Weibing Lu, partner and president of Xiaomi as well as president of the Smartphone Department, announced on September 15, 2025, that the new flagship Xiaomi 17 series will be unveiled in September. It will become the world’s first smartphone equipped with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 computing platform.

At SEMI-e 2025 in Shenzhen, Navitas Semiconductor outlined its push beyond consumer chargers, highlighting its progress in solar inverters, motor drives, and artificial-intelligence data centers.

Taiwan’s integrated circuit (IC) design industry ranks second worldwide, trailing only the US. However, in recent years, Taiwan’s position has become increasingly precarious due to rapid advancements by China. The National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) believes that focusing on two main pillars—advanced chip breakthrough technologies and heterogeneous integration industry drive—while concentrating on key R&D of high-computing power, high-power, high-frequency, and high-energy-efficiency (4H) chips could help Taiwan maintain a lead over China for approximately five more years.