SpaceX's stock market debut last month set off a scramble on Wall Street for a new shorthand to describe the companies now steering the AI economy. Traders and financial commentato......
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) closed its strongest quarter on record Monday, posting second-quarter 2026 revenue of approximately NT$1.27 trillion — slightly ab......
Taiwan's AI infrastructure supply chain is shifting from copper to light, and semiconductor inspection company MA-tek (Materials Analysis Technology Inc.) is riding the wave. The c......
Taiwan's semiconductor testing suppliers are booking orders well into 2027, as the shift to advanced AI chip packaging drives up both demand and prices for the specialized hardware......
As governments from Washington to Riyadh race to build homegrown semiconductor industries, a senior executive at one of Taiwan's largest chip packaging firms argues that factories ......
The global race for artificial intelligence dominance must be bounded by clear ethical limits—or it risks becoming genuinely dangerous. That is the warning from Yen Bo-wen (顏博文), C......
Taiwan's export machine is breaking records, and its stock market has surged more than 60% since January. But a wave of blockbuster U.S. tech listings — led by SpaceX's $2.1 trilli......
The American Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan (AmCham) released the 31st edition of its annual Taiwan White Paper on June 16, marking the chamber's 75th anniversary at a moment of his......
Taiwan's flagship chipmaker is facing a fresh legal challenge in the United States, as two Ireland-registered patent licensing firms have filed infringement complaints against TSMC......
A sharp pullback in U.S. semiconductor stocks rattled Taiwan's equity market this week, but analysts are pointing to two structural support levels that suggest the sell-off may rep......
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......
Singapore's stock market has reclaimed its position as Southeast Asia's largest, overtaking Indonesia. Bloomberg data cited by The Straits Times shows Indonesian listed companies' ......
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.(TSMC) announced Wednesday it has acquired a second plot of land in Arizona comparable in size to its existing campus there, as the world's la......
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......
As Intel works to rebuild its advanced process capabilities and foundry business, questions about whether the company is a competitor or collaborator with TSMC have been a persiste......
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Chairman and President C.C. Wei told shareholders Thursday that the chipmaker expects its dollar-denominated revenue to grow more than 30% fo......
While the world's top technology executives converged on Taipei for COMPUTEX, Huawei was making its own statement — 1,000 kilometers away in Shanghai. At the ISCAS 2026 conference,......
Nvidia's top executive used a global press conference on Wednesday to send an unambiguous message: supply chain diversification is not a retreat from Taiwan — it is a strategy buil......
NVIDIA Chief Executive Jensen Huang (黃仁勳) announced at the GTC Taiwan conference on June 1 that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) has begun deploying NVIDIA's artificia......
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang (黃仁勳) unveiled a sweeping vision for the personal computer at GTC Taiwan on June 1, announcing a partnership with Microsoft to redesign the PC a......
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang (黃仁勳) took the stage at GTC Taiwan and Computex Taipei on June 1, delivering the event's opening keynote at the Taipei Music Center — and immedi......
Jensen Huang was on his way to dinner when Greenpeace caught up with him.Activists from Greenpeace East Asia intercepted the NVIDIA chief executive outside the Mandarin Oriental ho......
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. ......
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang brought together the commanding heights of Taiwan's artificial intelligence industry on Wednesday evening, hosting his now-iconic annual gatheri......
Japan's National Institute of Technology (KOSEN)— five-year technical colleges that admit students straight out of middle school — has emerged as the unexpected center of a regiona......
When TSMC's Japanese subsidiary JASM began operations in Kumamoto, the most immediate disruption was not to chip supply chains — it was to local pay scales.New graduates entering t......
At a Shanghai conference on Monday, He Tingbo (何庭波), Huawei board member and president of its semiconductor division, unveiled what she termed "Tao's Law" — a proposed successor to......
When U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly accuses Taiwan of "stealing" America's semiconductor industry, the appropriate response from Taipei is clear rebuttal. Instead, Premier ......
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......
Cerebras Systems went public on Nasdaq this month at a $100 billion valuation. The more consequential story is how it got there.
On May 14, 2026, the opening bell at Nasdaq marked......
Lisa Su has never been comfortable standing still. Twelve years into leading AMD, she describes running the company less like steering a single organization and more like reinventi......
Advanced Micro Devices plans to co-invest more than $10 billion with Taiwan-based supply chain partners to lock in manufacturing capacity ahead of what the company expects will be......
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......
Applied Materials and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) have announced a new collaboration at Applied Materials' Equipment and Process Innovation and Commercialization ......
Taiwan's benchmark stock index has surged past 42,000 points, driven by explosive AI demand and a wave of retail euphoria. Total market capitalization of listed companies has climb......
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......
As President Donald Trump prepares to travel to Beijing for a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, he has confirmed at the White House that arms sales to Taiwan will be direct......
At the end of 2025, the Bureau of Labor Funds (勞動基金運用局) under Taiwan's Ministry of Labor announced a record-breaking result: the New Labor Pension Fund (新制勞退基金) generated annual re......
Taiwan's stock market delivered one of its strongest monthly performances in nearly four decades in April, with the weighted index surging 7,203.84 points, or 22.73%. The advance r......
Taiwan's benchmark index crossed the 40,000-point threshold for the first time, propelled by a landmark regulatory change and broad-based gains among the market's heaviest hitters.......
When a U.S. court invalidated the legal basis for President Donald Trump's universal 10% import tariff last Thursday, most affected economies had reason to exhale. Taiwan did not. ......
For decades, Taiwan's approach to attracting corporate investment has followed a deceptively simple formula: offer tax breaks, and companies will come. Investment credits, tax holi......
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......
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......
A former Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) engineer was sentenced to ten years in prison last week for leaking trade secrets under Taiwan's National Security Act. M......
In the years I have spent helping Taiwanese companies set up operations in Arizona, I have noticed a pattern that cuts across nearly every firm. The moment management begins buildi......
