Foxconn chairman Young Liu reportedly has recently visited the US and met with executives including Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, according to industry sources. Meanwhile, US officials are reportedly close to reaching a tariff agreement with Taiwan, prompting speculation about whether Liu’s visit has additional strategic purposes given the timing.

Ever since Academia Sinica announced a 5-qubit superconducting quantum computer in January 2024, and National Tsing Hua University unveiled a photonic quantum computer capable of integer factorization using just one photon in October 2024, Taiwan has seen no major breakthroughs in quantum computing research. in addition, no clear results have been obtained from the quantum computer purchased from the Finnish company IQM, and National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) officials have stated that they will soon conduct an on-site inspection of the IQM Spark in Taiwan.

Despite ongoing US sanctions that constrain its smartphone sales overseas, Huawei said it has held the No. 1 position in global wearable device shipments for two straight quarters.

At the recent Hot Chips 2025 conference, Nvidia detailed its latest GB10 system-on-chip (SoC) architecture, representing a miniaturized application of the Blackwell GPU architecture. Through collaboration with MediaTek, Nvidia integrated 20 Arm v9.2 CPU cores with a high-performance GPU into a single 2.5D package, creating a compact version of the Grace Blackwell platform.