Taiwan’s tech news in June 2023 touched on items including the significance of the broader Indo-Pacific region to semiconductor supply chains, and Taiwan’s TSMC semicon firm’s moves into production based in Japan. Given the importance of semiconductors to modern society, and to Taiwan’s industrial positioning in the world, we’ve included a month-end round-up of wider-world semiconductor industry news as well.
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Conference: SemiCon Taiwan – September 6-8 2023
- Available now: ‘Mapping the Semiconductor Supply Chain – The Critical Role of the Indo-Pacific Region’ from the Center for Strategic and International Studies
- Japan: Taiwan’s TSMC reportedly mulling a second plant in Kumamoto Prefecture in addition to one currently under construction
- A brief overview of Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute’s moves towards becoming a partner to the United Kingdom on advanced technologies and their supply chains, including those for semiconductors
- Taiwan: CEO of GlobalWafers, world’s 3rd-largest silicon wafer supplier, named EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year, selected from near 5000 participants
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Semiconductor industry news
Given the ‘lightness’ of our coverage of Taiwan’s technology news in June of 2023, we’ve included below a selection of the month’s international news in the technology space most important to Taiwan: the global semiconductor industry.
- China: “…computer manufacturer Powerleader…is fending off allegations that its new central processing unit…is an old Intel chip in disguise, saying it was developed with support from the US chipmaking giant”
- South Korea’s LG Electronics partners Canada’s Tenstorrent for ‘chiplets’, semiconductor modules in this case optimized to run AI models
- European Commission approves major project to lift research, innovation and industrial deployment of microelectronics and communication tech, likely to deliver over €20BN in funding
- South Korea: “On one hand, chipmakers Samsung…and SK Hynix…depend on US technology and equipment. At the same time, about 40% of South Korea’s chip exports go to China…”
“One of the key areas where fintech and semiconductors intersect is data processing. Modern financial services rely heavily on data analysis to inform decision-making, detect fraud, manage risk…”
- China: Sales of semiconductor equipment to China dropped 23% YOY in Q1 2023 amid US export curbs, tho China remains world’s second-largest market for semicon equipment
- China: Jiangsu Xinhua Semiconductor Tech raised $140M Series C, with construction of Inner Mongolia factory scheduled for operation by year-end
- Micron US memory-chip maker to invest $603M in packaging facility in Xian…despite firm being sanctioned as a ‘security risk’ by China tech regulator
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- A brief overview of Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute’s moves towards becoming a partner to the United Kingdom on advanced technologies and their supply chains, including those for semiconductors
- India: US chipmaker Micron to establish $2.75BN semiconductor testing and assembly facility in Gujarat, with ground to be broken later this year
- US gov’t reportedly mulls further tech export restrictions to China, specifically on AI-focused chips
- Japan and European Union partner to exchange information on subsidies and other supports given to semiconductor firms, also coordinating with the US to manage supply chain issues
Japan: “…export restrictions on 23 types of chip-related equipment…are set to disrupt China’s semiconductor self-sufficiency plan…The measures require specific permission for…23 types of items…”
- Taiwan: CEO of GlobalWafers, world’s 3rd-largest silicon wafer supplier, named EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year, selected from near 5000 participants
- South Korea: Former Samsung exec arrested over theft of factory and clean-room blueprints used in unsuccessful bid to replicate facilities in China
- Italy imposes curbs on Pirelli’s largest shareholder, China’s Sinochem, blocking Chinese government access to sensitive chip tech
- India: “…3 investment decisions will create a minimum of 80K jobs directly…and indirectly the numbers could be much higher…it will be a catalyst to the overall electronics and semiconductor ecosystem…”
- China faces further tech restrictions with Dutch gov’t adding regulations requiring further licensing for ASML deep ultraviolet semicon gear, with limit on extreme UV machines already in place
CSIS: Mapping semiconductor supply chains – Indo-Pacific’s importance
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