For most doctoral candidates, the dissertation is a stack of research data — defended, bound, and shelved. For Kao Yung-chung (高永中), chairman of IntelliEPI Technology, it was somet......
When a factory in China was once seen as a cost advantage, Kao Yung-chung watched that calculus flip. The chairman of IntelliEPI Technology — a Taiwan-listed compound semiconductor......
A Buddhist art museum themed around the works of Xia Jingshan (夏荊山) is set to be built on a 7,000-ping (23,140 square meters) surface-rights development site at the Tainan Arsenal,......
When Apple quietly shifted a portion of its chip orders to Intel, the move was widely read as a sign of trouble for TSMC. Shih Jun-ji(施俊吉) sees it differently — as evidence that th......
Taiwan Stock Market Hits 40,000: Young Retail Investors Drive Record-Breaking Rally
As Taiwan's benchmark index surged past 40,000 points, stock investing has become a national pa......
There is a theory in Taiwan's semiconductor industry, attributed to MediaTek Chairman Tsai Ming-kai (蔡明介), that goes something like this: the chip design business is brutally like ......
While the global AI race is still widely framed as a contest among a handful of closed frontier model laboratories, a high-profile panel at Nvidia's GTC 2026 conference offered a s......
Now entering its fourth week with no ceasefire in sight, the U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran is far from over. Independent Chinese economist Andy Xie (謝國忠) is blunt ab......
Globalization has not ended but is undergoing a pendulum correction after advanced semiconductor manufacturing became too concentrated in Taiwan, MediaTek Chief Executive Rick T......
As the global smartphone market matures, MediaTek is signaling a strategic pivot to redefine itself from a mobile-centric chipmaker into a diversified computing powerhouse. In an i......
