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Thursday 7 August 2025
TI triggers largest chip repricing in years, stuns China clients with 60,000-part hike
As President Donald Trump accelerates reshoring efforts, US-based chipmakers are facing rising cost pressures that are now cascading through the global supply chain. Texas Instruments...
Thursday 7 August 2025
Samsung denies HBM3E price-cut rumors amid Nvidia approval delay
Samsung Electronics has secured an order from Tesla for artificial intelligence (AI) chips, offering a renewed boost to its foundry business. However, the company continues to face...
Thursday 7 August 2025
Broadcom’s Jericho4 extends AI networking beyond 100km
Broadcom has begun shipping its new Jericho4 Ethernet fabric router, a high-performance platform designed to meet the growing demands of distributed artificial intelligence (AI) in...
Wednesday 6 August 2025
Anduril establishes Taiwan hub to scale smart weapons, supply chain integration
Anduril, the US defense tech unicorn, has established a new office in Taiwan as part of its regional expansion. Founder Palmer Luckey visited Taipei on August 4 to speak at National...
Tuesday 5 August 2025
US doubles down on chip tracking as China flags Nvidia 'backdoor' fears
As US–China tech tensions deepen, a senior US official said the Trump Administration is pushing to embed advanced tracking features into semiconductors to prevent Nvidia and...
Tuesday 5 August 2025
Boris Johnson says UK once considered competing with Taiwan in chips, but abandoned plan over tech gap
During a keynote address at the Ketagalan Forum in Taipei on August 5, former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson revealed that he had contemplated enabling the UK to compete with Taiwan...
Tuesday 5 August 2025
Softstar's acquisition of Ali aims to end losses and boost AI chip growth by 2026
At a July 31, 2025, press conference, ALi, a Taiwanese IC design company, outlined its future business strategy following its acquisition by Softstar Entertainment. Softstar's chairman,...
Monday 4 August 2025
Samsung foundry utilization reportedly rebounds on AI chip demand and rising orders
Samsung Electronics' foundry production lines for process nodes above 4nm have recently achieved their highest utilization rates, according to South Korean media outlet ChosunBiz,...
Monday 4 August 2025
Exclusive: Broadcom exec weighs in on Nvidia's NVLink strategy and silicon photonics future
The Open Compute Project APAC Summit (OCP APAC) will officially open in Taipei in early August 2025. American IC design giant Broadcom, which holds a critical position in cloud AI...
Sunday 3 August 2025
CHPT resumes new plant project amid growing AI chip test demand
Chunghwa Precision Test Tech (CHPT), a leading provider of semiconductor test interface products, has resumed a capacity expansion project to build a new plant in Taiwan, catering...
Friday 1 August 2025
AI talent's potential to revive Taiwan's traditional industries
As Taiwan's AI server production and shipments continue to expand, high-performance computing chips are driving strong demand in manufacturing, packaging, and testing, making Taiwan's...
Friday 1 August 2025
ASE maxes out Taiwan backend capacity on AI, automotive demand
ASE Holdings posted solid growth in advanced packaging and testing in the first half of 2025, fueled by robust demand for AI-related high-performance computing (HPC) chips. However,...
Friday 1 August 2025
Ericsson in talks to invest in Intel's standalone network business
The Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson AB is in talks to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Intel's networking infrastructure business, according to people familiar with...
Friday 1 August 2025
The chip nobody talks about: US and China's hidden agendas behind H20's silent comeback
Nvidia's H20 chips were recently cleared for export to China again, but industry reactions vary. Some companies are actively stockpiling out of concern that renewed tensions between...
Thursday 31 July 2025
China probes Nvidia over H20 chip "backdoor" risks, casting shadow on future sales
Chinese regulators have summoned Nvidia to address mounting concerns that its H20 artificial intelligence chip may contain backdoor vulnerabilities and tracking features, in a move...