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Monday 23 June 2025
Taiwan's Thunder Tiger expands defense portfolio with FPV drones and Sea Shark unmanned surface vessel

Thunder Tiger Technology, a Taiwan-based robotics and model manufacturer, is expanding its presence in the defense sector with new aerial...

Monday 23 June 2025
Taiwan partners with US drone firm Auterion despite China sanctions risk
Taiwan's National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology has signed a memorandum of understanding with US-based Auterion to integrate advanced drone operating systems and...
Monday 23 June 2025
AI chip design seen in second inning, says Synopsys executive
At its annual SNUG Taiwan event this week, Synopsys Senior Vice President of IP Group John Koeter told DIGITIMES that if AI chip development were a baseball game, the industry...
Monday 23 June 2025
IBM underscores AI's role in electronics manufacturing amid strategic shifts and new business opportunities
IBM Taiwan highlights AI's growing role in electronics manufacturing, emphasizing new business opportunities amid shifting corporate strategies. The company notes AI's impact on productivity...
Monday 23 June 2025
Taiwan pushes auto localization, Maxus G50 plus to debut in September
Beginning August 1, 2024, Taiwan will implement a sweeping new policy requiring automakers to gradually increase the proportion of locally sourced components in their supply chains...
Monday 23 June 2025
NTT faces headwinds in co-packaged optics effort, pins hopes on Rapidus
Japanese telecommunications company NTT is encountering significant challenges in its efforts to mass-produce co-packaged optics (CPO), a next-generation technology increasingly critical...
Saturday 21 June 2025
Taiwan port operator migrates key system to Microsoft Azure in smart management push
Taiwan International Ports Corp. has migrated part of its core "Taiwan Port Net" system to Microsoft's Azure cloud platform in Taiwan, marking a significant deployment case for the...
Saturday 21 June 2025
What Ren Zhengfei didn’t say—lessons for Taiwan’s tech playbook
In a rare and insightful interview with People's Daily, Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei shared his perspective under the headline "The
Saturday 21 June 2025
Taiwan shifts to private firms after ITRI exits stalled B5G project
Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) will end its contract with the Taiwan Space Agency after admitting that low-Earth orbit satellite development falls outside...
Saturday 21 June 2025
Nidec's Takisawa taps China's robot boom with precision tool push
Takisawa Machine Tool, a subsidiary of Japan's Nidec Corp., is leveraging its parent company's extensive sales networks and industrial connections to expand its presence in China's...
Friday 20 June 2025
AI boom pushes Wistron to rapidly scale up server production
The demand for AI remains robust, and visibility is high. Wistron President and CEO Jeff Lin noted that most customers are placing rolling 12-month orders, and current demand is expected...
Friday 20 June 2025
SoftBank pitches US$1 trillion US AI hub to TSMC, Trump team
SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son is seeking to team up with TSMC to realize what could be his biggest bet yet — a trillion-dollar industrial complex in Arizona to...
Friday 20 June 2025
GBM expands AI product line via Lincstech acquisition, focus on Singapore and Malaysia operations
Global Brands Manufacture (GBM), a PCB and EMS subsidiary of Walsin Technology, recently held a shareholders' meeting led by chairman Yu-Heng Chiao to discuss acquiring Japan's Lincstech...
Friday 20 June 2025
Taiwan chip packaging sector faces triple threat as Trump tariff deadline looms
Taiwan's semiconductor packaging and testing companies confront three major operational challenges in the second half of 2025 as US President Donald Trump's reciprocal tariff suspension...
Friday 20 June 2025
South Korea's Dongjin Semichem licenses OLED material patents to Merck and Idemitsu Kosan
South Korea's Dongjin Semichem has licensed its OLED material patents to major companies, including Germany's Merck and Japan's Idemitsu Kosan, highlighting its technological prowess...