Gallium arsenide (GaAs), gallium nitride (GaN), and Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) power amplifier (PA) specialist Transcom announced on July 31, 2025, that it has made a breakthrough in the critical field of defense communications. The company is also actively expanding into the commercial microwave market, demonstrating strong momentum through a dual-track development strategy.

Since early 2025, Taiwan’s real estate and auto markets have been sluggish, with car sales in a prolonged downturn. Though the government once set ambitious electric vehicle (EV) adoption targets under its 2050 net-zero carbon roadmap—including EVs accounting for 10% of all new car sales and 20% of motorcycles by 2025—those goals have since been quietly softened. As of 2024, Taiwan has fallen significantly short: EVs represented just 8.3% of new car sales and electric scooters 10.5%.

With the rapid rise of generative AI (GenAI) and immersive applications, traditional network technologies are struggling to meet the surging data transmission demands. At the Open Compute Project Asia-Pacific Summit (OCP APAC Summit) held on August 5, 2025, Jhih-Heng Yan from the Chunghwa Telecom Laboratories highlighted that the all-photonics network (APN) not only breaks through the limitations of conventional network transmission and latency but also offers a new solution to Taiwan’s data center power supply challenges.