Taiwan

TSMC downgraded as analysts warn of worst slump in a decade

Some estimates say the sector will have contracted by as much as 23% by the end

Systems17 Oct 2022 | 11

TSMC cuts back on investment budget despite revenue surge

Not even the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer is immune to chip downturn

Systems13 Oct 2022 |

Chipmakers still shoveling cash into new fabs as demand slows

Worldwide investment set to grow 9% to new high of $99b

Systems28 Sep 2022 | 2

We should give Taiwan $4.5b to protect chip fabs from China, say US senators

Gotta keep those phone processors and GPUs coming, folks

Systems15 Sep 2022 | 15

Taiwan chip magnate pledges cash for defense against China: 'I'm telling everyone to oppose the CCP'

UMC founder Robert Tsao wants to train more than 3m 'civilian warriors' and sharpshooters

Systems02 Sep 2022 | 24

Korea to attend 'Chip 4' meeting as global doubts mounts over US initiative

Fellow group member Taiwan claims it never got the invite

Systems22 Aug 2022 | 4

China, US relations further soured by CHIPS Act

Beijing says legislation designed to interfere with its own efforts to build homegrown semiconductor industry

Systems18 Aug 2022 | 22

Foxconn will have to forget about investing in Tsinghua Unigroup

International relations are hot as chips, and Taiwan cannot afford to empower China

Systems10 Aug 2022 | 5

Taiwanese iPhone supplier Pegatron quashes China blockade report

Company declares operations are normal and rebuts allegation Beijing crimped component deliveries

Personal Tech08 Aug 2022 | 4

Apple tells suppliers to use 'Taiwan, China' or 'Chinese Taipei' to appease Beijing

That's the way the Cook he crumbles

Personal Tech05 Aug 2022 | 114

Taiwanese military reports DDoS in wake of Pelosi visit

Controversial visit to Taiwan continues to reverberate through cyberspace, the real world, and the semiconductor industry

Security04 Aug 2022 | 36

Nancy Pelosi ties Chinese cyber-attacks to need for Taiwan visit

And as if to confirm the link, a DDoS takes out Taiwan's presidential website ahead of senior politico's arrival

Security03 Aug 2022 | 113

US warns losing access to Taiwanese chips could break the economy

Stark warning of a 'deep and immediate recession' if China takes over

Systems21 Jul 2022 | 12

Taiwan prosecutors claim Chinese biz swiped IP and R&D team from Apple supplier

Before you could say 'economic espionage', a factory in China was making bits of iThings

Personal Tech18 Jul 2022 | 10

Taiwan creates new challenge for tech industry: stern content regulation laws

Big tech asked to be more transparent by logging what it took down and why

Legal30 Jun 2022 | 10

To Washington's relief, GlobalWafers to spend $5 billion on Texas plant

Cash had been burning a hole in company's pocket after deal to buy Siltronic fell through

On-Prem28 Jun 2022 | 7

Rise in Taiwanese energy prices may hit global chip production

National provider considering cost increase of 15%, which could be passed on to tech customers

Systems27 Jun 2022 | 5

First details on TSMC's 2nm node: Chipmaker reveals nanosheet transistors

Plus: enhancements to 3nm tech due to go into production later this year

Systems17 Jun 2022 | 5

Chipmakers to spend record $109b on fab machines this year

Factories hope to buy their way out of shortages – with Taiwan leading the pack

Systems13 Jun 2022 | 8

TSMC and China: Mutually assured destruction now measured in nanometers, not megatons

Opinion The weapon too deadly to use is just a handful of dirt. Let's change that

Systems13 Jun 2022 | 74

Intel to get $7.3b for Germany fab site as TSMC dismisses Europe plans

x86 giant giddy about making chips on the continent, its foundry rival not so much

On-Prem08 Jun 2022 | 11

China 'must seize TSMC' if the US were to impose sanctions

So says Chinese economist, but it wouldn't achieve much if Taiwan destroyed its fabs first

Systems07 Jun 2022 | 73

Taiwan bans exports of chips faster than 25MHz to Russia, Belarus

Doom it is, then, Putin

Systems06 Jun 2022 | 131

Taiwan claims ‘breakthrough’ in EU semiconductor cooperation talks

The hope is for Taiwan’s chipmakers to build new plants in Europe as tensions brew with China

Systems02 Jun 2022 | 16

US, Europe move to secure access to Taiwanese tech

The chips must flow. But don't mention the Great Wall

Legal02 Jun 2022 | 3

US-APAC trade deal leaves out Taiwan, military defense not ruled out

All fun and games until the chip factories are in the crosshairs

Systems23 May 2022 | 5

Demand for GPUs used to mine crypto 'disappearing', says ASUSTeK

Less demand will see prices fall, and gaming laptop sales rise – which is nice as the rest of the PC market has cooled

Systems13 May 2022 | 17

Taiwan to dominate chipmaking market for foreseeable future

Billions of subsidies in Europe and US will hardly make a dent

On-Prem26 Apr 2022 | 11

Taiwan, China square off over chip tech espionage laws

Tightening of IP laws to prevent poaching seen by Beijing as 'provocative smear'

Security13 Apr 2022 | 7

Taiwan rounds up 60 Chinese tech workers on suspicion of poaching tech and people

The fight against economic espionage and skullduggery continues

Security14 Mar 2022 | 6

China's annual parliament gives tech industry much to ponder

More digitization, more R&D, and more provocation of tech-producing neighbours

Security08 Mar 2022 | 2

Ukraine invasion may hit chip supply chain – analysts

Noble gas price hike would be just what the world needs ... not

Systems25 Feb 2022 | 15

China's APT10 cyber-spies 'targeted Taiwanese financial firms'

Operation Cache Panda went after software used by majority of industry players

Security23 Feb 2022 | 4

Taiwan cracks down on China spying on tech firms

Revised laws will regulate workers' travel to mainland in bid to protect economy

Security18 Feb 2022 | 23

New chip-stuff factories are like buses: You wafer ages then two come along at once

GlobalWafers uses cash stashed for stalled Siltronics deal and Toshiba also promises new wafer bakery

On-Prem07 Feb 2022 | 3

German regulators nix Taiwanese titan GlobalWafers' acquisition of Siltronic

China's slow signoff didn't help matters one bit

Legal02 Feb 2022 | 6

US Army journal's top paper from 2021 says Taiwan should destroy TSMC if China invades

No more chip factories would surely change Beijing's mind about unification

Security05 Jan 2022 | 94

HPE picks Taiwan as 'global strategic hub for next-generation technology'

Came for the people, the supply chain, and with hopes of building new servers, storage, HPC, and 5G kit. Don't mention the increasing geopolitical tension

On-Prem04 Nov 2021 | 13

Acer servers cracked in India and Taiwan – including systems with customer data

Gang says it grabbed internal info, could do the same to Acer elsewhere

Security20 Oct 2021 | 2

Taiwan president pokes the bear by saying the nation needs to lessen its supply chain dependency on China

Tsai Ing-wen also expressed desire to attract external tech talent in rare interview

On-Prem12 Aug 2021 | 41

Over 100 Taiwanese political figures' messages leaked outta LINE app

Attack turned off encryption function, which made snooping rather easier

Security29 Jul 2021 | 6

D'oh! Misplaced chair shuts down nuclear plant in Taiwan

Surprisingly a real-life scenario and not a plotline from The Simpsons

Bootnotes28 Jul 2021 | 64

Taiwan chip giant sees 20 per cent revenue spike as industry struggles to meet demand

Capital piles into chip fabs as pandemic recovery pushes demand

Personal Tech09 Jul 2021 | 4

Foxconn builds stuff for everyone. Now it finds vaccines for Taiwan, and TSMC's chipped in, too

President blames China for blocking government purchases as tech titans say they'll find five million doses

Legal21 Jun 2021 | 20

The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The best time to build a semiconductor foundry is 5 years ago

Column The history of computing is all change, all the time. Yet silicon-slingers let the chips fail where they may

On-Prem09 Jun 2021 | 50

Taiwan’s top chip tester, King Yuan, shuts down production and quarantines workers

Taiwan was COVID-free for almost a year. Now the virus is out and edging towards major silicon production centres

On-Prem07 Jun 2021 | 19

Intel finds a couple more 11th-gen Core chips, one hits 5.0GHz in laptops

Computex Teases Alder Lake architecture – which mixes different types of CPU – in mobile PCs. Also reveals some 5G fun

Personal Tech31 May 2021 | 18

Taiwan’s PC-fest COMPUTEX cancels real-world edition – three months after promising in-person gathering

If you can’t guess why, how’s life under that rock?

On-Prem07 Apr 2021 | 3

Taiwan to create new mega tech Ministry spanning industry policy, security, comms, and more

Led by proper CompSci boffin who wants to create a software development industry capable of earning billions

Software29 Mar 2021 | 4

Something fishy is going on in Taiwan as folk change name to include 'salmon' for free sushi

Youngsters rise to the bait after restaurant chain's promotion

Bootnotes18 Mar 2021 | 36

Foxconn reports booming revenue – and a baby boom among staff

A whole new dimension of social responsibility as Taiwan’s population falls while demand for stuff it makes surges

Personal Tech05 Feb 2021 |

Taiwan scores Google’s first hardware engineering lab outside the US of A

Job ads call for silicon designers, ASIC engineers, display wonks and folks to build data centre and home kit

Science29 Jan 2021 | 4

Taiwan’s silicon titan TSMC says three-nanometre tech is on track for 2021 debut and a 2022 flood of kit

Outlines $25bn of capex plus plans to expand in China

Systems15 Jan 2021 | 12

Pork-tracking website problems add extra crackling to US-Taiwan-China tensions

Data describing controversial supplement ractopamine didn’t render online

Software12 Jan 2021 | 8

America, Taiwan make semiconductors their top trade priority at first-ever 'Economic Prosperity Dialogue'

Do you see what I TSMC?

Science23 Nov 2020 | 13

Microsoft brings Azure to Taiwan, therefore steps into a geopolitical cauldron

Taiwanese president says this is about ‘strengthening Taiwan-US cooperation’

SaaS27 Oct 2020 | 3