January, February & March 2021
Taiwan tech news
The Q1 2021 summary of Taiwan’s tech news gathers the country’s technology, startup and venture capital news headlines across the first 3 months of 2021 – January, February and March, obviously.
The first quarter’s tech news headlines below outline developments in Taiwan’s tech and startup scenes, highlighting items across a range of fields and technologies: Taiwan’s semiconductor industry developments, cybersecurity and Taiwan’s national security, blockchain use in solar energy, podcasting, and many others.
Items listed are headlines, hyperlinked and bullet-pointed, without preamble text or other distractions, providing an at-a-glance grasp of Taiwan’s tech news in Q1 2021, along with instant, 1-click access to each online article, in full, associated with each headline.
January 2021 | February 2021 | March 2021
Taiwan’s tech news: March 2021
- Taiwan’s Apple supplier, Foxconn, partners US electric-vehicle startup, Fisker, with plans to codevelop an EV model with mass production aiming for Q4 2023
- Taiwan Ecosystem Report Launch Event set for March 4th, online, from StartupBlink
- Taiwan: Act Governing Electronic Payment Institutions takes effect in July, allowing non-banking institutions to apply for licenses for outward remittance services
- Taiwan: Influenxio gains $2M pre-A backing with marketing platform focused on connecting brands with Instagram ‘microinfluencers’
- “Taiwan’s prowess in high-tech manufacturing and data privacy could make Taiwan firms unsung heroes of the global competition over standard setting for emerging technologies.”
- Taiwan: 2021 Smart City Summit & Expo set for March 23-26, running online
- Taiwan Mobile to expand deployments in Southeast Asia with partners in e-commerce, digital advertising, gaming and more, as part of ‘super 5G’ strategy
- Cisco Taiwan establishes its first Asia Pacific DevNet center at Startup Terrace to provide information security training and talent incubation
- ICYMI: Taiwan’s Foxconn may revive Wisconsin factory plans, aiming to finalise plans in July if electric vehicles are deemed a focus area for the company
- Taiwan: Gov’t to establish ministry of digital development in 2022 to drive digital transformation, boost digital economy and improve info and communications security
- Vietnam’s Vingroup and Taiwan’s Foxconn in early-stage talks around partnership to focus on developing EV batteries and electric car parts
Taiwanese startups: February 2021
- Taiwan: A brief intro to Chuan Chih, startup providing simulation and testing for connectivity and reliability of 5G private networks
- Qualcomm Innovate in Taiwan 2021 seeks product ideas in 5G, cellular-IoT, machine learning, smart cities and multimedia – applications close March 21st
- Taiwan: ITM blockchain firm partnered by Microsoft and MediaTek to develop solution for country’s largest energy provider, recording solar power data from smart meters
- Taiwan: COMPUTEX Taipei 2021 opens applications for online and offline exhibitors to take part in June event
- Taiwan’s TSMC semiconductor chip firm to build $190M R&D site in Japan, aiming for closer collaboration with top Japanese equipment and materials suppliers
- Taiwan: Foxconn to release its first electric vehicles built using the company’s open software and hardware platform by the end of this year
- Taiwan: StartupBlink and Taiwan Tech Arena’s Taiwan Ecosystem Report Launch Event set for March 4th, running online
Taiwan’s startup news: January 2021
- Taiwan: “Faced with cyberthreats and related challenges, Taiwan has actively promoted policies built around the concept that information security is national security.”
- An overview of the recently-held AIoT New Generation Life Application Taiwan Startups Webinar, an online matchmaking forum targeting the Japan market
- Taiwan: Perfect Corp, developer of YouCam Makeup virtual beauty app, closes $50M Series C led by Goldman Sachs
- Taiwan: A brief intro to the 7 winners of the Taiwan Excellence awards, working in AIoT, health-tech and more
- Taiwan’s Foxconn to build $270M factory in Vietnam to produce tablets and computers, in part possibly an Apple move to shift production lines from China
- Taiwan: An overview of a handful of the country’s cybersecurity startups recently showcased at CES 2021
- “The greater worry is that TSMC chip factories could become collateral damage if China were to make good on threats to invade Taiwan…”
- Taiwan: SoundOn podcast startup to be acquired by Singapore-based Kollective Ventures investment firm and Taiwan’s M17 Entertainment live-streaming firm
- Protecting Democracy in an Age of Disinformation – Lessons from Taiwan’ report available now to download
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