Taiwan’s tech news headlines in July 2024 covered items across a range of technologies and developments, including: solar power to drive Taiwan’s data centers; 1 nanometer-capable EUV lithography machinery for semiconductor manufacturing; the approaching launch of Taiwan’s AI Computing Center; Taiwanese nearshoring of chip packaging and testing to better serve US customers; and more.
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Deloitte: State of Generative AI in the Enterprise – Q2 2024 report
- 7 brief interviews with leading AI and related technology firm leaders, conducted at the recent 2024 Computex event in Taiwan / full item
- Taiwan’s FinTechSpace and Fintech Association of Malaysia ink MOU to collaborate on industry matchmaking, aiming to grow cross-domain fintech opportunities / full item
- Taiwan: Cooby secures $1.75M funding with WhatsApp-based conversational sales platform, integrating with CRMs to boost sales / full item
- Taiwan: Google has taken a stake in Taiwan’s New Green Power, a solar power firm owned by BlackRock, looking to drive down emissions from data centers / full item
- US Commerce Dep’t to award Taiwan’s GlobalWafers up to $400M in grants for Texas and Missouri plants to significantly boost silicon wafer production / full item
- TSMC and ASML near final agreement on purchase of next-gen extreme ultraviolet lithography equipment for semiconductor production, with sights on 1nm process / full item
- Taiwan: National Science & Tech Council unveils draft AI regulations, with public feedback open to mid-September / full item
- Taiwan’s TSMC preps for $10.8 billion plant construction in Germany, targeting production in 2027 and counting Infineon and NXP as both clients and investors / full item
- Taiwan: AMD, US chip design giant, gains approval for Taiwan R&D center, with local companies to benefit alongside the creation of 1000 jobs / full item
- Taiwan: Premier announces economic and social reform plan, aiming to attract $100BN in investments with focus areas of energy, AI and infrastructure / full item
- Taiwan’s Foxconn unveils plans to invest $137M to construct a new business HQ – in Zhengzhou, China / full item
Japan: “…suborbital launch by [Taiwan’s] TiSpace has faced regulatory hurdles… amid questions over whether Japan should embrace overseas business… to double the size of its… space industry over the next decade” / full item
- Taiwan: AI Computing Center to launch in Q4 2024 with 64 servers using NVIDIA H200 AI chips, and with end goal of 256 servers in use / full item
- Taiwan’s ASE Technology Holding Co, world’s biggest chip packaging and testing service provider, to launch new high-end chip testing plant in the US, nearshoring to better serve key US customers / full item
- Taiwan’s FinTechSpace and Bahrain FinTech Bay partner for collaboration on resources, business referrals and more / full item
- Taiwan’s HAOSHi Accelerator launched 7th cohort with 10 selected startups working on food- and agri-tech solutions using satellites, irrigation, recycling and more / full item
- An intro to India’s Silizium Circuits semiconductor startup, working with TSMC on 2 semiconductor chips and with more in development / full item
“Taiwan’s TSMC is increasing its supply of 3.5 nm semiconductors. However… China has no way to secure these products… we need to find ways to effectively utilize the 7 nm semiconductors.” / full item
- Italy’s Exein raises €15M with device-level IoT security and infrastructure, with sights on global growth and Taipei as Asia HQ / full item
- South Korea’s Samsung steps up competition with Taiwan’s TSMC and others, unveiling plans for one-stop AI chip productions solutions for clients, claiming a 20% cut in delivery times / full item
- Huawei is suing Taiwan’s MediaTek mobile chip developer over alleged IP infringement, in part to offset impacts of US-led tech restrictions by generating licensing fees and royalties / full item
- India’s Jio conglomerate and Taiwan’s MediaTek semiconductor giant to supply India’s electric scooter market with digital dashboards and Android-based operating system / full item
SEMICON Taiwan conference and expo took place September 4-6, looking at all things in microelectronics and with a theme focus on artificial intelligence / full item
Asia Blockchain Summit took place in Taipei, August 6-8, with speakers including Vitalik Buterin / full item
SEMICON Taiwan Conference & Expo / September
