Taiwan’s tech news headlines in September 2024 covered a range of techs, developments and concerns, including: a cyber-attack on Taiwan’s financial center and a number of banks; TSMC’s plans for a 3rd fabrication facility in Japan; Taiwan-Korea plans for semiconductor manufacturing in the United Arab Emirates; the challenges faced by Taiwan’s Beyond 5G space program; and more.
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- Taiwan: Beyond 5G low-Earth orbit satellite program potentially facing setbacks with low payload performance and project timeline delays / full item
- Taiwan’s TSMC and Korea’s Samsung Electronics reportedly discussed plans for semiconductor plant in the UAE, potentially rivaling TSMC‘s world’s-largest fab in Taiwan / full item
- Taiwan: TSMC is preparing ground for two 2nm semiconductor fabrication plants to commence operations in Q1 and Q3 of 2025, building on volume of 3nm chip orders / full item
- Taiwan’s National Development Fund and Japan’s Kyoto University Innovation Capital ink MOU to boost talent pool in a range of deep technology fields / full item
- Taiwan Mobile has invested $124M for a 12% stake in Systex AI software firm with sights on enterprize-focused tech opportunities across Southeast Asia / full item
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- Taiwan: Cyber-attack disrupts financial sector with Taiwan Stock Exchange and a number of banks hit by DDoS attack / full item
- Intel has outsourced production of Lunar Lake processors to Taiwan’s TSMC, and reportedly to outsource all sub-3nm process manufacturing to the firm / full item
- Taiwan: Two military officers have been indicted on charges of selling classified documents to China contacts in exchange for Tether cryptocurrency payments / full item
Taiwan: “Customers get hands-on experience in the recycling process, taking plastic waste brought from home, and melting and molding it into a pair of sunglasses within two hours.” / full item
- India’s Tata Electronics and Taiwan’s PSMC ink agreement for major semiconductor manufacturing facility in Gujarat, with investment projected at $11BN / full item
- Taiwan’s Foxconn is mulling construction of a $1BN smartphone display modules assembly facility in Tamil Nadu, with operating model side-stepping China components / full item
“…the silicon photonics market is nascent but will grow at an annual compound rate of 40% from 2023, reaching $500 million by 2028.” / full item
- India: Silizium Circuits and Calligo Technologies, semiconductor and RISC-V startups respectively, and the support received from Taiwan’s semicon industry / full item
- South Korea’s SK Hynix announces high-bandwidth memory and enterprise SSD milestones at Semicon Taiwan, in part set to enhance data transfer and efficiency in AI uses / full item
- Taiwan’s TSMC semiconductor chip-maker is on track to build a 3rd plant in Japan by 2030, with timeframe slowed due to availability of trained workforce / full item
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