand their advanced-node and OSAT investments, driving stronger first-half 2026 results for...

Monday 17 August 2026
Fallout from Wingtech's Nexperia rupture: the price of rebuilding China's chip supply chain

Wingtech is entering a sharply different phase after dismantling much of its product-integration business and losing effective control...

Monday 17 August 2026
Samsung Electro-Mechanics, LG Innotek substrate lines near full capacity as AI demand rises

Samsung Electro-Mechanics (SEMCO) and LG Innotek pushed their semiconductor package substrate operations close to full capacity in...

Monday 17 August 2026
Anthropic, OpenAI's looming mega-IPOs heat up AI revenue race

Anthropic and OpenAI are turning their AI rivalry into a revenue race, with both companies posting sharp growth, gaining enterprise...

Monday 17 August 2026
WaveSplitter returns to profit as AI optics demand lifts 1H revenue

WaveSplitter posted NT$477 million (US$14.95 million) in consolidated revenue in the first half of 2026, up 47% from a year earlier,...

Monday 17 August 2026
Hermes Testing's 1H26 profit more than triples on rising AI testing demand
Hermes Testing Solutions (HTSI), a semiconductor testing solutions provider, stated that continued growth in demand for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing...
Monday 17 August 2026
Topoint's high-end drill bits hit 56% share ahead of schedule, aims to double capacity by end of 2028

Printed circuit board (PCB) drill bit manufacturer Topoint Technology stated during its second-quarter 2026 earnings call that strong...

Monday 17 August 2026
AI server growth is lifting Taiwan ODM revenue, but margins now face the harder test
Taiwan's top six original design manufacturers are seeing AI servers become the main revenue engine in 2026, but the boom is also bringing heavier exposure to expensive GPUs, CPUs,...
Monday 17 August 2026
AI server tracker: Demand drives strong growth across Taiwan's CCL, design services, substrate, and testing supply chains
Taiwan's AI server supply chain continued to show strong growth in July 2026, with revenue rising across copper-clad laminate (CCL), design services, substrates, and testing. All four...
Monday 17 August 2026
Twoway Communications speeds defense push with C-UAS, unmanned vehicles

Twoway Communications said its July 2026 consolidated revenue was NT$139 million (US$4.3 million), down 0.4% from a year earlier. For...

Monday 17 August 2026
DFI accelerates edge AI rollout in 2H26 with ‘Right Compute’ strategy
Industrial PC (IPC) maker DFI held its second-quarter 2026 earnings conference on August 14, reporting a sharp improvement in profitability as its embedded, intelligent automation...
Monday 17 August 2026
FSC plans MLPC trial production by end-2026 in passive component push
FS said it plans to begin trial production and shipments of high-end MLPC stacked solid-state capacitors by the end of 2026 as it expands beyond plastic injection molding machines...
Monday 17 August 2026
Toppan eyes FC-BGA substrate price hikes as new line fills up
Japan's Toppan is negotiating price increases for FC-BGA substrates with customers as its new FC-BGA substrate plant ramps up, lifting the operating margin of its electronics business...