Tech news headlines covering Taiwan’s tech firms, and products, in third quarter 2024 (July, August & September) covered a range of developments, and issues. These included, for instance: TSMC preparations for its 2 nanometer semiconductor manufacturing process; Taiwan’s Foxconn considerations around manufacturing and assembly using India facilities, to diversify; Taiwan’s ASE Technology’s plans to ‘nearshore’ to the United States; and many more.
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Taiwan tech news: September
- Taiwan: Beyond 5G low-Earth orbit satellite program potentially facing setbacks with low payload performance and project timeline delays / full item
- Taiwan’s TSMC and Korea’s Samsung Electronics reportedly discussed plans for semiconductor plant in the UAE, potentially rivaling TSMC‘s world’s-largest fab in Taiwan / full item
- Taiwan: TSMC is preparing ground for two 2nm semiconductor fabrication plants to commence operations in Q1 and Q3 of 2025, building on volume of 3nm chip orders / full item
- Taiwan’s National Development Fund and Japan’s Kyoto University Innovation Capital ink MOU to boost talent pool in a range of deep technology fields / full item
- Taiwan Mobile has invested $124M for a 12% stake in Systex AI software firm with sights on enterprize-focused tech opportunities across Southeast Asia / full item
- Taiwan: Cyber-attack disrupts financial sector with Taiwan Stock Exchange and a number of banks hit by DDoS attack / full item
- Intel has outsourced production of Lunar Lake processors to Taiwan’s TSMC, and reportedly to outsource all sub-3nm process manufacturing to the firm / full item
- Taiwan: Two military officers have been indicted on charges of selling classified documents to China contacts in exchange for Tether cryptocurrency payments / full item
- Taiwan: “Customers get hands-on experience in the recycling process, taking plastic waste brought from home, and melting and molding it into a pair of sunglasses within two hours.” / full item
- India’s Tata Electronics and Taiwan’s PSMC ink agreement for major semiconductor manufacturing facility in Gujarat, with investment projected at $11BN / full item
- Taiwan’s Foxconn is mulling construction of a $1BN smartphone display modules assembly facility in Tamil Nadu, with operating model side-stepping China components / full item
- “…the silicon photonics market is nascent but will grow at an annual compound rate of 40% from 2023, reaching $500 million by 2028.” / full item
- India: Silizium Circuits and Calligo Technologies, semiconductor and RISC-V startups respectively, and the support received from Taiwan’s semicon industry / full item
- South Korea’s SK Hynix announces high-bandwidth memory and enterprise SSD milestones at Semicon Taiwan, in part set to enhance data transfer and efficiency in AI uses / full item
- Taiwan’s TSMC semiconductor chip-maker is on track to build a 3rd plant in Japan by 2030, with timeframe slowed due to availability of trained workforce / full item
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August 2024: Tech news, Taiwan
- Taiwan: TAITRONICS / AIoT Taiwan 2024 Conference and Expo is in October, looking at all things hardware, electronics, digital tech and AI / full item
- Taiwan: US semiconductors firm, Micron, commits to the high-bandwidth memory market with acquisition of a number of production facilities from Taiwan’s AUO display company / full item
- Taiwan: Skoda Taiwan partners Noodoe to implement Noodoe EV Operating System in build-out of charging infrastructure across Taiwan / full item
- Taiwan: Ministry of Digital Affairs announces plan to invest $313M in domestic AI startups over 10 years, looking to boost Taiwan’s capabilities in computational power, data, talent & funding / full item
- Fintech Taipei 2024 Conference is tentatively set for November 1-2 – details to come / full item
- Taiwan: Here’s a deep-dive recap of the recent Asia Blockchain Summit which brought together over 13000 participants from 30 countries / full item
- TSMC has broken ground on construction of its first European plant in Germany, an $11BN facility also backed by state subsidies of near half of total expenditure / full item
- Video: 90 minutes of the recent SparkLabs Taiwan DemoDay startup presentations, showcasing solutions in social media, call centers tech, drones and more / full item
- Taiwan-Japan firms launch CDIB Cross Border Innovation Fund, raising $62M towards $75M-$100M target for investments in tech and lifestyle sectors / full item
- “In addition to making the chips that power the [AI] boom, the company appeals to many Taiwanese who believe that TSMC’s success will determine the… island’s ability to fend off China” / full item
- Taiwan: Ministry of Digital Affairs secures $308M from Taiwan’s National Development Fund to invest in AI, partnering with Microsoft for industrialization / full item
- ‘Taiwan-India Chips Cooperation and the Logic of Choosing India’ / full item
- Taiwan’s Foxconn and Extreme Tech Challenge partner to co-host Semi & AI for Climate Startup Cup competition / 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
- India: Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka compete to attract Taiwan’s Foxconn for ‘Foxconn City’ facilities, each offering thousands of acres for construction / full item
- Japan’s NTT and Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom launch all-optical communications network between Tokyo and Taipei, achieving transmission across 3000km in 17 milliseconds / full item
- Taiwan’s Foxconn preps to construct battery energy storage systems unit in India, potentially leading to a tie-in to Foxconn’s 3+3 focus on EVs, digital health and robotics / full item
- India: “The unit in Karnataka will soon become the 2nd-largest Foxconn plant after China’s unit. It will create 40,000 direct jobs, especially for middle-level educated individuals…” / full item
- StartUP@Taipei unveils the AI-focused tech startups selected to attend TechSauce Global Summit 2024 in Thailand / full item
- Real Madrid Next Accelerator for Asia unveils 7 startups selected for collaboration / full item
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Taiwan: July 2024 tech news
- 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
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