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A Semiconductor Strategy for the United States
- Taiwan to invest near $10M towards chip production in Lithuania, seeking “resilience of our democratic supply chain in the face of coercion by autocracies”
- Taiwan: “…increasingly likely that some future Apple chips will be made in the US, following a new report about A-series and M-series chipmaker TSMC.”
- Taiwan: Gov’t to allocate $1.6BN over 3 years to bring private drone makers into ‘national team’ to develop unmanned aerial vehicle systems in preparation for possibility of cross-strait war scenario
“In September, Taipei reached a US$555mn agreement with Washington to buy four MQ-9B SeaGuardian drones, the maritime variant of the Reaper drone American forces used for missile strikes in Afghanistan.”
- Taiwan: An overview of the recently-concluded X-PITCH 2022 event, with 15 finalists selected from more than 4000 startups across 51 countries
- Startup Island TAIWAN Podcast: XREX CEO talks about blockchain, Web3 and the move towards ‘neo fintech’
- Taiwan’s Foxconn to boost southern India workforce to 70K, adding 53K more workers over 2 years in part to address disruptions in China-based production
- Taiwan ‘s coffee startup, Femobook, launches single-serve grinder, targeting home use for those seeking full control over their coffee grind
- Taiwan-US firm, GoFreight, looks to become the ‘Shopify of freight forwarding’, providing backend software to streamline freight operations alongside front-end storefront provision
“GoFreight, which currently has about 1,000 customers, helps manage transportation of goods through ocean, air and land routes. It also lets them set up online storefronts with a few clicks. Potential customers can connect to freight forwarders by sending them an inquiry through storefront and getting a quotation within a few minutes, instead of the 24 to 48 hours usually necessary.”
- An overview of the goals and agreements arising from the recent ESG Opportunity Matchmaking and Exchange Forum for Taiwan-Japan Innovation Community
- Taiwan Semiconductor 5-nanometre Arizona plant expected to hold official next month, with founder stating an expansion to more advanced 3-nm process is planned for the site
- Startup Island Taiwan podcast hosts discussion of digital cryptography tools and the approaching quantum computing era
- Startup Island Taiwan Podcast: ‘Taiwan Stablecoin will Move Everyone a Step Further into the Web3 World’
- India: Pegatron, Taiwanese contract manufacturer for Apple, likely to join Foxconn in manufacturing iPhone 14 models in India, aiming to move 5% of global manufacturing demand to India by the end of 2022
Deloitte: Trustworthy Use of Artificial Intelligence in Finance – Asia Pacific
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