Taiwan’s technology news in the 2023’s second quarter captured technology developments in, and affecting, the country including: TSMC’s semiconductor industry moves, both domestically in Taiwan and overseas; Taiwan’s steps into the satellite technologies space; the US Congress’ support moves for Taiwan’s cybersecurity; and many more.
The monthly links listed – April, May & June 2023 – lead directly to the Taiwan technology news summary for that month, with each Taiwan tech news headline linked to the article behind it.
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Conference: SemiCon Taiwan – September 6-8 2023
Taiwan’s Tech News
quarterly – June 2023
- Available now: ‘Mapping the Semiconductor Supply Chain – The Critical Role of the Indo-Pacific Region’ from the Center for Strategic and International Studies
- Japan: Taiwan’s TSMC reportedly mulling a second plant in Kumamoto Prefecture in addition to one currently under construction
- A brief overview of Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute’s moves towards becoming a partner to the United Kingdom on advanced technologies and their supply chains, including those for semiconductors
- Taiwan: CEO of GlobalWafers, world’s 3rd-largest silicon wafer supplier, named EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year, selected from near 5000 participants
Taipei Blockchain Week 2023 – December 11-16
Taiwan’s Tech news
quarterly – May 2023
- A brief overview of the costs and challenges involved in Taiwan’s TSMC establishing new semiconductor manufacturing facilities in the US
- Taiwan’s Infinio Capital and Netherlands’ Space Infrastructures Ventures jointly invest in ‘Orbital Outpost Asia’, focusing on low-earth orbit satellite market in materials, education, assembly and more
- Taiwan: Foodland Ventures VC firm launches 3rd accelerator cohort intake for globally-focused agri-tech and food-related startups
- Taiwan’s ProLogium Technology battery maker to commence production of next-gen electric vehicles energy cells in France from 2027 as part of $5.7BN investment in the country
“Taiwanese authorities have estimated there are 20 to 40 million attempted cyberattacks every month from Beijing…”
“They’ve got a bigger hacking program than every other major nation,” Wray told a House Appropriations subcommittee on Thursday. He noted the overall number of agency investigations into threats from Beijing has grown by 1,300% over the last decade.
- Taiwan: Tron Future Tech unveils prototype for low-earth orbit satellite communication with focus on vehicles and autonomous driving
- Lithuania’s Leafood and partner, Taiwan’s YesHealth Group, launch Europe’s largest vertical farm, a facility of 4K square meters of growing area in 7K square meters of farm space
- Taiwan’s TSMC and partners, NXP Semiconductor, Bosch, and Infineon, may be planning new European chip facility in Germany, budgeting €7BN, with overall investment near €10BN
- Startup Island Taiwan Podcast: ‘Corporate Culture Decides The Success of Taiwan’s Cutting Edge Chips – A Conversation With Author Of Chip War’
Mapping semiconductor supply chains – importance of the Indo-Pacific
- Taiwan’s Quanta Computer electronics manufacturer to invest $1BN in northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon in ‘nearshoring’ move, taking it closer to US end-markets
- Taiwan’s TSMC in talks for German subsidies, potentially covering 1/2 of $10.7BN construction cost, with top subsidies being discussed placing Germany on par with Japan’s TSMC bid
- South Korea: Taiwan’s Gogoro e-bikes firm expands in partnership with Korea’s Bikebank, launching the Dotstation brand
- South Korea: Taiwan’s Taishin Bank launches TaishinPay QR payment service for Taiwanese tourists, via Hana Bank subsidiary, GLN International
World Economic Forum: Shared Intelligence for Resilient Supply Systems
Taiwan’s tech News
quarterly – April 2023
- Taiwan: Foxconn’s billionaire founder announces intention to seek presidential nomination with Kuomintang, running in opposition to current president Tsai’s Democratic Progressive Party
- ICYMI: US lawmakers reportedly discussed possibility of bringing Starlink satellite system into Taiwan, intended as countering move to China’s surveillance and vulnerabilities of subsea cabling
- Taiwan: MSI hardware maker confirms cyberattack, with ransomware group claiming to have stolen source code, firmware, frameworks and more
“Taipei’s digital ministry…has a 2-year, $18M plan to place satellite receivers in 700 places at home and abroad to maintain gov’t communications ‘during emergencies such as natural disasters or wars'”
- “Taiwan…chipmaking machine exports to the US [rose] 42.6% in March from a year earlier, reaching a new high of $71.3M…Exports to China…plummeted 33.7%, marking the 9th straight month of decline.”
- Taiwan: A look at Foxconn’s expansion in the global EV sector, a bid to reduce dependence on iPhone business now set to feature 2 new EV model launches each year
- Taiwan: Gogoro battery-swap firm partners Enel X energy services to integrate 2500 GoStations into Enel X Virtual Power Plant, to put profit-making energy back into electrical grid
- Taiwan: Blue Ocean Vision gains FamilyMart partnership for multi-brand chain providing reusable cup loan services, planning to open 700 outlets around Taiwan by year-end
World Economic Forum: Global Risks Report 2023
- Taiwan: An overview of the country’s food-focused startups and innovations
- ICYMI: “Officials from Rome’s industry ministry discussed…cooperation on the production and export of semiconductors during recent meetings in Taipei…that Italy may scrap its participation in China’s Belt and Road…”
- Taiwan: MetaCRM secures $2.5M seed funding with Web3-focused CRM system, facilitating creation of blockchain-based solutions and analytics tools by connecting on-chain and off-chain data
- Taiwan Cybersecurity Resiliency Act introduced in US Congress to broaden and strengthen cybersec cooperation with Taiwan via training exercises, infrastructure and systems defense and more
- Taiwan: MediaTek chip design firm to focus resources on chips for cars and AI-driven computing, seeing slowdown in smartphone-related supply and faster growth in auto and AI
CSET: Mapping emerging technologies and their supply chains
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