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Wednesday 30 September 2026
Taiwan upgrades Circular Redesign Center as govt pushes top-down circular economy ecosystem
Taiwan's Resource Circulation Administration (RECA), under the Ministry of Environment, has launched an upgraded version of its Circular Redesign Center, with Environment Minister...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Samsung expects HPC to account for 66% of foundry business by 2029
Samsung Electronics expects high-performance computing (HPC) to account for 66% of its foundry business by 2029, up from 28% currently, as the company shifts its contract chipmaking...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Nidec changes CEO as restructuring accelerates
Japanese motor maker Nidec has replaced president and CEO Mitsuya Kishida with chief technology officer Michio Kaida as the company moves to overhaul its business and governance following...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
CATL starts cell trial production at Hungary plant
Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd. (CATL) said its new battery plant in Debrecen, Hungary, began cell trial production on September 22, with the first two cell production lines entering...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Taiwan-US drone production lines near launch
Production lines and testing facilities are now in place for the Taiwan-US attack drone Mighty Hornet IV, which is being developed by the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science &...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
TDK and Taiyo Yuden to explore alliance on AI-grade capacitors and inductors
TDK and Taiyo Yuden have signed a memorandum of understanding to begin discussions on a business alliance to develop electronic components, including MLCCs and inductors jointly, the...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Grand Pacific Petrochemical, Air Water join forces to expand Taiwan semiconductor materials business
Taiwan-based chemical manufacturer Grand Pacific Petrochemical (GPPC) is optimizing its core business while actively expanding into high-tech and semiconductor materials-related industries,...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Neocloud lifts OEM buying as ODM-direct share slips below 80% in 2026
Taiwan-based server original design manufacturers (ODMs) have long been key partners for cloud service providers (CSPs) through the ODM-direct model, but the model's share is declining...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
AI boom strains PCB supply chain as materials, equipment shortages persist into 2027
Rapid growth in AI server and high-speed networking demand since the second half of 2025 has tightened supply across printed circuit boards (PCBs), integrated circuit (IC) substrates,...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Powering Next-Gen AI: Materials Enabling Advanced Packaging's Future

As artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) drive unprecedented demands on semiconductor performance, materials are playing an increasingly critical...

Tuesday 29 September 2026
Amazon buys NT$1.59 billion stake in one of its Taiwanese AI server suppliers
Amazon will take an equity stake in Gold Circuit Electronics (GCE), a Taiwanese maker of printed circuit boards (PCBs) for AI servers and network switches. GCE's board approved the...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Mercedes-Benz and ProLogium expand solid-state battery testing partnership
ProLogium Technology said it has signed a joint testing agreement with Mercedes-Benz, giving the automaker priority access to evaluate the battery maker's latest Gen4 cells. The companies...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
SoftBank subsidiary Saimemory taps Shinko to bring ZAM closer to commercialization
Saimemory, a SoftBank subsidiary, has brought Shinko Electric Industries into its effort to commercialize Z-Angle Memory (ZAM), adding packaging-substrate, high-density integration...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
In global semiconductor race, Singapore bets on critical, mature technologies
Amid the ongoing restructuring of the global semiconductor supply chain, Singapore is focusing on advanced packaging, heterogeneous integration, silicon photonics, and optical interconnects,...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Samsung reshuffles DRAM roadmap, prioritizing B1b hybrid bonding for D0a, HBM5
Samsung Electronics is reshaping its next-generation dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) roadmap, elevating its B1b wafer-to-wafer (W2W) hybrid bonding technology from a project-specific...