Wayne Wang, senior director of commercialization at Robot Era, used the 5th Mobis Mobility Day in Sunnyvale to present a two-year-old Chinese robotics company that has already supplied hardware to nine of the world’s top ten technology companies — including Apple, Nvidia, Amazon and Microsoft.

At DIGITIMES‘ Tech Forum 2026 this week, Taiwan’s top space official delivered a blunt assessment of the island’s growing role in the global space economy: Taiwan has become an increasingly important supplier to the American space industry, but it still lacks control over the systems that define the sector’s highest-value opportunities.

US President Donald Trump, after recently concluding a visit to China, again publicly accused Taiwan of having “stolen our chip industry.” This was not the first time he had made such a claim. From the 2024 campaign period to a Fox News interview in May 2026, before his departure after visiting China, Trump has repeatedly argued that the business originally belonged to Intel and that, had the US government understood how to impose tariffs for protection, Taiwan would never have had a role in the chip industry.