2024-11-05 AI's $1.3 Trillion Future Increasingly Hinges on Taiwan When Jung Yoonseok was looking for an assembly partner for his artificial intelligence (AI) chip startup, he had his pick of almost any country in Asia, including his native South Korea. Instead, the Rebellions strategy chief opted for Taiwan because of what he sees as an unparalleled combination of talent, cost and speed. “Taiwan is small, and Taipei is small, and in that small area everything moves super fast,” the 35-year-old Harvard graduate said. Jung reached the s 
2024-10-31 AI set to boost Taiwan's passive component industry: analyst Taiwan’s passive component industry is expected to grow 11.1 percent this year and increase another 6.3 percent next year in terms of production value, an Industrial Technology Research Institute analyst said on Tuesday. The production value of the passive components industry is estimated to grow from NT$217.8 billion (US$6.80 billion) last year to NT$242 billion this year, Hsiao Jui-chung (蕭睿中), an analyst at the government-sponsored institute’s Industry, Science and Tech 
2024-10-21 Samsung delays ASML chip gear deliveries in US Samsung Electronics Co has postponed taking deliveries of ASML Holding NV chipmaking equipment for its upcoming factory in Texas as it has yet to win any major customers for the project, three people familiar with the matter said. Samsung has been also holding off on placing orders to some other suppliers for the US$17 billion factory in Taylor, prompting them to look for other customers and send staff deployed on site back home, three other people familiar with the matter said. The delay 
2024-10-09 ASE holds groundbreaking ceremony for new plant in Kaohsiung ▲ ASE Technology Holding Co and Kaohsiung City Government representatives attend a groundbreaking ceremony in Kaohsiung yesterday. ASE Technology Holding Co (日月光投控), the world’s largest IC packaging and testing services provider, held a groundbreaking ceremony yesterday for its new advanced production facility in Kaohsiung. Construction of the K28 plant, expected to be completed in 2026, will expand ASE’s chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) advanced packaging capacity, t 
2024-10-03 Manufacturing industry reports steady growth Turvo International Co employees work on the auto-parts maker’s production lines in Taichung on Sept. 18. The manufacturing industry’s business climate monitor stayed “green” in August, suggesting steady growth, as local tech firms benefited from inventory demand ahead of new product launches by global technology brands, the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research (TIER, 台灣經濟研究院) said yesterday. It is the fifth straight “green” sign 
2024-09-23 Advantech to Lift ASEAN Grit With New Singapore Site Industrial IoT and embedded computing solutions provider Advantech Co. Singapore Pte. Ltd. has officially inaugurated its expanded regional office in Singapore. Specifically, this strategic investment is set to enhance Advantech's core competencies within the Southeast Asian region. Located at 7002 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5, the new office will double the company's current facility space. Thus, enhancing its infrastructure to meet the rising demand for high-technology solutions, par 
2024-09-18 Intel's German plant delay lands blow to EU's chip ambitions Intel Corp's decision on Monday to postpone its planned factory in Germany marks a setback for the European Union's semiconductor ambitions and will reignite controversy in Berlin over where to allocate 10 billion euros (US$11 billion) in earmarked subsidies. The embattled US chipmaker's move to delay the project in Magdeburg by about two years is a blow to the EU's goal of producing one-fifth of the world's semiconductors by 2030. The German facility w 
2024-09-11 Vanguard, Episil to build 8-inch fab for SiC chips Vanguard International Semiconductor Corp (世界先進) and Episil Technologies Inc (漢磊) yesterday announced plans to jointly build an 8-inch fab to produce silicon carbide (SiC) chips. SiC chips offer higher efficiency and lower energy loss than pure silicon chips, and they are able to operate at higher temperatures. They have become crucial to the development of electric vehicles, artificial intelligence data centers, green energy storage and industrial devices. Vanguard, a contract chipmaker f 
Site-wide search 
0
0