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SILITH, UMC Reach Silicon Photonics Mass Production Milestone for AI Optical Interconnects

SILITH and UMC have achieved mass production of silicon photonics wafers for next-generation AI networking applications. The post...

NTHU and Top Taiwan Venture Capital Launch NT$1 Billion ($34M USD) “NTHU Future Fund” for Deep Tech Startups

National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) and Top Taiwan Venture Capital Co., Ltd. have officially launched the NTHU Future Fund. Announced...

Taiwanese manufacturers plan 1 GW solar module factory in the United States

Taiwanese solar manufacturers Sino-American Silicon (SAS) and United Renewable Energy (URE) plan to build a 1 GW TOPCon module factory...

TSMC posts record revenue in second quarter on AI demand

Revenue in the second quarter rose 36% from a year earlier to ​a record high on surging interest in artificial intelligence...

Intel Foundry Improves Execution, but External Customers Remain the Test

Intel’s fabs are healing, but $293M in outside revenue won’t scare TSMC yet. The post Intel Foundry Improves Execution, but External...

Chip Industry Week In Review

Amkor's $1.5B deal; Intel Foundry revenue up 31%; Siemens' dual buys; SiC plant dies; AMD's big week; TSMC price hike; Nokia's fab buy;...

TSMC Boosts 2026 Expansion Budget, Adds $100B to U.S. Investment

TSMC is raising its 2026 capital budget to $64 billion and adding $100 billion to its U.S. investment for AI. The post TSMC Boosts 2026...

NSF Awards $15 Million to Launch Connecticut’s “QuantumCT” Innovation Engine

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has officially named Connecticut one of 12 regional winners in its highly competitive second...

TSMC expects 'strong, multi-year' demand for AI chips as it ramps up Arizona investment

Speaking after blockbuster second-quarter results on Thursday, Chief ​Financial Officer Wendell Huang said the company is "very happy"...

TSMC’s $265 billion U.S. spend driven by demand and rivals, CFO says

The company, fresh off reporting expectation-beating sales and profit and increasing its growth forecasts, still sees challenges in...

TSMC projects mass production of advanced A14 chips by 2028

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) announced that commercial production of its highly anticipated A14 process is slated to...

TSMC to invest another $100 billion in US as Q2 profit blows past forecasts

TSMC will invest an additional $100 billion in Arizona, expecting robust AI demand. The company raised its capital spending forecast...

Taiwanese chipmaker Nanya plans $6 billion in spending in 2027, riding AI boom

Taiwanese memory chipmaker Nanya Technology plans substantial capital spending next year. This increased investment is driven by soaring...

Nanoscale imaging of reduced forward bias at V-defects in green-emitting nitride LEDs

arXiv:2506.18025v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Record wall-plug efficiencies in long-wavelength, III-nitride light-emitting diodes...

Taiwanese brothers amass $1 billion from boom in display chips

Biing-seng Wu and Jordan Wu own 24% of Himax, whose U.S.-listed shares have more than doubled in value this year.

Microsoft unveils Project Solara AI, a chip-to-cloud platform built to power a new generation of 'agent-first' enterprise devices — hardware designed to run AI agents instead of traditional apps

Microsoft has unveiled Project Solara, an Android-based chip-to-cloud platform for AI-first enterprise devices. The system combines...

Power Electronics Market Entering New Growth Phase

Electric vehicles and AI data centers are reshaping demand for silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) power technologies...

TSMC plans further $100bn US investment to feed AI demand

Asahi Kasei Enhances Taiwan Facility Capabilities to Meet Growing Demand for Advanced Packaging

Asahi Kasei expands SUNFORT dry film photoresist capacity in Taiwan to support growing advanced semiconductor packaging demand. The post...

Interview with GlobalFoundries VP at MIPS ‘Physical AI is Agentic AI at the Edge’ Taipei Event

GlobalFoundries’ Sudipto Bose explains how silicon photonics, GaN and MIPS/ARC fire up physical AI at the edge—watch now. The post...

Zettabyte Advocates Quality-based AI Compute Metrics at ITRI Seminar

Zettabyte urged Taiwan to adopt quality-based AI compute standards to improve infrastructure efficiency and support sovereign AI...

Chip R&D Is Accelerating to Keep Pace With AI

Semiconductor companies and universities are trying to shorten their feedback loop to meet the challenges of the AI era. In recent...

Backed by top-tier VCs, stealthy biotech bags AlzeCure Alzheimer’s asset in $2.2B deal

QuantumCell has licensed AlzeCure Pharma’s Alzheimer’s disease platform and lead asset for $12 million upfront, bagging a potentially...

Taiwan's HDRE plans $3bn of battery storage projects in Japan

All Semiconductor Roads Lead to Taiwan

Small in size but outsized in influence, Taiwan has become a linchpin of the global semiconductor supply chain. The post All...

Oxford Instruments Enables ROHM’s In-house GaN Manufacturing with Advanced Etch Technology for 200mm Production

Oxford Instruments is supporting ROHM as it transitions to 650V gallium nitride (GaN) power device manufacturing in-house. The post...

Taiwan Minister Emphasizes Collaboration and Future Focus on Photonics, WBG, and Quantum

NSTC Minister Wu shares Taiwan's four-pillar shift from chipmaker to AI enabler. The post Taiwan Minister Emphasizes Collaboration and...

COMPUTEX 2026 Highlights Taiwan’s Pivotal Role in Global AI Industry Transformation

COMPUTEX 2026 highlights key applications spanning AI servers, edge computing, robotics, automation, smart mobility, next-generation...

Physical AI Pushes Chipmakers Up the Value Chain

At the TSMC European Symposium, European semiconductor CEOs spoke about how AI in influencing business. The post Physical AI Pushes...

TSMC Defends Transistor Scaling Amid Huawei’s ‘Her’s Law’ Proposal

Kevin Zhang said 3D integration is important, but transistor scaling remains the semiconductor industry's primary driver of performance...

2022 IEEE President K.J. Ray Liu Honored for His Leadership

Unlike many budding engineers, K.J. Ray Liu wasn’t inspired to enter the field by tinkering with electronics or following in the...

Award-Winning Researcher Trains Robots to Make Educated Guesses

Yen-Ling Kuo always wanted to understand how things worked. When she was growing up in Taiwan, reading the story of Michael Faraday in...

Single-Aperture Dual-Color Ion Addressing with a DUV-Compatible Bilayer Grating

arXiv:2607.23529v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-wavelength optical control is a scaling bottleneck for trapped-ion hardware:...

High-Q superconducting microwave resonators using MBE titanium nitride

arXiv:2607.15230v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Using molecular beam epitaxy, we have realized thin films of titanium nitride (TiN) on...

TSMC's second-quarter profit seen hitting record on AI boom

Analysts said demand for Taiwan ‌Semiconductor Manufacturing ⁠Co's (TSMC) 3-nanometre ⁠and 2-nanometre process technologies for AI...

Coordination-Resolved Surrogate Models for Thermodynamic Stability, Band Gaps, and Magnetic Moments of Spinel Oxides, Sulfides, and Selenides

arXiv:2607.11996v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We curated 320 cubic ($Fd\bar{3}m$) spinel entries from the Materials Project-nitrides,...

Unveiling Nanoscale Surface Damage Dynamics in Swift Heavy Ion Irradiated Gallium Nitride

arXiv:2607.07092v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work systematically unveils the nanoscale surface damage dynamics in gallium...

Excitons in Large Disordered Boron-Nitride Layer using Linear-Scaling Bethe-Salpeter Simulations

arXiv:2606.30585v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce a real-space, linear-scaling Bethe-Salpeter framework that enables...

Apple-Intel chip deal makes strategic sense but production is years away

Apple is reportedly turning to Intel for chip manufacturing, a move driven by TSMC's inability to meet surging AI demand and Apple's...

Boron nitride nanotubes move lithium ions 31 times faster than expected

Researchers at Rutgers University, the University of Illinois Chicago, and Argonne National Laboratory have found that boron nitride...