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Tuesday 8 September 2026
Shield AI, AeroVironment deepen ties with Taiwan drone supply chain
US drone tech companies Shield AI and AeroVironment have strengthened ties with Taiwan's defense sector, and they have opened offices in Taiwan in recent years. At Semicon Taiwan 2026,...
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
Acer India tablet deal points to deeper push in Asia-Pacific
Acer has landed a nearly US$200 million tablet order from the state of Uttar Pradesh in India, underscoring the company's growing public-sector business in one of its fastest-expanding...
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
SK Hynix reportedly ends LG eSSD talks as ASICLAND deal expands
SK Hynix reportedly ended talks with LG Electronics over outsourcing part of the backend design for a next-generation enterprise SSD (eSSD) controller, but the memory maker told DIGITIMES...
Monday 7 September 2026
Inside UC San Diego's 'Made with Taiwan' push to train TSMC's future engineers, reinvent chip packaging
The largest engineering school on the US West Coast by enrollment is training engineers for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) and pioneering advanced 3D packaging desig...
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
HBM4 squeezes DRAM supply as Samsung, SK Hynix inventories fall below 10 days
Memory inventories at Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix have fallen below 10 days of supply as AI infrastructure spending drives simultaneous demand for HBM, server DRAM and enterprise...
Monday 7 September 2026
Exclusive: Infineon Dresden fab to hit full capacity in 2-3 years, COO says
Infineon COO Alexander Gorski told DIGITIMES in an exclusive interview at SEMICON Taiwan 2026 that the company's new Dresden fab is ramping at twice the pace of prior expansions,...
Monday 7 September 2026
India frames its chip build-out as redundancy for the world, and Taiwan as its partner in building it
India's most senior semiconductor policymakers came to Taipei with an argument aimed squarely at the Taiwanese supply chain: the country's chip program is meant to add redundancy to...
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
Kian Shen lifts Taiwan mix as China exports gain traction
In a two-part strategy to drive growth, auto components maker Kian Shen Industrial, a division of Yulon Motor Group, is ramping up its Taiwan business while shifting its China-based...
Monday 7 September 2026
Yaho rides TSMC, Micron expansion wave to tap facility integration, equipment installation market
Artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) are driving the global semiconductor industry into a new expansion cycle, with fabs extending from Taiwan to the US,...
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
Exclusive: Infineon COO says chip shortage recovery will take longer
Infineon COO Alexander Gorski told DIGITIMES in an exclusive interview at Semicon Taiwan 2026 that the current global chip shortage is unlike the one during Covid-19 and will...