The number of Vietnamese students enrolled in Taiwan's universities reached 52,974 in 2025 — an increase of 13,364 from the previous year — cementing Vietnam's position as Taiwan's......
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), China's dominant domestic memory chip producer, is in preliminary discussions with authorities in Beijing's Yizhuang Economic and Technological......
Japan is simultaneously pledging more than 370 trillion yen to strengthen its economy over the next 15 years and watching corporate IPOs fall to their lowest level in a decade and ......
Frank Huang (黃崇仁), chairman of Taiwan-based chipmaker Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (PSMC), died on July 31 of cardiopulmonary failure in his sleep at home in Taiwan.......
The global AI infrastructure boom is beginning to extract a tangible cost from the consumer electronics supply chain — and Taiwan's largest chip designer is sounding the alarm. Med......
A magnitude-7.1 earthquake struck Kumamoto Prefecture in southern Japan on July 28, forcing an emergency evacuation at TSMC's semiconductor complex before the company confirmed all......
Global semiconductor equipment spending is on course to nearly double within two years, and countries from Catalonia to Chihuahua are converging on Taiwan to get a seat at the tabl......
Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Wistron inaugurated its first-ever U.S. factory on July 22, marking a landmark expansion of Taiwan's tech supply chain onto American soil — and d......
Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (PSMC, 6770.TW) told investors on July 14 that it raised DRAM wafer input prices by a further 45% in July and expects the global DRAM su......
Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (PSMC), A Taiwan-based Contract Chipmaker Listed As 6770 On The Taiwan Stock Exchange, Said Tuesday That Customer Orders For Its T......
Taiwan's record-breaking economic growth has a problem: most of the country isn't feeling it — and now foreign media are saying so out loud.The Hankyoreh, a major South Korean dail......
South Korean memory chipmaker SK Hynix posted a voluntary employee turnover rate of just 0.5% among its domestic workforce in 2025 — a figure that reflects both the strength of its......
Kuomintang(KMT) Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) came to New York prepared for a fight — and she got one.On the evening of June 8 (Eastern Time), Cheng appeared at the Asia Society's ......
When Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang expressed concern about Taiwan's electricity supply, President Lai Ching-te responded by inviting him to tour a power plant. That response reveals ever......
Co-packaged optical (CPO) interconnect technology was among the most closely watched themes at Computex 2026 in Taipei — a sign of how quickly the AI infrastructure industry is bei......
A towering tree does not grow overnight. It takes root because someone, decades earlier, broke ground in the heat, planted the seed, and kept watering it through the driest years. ......
Donald Trump's assertion that Taiwan took America's semiconductor industry has become a fixture of his trade rhetoric. A detailed counter-argument published this week by a veteran ......
In Kumamoto, Japan, there are now more than 20 job openings for every available candidate. TSMC needs engineers at its Kumamoto plant — and equally at its facilities in Taiwan. Rat......
Japan's labor market is undergoing a structural shift, and a single data point captures it sharply. In March 2026, the job-offer ratio — a measure of how many job openings exist fo......
Against a backdrop of intensifying global competition and heightened geopolitical risk in the technology sector, Samsung Group (三星集團), one of Asia's largest technology conglomerate......
Taiwan's semiconductor industry has made the island indispensable to the global economy. But Chen Pei-jer (陳培哲), one of Taiwan's most prominent biomedical scientists, warns that th......
For years, the debate over Taiwan's defense budget has orbited a single, politically loaded question: does military spending crowd out social welfare? That framing is understandabl......
What Xi Actually Said to Trump — and Why It Matters More Than Taiwan's Response
After the Trump-Xi summit in China, President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) issued a 1,500-character statement......
Global semiconductor materials revenue hit $73.2 billion in 2025 — a year-on-year increase of 6.8% and a new all-time high — according to the latest Materials Market Data Subscript......
South Korea's stock market is in the grip of a retail investor frenzy drawing comparisons to past speculative bubbles. The benchmark Kospi index has surged more than 200% over the ......
Taiwan has finally pulled ahead of South Korea in per capita GDP — and the milestone feels long overdue. For decades, the rivalry between these two export-driven economies played o......
A Nobel Prize-winning economist has predicted that a four-day workweek — and a three-day weekend — will become a global trend, driven by the convergence of industrialization and ar......
Taiwan just delivered one of its most remarkable economic performances in nearly four decades. Official data released by the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistic......
China's Humanoid Robot Marathon: What a Race Reveals About an Industrial Strategy A humanoid robot completed a half-marathon in Beijing in under 51 minutes — a figure that, on pape......
The global information and communications technology (ICT) industry is entering 2026 pulled sharply in two directions: surging demand for AI infrastructure is lifting server shipme......
Taiwan is shifting from export-driven manufacturing toward a co-production model with the United States, as Washington accelerates efforts to rebuild its industrial base. The trans......
ASE Chief Executive Tien Wu (吳田玉) stated that the global semiconductor industry has entered a crucial phase of transformation. As supply chain restructuring accelerates, ASE contin......
As Taiwanese technology companies expand their manufacturing footprint in the United States, a familiar concern has resurfaced at home: are they being forced to move by Washington?......
Since taking office at the beginning of 2025, U.S. President Donald Trumphas sparked speculation about future U.S. policy towards Taiwan, particularly in the wake of meeting with C......
Controversy over South Korea's electronic entry card marking Taiwan as a province of China has escalated into an international disputeover South Korea's diplomatic relations, with ......
