Taiwan's Minister of Economic Affairs, Ming-hsin Kung, joined senior US State Department officials on January 27, 2026, in the US to conclude the sixth US-Taiwan Economic Prosperity...
In January 2025, while the global AI and semiconductor industries remained focused on advanced process nodes and high-performance GPUs, China's large-scale model DeepSeek-R1 emerged...
China's semiconductor supply chain is sending a clear signal: a wave of "chip inflation" driven by mature-node manufacturing, memory, and packaging costs is no longer theoretical;...
The surge in generative AI (GenAI) and high-performance computing (HPC) demand has pushed advanced semiconductor packaging to become the most critical and constrained capacity bottleneck...
China's optical industry is confronting significant challenges as several lens module manufacturers reportedly plan layoffs early in 2026, prompted by sluggish smartphone sales and...
Chinese microcontroller (MCU) supplier Cmsemicon has raised prices on its MCU and NOR Flash products by 15% to 50%, citing tighter chip supply and higher packaging and testing costs...
As artificial intelligence (AI) technology advances, the robotics market is maturing rapidly. South Korean electronic component makers are reportedly viewing robots as their next growth...
TSMC's dominance in advanced process and packaging has made it a prime target amid US manufacturing mandates. Chip customers now face mounting pressure to diversify supply chains due...
Corning and Meta Platforms have agreed to a multiyear deal valued at up to US$6 billion to supply optical fiber, cable, and connectivity solutions for Meta's US data center expansion...
A fresh wave of memory price hikes is sweeping across the semiconductor supply chain, spreading from AI memory products into manufacturing, packaging, and testing, and upstream materials...
In recent years, Chinese companies have significantly increased their investment in automotive semiconductors, aiming to accelerate the development of a domestic supply chain. Yet...
The optical film industry is undergoing significant upheaval as disruptions in the red supply chain force manufacturers to rethink their business models. Taiwan-based Efun Technology...
The chip resistor supply chain is seeing another round of price hikes as major passive component manufacturers Yageo and Walsin Technology initiated the first wave. Taiwanese firm...
China has reportedly been conditionally approving corporate purchases of Nvidia's H200, reshaping HBM supply-demand dynamics. According to Seoul Economic Daily and G-enews,...
