Taiwan wants to set up chip plants in Eastern Europe
Backed by Brussels
Taiwan is looking at cooperating with three Eastern European countries on semiconductors, a minister said.
Taiwan says it is not worried about EU chip production
We will still make the high tech stuff
Taiwan Economy Minister Wang Mei-hua on Wednesday played down the prospect of Taiwan tech firms making advanced semiconductors in the European Union, noting TSMC has insisted it will focus its most advanced technology on the island.
Taiwan will help US blacklist Chinese tech
It is what Chiang Kai-shek would have wanted
Taiwan promised its chip companies will adhere to US rules after Washington added seven Chinese supercomputing entities last week to an economic blacklist and after a Taipei-based chipmaker halted orders from one of the entities named.
Taiwan's farmers at odds with chipmakers
We need water too
Taiwan's farmers are dealing with one of the worst droughts on record and are hacked off that available water is being given to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company to make rich American kid's iPhones.
Taiwan is part of US anti-China moves
More co-operation expected
Taiwan is the US key ally to take shift global supply chains away from China, its de facto US ambassador said.
Taiwan to prioritise chips for cars
So your GPU is well down the list
Major Taiwanese chipmakers are willing to prioritise supplies for auto makers amid a global shortage of chips for the industry, the island’s economics minister said after meeting with company executives.
UMC pays $60 million to stop US spying case
Nothing to see here move on
Taiwan's second-largest contract chipmaker United Microelectronics has agreed to pay a $60 million fine to make an industrial espionage lawsuit with the US Department of Justice go away.
Taiwanese boffins make MRAM breakthrough
Unless it is all spin
Magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) is being touted as the next big thing for tech, even if manipulating MRAM efficiently and effectively is challenging.
Nokia scores 5G deal with Taiwan Star Telecom
Upgrading LTE network
Former rubber boot maker Nokia announced details of a new 5G deal with Taiwan Star Telecom (TST). The deal will see Nokia supply TST with its end-to-end AirScale Radio Access network portfolio helping the operator to launch 5G non-standalone (NSA) networks that will lay the foundations for 5G standalone (SA) in the future. Nokia is the only supplier in this deal.
Computex reschedules for September 28
COVID-19s latest toll
The last of the big shows, Computex 2020, has been postponed from the original date, June 2 - 6 to September 28. Taiwan is not a hard-hit area right now, but with travel bans implemented around the world, it is unlikely that many international travellers would be able to show up in late May for the original date.