Taiwan’s technology news headlines in Q1 of 2025
March 2025 ● February 2025 ● January 2025
- Taiwan population (2023): 24 million
- Taiwan online population: 21.9M / 91.9%
- Taiwan’s median age: 44.6 years
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taiwan’s Tech news: March 2025
- Taiwan’s TSMC to invest ‘at least’ $100BN in chip manufacturing plants in Arizona, US, facilities over 4 years, adding to earlier pledge of $65BN investments in the country / full item
- Taiwan’s TSMC is reportedly looking at investment in South Korea’s AI-focused semiconductor firm, FuriosaAI, which is separately in acquisition negotiations with Meta / full item
- Taiwan launches ‘Best AI Awards 2025’ with a grand prize of NT$1M, aiming to attract global artificial intelligence and integrated circuit design talent / full item
- Taiwan’s Hon Hai, aka Foxconn, launched its first traditional Chinese version of an AI LLM, with NVIDIA participating, to boost data analysis capabilities for future key technologies / full item
- Google is reportedly to partner Taiwan’s MediaTek for the next version of its AI chips, Tensor Processing Units, looking to further reduce reliance on NVIDIA / full item
- Plug and Play global startup incubator is to open a branch in Taoyuan, focusing particularly on opportunities in artificial-intelligence-of-things, smart mobility, and robotics / full item
- South Korea’s Hyundai Card and Japan’s Line Pay partner for QR code payment capabilities for Taiwan users / full item
- China: Taiwan’s Foxconn commences $137 million New Business Development Group HQ construction in Henan province, looking to focus on EVs, energy storage and emerging industries / full item
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taiwan technology news: February 2025
- “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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Yunlin Offshore Wind Farm is now producing clean energy at design capacity of 640MW, with 80 wind turbine generators in operation / full item
- 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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taiwan tech news in January 2025
- Taiwan’s MediaTek inks agreement with Italy’s Exein to embed Exein cybersecurity systems on billions of chips under MediaTek’s Genio platform / full item
- ICYMI: In Sept 2024, over 30 companies including TSMC formed the Silicon Photonics Industry Alliance, SiPhIA, to focus on the next generation of chip energy and data transmission / full item
- Phoenix Silicon, the global no. 2 supplier of reclaimed wafers, broke ground on a new $76.3M plant in Taichung, expanding capacity to meet rising demand driven by the AI boom / full item
- NVIDIA and TSMC prep for collaboration on silicon photonics tech, looking to boost data center efficiency / full item
- Military awards contract to Tron Future Tech for 26 anti-drone systems, moving to counter unmanned aerial threats amid rising regional tensions / full item
- Taiwan’s MetAI gains $4M NVIDIA-led backing with AI-driven ‘digital twin’ tech, converting CAD files into 3D spaces in order to train robots and autonomous systems / full item
- PARUS-T1 micro-satellite, designed and produced by Taiwan Space Agency, launched via SpaceX Transporter-12 and successfully achieved orbit / full item
- Here’s an intro to 3D Architech, producing gel-based metal 3D printing tech delivering highly optimized parts with micron-level design control, participating in Taiwan’s Garage+ program / full item
- Taiwan’s TSMC has begun production of 4-nanometer chips in Arizona / full item
- Here’s an op-ed piece on Taiwan’s new Digital Nomad Visa, identifying the program’s shortcomings, providing comparisons with other programs, and presenting opportunities / full item
- Taiwan Stock Exchange rolls out upgraded Innovation Board, opening the market to retail investors in bid to position TIB as Asia’s premier startup and emerging industries platform / full item
- Government Service Network hit by an average of 2.4M cyber-attacks every day in 2024, double the 2023 total, according to a report by the National Security Bureau / full item
- Executive Yuan approves ‘Southern Silicon Valley’ project to boost AI and semicon industries in Chiayi County, Tainan, Pingtung County, and Kaohsiung / full item
- Taiwan seeks to cut greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 30% by 2030, upgrading a previous target despite challenges expanding renewable generation. / full item
- Foxconn subsidiary Fii Holdings USA takes equity stakes in 8 US companies in $344M investment, part of ongoing moves to diversify supply chains / full item
- Taiwan’s Guo Rui and US-based Super Micro Computer enter JV to build a computation center powered entirely by renewable energy / full item
- Taiwan’s Turing Drive autonomous driving firm partners Japan’s Xtran transportation company to deploy driverless vehicles in Okinawa, with particular relevance to the elderly / full item
- India: Tata Electronics Pvt Ltd acquired a 60% stake in Pegatron Technology India, building on acquisition of Wistron India and boosting iPhone manufacturing presence / full item
- Singapore: Germany’s Siltronic chipmaker and Taiwan’s Vanguard Int’l chip firm have partnered Institute of Tech Education to develop students for roles in Singapore’s semiconductor industry / full item
- India: Taiwan’s MSI partners India’s Syrma SGS for laptop manufacturing in move to bring premium MSI laptops closer to end-consumers / full item
- With significant investments and strategic policies, India appears poised to carve its niche in the global semiconductor landscape. But how realistic is the dream… / full item
- South Korean chip exports to Taiwan, Vietnam, and the United States rose in 2024, with decline in sales to China / full item
- Indonesia: Taiwan Mobile and partners invested $3M in Indonesia’s Soul Parking, the country’s largest parking technology company / full item
- Japan: TSMC commences production at Kumamoto Prefecture plant, manufacturing 12-28nm chips for cars and image sensors, with Governor proposing a third TSMC plant / full item
- Thailand: In December, Foxconn subsidiary UNIQUE Integrated Technology gained approval for a $306M factory build to export semiconductor machinery and equipment / full item
