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Vietnam wants to compete with Taiwan by establishing its first wafer fab

TechSpot

It has some serious financial backing as well, with the local government pledging to cover up to 30% of the cost, plus tax incentives. TrendForce reports that the facility will focus on producing specialized chips for high-tech applications like AI, defense tech, and more. A special steering committee led by. Read Entire Article

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Taiwan controls almost half of the global foundry capacity, other governments racing to build more fabs locally

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Following the past few years of chip shortages caused by pandemic shutdowns and geopolitical turmoil, more and more governments are trying to create local chip production industries. Many of them are turning to Taiwanese companies to help them set up their factories.

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Foxconn and TSMC strike deal to buy 10 million COVID vaccines for Taiwan

The Verge

The two companies will be paying up to $35 a dose of the BioNTech vaccine and donating them to the government; each company has pledged to spend $175 million. Taiwan claims that the Chinese government blocked an attempt to secure a supply of vaccines from BioNTech, and later refused an offer of vaccine donations from the mainland.

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Economist says China must seize TSMC if the US tightens sanctions

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Bloomberg reports that Chen Wenling, chief economist at the government-run China Center for International Economic Exchanges, said, "If the US and the West impose destructive sanctions on China like sanctions against Russia, we must recover Taiwan."

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CPU and GPU prices set to increase amid TSMC wafer price hike

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On Tuesday, Taiwan Economy Minister Wang Mei-Hua sought to reassure the US that chip shortages would ameliorate towards the end of the year as the Taiwanese government has been taking steps to increase the country's output. For a brief moment, industry watchers were actually optimistic about the possibility that supply.

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Swappable batteries in EVs aren't feasible, but a big breakthrough could change the game

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In Taiwan where two-wheeled scooters are prevalent, the transition is already well under way. According to the Taiwanese government, 12 percent of. Gogoro has successfully developed and deployed a network of battery-swapping depots that "are as common as gas stations." Read Entire Article

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The 10 most innovative computing companies of 2025

Fast Company Tech

This years Most Innovative Companies in computing include TSMC; the Taiwan-based fabricators N3P chip offers the smallest, most densely packed transistor size yet, while the company Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate (CoWoS) packaging technology is integral to AI accelerator chips, including Nvidias Blackwell GPU. billion, a 33.9%

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