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Thursday 18 June 2026

Interview: MicroLED and SiPh eye 3.2T AI data race

The AI wave is rapidly reshaping the global semiconductor supply chain, and that upheaval is opening a new growth chapter for Taiwan's LED industry. As Taiwan's LED makers move away...

Tuesday 16 June 2026

Exclusive: Synopsys CEO eyes subscription-plus-token model in AI Agentic era

Synopsys celebrated the 35th anniversary of its Taiwan operations and the opening of its new Hsinchu office on June 15. During the...

Tuesday 16 June 2026

Interview: From language to motion— Japanese startup APTO builds the data backbone for physical AI

Physical AI is emerging as a new frontier of model development. Any model, however, is only as good as the data used to train it. Because...

Monday 15 June 2026

Exclusive: Wiwynn sees no AI bubble for 4 years as capex surges

Wiwynn president William Lin says AI demand has exceeded expectations, with orders so strong that even rapid global expansion still feels too slow. The server maker is expanding capacity...

Monday 15 June 2026

Exclusive: Wiwynn president rallies AI ecosystem to tackle power, cooling, optics

AI is reshaping Taiwan into the center of a technological revolution, and the upstream and downstream supply chain is running at full...

Monday 8 June 2026

Exclusive: Marvell says AI's copper wall is nearing, with custom silicon and optical I/O set to scale

US chipmaker Marvell took a more visible stance at Computex 2026, with CEO Matt Murphy delivering a keynote speech and senior executives visiting Taiwan to lay out the company's outlook...

Thursday 4 June 2026

Interview: Andhra Pradesh moves to become India's semiconductor packaging hub

Andhra Pradesh is making its most concrete move yet in semiconductors, zeroing in on packaging as the immediate entry point into the chip supply chain. Speaking on the sidelines of...

Tuesday 2 June 2026

Interview: Agentic AI moves from copilot to co-worker in enterprise procurement— Pactum's case for autonomous execution

Agentic AI is reshaping corporate procurement by moving beyond decision support to autonomous execution. Pactum is using it to automate tasks such as requisition handling, supplier...

Monday 1 June 2026

Interview: Sharp CEO taps Foxconn ecosystem for brand revival

Sharp President and CEO Tetsuji Kawamura said the company has eased some long-standing management pressures, but its main challenge now is to expand its brand, develop new businesses,...

Saturday 30 May 2026

'Hardware is sexy again': Plug and Play CEO says AI boom has finally fulfilled his 2006 semiconductor dream

The building where Saeed Amidi runs his global venture empire was once one of the most important semiconductor facilities on the West Coast. Philips Electronics operated a fabrication...

Monday 25 May 2026

Interview: Low-cost Chinese AI servers are redrawing the global infrastructure map

Geopolitics and price are reshaping who builds the world's AI infrastructure. Across emerging markets in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America, governments and enterprises are...

Saturday 23 May 2026

Interview: XCaliber challenges million-dollar missile defenses with cheap drone interceptors

The Ukraine War and ongoing tensions in the Middle East have exposed a technological revolution reshaping modern warfare: the rise of cheap drones. These developments, along with AI-powered...

Wednesday 20 May 2026

Interview: Governments are losing the AI cybersecurity race, and Palo Alto Networks thinks it has the answer

Governments are losing the race against AI. That is the blunt assessment of Nicole Quinn, vice president of policy and government affairs for Asia-Pacific at Palo Alto Networks. Policy...

Friday 15 May 2026

Interview: The 6G clock is ticking — and Ericsson wants Taiwan in its corner

The global mobile standards race has moved into the 6G prelude, with Ericsson saying the first fully implementable 6G specification is expected as early as March 2029. In an exclusive...

Tuesday 12 May 2026

Interview: Cyient Semiconductors CEO on Kinetic acquisition — why power is the new compute bottleneck

As the semiconductor industry grapples with the growing energy demands of artificial intelligence, Cyient Semiconductors is repositioning itself away from being a primarily semiconductor...

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