Taiwan’s tech news headlines summary for July of 2023 spanned items, issues and developments including: Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturing in India; the many diversification moves that Taiwan’s TSMC and Foxconn are making in semiconductor manufacturing inside and beyond the country; and more.
We’ve also provided a round-up of wider-world semiconductor news in July 2023, looking at issues around sanctions in chip supply, China’s moves to create a domestic semicon and chip industry, Japan’s partnership with the UAE on semiconductor manufacturing, and more.
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- Taiwan’s TSMC to add to workers in Arizona to speed $40BN factory construction, aiming for fabrication facility to be operational by 2024, and 2nd facility by 2026
- 500 Global Taiwan Startup Program’s next intake applications close July 2nd – apply now
- Taiwan: An intro to Storipress, an all-in-one content management systems for global news sites
- The main obstacle to a Taiwan communications security deal with SpaceX? Elon Musk’s business practices.
- 500 Global Taiwan Startup Program with TTA 2023 unveils the 20 startups selected for the program, working on solutions in Web3, health-tech, fintech and more
CSIS: Pulling back the curtain on China’s maritime militia
- Taiwan: Taipei Entrepreneurial Hub launches online pitch contest for health-tech startups and solutions
- Taiwan: Next Big program from the Nat’l Dev Council and Startup Island Taiwan unveils 13 tech startups
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp to invest near $3BN in advanced packaging facility in north of the country, citing boom in AI and multi-chip components as reasoning
- Taiwan: Foxconn to take 50% stake in Germany’s ZF Group axle system assembly unit in JV move towards greater auto and supply-chain opportunities and diversification
- Taiwan’s Foxconn and Analog Devices, US semiconductor developer, ink MOU to develop digital car cockpits and battery management system
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- Taiwan: An intro to Phrozen 3D printing firm, its successes, challenges and opportunities
- India: Maharashtra offers Taiwan’s Gogoro ‘Ultra Mega Project’ to manufacture e-vehicles, battery packs and swap stations, and to deploy infrastructure from late 2023
- Vietnam: Taiwan’s Foxconn approved to invest $246M in 2 projects in Quang Ninh, raising total in Vietnam to near $3BN and focusing on manufacture and assembly of telecom and EV parts
- Japan: SBI Holdings financial services major to help Taiwan’s Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp establish a factory in move to revive the country’s chip industry
- India: Taiwan’s Foxconn is in talks with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co and Japan’s TMH Group for tech and JV partnerships to start semiconductor fab units in India
United States, Taiwan & Semiconductors: Critical Supply Chain Partnership
Semiconductor news in July 2023
- Japan: Gov’t unveils $6.3BN deal to buy and privatize JSR Corp semiconductor materials giant, taking control of world leader in chipmaking compounds
- China & semiconductor self-sufficiency: “…advanced lithography machine is a significant chokepoint in China’s chipmaking capability. In this area, domestic substitution is currently less than 1%.”
- “You can find your way to banned semiconductors at, for example, various sprawling electronics markets in Shenzhen. Or you can go online — specifically to Douyin…or Xiaohongshu…”
- Singapore: An intro to Zero-Error Systems, making ‘hardened’, more reliable semiconductors for satellites and space use, EVs, autonomous vehicles and more
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- China: Huawei may return to 5G smartphone industry by year-end, using chips from its own semiconductor design tools and chipmaking from China’s Semiconductor Manufacturing International Co
- China: Biren chip firm is considering Hong Kong IPO, seeking to capitalise on demand for its AI chips as an NVIDIA alternative, due to chip exports ban impact
- “…Intel Corp has brought its latest processor for…AI…applications to mainland China, where massive demand for…advanced chips has created a major under-the-counter trade for smuggled graphics processing units…”
“Foreign equipment is increasingly hard to come by so local chipmakers…buy more units of less-productive local offerings… Efficiency and profits take a hit but…statisticians log a rise in industrial production…”
- China: Sovereign chip strategy steps towards RISC-V, open-source architecture, aiming for RISC-V as default domestically, with Alibaba et al interested and over 1BN startup funding to date
- Singapore: Silicon Box opes $2BN, 73,000-square metre advanced semiconductor manufacturing facility to focus on ‘chiplets’ tech
- Taiwan’s Foxconn and Analog Devices, US semiconductor developer, ink MOU to develop digital car cockpits and battery management system
- ICYMI: US to partner gov’t of Panama to explore semiconductor supply chain under Int’l Tech Security & Innovation Fund, with possible later inclusion under CHIPS and Science Act
Mapping semiconductor supply chains – importance of the Indo-Pacific
- Japan: SBI Holdings financial services major to help Taiwan’s Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp establish a factory in move to revive the country’s chip industry
- Chips in space, robotaxis, quantum software, embedded FPGAs and augmented reality feature in this look at 143 companies that raised $3.5 billion in June
- China: Denglin Technology secures funding from state-run China Internet Investment Fund for development of GPUs capable of similar use cases to NVIDIA chips
- Japan and United Arab Emirates to set framework to discuss possible UAE investment in semicon and battery plants in Japan, in medicine and space-tech, and fuels such as hydrogen and ammonia
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp to invest near $3BN in advanced packaging facility in north of the country, citing boom in AI and multi-chip components as reasoning
- India: Taiwan’s Foxconn is in talks with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co and Japan’s TMH Group for tech and JV partnerships to start semiconductor fab units in India
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