A submarine cable disruption was been reported near Taiwan on the afternoon of September 1. According to the Taiwan Submarine Cable Map, the East Asia Crossing 2 (EAC2) submarine cable toward Southeast Asia experienced a break, affecting international data transmission between Taiwan and Singapore. In response, Taiwan’s largest telecommunications service provider Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) clarified that it is not invested in EAC2, adding its self-operated international and domestic submarine cables are currently functioning normally.

Artificial intelligence (AI) benefits many industries but is limited by the so-called “curse of dimensionality,” which arises when machine learning models handle data with many features. This issue is particularly relevant in semiconductor manufacturing, where process parameters such as temperature, time, and thickness define a high-dimensional data space. Increased dimensionality exponentially expands the volume of this space, causing data points to become sparse and traditional machine learning models to struggle with capturing complex correlations.

At Semicon India 2025, the country’s flagship semiconductor showcase, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged global and domestic stakeholders to view India not just as a manufacturing hub but as a future source of semiconductor intellectual property (IP).