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Thursday 18 December 2025
Taiwan targets four research priorities to maintain semiconductor leadership
Taiwan has long dominated advanced semiconductor manufacturing, with TSMC's global R&D headquarters in Hsinchu alone employing over 10,000 researchers. The government continues...
Wednesday 17 December 2025
Taiwan academia advances E-band research for satellite communication applications
E-band wireless communication, operating between 71-76 GHz and 81-86 GHz, offers extremely high data throughput and ultra-low latency. Beyond its current use in automotive radar,...
Monday 15 December 2025
Taiwan launches national cloud computing center to power sovereign AI under new major AI initiative
Driven by the rise of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), competition across computing power, data, and applications is intensifying, prompting countries to adjust their technology...
Monday 15 December 2025
Taiwan forms computing alliance to advance sovereign AI applications
Taiwan officially launched a new government-funded cloud computing center on December 12, 2025, marking a major step in boosting domestic artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities...
Wednesday 10 December 2025
Budget stall threatens Taiwan's 2026 semiconductor and tech R&D agenda
Taiwan's 2026 central government budget has stalled in the Legislative Yuan amid partisan gridlock and the ruling party's loss of a parliamentary majority, raising concerns over funding...
Wednesday 10 December 2025
Taiwan leverages semiconductor edge to build full quantum ecosystem
Taiwan is moving to cement its position in the emerging global quantum technology supply chain, with the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) outlining a strategy to build...
Tuesday 25 November 2025
Taiwan expands list of core national technologies to strengthen trade secret protection
The Taiwanese government has expanded its list of core national technologies from 32 to 42 items to enhance the protection of trade secrets and prevent unlawful infringements. The...
Monday 24 November 2025
US to waive chip tariffs as Taiwan exports semiconductor park expertise
Wu Cheng-Wen, Taiwan's Minister without Portfolio and head of the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), told the Financial Times that the United States will not...
Thursday 20 November 2025
Taiwan vows to protect TSMC 2nm technology from possible leak
The appointment of former TSMC SVP of Corporate Strategy and Development Wei-Jen Lo to a senior position at Intel has raised concerns among legislators over potential trade secret...
Monday 17 November 2025
Global quantum leaders convene in Taiwan to tackle scalability
John M. Martinis, one of the winners of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics, has announced plans to ally with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and several chip vendors to develop scalable...
Wednesday 12 November 2025
Taiwan accelerates land development to support TSMC's Southern expansion
As the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP) becomes more saturated with semiconductor industrial land, the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) is accelerating land development...
Tuesday 11 November 2025
NDF allocates NT$10 billion to robotics technology investment
Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently received approval from most of the company's shareholders for a compensation package worth about US$878 billion over ten years, contingent on conditions...
Saturday 1 November 2025
Taiwan researchers develop tool to block harmful GenAI content
A team of researchers from National Taiwan University (NTU) has developed a technology that can precisely cut off generative AI models' associations with high-risk concepts. This...
Thursday 23 October 2025
Taiwan's chip and AI boom drains talent from academia; NSTC explores possible solutions

As Taiwan's semiconductor and AI industries continue to surge, universities are facing an unexpected casualty of economic success: a...

Thursday 23 October 2025
Taiwan dispels US investment relocation fears
Taiwan's top economic and technology officials have dismissed concerns that the island's semiconductor ecosystem investments in the US represent industrial relocation. The pushback...