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Monday 18 August 2025
Section 232 investigations loom over Taiwan's key industries
Despite TSMC's US$165 billion investment in the US, Taiwan does not appear to have any special favor from the United States. Taiwan faces a higher reciprocal tariff compared to Japan...
Sunday 17 August 2025
Future Science Prize 2025 honors Macronix International president Chih-Yuan Lu for semiconductor memory innovation
The 2025 Future Science Prize winners were announced, with Chih-Yuan Lu, president of Macronix International, receiving the Mathematics and Computer Science Prize for his contributions...
Sunday 17 August 2025
TSMC’s top wafer testing partner posts 78% surge as new facility ramps
Xintec Inc., TSMC's backend packaging and testing unit, posted a strong second-quarter 2025 rebound in wafer probe revenue, driven by increased outsourcing from TSMC and the accelerated...
Friday 15 August 2025
Trump's corporate crackdown: When national security overrides boardroom independence
Since the US first announced reciprocal tariffs in early April 2025, President Donald Trump has frequently delivered "surprises" to the global market over nearly four months. Recently,...
Friday 15 August 2025
Taiwan gains competitive edge as China faces steep US tariffs
On July 31, 2025, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to adjust reciprocal tariff rates, setting the provisional tariff for Taiwan at 20%, effective from August 7,...
Thursday 14 August 2025
Former Intel chief architect launches RISC-V GPU startup
Raja Koduri, former chief architect at Intel, has founded Oxmiq Labs, a GPU startup focused on developing and licensing RISC-V International architecture-based GPU hardware and software...
Tuesday 12 August 2025
US tariffs hit Coretronic's projector business; supply chain and government orders affected
Coretronic faced a suspension in shipments of its projectors to the US in April 2025 due to tariff impacts, though a gradual resumption began in May. The second quarter of 2025, typically...
Tuesday 12 August 2025
Trump says Intel CEO has 'amazing story,' sets Cabinet talks
President Donald Trump said members of his Cabinet would continue discussions with Lip-Bu Tan in the coming days after meeting with the Intel Corp. chief executive officer at the...
Monday 11 August 2025
AI memory revolution: Sandisk and SK Hynix define new standard for HBF
SK Hynix is partnering with flash memory manufacturer Sandisk to jointly promote the standardization of High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) technology. The two companies plan to leverage synergies...
Monday 11 August 2025
Toshiba's Japan Semiconductor to boost foundry output 50% by 2029, eyes SiC and GaN chips
Japan Semiconductor, a chipmaker under Toshiba, is seeking to significantly expand its contract chip manufacturing operations, aiming to lift output by 50% from 2024 levels by the...
Thursday 31 July 2025
Trump says US to impose 15% tariff on South Korean goods
US President Donald Trump said he reached a trade deal with South Korea that would impose a 15% tariff on its exports to the US and see Seoul agree to US$350 billion in US investme...
Tuesday 29 July 2025
Taiwan Mobile closes gap with market leader through aggressive expansion
Taiwan Mobile president and CEO Jamie Lin shared insights on his sixth year as CEO on Facebook on July 25, 2024. In it, he noted that since taking on the role of CEO in 2019, company...
Tuesday 29 July 2025
Delta Electronics' new Taiwan smart factory hub to expand Nvidia AI tie-up
Delta Electronics inaugurated its new Smart Manufacturing Innovation Center on July 25, 2025, a comprehensive facility designed to support the global shift toward decentralized production...
Friday 25 July 2025
Taiwan's Kuroshio Current to be harnessed for renewable energy
Academia Sinica signed a Net-zero Carbon Reduction Research Application memorandum of understanding (MOU) with National Taiwan Ocean University (NTOU) on July 24, 2025, prioritizing...
Thursday 24 July 2025
Trump weighed Nvidia breakup but was told it'd be 'hard'
President Donald Trump said he considered attempting to break up Nvidia to increase competition in artificial intelligence (AI) chips before finding out "it's not easy in that busi...