Following multiple typhoons in 2024, Taiwan faces significant challenges to its power grid. Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) Vice President and CEO Ming-Shu Chen highlighted the increasing unpredictability of climate change’s impact on Taiwan, stressing the need to enhance the resilience of power infrastructure and improve cross-agency collaboration to tackle extreme weather events effectively.

Tokyo Electron (TEL) has recently established a new operations center at the Southern Taiwan Science Park, expanding beyond its existing operational offices in Linkou, Hsinchu, Taichung, Tainan, and Kaohsiung.

Workstations are the latest hardware category to see an AI-related boom. As noted by James Huang, chairman of rugged industrial PC (IPC) specialist Getac Technology, the company has seen strong sales of its X600 Server, a fully rugged command server, due to enterprise demand for AI functions. In addition, Quanta executive VP Alan Tsai has recently noted untapped potential in workstations.

Fujifilm Electronic Materials Taiwan held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new facility in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan, on December 2. The event drew several prominent Fujifilm executives, including board members Tetsuya Iwasaki and Hiroshi Ito, Fujifilm Electronics Materials Taiwan chairman Kenichi Tanaka, and president Alex Chang.