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Tuesday 2 December 2025

Taiwan sees new vehicle registrations rise amid market recovery efforts

Taiwan's automotive market showed signs of recovery in November as new vehicle registrations increased by 5.7% from October to 36,485 units, according to recent industry reports....

Tuesday 2 December 2025

Samsung Display maps out OLED expansion in Vietnam's Bac Ninh hub

Samsung Display (SDC) is preparing to reposition Vietnam's Bac Ninh Province as a core base for its next-generation OLED business under a plan that shifts the facility from a general...

Tuesday 2 December 2025

Samsung, SK Hynix lead HBM market, capitalize on Google's TPU push

Google's expanding investment in custom AI accelerators is reshaping the high-bandwidth memory market and lifting Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix as demand for tensor processing...

Tuesday 2 December 2025

A TSMC pioneer questions the judgment behind Wei-jen Lo’s move to Intel at 75

Former senior vice president of corporate strategy development at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), Wei-jen Lo, was recently reported to have taken confidential documents...

Tuesday 2 December 2025

AI drives Samsung's 2026 operating profit toward KRW100T

Artificial intelligence (AI) is fueling a DRAM supercycle, prompting South Korean securities firms to continuously raise their forecasts for Samsung Electronics' operating profit...

Tuesday 2 December 2025

Samsung Taiwan president promoted amid strong sales

Samsung Electronics has promoted its Taiwan region president, Jun Yang, to an executive role following outstanding business performance. Samsung highlighted Yang's extensive experience...

Tuesday 2 December 2025

Trumpf opens new plasma power tech center in Taiwan amid close ties with ASML, TSMC

Trumpf, a key supplier of semiconductor equipment components with close partnerships with industry giants such as ASML Holding and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC),...

Tuesday 2 December 2025

New industry alliance aims to position Taiwan at the center of next-generation communications

Taipei Computer Association (TCA) announced on December 1 the establishment of the Taiwan NextGen Communications Alliance (TNGCA), a...

Tuesday 2 December 2025

Samsung restructures research and memory teams to reclaim HBM market share

Samsung Electronics is undertaking one of its most significant internal restructurings in years as the company pushes to strengthen its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities and...

Tuesday 2 December 2025

TSMC-Intel legal dispute highlights Taiwan's corporate espionage risks

Judicial authorities continue investigating former TSMC senior vice president Wei-Jen Lo for suspected violations of the National Security Act and for industrial espionage. The Intellectual...

Tuesday 2 December 2025

Taiwan's Robotics Innovation Alliance targets six major industries

Although Taiwan possesses core upstream technologies in the robotics supply chain, downstream applications are only just getting started. To fill the gap, companies have formed the...

Monday 1 December 2025

Micron reportedly plans new Hiroshima fab to reduce reliance on Taiwan production

Micron Technology is reportedly planning to invest JPY1.5 trillion(US$9.6 billion) to establish a new high-bandwidth memory (HBM) manufacturing facility at its Hiroshima campus, according...

Monday 1 December 2025

CXMT narrows DRAM gap; market impact may be smaller than expected?

China's memory manufacturer CXMT, backed by government support, shifted to high-end technology development from 2025 and has introduced multiple next-generation DRAM products within...

Monday 1 December 2025

Taiwan weighs long-term space strategy as scientists push for greater role

The Taiwan Space Union (TSU) recently convened a Satellite Science Workshop, where participants noted that the high cost of space research...

Monday 1 December 2025

Taiwan sees highest weekly average of cyberattacks in Asia Pacific, says Fortinet executive

Taiwan is experiencing the highest weekly average of cyberattacks in the Asia-Pacific region, distinguished by a notably large share of attacks targeting the "impact" phase, according...

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