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Tuesday 21 July 2026
How AI boom spurs Taiwan's PCB makers to rethink their Southeast Asia playbook

Amid the global boom in AI infrastructure investment, Southeast Asia is evolving from an electronics-component manufacturing base into...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
Pat Gelsinger: Intel missed GPU boom, warns Taiwan energy risk

Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has criticized Intel's past strategy in a recent interview, revisiting the company's history with Nvidia...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
Memory shortage could turn into a glut by 2028 as chipmakers expand

A powerful rally in memory-chip stocks has stalled as investors reconsider whether record spending on AI data centers could eventually...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
Seoul Semiconductor weighs India LED plant to tap ISM 2.0 incentives
South Korea's Seoul Semiconductor, one of the world's largest optoelectronics makers, is assessing plans to build a manufacturing plant in India and is in early talks with several...
Tuesday 21 July 2026
Taiwan lawmakers stall on drone procurement bill as localization debate intensifies

Taiwan's Legislative Yuan reviewed four versions of a special bill for drone procurement on the 16th but reached no conclusion, leaving...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
Weblisher plans double-digit growth as Taiwan SME and Japan lodging businesses expand
Weblisher, a data technology platform provider, is set to list on Taiwan's Emerging Stock Market on July 23. The company said 2026 revenue is expected to keep growing at a double-digit...
Tuesday 21 July 2026
Taiwan expands drone defense plans as lawmakers boost funding support

Taiwan's legislature has moved toward stronger backing for drone research and production following a political shift in June, as the...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
Taiwan launches AI competition to tackle marine debris with 20,000-image dataset

Marine debris management is entering a new phase of data-driven applications. Converting years of accumulated coastal imagery into actionable tools for surveying, identification,...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
TSMC sees structural AI growth, expands Arizona capex

TSMC Chief Financial Officer Wendell Huang said the company expects AI chip demand to remain strong for years, prompting it to keep...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
LGES accelerates sodium-ion battery plans while CATL secures early ESS lead
LG Energy Solution plans to establish a sodium-ion battery mother line at its Ochang Energy Plant in South Korea in 2026, seeking to narrow CATL's early commercial lead in energy storage...
Tuesday 21 July 2026
Samsung, SK Hynix prioritize DDR5 as margins near HBM levels

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are reportedly allocating additional or flexible DRAM production capacity to server DDR5 and other...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
Befar begins production of 6N hydrogen fluoride gas for chipmaking

Befar Group has begun producing semiconductor-grade hydrogen fluoride gas with a claimed purity of 6N, or 99.9999%, expanding the Chinese...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
Advanced Echem Materials to invest NT$4.52 billion in Longtan plant
Advanced Echem Materials (AEMC), a semiconductor specialty chemicals materials maker, plans to invest roughly NT$4.52 billion (approx. US$139.66 million) in Taiwan's Longtan Science...
Tuesday 21 July 2026
Samsung could overtake SK Hynix in the HBM market by 2027
Samsung Electronics could overtake SK Hynix to lead the global high-bandwidth memory market in 2027 as shipments of HBM4 expand, according to forecasts from UBS cited by Money...
Tuesday 21 July 2026
AI boom may reshape SK Siltron sale as chairman reportedly rethinks
SK Group chairman Chey Tae-Won is reportedly making a final decision on the sale of semiconductor silicon wafer subsidiary SK Siltron, as surging AI chip demand raises doubts about...