Wei-Jen Lo, former senior vice president of corporate strategy development at TSMC, retired in 2025 and subsequently accepted an invitation from Intel to serve as executive vice president. Judicial authorities have officially launched an investigation and completed evidence collection regarding allegations that Lo leaked sensitive information. Cheng-Wen Wu, Minister of the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), stated that after the incident, prosecutors consulted the Hsinchu Science Park Bureau to help verify that the sub-2nm process technology taken by Lo constitutes a national core key technology.

As much of the global semiconductor industry remains fixated on AI training accelerators and hyperscale GPUs, US-based AI processor company Blaize is making a different wager in India: large-scale inference embedded in sovereign public infrastructure.

Taiwan Mobile announced on March 2 that it had signed a strategic cooperation memorandum of understanding with AST SpaceMobile at MWC 2026 to promote the integration of space-based base stations with existing mobile networks in Taiwan. The companies said the partnership will accelerate the deployment of satellite-terrestrial communication architectures.