Taiwanese semiconductor group Egis Technology held its annual “2025 Egis Tech Day” on October 28, 2025, unveiling a suite of cutting-edge innovations under the theme of “fully activated AI.”
Shinkong Synthetic Fibers Corporation (SSFC) broke ground on October 28, 2025, for its Shinkong InnovHub, a drone base integrating R&D, testing, manufacturing, talent incubation, and flight applications. The initiative aims to energize Taiwan’s drone sector and emerging technology industries.
As US semiconductor companies race to expand domestic manufacturing capacity, Texas Instruments (TI) and Micron Technology are emerging as the most aggressive investors, committing tens of billions of dollars to new fabrication facilities. While Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan’s “subtraction strategy” has steered the company back to revenue growth and profitability in the third quarter of 2025, continued construction delays at its long-promised Ohio plant mean that production remains a pipe dream. In contrast, Micron and TI are moving forward with massive investments in line with President Donald Trump’s “Made in the USA” initiative.
Brazil’s government has warned of an impending semiconductor shortage that could halt car production within weeks, the latest fallout from the Dutch government’s takeover of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia and China’s retaliatory export ban.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics to University of California, Berkeley professor John Clarke and two other scientists for identifying macroscopic quantum tunneling and quantized energy levels in electronic circuits, two defining phenomena of quantum mechanics.
Taiwan’s Wistron Corporation is investing US$761 million to build an AI supercomputing and smart manufacturing center in Texas, as the company deepens its role in the global artificial intelligence supply chain. The advanced facility, currently under construction, is slated to begin operations in the first half of 2026.