Taiwan has become the world’s top supplier of medical displays and X-ray sensors as AUO and Innolux accelerate expansion in healthcare technologies and boost shipments to global customers. Shih-Hong Liao, general manager of AUO’s Smart Healthcare Business Group, said Taiwan now holds nearly 60% of the global medical display market and about 70% of the X-ray sensor market.

A newly released filing from China’s National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) shows Huawei submitted a patent in June 2022 outlining a method to achieve 2nm-class metal line patterning using only deep ultraviolet (DUV) lithography — potentially bypassing US export restrictions on advanced tools. The South China Morning Post reports the technique can create metal pitches under 21nm, a requirement typically met only with ASML’s top-tier extreme ultraviolet (EUV) exposure systems, which remain off-limits to Huawei.

As artificial intelligence (AI) accelerates the global semiconductor race—and as commercial space activity heats up—the idea of moving chip fabrication into orbit is edging from science fiction toward technological reality.