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Thursday 4 December 2025
Tera Auto Tech eyes military and AI growth, optimistic for 2026
Tera Auto Tech held an online earnings call on December 3, 2025, with its management team expressing confidence in two major growth drivers. As Taiwan's defense budget increases annually,...
Wednesday 3 December 2025
ZDT, Topoint forge drilling alliance for AI server and IC substrate PCBs
Zhen Ding Technology (ZDT) has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with drill-bit supplier Topoint Technology, creating a partnership centred on high-end PCB precision drilling,...
Wednesday 3 December 2025
China's Kingboard raises prices again as copper and fiberglass costs soar

Following price-hike announcements from Taiwan's major copper-clad laminate (CCL) makers, including Nan Ya, China's market leader Kingboard...

Tuesday 2 December 2025
Samsung Electro-Mechanics to expand AI server MLCC production at Philippine plant in 2026
Samsung Electro-Mechanics is set to increase its AI server multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) production by expanding capacity at its Calamba City plant in the Philippines starting...
Tuesday 2 December 2025
Taiwan PCB makers ride LEO satellite boom
The race to claim a stake in the space economy is accelerating. As nations around the world ramp up plans for low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite constellations, roughly 70,000 satellites...
Tuesday 2 December 2025
Gigabyte subsidiary partners with Syrma SGS to begin local server motherboard manufacturing in India
Giga Computing, a subsidiary of Gigabyte Technology, has entered a strategic partnership with India-based electronics manufacturing services provider Syrma SGS Technology to begin...
Tuesday 2 December 2025
Copper shock, AI PCB demand recasts global CCL pricing
Costs for copper foil and electronic-grade glass fibre cloth are climbing at the same time that AI infrastructure build-out is fuelling strong demand for high-frequency, high-speed...
Tuesday 2 December 2025
Panasonic raises tantalum capacitor prices, following US competitor steps
After Yageo's subsidiary KEMET raised prices on its tantalum capacitors twice in less than six months, Panasonic, currently ranked as the fourth largest supplier, also decided to...
Saturday 29 November 2025
Taiwan left out of supercapacitors while AI server capacitor boom builds
As the surge in AI compute drives a shift in data-center power design, backup battery units (BBUs) have secured adoption from at least three cloud service providers, boosting their...
Friday 28 November 2025
Meta's Google TPU shift opens new AI supply chain for Taiwan PCB makers
Recent market rumors indicate that Meta is negotiating to deploy Google's seventh-generation TPU "Ironwood" in its data centers by 2027, with procurement potentially reaching tens...
Friday 28 November 2025
FitTech targets 2Q26 profits with goal to become Taiwan's largest foundry
FitTech has had weak performance since 2023. It posted a net loss attributable to the parent of NT$290 million (approx. US$9.2 million) for the first three quarters of 2025, although...
Thursday 27 November 2025
Nan Ya Plastics raises CCL and PP prices by 8% amid raw material cost surge
Nan Ya Plastics, a subsidiary of Formosa Plastics Group, has notified customers of an 8% price increase across its entire copper-clad laminate (CCL) and prepreg (PP) product lines...
Thursday 27 November 2025
Anpec experiences spillover effects from memory price increases
Power management IC (PMIC) supplier Anpec Electronics held its investor conference on November 24, 2025, stating that multiple product lines for 2026 have already passed the design-in...
Thursday 27 November 2025
Taiwanese firms expand 5G glass fiber capacity to challenge Japan's dominance
The surge in global AI infrastructure demand is driving major upgrades in PCB material specifications, but it has also exposed supply shortages of critical upstream materials such...
Wednesday 26 November 2025
US pulling far ahead in advanced chips as Europe shifts to supply-chain defense, says McKinsey
A new McKinsey report says the global semiconductor landscape is undergoing a dramatic divergence, with the US emerging as the center of leading-edge computation while Europe pivots...