Horace Luke, the former Nike designer and Microsoft creative director who founded Gogoro in 2011 to revolutionize electric scooters, has reportedly accumulated debts of about NT$150 million (approx. US$4.7 million) and is currently unreachable. This situation has prompted Ruentex Group chairman Samuel Yin to launch an investigation into Luke’s overseas assets.

Taiwan’s government-run free trade zone has recorded a significant surge in air cargo at Taoyuan International Airport, reflecting the island’s expanding role in the global AI supply chain. Large volumes of high-value memory chips are imported into Taiwan for assembly and re-export as AI servers and semiconductor components, a production model that has remained robust for more than two years.

Memory design IC company Elite Semiconductor Microelectronics Technology (ESMT) reported a fourth-quarter 2025 profit of NT$1.033 billion (US$32.5 million), up 394.75% year-on-year and the highest quarterly level in four years, helping the company return to profitability for the full year. Chairman M.C. Chang said that this memory cycle is the most intense in the past 30 years. Contract prices in the first half of 2026 are expected to rise by at least multiples, and the benefits from price increases are still only in the early stages of the uptrend. Therefore, the top priority this year will be securing additional production capacity from partners.