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2025 Marked the Year of Silicon Sovereignty in Asia’s Semiconductor Power Shift

TSMC’s new Global R&D Center in Taiwan reflects Asia’s drive to maintain cutting-edge chip capabilities on home soil. Semiconductor technology has become not just an industry, but an instrument of national power. Semiconductors in 2025 are not merely about cranking out more chips – they have become closely tied to national sovereignty and strategy. Nowhere is this shift more...

29 Dec 2025 | Monday | Analysis
Onto Innovation Receives “Excellent Production Support” Award from TSMC

Onto Innovation Inc. (NYSE: ONTO) announced the Company has received the “Excellent Production Support” award from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd (TSMC) as part of its initiative recognizing the outstanding contributions of its global suppliers. Onto Innovation achieves ongoing success in integrating machine learning and predictive analytics into its metrology and inspect...

24 Dec 2025 | Wednesday | NEWS
Advantech Partners With DEEPX to Launch First NPU-Powered Edge AI Acceleration Module

Advantech, a global leader in IoT intelligent systems and embedded platforms, announced its partnership with DEEPX, a leading Korean AI semiconductor innovator specializing in NPU (Neural Processing Unit) technology. This collaboration expands Advantech's AI chipset ecosystem and introduces the company's first AI acceleration solution powered by DEEPX technology, the EAI-1961 series Edge AI Acce...

18 Dec 2025 | Thursday | NEWS
Taiwan Strengthens Semiconductor Leadership While Opening Doors to Global Capital

  Taiwan is reinforcing its position at the centre of the global semiconductor industry, combining deep rooted technological expertise with a renewed openness to foreign investment as demand for advanced chips continues to accelerate worldwide. The island’s semiconductor ecosystem is entering a new phase of expansion, marked by sustained capital inflows, capacity upgra...

16 Dec 2025 | Tuesday | NEWS
Lumotive Accelerates Global Expansion as Demand Surges for Its Programmable Optics Platform

  Lumotive, a pioneer in programmable optical semiconductor,  announced major global expansion and key leadership hires to meet the surging demand for its Light Control Metasurfaces (LCM™) platform across robotics, industrial automation, and smart-infrastructure markets. The company expanded its workforce by 50% in 2025 and opened new sites in Oman and Taiwan to advance adoption...

11 Dec 2025 | Thursday | NEWS
TSMC Lifts Full Year Revenue Forecast As Global AI Spending Accelerates

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world’s largest advanced semiconductor foundry, has revised its full year revenue outlook upwards, citing sustained momentum in artificial intelligence driven investments across the global technology landscape. The company highlighted robust demand for high performance computing, advanced logic chips and AI centric workloads as the primary d...

9 Dec 2025 | Tuesday | NEWS
SEEQC Partners With Taiwan’s ITRI to Build Dedicated Manufacturing Line for Superconducting Quantum Control Chips

SEEQC, the digital quantum computing company developing a fully digital, chip-based quantum computing platform,  announced a manufacturing partnership with Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). Together, SEEQC and ITRI will construct a state-of-the-art process line dedicated to manufacturing SEEQC's proprietary Single Flux Quantum (SFQ) superconducting control chips, fur...

3 Dec 2025 | Wednesday | NEWS
Merck Opens Semiconductor Solutions Mega Site in Kaohsiung as New Phase of Global Growth Begins

Merck has opened its new Semiconductor Solutions Mega Site in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, marking a significant expansion of its global electronics footprint and a major boost to the resilience of critical semiconductor supply chains. The first phase of the site, covering one hundred and fifty thousand square metres, is now fully operational and ready to support the fast growing demand for advanced semic...

2 Dec 2025 | Tuesday | NEWS
TSMC Flags Severe Capacity Gap as AI Workloads Outpace Advanced-Node Supply

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM), the world’s leading semiconductor foundry, cautioned that its production capacity at advanced process nodes remains significantly below what is required to support the rapid acceleration of global artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. Speaking at a recent industry briefing, TSMC’s Chief Executive Officer stated th...

1 Dec 2025 | Monday | NEWS
GMI Cloud Invests $500 Million in Taiwan’s Flagship AI Data Center, Deploying 7,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs

U.S.-based cloud services provider GMI Cloud revealed plans to build a $500 million AI data center in Taiwan, leveraging the latest NVIDIA Blackwell GB300 chips for unprecedented compute power. This state-of-the-art facility, expected to go live in March 2026, will house around 7,000 GPUs across 96 high-density racks and deliver nearly 2 million tokens per second, all while drawing approximately 1...

18 Nov 2025 | Tuesday | NEWS
FMC Secures €100 Million to Redefine Memory Chip Performance and Energy Efficiency

Oversubscribed financing round consisting of €77 million in Series C equity capital, led by HV Capital and DTCF, and €23 million in public funding, marking one of the largest capital rounds in the European semiconductor sector Fresh capital accelerates the commercialization of FMC DRAM+ and 3D CACHE+ memory chips to enable the global ramp-up of AI data centers and AI edge applications...

14 Nov 2025 | Friday | NEWS
Taiwan Tightens Export Rules on Chips Bound for South Africa

  Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs has announced new export pre-approval measures for semiconductor products destined for South Africa, adding another layer of scrutiny to global chip supply chains. The move underscores how geopolitical and security considerations are increasingly shaping the flow of critical technologies — even to markets not tradition...

4 Nov 2025 | Tuesday | NEWS
Taiwan’s APEC Envoy Holds Strategic Chip-Talks with US Treasury Under-Secretary Bessent

Taiwan’s representative to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit held a high-level meeting with US Treasury Under-Secretary for International Affairs, Jay Bessent, to discuss joint approaches to semiconductor policy, trade resilience, and innovation partnerships. The closed-door meeting, lasting approximately 40 minutes, focused on advancing cooperation across the semiconduc...

3 Nov 2025 | Monday | NEWS
ARBOR Technology, Datature, and MemryX Form Strategic Alliance to Advance No-Code Vision AI at the Edge

ARBOR Technology Corp., a global leader in industrial IoT and edge AI computing solutions, together with Datature, an innovator in no-code Vision AI platforms, and MemryX, a pioneer in AI accelerator chips, jointly announce a strategic alliance aimed at accelerating the deployment of intelligent, scalable, and integrated Vision AI solutions. This collaboration brings together complementary exper...

30 Oct 2025 | Thursday | NEWS
UMC Launches 55nm BCD Platform to Power Next-Generation Smart, Efficient Electronics

United Microelectronics Corporation (NYSE: UMC; TWSE: 2303)(“UMC”), a leading global semiconductor foundry,  announced the release of its 55nm Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) platform, enabling a new level of performance and power efficiency in next-generation mobile devices, consumer electronics, automotive, and industrial applications. Designed to address the growing complexity of pow...

23 Oct 2025 | Thursday | NEWS
Tachyum Opens Taiwan Office to Strengthen Global Production and Supply Chain for Prodigy® Universal Processor

-Tachyum®  announced the opening of new offices in Taiwan, the world’s most advanced technology manufacturing and technological hub, in advance of production of the Prodigy® Universal Processor. As Tachyum continues towards tape-out for Prodigy, the company has chosen to establish manufacturing, testing, assembly, ODM, logistics and support facilities in Taiwan to ensure worl...

22 Oct 2025 | Wednesday | NEWS
Rigaku Establishes Rigaku Technology Taiwan to Strengthen Regional Innovation and Customer Support Across Semiconductors, Materials, and Life Sciences

Rigaku Holdings Corporation (headquarters: Akishima, Tokyo; CEO: Jun Kawakami; hereinafter “Rigaku”) hereby announces the establishment of Rigaku Technology Taiwan Co., Ltd. (hereinafter “RTTW”), a new group company in Taiwan, in 2025. A facility within RTTW, Rigaku Technology Center Taiwan (hereinafter RTC-TW), began full-scale operation in October 2025. RTTW will assum...

22 Oct 2025 | Wednesday | NEWS
Chip Stocks Race Higher After Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) Signals Strong AI-Driven Demand

Asian semiconductor equities climbed sharply on Thursday following TSMC’s unexpectedly strong forecast for the year, as the company pointed to robust demand for high-performance chips used in artificial-intelligence infrastructure. TSMC reported a record quarterly profit and raised its full-year revenue outlook, citing major customers ranging from Nvidia and Apple to global d...

20 Oct 2025 | Monday | NEWS
MediaTek and NVIDIA Extend Partnership to Power a New Era of Personal AI Supercomputing

Continues MediaTek's long history of collaboration with NVIDIA to advance AI innovation from supercomputers to vehicles, IoT devices, data center solutions, and beyond  MediaTek has teamed with NVIDIA on the design of the GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip in NVIDIA DGX Spark, a personal AI supercomputer that allows developers to prototype, fine-tune, and inference large AI models on the ...

16 Oct 2025 | Thursday | NEWS
Insyde Software Joins Arm Total Design to Accelerate AI-Ready Silicon Innovation

Insyde Software, a leading global provider of UEFI and OpenBMC-based firmware,  announced that it has joined Arm® Total Design, a collaborative ecosystem designed to simplify and accelerate custom silicon development powered by Arm Neoverse™ Compute Subsystems (CSS). In close alignment with Arm’s shift-left approach, Insyde empowers AI infrastructure providers to validate c...

15 Oct 2025 | Wednesday | NEWS

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