Plug and Play plans $100 million Taiwan fund, hopes one of its next five unicorns is Taiwanese
Saeed Amidi has been in Taiwan for about 20 hours, and he has been asking everyone the same question.
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Sep
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Sep
Taiwan carbon fee joins UK CBAM qualifying list
Taiwan’s carbon fee has been formally included in the UK government’s list of Qualifying Carbon Pricing Schemes (QCPS) under its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), alongside major carbon pricing systems in the EU, Japan, South Korea and Singapore. The Ministry of Environment said the move shows Taiwan’s carbon pricing framework is now aligned with international systems and will help export industries respond to global carbon border measures while maintaining competitiveness.
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Sep
Taoyuan eyes northern AIDC hub, touts Tatan and LNG cooling edge
Taiwan’s limited land and heavy dependence on imported energy have made power a scarce and strategic resource in the compute era, putting AI data center (AIDC) site selection on the radar of industry and government. Taoyuan’s Department of Economic Development chief Chang Cheng said on August 31 that the city is positioning itself as a northern AIDC demonstration base, with Tatan Power Plant and CPC Corp.’s Third Liquefied Natural Gas Receiving Terminal serving as key advantages.
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Sep
SK Hynix touts up to 5.15x inference gains with custom HBM
SK Hynix is pushing computation deeper into high-bandwidth memory (HBM), saying a custom HBM architecture that places compute functions in the base die could improve large language model inference performance by up to 5.15 times as data movement becomes a growing constraint on computing performance.
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Sep
Samsung eyes early 2027 LPDDR5X-PIM production, touts 3.8x performance gain
Samsung Electronics is targeting mass production of its LPDDR5X processing-in-memory (PIM) solution in late 2026 or early 2027, moving the technology closer to commercialization as the memory giant broadens its portfolio beyond HBM.
01
Sep
Safety rewired: AI, robots on the front line at K-Safety Expo 2026
Hard hats and fire extinguishers will certainly have their place at K-Safety Expo 2026, but visitors arriving at BEXCO in Busan from September 2–4 may find that the modern safety industry increasingly speaks the language of AI, robots, sensors and connected infrastructure.
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Sep
Autonomous driving expands into Physical AI, creating new openings for Taiwan firms
The autonomous driving industry is gaining momentum as advances in AI, sensing and semiconductor technologies expand opportunities in vehicle computing, machine vision and Physical AI. At Taiwan-based Turing Drive’s eighth-anniversary press event, longtime partners Vecow and oToBrite shared their perspectives on the evolution of autonomous vehicles, in-vehicle computing and robotics.
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Sep
Japan’s chip materials makers reportedly deepen Taiwan ties as AI reshapes supply chains
Japanese semiconductor materials suppliers Ajinomoto and Daikin Industries are expanding their presence in Taiwan as the AI boom fuels demand for advanced chip materials and encourages closer cooperation between suppliers and manufacturers.
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Sep
Taiwan chip equipment maker Skytech opens advanced process lab with TSMC backing
Skytech and TSMC have opened an Advanced Process Laboratory focused on next-generation semiconductor manufacturing, highlighting TSMC’s continued efforts to support Taiwan’s domestic semiconductor equipment supply chain.
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Sep
Imec CEO: AI era pushes broader ties between chip, model and CSP players
Imec CEO Patrick Vandenameele said during a media briefing at SEMICON Taiwan 2026 that the Belgian research center is broadening its collaboration base in the AI era, extending beyond IC design firms to include model developers and cloud service providers as AI reshapes how computing systems are built and connected. Vandenameele said Imec is well positioned because what is happening in AI aligns with the organization’s core mission, but its role has also changed significantly.