ASE Technology Holding, the world's largest outsourced chip assembly and test provider, announced plans to build 15 new facilities across Taiwan and Malaysia to meet surging AI chip demand. The compan…
Japan launched a 'Study Group on the Protection of International Submarine Cables' in November 2025 to strengthen cable resilience amid growing geopolitical tensions. The move follows damage incidents…
Taiwan's President William Lai Ching-te said he hopes the US approves a $14bn arms sale package as soon as possible, reiterating Taiwan's rejection of unification with China. The sale, under review by…
Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission will amend rules to allow life insurers to invest directly in AI-linked projects and raise the cap on holdings in domestic private equity funds to 25%. The mo…
Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission revised regulations in March 2025 to allow life insurers to invest directly in domestic AI infrastructure, including data centers and hospitals, as part of th…
US imports of data center equipment surged 109% between 2020 and 2025 to $653.1 billion, driven by AI demand, reshaping global trade and boosting Asian exporters like Taiwan, Mexico, and Vietnam. Taiw…
Self-hosted open models DeepSeek V4 Flash and Qwen 3.6 refuse to generate content about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, while willingly producing poems about other state violence like…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced at Computex 2026 that the company has increased its annual spending in Taiwan from $10-15 billion to $150 billion, reinforcing the island's role as the world's most s…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced the recruitment launch for a new research and development center in South Korea during a visit around June 5, 2026, marking the chipmaker's first publicly recognized …
Intel is developing a new AI technology called "frame extrapolation" that predicts a player's next move to generate frames before they are rendered, Intel fellow Tom "TAP" Petersen confirmed in an int…
TSMC Chairman and CEO C.C. Wei stated on June 4 that Taiwan’s competitive advantage in AI chip manufacturing is nearly impossible for other countries to challenge. Wei acknowledged that fully satisfyi…
A Vox report outlines a scenario where battlefield AI systems deployed during a standoff around Taiwan compress decision timelines and increase the risk of inadvertent nuclear escalation. The report d…
A fictional wargame scenario involving a Chinese AI system malfunctioning and killing US soldiers in a Taiwan standoff illustrates how artificial intelligence could inadvertently trigger a nuclear esc…
South Korea's equity market capitalization surged 86% this year to approximately $5 trillion, overtaking India's $4.8 trillion market value, according to data compiled by Bloomberg and reported by the…
Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council Minister Cheng-Wen Wu outlined a national strategy to sustain the country's semiconductor leadership by focusing on silicon photonics, wide-bandgap sem…
NVIDIA announced today that Foxconn and Taiwan’s leading medical centers are deploying NVIDIA-powered AI agent workforces to scale the region’s transition to AI-driven health systems. Foxconn’s CoDoct…
Taiwan has launched the "Healthy Taiwan" initiative, placing digital health care at its core by integrating big data, artificial intelligence, and cloud technologies to improve care quality and effici…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will deliver a keynote at Computex 2026 in Taipei on June 1, alongside a concurrent GTC Taipei event showcasing the Vera Rubin NVL72 supercomputer and Jetson Thor hardware. The…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will deliver a keynote at Computex 2026 in Taipei, where the company and Taiwan's semiconductor ecosystem will unveil the Vera Rubin NVL72 supercomputer and announce expanded p…
Nvidia is set to take centre stage at the Computex trade show in Taipei, highlighting Taiwan's expanding role in global AI infrastructure. The company's presence underscores the island's growing impor…