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Tata Electronics is ramping up hiring and redesigning its Gujarat chip fab as it races to match Apple's fast-growing India production. The expansion comes amid soaring iPhone exports and mounting engineering challenges, underscoring the Tata Group's broader push to scale electronics and semiconductor manufacturing....

US AI company PaleBlueDot AI is reportedly seeking a US$300 million loan to help Chinese social media platform RedNote (Xiaohongshu) use Nvidia's high-end AI chips through a data center located in Tokyo....

Micron Technology is reportedly planning to invest JPY1.5 trillion(US$9.6 billion) to establish a new high-bandwidth memory (HBM) manufacturing facility at its Hiroshima campus, according to Nikkei. The initiative aims to increase production of advanced chips designed for artificial intelligence (AI) systems and to lessen the company's dependence on Taiwan amid growing concerns over global supply chain vulnerabilities....

China's memory manufacturer CXMT, backed by government support, shifted to high-end technology development from 2025 and has introduced multiple next-generation DRAM products within a year, with performance approaching Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix....

The Taiwan Space Union (TSU) recently convened a Satellite Science Workshop, where participants noted that the high cost of space research and development has led to a shift in government space policy toward mission-driven goals, leaving limited room for science-led initiatives. Taiwan's updated Phase III 2.0 national space program, they said, is now anchored even more tightly to two priorities: national security and industrial development....

Taiwan is experiencing the highest weekly average of cyberattacks in the Asia-Pacific region, distinguished by a notably large share of attacks targeting the "impact" phase, according to Fortinet's latest threat intelligence data. Derek Manky, Fortinet's global threat intelligence vice president, shared insights with DIGITIMES, revealing Taiwan's cybersecurity landscape deviates significantly from global patterns observed in the first three quarters of 2025....

Rising power consumption in AI accelerators is pushing chipmakers to seek new thermal solutions. Jentech Precision general manager Lin Chin-lung said the company developed its Microchannel Lid a decade ago, yet the technology drew little interest until chipmakers began revisiting it over the past three years, with momentum accelerating in the last two. Customers are now focused on its two core benefits: substantially stronger heat dissipation and thinner system design, both critical for next-generation AI servers....

At the upcoming International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) 2026 in February, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are set to unveil significant advances in high-performance memory. Samsung plans to showcase a redesigned 6th-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM4) delivering 3.3TB/s of bandwidth, while SK Hynix will introduce its latest high-speed LPDDR6 and GDDR7 products....

India will invest INR45 billion (approx. US$500 million) to modernise and expand the Semiconductor Laboratory (SCL) in Mohali, India's Union Electronics and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said during a review visit. The minister reaffirmed that SCL would "not be privatized" and would instead undergo a major upgrade aimed at significantly boosting domestic chip production and strengthening India's strategic semiconductor capabilities....

The Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC) of Taiwan says the global aerospace sector is facing twin pressures: robust market demand and the push toward net-zero carbon emissions. These forces are driving two key priorities: high-speed production and structural lightweighting—trends that are boosting the prospects for thermoplastic composites. Meanwhile, the rise of eVTOL aircraft and drones is accelerating the adoption of these advanced materials....

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) applications has significantly boosted demand for specialized glass-fiber fabrics in recent years, creating a growing supply shortage in the market. To address this trend,Formosa Plastics subsidiary Nan Ya Plastics and Japan's leading manufacturer Nitto Boseki (Nittobo) have announced a strategic partnership focused on specialized glass-fiber fabrics....

Following the US ban on sales of Nvidia's high-end chips to China, expectations have grown that Baidu could rapidly emerge as a new force in China's AI chip sector and become the country's second major source of domestic compute capacity after Huawei....

Shinkong Synthetic Fibers Corporation (SSFC) told investors on November 28 that it is navigating a challenging operating environment marked by raw material price volatility, Chinese product dumping, and shifting US tariff policies. The company said it is countering these pressures through diversified product development, rising contributions from its optoelectronics segment, and accelerating growth at subsidiary Shinsol Advanced Chemicals....

Google's success training the Gemini frontier model entirely on in-house TPUs has boosted confidence among China's tech giants. It strengthens the view that reducing Nvidia dependence is both viable and commercially sound, accelerating investment in domestic tensor-processor designs and other non-GPU accelerators....

In a recent interview with the Financial Times, former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger delivered a bold forecast: quantum computing could reach mainstream adoption within just two years, potentially puncturing the current AI hype. He went further, asserting that GPUs, which currently dominate AI processing, may begin to be gradually replaced by 2030....

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made his fifth visit to Taiwan in 2025 on November 27, reportedly to pay a personal visit to TSMC founder Morris Chang. Speaking publicly, Huang confirmed he had met with Chang, describing the semiconductor pioneer's health as "very good," and added that he would be leaving Taiwan later that day....

Geopolitical tensions and regional conflicts have heightened attention on the defense industry. Taiwan-based PowerView Display (PVD), leveraging its expertise in military-grade display technology and international patent portfolio, has developed a night vision imaging system (NVIS) LCD module poised to enter the US military supply chain....

As global demand for AI computing power surges, conventional ground-based data centers are increasingly constrained by limits in energy supply and cooling capacity....

Global memory supply has tightened so abruptly that December contract prices for major DRAM and NAND products have surged as much as 80 to 100 percent, according to Team Group General Manager Gerry Chen. He said the market is only entering the early phase of a multiyear shortage and that the real crunch will emerge in the first half of 2026 once distributors finish clearing inventory....

To support the semiconductor industry's net-zero emission goals, Taiwan Fertilizer (TFC) launched Taiwan's first certified blue ammonia in 2025, beginning sales in the second half of 2025. Initial volumes were limited due to customer certification processes, but TFC expects a significant increase in shipments in 2026 as demand from the semiconductor sector gradually grows....