Several prominent South Korean business leaders, including Samsung Electronics chairman Jae-yong Lee, have departed for Washington DC, in what is being hailed as the most high-profile South Korean business delegation in history. The business magnates are expected to participate as part of an economic delegation at the upcoming summit between South Korean President Jae-myung Lee and US President Donald Trump.

China’s AI chip market is surging across algorithms, large language models, and computing hardware, fueling a new wave of investment. Cambricon Technologies recently overtook SMIC in market value for the first time, while DeepSeek’s large language model has triggered another spike in processing demand, putting fresh focus on domestic chip design service providers.

Taiwan’s Solomon Technology, a major player in AI 3D vision, has become the first local firm to adopt Nvidia’s upcoming Jetson Thor platform, deepening ties with the US chipmaker. At the Taipei International Automation Exhibition, the company showcased a humanoid robot simulation system built on its Visual-Language-Action (VLA) model, designed to let robots understand and act on natural-language commands.

Taiwanese engineers offer employers high cost-performance value and a competitive advantage compared to their peers from Europe, the US, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Even as generative AI and the US’s reciprocal tariffs impact job markets elsewhere, Taiwan’s employment situation has remained relatively unaffected, with the labor force in July 2025 actually increasing by 26,000 compared to June 2025. While computer science professionals in the US face layoffs and job shortages, Taiwan’s STEM talent pool continues to see job opportunities in the vast semiconductor and electronics industries.