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Monday 27 April 2026

Taiwan's growing AI and industrial demand reshapes corporate power strategies

As AI infrastructure and industrial electricity use rise, Taiwan's shifting power landscape has far-reaching global implications for supply reliability, corporate competitiveness,...

Monday 27 April 2026

NEO Semiconductor advances 3D DRAM with POC validation

Driven by AI, demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) is surging, causing a supply shortage in DRAM and prompting cloud service providers to pre-book capacity for the next two years...

Monday 27 April 2026

South Korea's telecom giants unveil full-stack AI strategies at WIS 2026, highlighting agents, infrastructure, and 6G

South Korea's three leading telecom operators—SK Telecom (SKT), KT, and LG U+—signaled a decisive shift beyond connectivity at the World IT Show (WIS) 2026, held April...

Monday 27 April 2026

Meta and Alibaba blur social media and e-commerce boundaries

The rise of generative AI has blurred the boundaries between the social media and e-commerce industries, driving a shift in their business models that has been exemplified by recent...

Monday 27 April 2026

Taiwan's NCSIST partners with Saronic to advance autonomous maritime capabilities

Taiwan's National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) said on April 24 that it has signed a memorandum of understanding...

Sunday 26 April 2026

Samsung, Kingston reportedly lift SSD prices by over 10% as supply tightens

Samsung Electronics and Kingston Technology have reportedly notified distributors of price increases of more than 10% across their solid-state...

Saturday 25 April 2026

The Taiwan startup that Qualcomm helped build the agentic OS for edge AI

When the avocado has two hours left, the AI takes over.

Saturday 25 April 2026

Taiwan's industrial production surges on AI infrastructure demand

Data released by Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) on April 23 showed that major global cloud service providers continue to expand procurement of artificial intelligence...

Friday 24 April 2026

TSMC CoPoS equipment orders face reshuffle with legal turmoil at Taiwanese equipment maker

The semiconductor packaging equipment sector is experiencing order shifts linked to significant executive changes at a key Taiwanese supplier, raising concerns over TSMC's chip-on-wafer-on-substrate...

Friday 24 April 2026

Heran's three-brand strategy targets all appliance segments, with Yamada brand driving 2026 growth

Taiwan-based appliance maker Heran's shift to a multi-brand, multi-product strategy signals that mature appliance markets can still expand by segmenting price tiers; global consumers...

Friday 24 April 2026

FSET eyes local battery recycling and storage by 2027

Amid rising electricity demand driven by geopolitical tensions and AI growth, Formosa Smart Energy Tech (FSET) is advancing its battery recycling and energy storage strategy to build...

Friday 24 April 2026

SK Hynix deepens TSMC ties with HBM4, advances memory-logic integration

SK Hynix showcased its latest high-bandwidth memory (HBM) technologies at TSMC's North America Technology Symposium 2026, highlighting...

Friday 24 April 2026

MODA encourages Taiwanese firms to invest in computing power; Foxconn submits project proposal

The government has included AI computing infrastructure within the scope of major digital public construction projects, using tax incentives to boost private-sector investment. Minister...

Friday 24 April 2026

Exclusive: Google ramps new TPU servers, Taiwan suppliers gain share

Google's unveiling of its eighth-generation tensor processing unit (TPU) at Cloud Next 2026 is expected to drive the next wave of growth...

Friday 24 April 2026

Taiwan aims to close drone supply chain gaps by 2027

Taiwan-made drones have been exported to Poland, the Czech Republic, the US, and Austria, yet four core technology modules still rely on foreign suppliers, raising questions over whether...

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