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Tuesday 8 September 2026
FIT wins Amphenol patent license, expands AI interconnect push
Foxconn Interconnect Technology (FIT) announced on September 7, 2026, that it has secured a patent license from competitor Amphenol for high-speed backplane connector solutions. The...
Tuesday 8 September 2026
LG's robot actuator push turns appliance know-how into a physical AI supply-chain bet
As humanoid robots increasingly move from demonstrations toward factories and commercial deployments, competition is expanding beyond finished robots into the components that determine...
Tuesday 8 September 2026
ASML lines up Intel, TSMC and Samsung behind 12-inch masks — TSMC alone sets a timeline
ASML issued joint statements with Intel Foundry, TSMC and Samsung Electronics on September 8, converging the three leading-edge chipmakers on a transition from the semiconductor industry's...
Tuesday 8 September 2026
Malaysia weighs Huawei Ascend 910C for MYR2 billion sovereign AI cloud
Malaysia is evaluating Huawei Technologies' Ascend 910C accelerators as the compute backbone of its MYR2 billion (US$494 million) sovereign AI initiative, which is designed to keep...
Tuesday 8 September 2026
TSMC's co-COO left ITRI in 1987 for a startup foundry — ITRI just named him a laureate
TSMC Executive Vice President and Co-Chief Operating Officer Y.P. Chin was named an Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) Laureate on September 7, marking another milestone...
Tuesday 8 September 2026
Taiwan and Saxony start building the talent pipeline behind TSMC's German fab
TSMC's investment in a fab in Germany's Free State of Saxony has drawn close attention from across Europe. Eva Ins Obergfell, Rector of Leipzig University, one of Germany's leading...
Tuesday 8 September 2026
Innolux, AUO take display technology into AI chips with FOPLP, glass substrates, Micro LED CPO
AI demand is accelerating advanced packaging and high-speed optical interconnect development, pushing Taiwan display makers Innolux and AUO deeper into the semiconductor supply cha...
Tuesday 8 September 2026
LG bets on in-cabin AI agents as South Korea races to catch China in autonomous driving
Rapid advances in China's autonomous-driving technology are increasing pressure on South Korea's auto industry to catch up, and LG Electronics is responding by expanding its push from...
Tuesday 8 September 2026
Analysis: Taiwan manufacturers put 78.9% of new investment into machines as hiring fails
Taiwan's traditional manufacturers are warning that the island's growth story is widening a long-running labor gap, as semiconductor and AI server demand lifts the economy even as...
Tuesday 8 September 2026
Taiwan sets out 2027 plan to reinforce AI, chip leadership
Taiwan plans to deepen its role in global technology supply chains as demand for AI chips, advanced packaging, and memory tightens worldwide. A new policy agenda aims to bolster semiconductor...
Monday 7 September 2026
South Korea secures US$2B from Air Products, Axcelis, Corning, Pacifico Energy to bolster supply chains
Four major US technology companies have committed a combined US$2 billion to investments across South Korea's semiconductor materials, equipment, and clean energy sectors. The move...
Monday 7 September 2026
Huawei Kirin 9050 Pro revives flagship chip launches with reported LogicFolding architecture in Mate XT 2
Huawei has unveiled the Kirin 9050 Pro in its new Mate XT 2 tri-fold smartphone, marking the commercial debut of the LogicFolding architecture behind its Tau Scaling Law and Huawei's...
Monday 7 September 2026
SEMICON Taiwan 2027 move to August highlights venue pressure, not anniversary tie-in
SEMICON Taiwan 2027 will be held on August 18 to 20, about one month earlier than its usual September timing. The organizer noted that venue planning needs instead drive the schedule...
Monday 7 September 2026
Inside K-Safety Expo 2026: AI is disappearing into safety — and that changes everything
By the final afternoon of K-Safety Expo 2026, after three days of threading my way through BEXCO's sprawling exhibition halls in Busan, one impression had become difficult to ignore:...
Monday 7 September 2026
NEC reportedly ends quantum computer hardware development, shifts focus to annealing
Japan's NEC has halted development of gate-based quantum-computer hardware, marking a strategic retreat from a field the company helped pioneer, while continuing to invest in quantum...