TSMC and Apple have maintained a close partnership over the years, working like one team to push Moore’s Law forward. According to SemiAnalysis, Apple employs hundreds of engineers stationed at TSMC headquarters, effectively treating the foundry as an extension of its own operations.

The global contest for semiconductor leadership took a confrontational turn this week. US officials used Micron Technology’s groundbreaking in upstate New York to deliver blunt warnings to foreign rivals.

As the AI chip computing power race intensifies, data center electricity demand is surging, forcing a fundamental redesign of server power architectures. Taiwanese connector maker CviLux Corp is emerging as a key beneficiary of this transition, leveraging its board-level power connector expertise to ride the shift from traditional AC systems to high-voltage direct current (HVDC) designs in next-generation AI servers.