- Taiwan population (2023): 24 million
- Taiwan online population: 21.9M / 91.9%
- Taiwan’s median age: 44.6 years
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Taiwan: “We expect that this year… a much larger number of our large server companies, especially for AI servers, announcing that they’re going to be expanding their investments in Texas…” / full item
- Taiwan’s semiconductor output achieved a value of $152.69 billion in 2024, up 22.4% from a year earlier / full item
- Taiwan: ASE Technology targets $1.6BN in leading-edge advanced semiconductor packaging revenue for 2025, with testing business seeing an 18% rise in Q4 2024 alone / full item
- Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs builds on TSMC’s moves in Europe, exploring semiconductor supply chain partnerships with Germany, Czech Republic and Poland / full item
- Taiwan’s TSMC preps for OpenAI chip production using TSMC 3-nanometer process, with OpenAI targeting mass production in 2026 / full item
- Taiwan: The next generation of the Taiwania 2 super-computer is set commence operation in May, in part to boost GenAI development / “One petaFLOP is equivalent to 1 quadrillion calculations per second.” / full item
- Taiwan: MediaTek chip designer remains optimistic inf the face of concerns over possible US tariffs / full item
- Taiwan’s TSMC is rumored to be building ‘Fab 25’, a large-scale 1 nanometer-focused fabrication facility in Shalun, with three plants set for 1.4nm processes / full item
- Taiwan: Yunlin Offshore Wind Farm is now producing clean energy at design capacity of 640MW, with 80 wind turbine generators in operation / full item
- Taiwan: Ministry of Digital Affairs announces that public sector workers will be banned from using China’s DeepSeek artificial intelligence services, citing concerns over data leaks / full item
- Singapore’s Thunes, a global payments company, to expand Direct Global Network into Taiwan, rolling out Pay-to-Banks capabilities and cross-border payment services / full item
- Malaysia: Taiwan’s ASE launches new $300M facility in Penang, its 5th in Malaysia, and more than tripling its floorspace in the country / full item
- Japan: ArkEdge Space observation satellite produced for Taiwan’s space agency has captured high-quality Earth imagery from a spacecraft smaller than a suitcase / full item
- 8 nations including South Korea, Taiwan, and Australia have so far restricted access to DeepSeek AI services to some degree, citing concerns over data privacy / full item
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Critical tech news: February 2025
- Singapore: Global Space Technology Convention & Exhibition 2025 is set for February 26 -27…
- China: First launch of the new Long March 8A rocket delivered satellite internet payloads for the Guowang – aka SatNet – 23,000-sat mega-constellation…
- India: Recently-launched NVS-02 navigation satellite is stranded in a transfer orbit following failure of onboard propulsion, possibly to result in an unplanned re-entry to atmosphere…
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