Taiwan

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

Alibaba-aligned e-commerce outfit Taobao quits Taiwan

Was given deadline to declare its Chinese ties or leave, chose the latter

Personal Tech16 Oct 2020 | 1

Fake Zoom alerts and dodgy medical freebies among COVID-cracks detected by Taiwan's CERT

Phishers claimed to be from 'National Health Commission', which exists in mainland China but not Taiwan

Security17 Sep 2020 |

Taiwan tightens rules around local tech firms sharing tech with China

Will vet even outbound investments under new rules

Legal04 Sep 2020 | 5

Taiwan and US make joint declaration to only use 'clean' 5G kit

It's all about transparency, yet China didn't rate a mention

Networks27 Aug 2020 | 2

World Health Organisation AI chatbot goes deaf when asked for the latest COVID-19 figures for Taiwan, Hong Kong

Funny that!

AI + ML21 Jul 2020 | 15

Taiwan to stay ahead of China as top chip manufacturing titan

Make America Bake Again movement not going well, Europe also increasingly out of the picture

On-Prem25 Jun 2020 | 11

Taiwan aims to trump China with new display tech industry development plan

Just comes right out and says it will leverage twin crises of trade tension and pandemic

Personal Tech12 Jun 2020 | 7

Two COVID tests, five-day quarantine, limited expense account abuse opportunities: Taiwan sets new rules for business travel

Visits to your favorite electronics supplier are not going to be fast or fun

On-Prem11 Jun 2020 | 5

Taiwan trumpets Apple planting next-gen monitor plant in local science park

And smiles as its tech services industries do swimmingly in Q1

Personal Tech12 May 2020 | 5

Taiwan’s tech production went boom! in March

Possibly picking up China's slack. Fingers crossed for more than that!

On-Prem24 Apr 2020 | 5

Taiwan to develop military exoskeleton because it's not like these things are open-sourced or one-size-fits-all

Shall we call it the Termin-Acer? Or maybe the ASUS-inator? BenQ for coming – we're here all week

Bootnotes15 Apr 2020 | 20

Taiwan may turn traffic advice app into massive tracking system

To offer social distancing advice when people head out to play on a looming long weekend

Legal13 Apr 2020 | 13

China and Taiwan aren't great friends. Zoom sends chats through China. So Taiwan has banned Zoom

Government and local business told to buy local, but slum it with Google or Microsoft if you must

Security08 Apr 2020 | 13

Taiwan collars coronavirus quarantine scofflaws with smartphone geo-fences. So, which nation will be next?

Just don't let your battery die or you'll have to explain it to the police

Personal Tech24 Mar 2020 | 29

What? No way. Apple? Censoring iOS 13 to appease China? Gosh. How shocking. Who'd have thought it?

iGiant declines to Taiwan on for Hong Kong and Macau

Personal Tech07 Oct 2019 | 40

So how'd this go again... A sea goddess told you in a dream to run for president of Taiwan? OK, Mr Foxconn boss

Founder Terry Gou steps down for new life in political limelight

Bootnotes18 Apr 2019 | 21

Taiwanese cops give malware-laden USB sticks as prizes for security quiz

What was second prize? We think we'd rather have that

Security10 Jan 2018 | 17