TechSpot

JANUARY 23, 2025

magnitude earthquake that struck southern Taiwan on January 21 has led to a disruption in production at TSMC. The powerful 6.4 While there were no reported fatalities, the tremor caused considerable damage throughout the region, prompting the firm to implement immediate safety measures. TSMC evacuated staff from its central and.

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TechSpot

MAY 9, 2023

Taiwan defense minister Chiu Kuo-cheng recently stated that his country's military would defend itself from anyone who tried to bomb its industrial facilities, implying the US is no exception. The comments push back against recent US suggestions of destroying TSMC fabs if China were to invade. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Taiwan is making it clear that it will keep its most advanced semiconductor technologies within its borders despite the global expansion efforts by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. According to comments made by Taiwan's Minister of Economic Affairs J.W.

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The Verge

AUGUST 21, 2020

Now, Ikea Taiwan has done exactly that by recreating a number of pages from its iconic catalog using characters and in-game items from the Nintendo title. Here’s a selection of the images Ikea Taiwan shared on its Facebook page alongside the pages from its real-life catalog. It posted the results on its official Facebook page.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 15, 2025

It recently visited Taiwan to propose the idea of producing chips in space. Axiom Space is a Houston-based firm that runs end-to-end missions to the International Space Station. Leading the charge was Dr. Koichi Wakata, Axiom's chief technology officer for Asia-Pacific and a former Japanese astronaut who was also once. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

JANUARY 14, 2025

This marks a significant shift from past policies designed to safeguard Taiwan's leadership in semiconductor manufacturing. For years, Taiwanese chipmakers faced strict limits on the types of facilities they could build abroad particularly in China to maintain the island's technological edge. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

MARCH 26, 2021

Taiwan is facing its worst drought in 56 years after a drop in rainfall combined with a lack of typhoons in 2020; it's usually hit by three or four tropical storms annually. Minister of Economic Affairs, Wang Mei-hua, recently said the dry spell has not yet impacted TSMC or other.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

and Taiwan. First, TSMC struggled to find skilled workers locally, a problem rarely encountered in Taiwan. TSMC encountered significant challenges when it began constructing its fab in Arizona, facing a trifecta of issues that underscored the stark contrast between fab construction in the U.S. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Several sellers were targeted in Taiwan's major cities on Wednesday, seizing goods with an infringement "market value" of over TWD$80 million ($2.6 According to reports from local broadcasters, a massive police raid recovered 3,037 counterfeit HDMI cables and other products in just one day. Read Entire Article

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

InfuseAI , a MLOps startup based in Taiwan, announced today it has raised a $4.3 million Series A, led by original design manufacturer Wistron Corporation, with participation from Hive Ventures, Top Taiwan Venture Capital Group and Silicon Valley Taiwan Investments.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

Taiwan is known for being a tech powerhouse, the headquarter of companies like Foxconn, Pegatron, TSMC, Acer and Asus. But while Taiwan’s tech industry is defined by well-established players, it is also home to a growing startup scene. The seven Taiwan Excellence Award winners are: Advantech’s WISE-2410 vibration sensor.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 10, 2022

He believes that conflict between the country and Taiwan, which is self-ruled but Beijing claims is part of its territory, is inevitable, adding that it. In a wide-ranging interview with the Financial Times, Musk was asked about China, where the Shanghai Gigafactory produces between 30% - 50% of Tesla's EVs.

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TechSpot

JULY 21, 2022

Following a Senate vote earlier this week where the $52 billion CHIPS bill advanced by 64-32, allowing it to move to the next stage, Raimondo talked to CNBC's Sara Eisen about the US' heavy reliance on Taiwan and companies such as TSMC for its semiconductors.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

China has accused Taiwan of trying to sell off its thriving semiconductor industry to the United States, claiming that Taipei is essentially handing over control of TSMC to Washington as a "souvenir." In exchange, Taiwan would supposedly secure political support from the new US administration against Beijing's influence.

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2021

Unlike other recent attacks on CNA Financial and the Colonial Pipeline , McDonald’s claims it isn’t dealing with ransomware, but store information in the US was taken, along with some customer information in South Korea and Taiwan.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 16, 2023

As per Bloomberg, the Taiwan Ministry of Finance announced that its export of IC chips rose 18.4% from a year earlier, continuing a trend that has been unbroken since 2016. The figures also marked the third year in a row of double-digit growth.

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Microsoft AI

MAY 23, 2023

CoolE, a generative AI chatbot running on Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service, is helping students in Taiwan learn English using technology.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Tan’s appointment comes amid ongoing reports that Broadcom and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Tan also plans to restart production of chips that power AI servers, and expand beyond servers into software, robotics, and AI foundation models, per Reuters.

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TechSpot

MARCH 4, 2022

Apple’s largest supplier says it wants to build new facilities in Taiwan where it will make battery cells, battery packs, and grid energy storage systems. Foxconn today announced plans to manufacture batteries in the near future as part of its strategy to become the Android of the EV industry.

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TechSpot

MARCH 18, 2025

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

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Taiwan startup FunNow gets $5M Series A to help locals in Asian cities find last-minute things to do. In Taiwan, FunNow’s biggest market, life was relatively normal until an uptick in cases triggered a lockdown from May to August, causing its revenue to decline sharply, but now it has returned to about 80% of its pre-pandemic performance.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

Tan’s appointment comes amid ongoing reports that rivals Broadcom ( AVGO ) and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. During his decade as CEO of Intel supplier and chip-design software company Cadence Design Systems,he doubled revenue , expanded operating margins, and delivered a stock price appreciation of more than 3,200%.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

AppWorks , the Taipei-based venture capital firm focused on Taiwan and Southeast Asia, announced today it has closed its oversubscribed third fund, raising $150 million.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 17, 2025

Speaking at a National Taiwan University event, Wei outlined a series of obstacles that have slowed progress and increased costs for TSMC's U.S. These challenges include complex compliance issues, local construction regulations, and various permitting requirements that have significantly extended the project timeline. Read Entire Article

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2024

Starting on January 24, Apple Music Classical will be available in China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau. Japan, China, Korea, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan: pre-order Apple Music Classical now on the @AppStore. Apple made the announcement in an X post today.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Its one of more than 270 schools, from rural Nepal to urban Taiwan, to work with a fast-growing nonprofit called Gravity Water to install the nonprofits tech over the last 12 months. What we’re really trying to do is modernize rainwater harvestingto take this ancient technology to solve a modern-day problem, says founder Danny Wright.

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The Verge

JULY 12, 2021

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. Most of Foxconn’s manufacturing happens in China and other countries, but TSMC’s main operating base is in the Hsinchu region of Taiwan.

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Medium Technology Section

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Taiwan’s top technology official, Wu Cheng-wen, has asserted that the global semiconductor industry requires a division of labor rather… Continue reading on Medium

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 21, 2020

According to Taiwan-based outlet Economic Daily News, Apple is ready to launch its Apple Car in the third quarter of 2021. Anonymous sources speaking with the paper said component suppliers in Taiwan are planning to scale up production in the second quarter of next year.

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TechSpot

MARCH 9, 2021

Speaking to reporters earlier this week, the country’s Minister of Economic Affairs, Wang Mei-hua, said the drought has not yet impacted TSMC or other companies, writes the South China Morning Post. A typical semiconductor manufacturing facility uses two to four million gallons of ultra-pure water per day.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Unnamed industry sources told DigiTimes (paywalled, via MacRumors) that TSMC aims to start shipping 3nm chips to customers like Intel and Apple in the first quarter of 2023, which jives with earlier rumors on the subject.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In addition to the massive discrepancy between supply and demand brought about by the pandemic, chip shortage issues have been exacerbated by (deep breath) high crypto prices, reduced silicon output, a copper foil shortage, a lack of components, shipping delays, aluminum disruption, droughts, lockdowns, and more.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The attack was comprised of approximately 70,000 "sources" from the Asia-Pacific region including Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan, and China. Amir Dahan, a senior program manager at Azure Networking, detailed how the attack that took place at the end of August was conducted. was also mentioned as a country.

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TechSpot

JUNE 7, 2022

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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TechSpot

OCTOBER 26, 2021

On Tuesday, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) announced its N4P process. The 5nm enhancement should provide more choices for customers alongside its N5, N4, and N3 processes.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 10, 2022

The South China Morning Post reports that an editorial post in the Chinese nationalist tabloid Global Times slammed TSMC's investment in its Arizona plant as "a dark turn" in the global semiconductor industry.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 25, 2021

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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