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Thursday 14 August 2025

South Korea-Vietnam summit sees Hyundai, SK, and LG boost investment momentum

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Vietnamese Communist Party General Secretary To Lam recently met in Seoul to strengthen economic ties, aiming to boost trade and investment...

Thursday 14 August 2025

Topoint races to meet surging drill bit demand as AI and HPC boom

As artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) drive explosive growth in demand for advanced printed circuit boards...

Thursday 14 August 2025

Enterprises struggle with GenAI adoption despite growing interest

Generative AI is advancing rapidly, but its adoption in businesses remains limited due to several challenges.

Thursday 14 August 2025

South Korean equipment makers eye entry into India battery manufacturing

South Korean battery equipment manufacturers are positioning themselves to benefit from India's accelerating push into advanced battery production, with Tata Group's battery subsidiary...

Thursday 14 August 2025

Smart glasses sales soar; Meta stays on top as Xiaomi surges

Global shipments of smart glasses jumped 110% in the first half of 2025 compared with a year earlier, with Meta holding more than 70% of the market, according to Counterpoint Research...

Thursday 14 August 2025

OpenAI launches GPT-5 with competitive API pricing, intensifying LLM market rivalry

OpenAI has launched GPT-5, introducing a notable reduction in API pricing for input and output tokens. This move may heighten competition among language model providers and lead competitors...

Wednesday 13 August 2025

STSP welcomes three new companies spanning aerospace, PSCs, and water treatment equipment

The National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP) Bureau has recently approved investment applications from three companies: Yalixin, Mega Sunergy,...

Wednesday 13 August 2025

Altman backs Merge Labs to take on Musk's Neuralink in US$850 million brain-computer drive

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is helping launch a brain-computer interface startup called Merge Labs, aiming to take on Elon Musk's Neuralink. The venture is targeting a valuation of about...

Wednesday 13 August 2025

Taiwan, US eye closer trade ties in ongoing tariff negotiations

Taiwan's lead negotiator and vice premier of the Executive Yuan Li-chiun Cheng held a press conference on August 11, 2025, during which she stated that since the US aims to become...

Wednesday 13 August 2025

China orders Alibaba, ByteDance to stop buying Nvidia H20 chips as tech tensions escalate

China's growing mistrust of Nvidia's H20 GPU is spilling into open confrontation, with regulators ordering leading internet firms, including Alibaba and ByteDance, to suspend orders...

Wednesday 13 August 2025

Auto tariff break offers lifeline to Japan, EU, and South Korean carmakers

President Donald Trump has reached a new tariff agreement with key US trade partners, including the European Union, Japan, and South Korea, setting a unified reciprocal tariff rate...

Wednesday 13 August 2025

Zhen Ding bullish on CoWoP despite long road to mass production

Nvidia is reportedly collaborating with its supply chain to develop an advanced packaging architecture called Chip-on-Wafer-on-PCB (CoWoP) for its Rubin GPU platform. This new design...

Wednesday 13 August 2025

Trump halts Biden-era EV charging program, US plans in disarray

The global electric vehicle market is increasingly dominated by three major regions: China, Europe, and the United States. While China's EV ecosystem—including vehicle sales...

Wednesday 13 August 2025

China to start mass production of domestic HBM3 chips, paving way for Huawei AI integration

China's domestic high-bandwidth memory (HBM) technology has reportedly reached a major milestone, with one of the nation's top DRAM manufacturers...

Wednesday 13 August 2025

Wistron Chair pledges 1 million GPU hours to power Taiwan's AI startups

Simon Lin, Chairman of Wistron Corporation, offered a candid look at the tech giant's bumpy journey into venture capital during a keynote speech at Taiwan's Venture Capital Summit...

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