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Monday 7 September 2026
Exclusive: DIGITIMES' top 3 at K-Safety Expo 2026 shows where intelligent safety is heading — act 'before' disaster strikes
The most consequential safety technologies are often judged by what happens after something goes wrong: how fast an alarm sounds, how quickly rescuers arrive, or how effectively protective...
Monday 7 September 2026
SiliconAuto pushes AI chiplets as automotive SoC ties tighten
Taiwanese automotive microcontroller (MCU) maker SiliconAuto showcased its products at SEMICON Taiwan 2026, with CEO Gene Liu saying the company is now spotlighting AI chiplet architecture...
Monday 7 September 2026
Taiwan-Netherlands silicon photonics team targets 1.6T DR8 in 2026, 3.2T optical links next
AI data center demand is accelerating the shift to faster optical interconnects, putting transmission speed, power efficiency, and packaging integration at the center of next-generation...
Monday 7 September 2026
Pegatron, Deloitte Taiwan team up to speed smart manufacturing
Pegatron announced on September 3 that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with Deloitte Taiwan, combining Pegatron's self-developed enterprise AI digital twin platform with...
Monday 7 September 2026
Experts say subsidies can't buy semiconductor competitiveness
At a forum jointly hosted by DSET and SEMI during SEMICON Taiwan this year, Glenn D. Tiffert of the Hoover Institution, Kioxia Holdings board member Emiko Higashi, and NRC...
Monday 7 September 2026
Machine builders flood SEMICON 2026 to grow local chip tools
Taiwan's machinery industry is pushing to turn its semiconductor advantage into a domestic equipment supply chain, as more than 100 member companies join SEMICON Taiwan 2026 and the...
Monday 7 September 2026
Acer hedges memory price shock with local AI, diversification
Acer Chairman and CEO Jason Chen said Taiwan is not only a global hub for AI hardware manufacturing and technology, but also an important source of capital, as many firms issue bonds...
Sunday 6 September 2026
TEL sees AI-driven packaging, memory demand reshaping Taiwan strategy
Tokyo Electron's Taiwan president said AI is pushing semiconductor demand into new areas, with advanced packaging, DRAM, high-bandwidth memory, and NAND flash all gaining momentum...
Sunday 6 September 2026
K-Safety Expo 2026: Safety gets smarter as six innovators win foreign media honors
The BEST OF K-SAFETY EXPO Global Media Awards on September 3 offered a revealing snapshot of where safety technology is heading: away from passive protection and toward systems that...
Sunday 6 September 2026
Hanmi's 2.5D bonders pass Taiwan foundry qualification as packaging outsourcing expands
South Korea's Hanmi Semiconductor has reportedly begun supplying 2.5D packaging bonders to an unnamed Taiwanese foundry after the equipment passed mass-production qualification, giving...
Sunday 6 September 2026
Taiwan thermal supplier I-Chiun launches AI chip cooling venture targeting US$19.2B liquid-cooling market
I-Chiun Precision Industry and Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) have established Huizhi Advanced, the country's first startup focused on AI chip thermal design,...
Sunday 6 September 2026
Podcast highlights: SoIC vs CoWoS, HBM5 hybrid bonding, and EMIB-T's yield problem
In a podcast, DIGITIMES analyst Luke Lin said hybrid bonding is drawing fresh attention at SEMICON Taiwan 2026 and could become a key driver of advanced packaging capacity expansion...
Sunday 6 September 2026
Taiwan chip equipment maker Scientech sees orders into 2028, may turn away customers in 2027
AI and high-performance computing (HPC) demand is extending order visibility for Taiwanese semiconductor equipment supplier Scientech into 2028, while capacity constraints may force...
Sunday 6 September 2026
K-Safety Expo 2026: Beyond AI, Korea re-engineers the human layer of industrial safety
Not every safety breakthrough spotted across the K-Safety Expo 2026 floor in Busan came with an AI camera attached.
Sunday 6 September 2026
Google's quantum boss says five years; his engineer says not so fast
Quantum computing has a trust problem. When a quantum machine produces an answer no ordinary computer can feasibly produce, there is no obvious way to tell whether the answer is ri...