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Japanese stocks have had many false dawns in recent years, but the latest upswing comes as several factors suggest this time may be different. Japan is also the only market in Asia big and liquid enough to offer an alternative to China.

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is in Taiwan for the Intel Vision event, which is aimed at high-level executives and managers from customers and ecosystem partners. In a Q&A with the Taiwanese press, Gelsinger stated that Intel is re-engaging with the foundry business, driving and defining crucial standards for the future utilizing open technologies, and revitalizing product execution to restore competitiveness in the market.

Electric vehicle (EV) vendors have moved to build their own chips or procure their own chips, according to sources at IC inspection labs, who are enthusiastic about demand from the EV sector.

With its sub-7nm process manufacturing, TSMC has won significant AI chip orders amid surging demand for generative AI applications, according to industry sources.

Collaboration between Taiwan and the EU helps ensure and strengthen the resilience of supply chains, said vice minister of Taiwans Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) Chuan-Neng Lin.

I was invited to be a seminar moderator at the 2023 Taiwan Supercomputing Conference themed on AI 2.0, supercomputing, and the new ecosystem, recently organized by Taiwan Web Service (TWS). After TWS president Peter Wu finished his keynote speech, I asked him how he feels about the ongoing generative AI boom. He replied, "Quite excited!"

Taiwans leading OSAT ASE Technology and its affiliate Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) have officially joined the supply chain of silicon photonics high-speed networking chips and modules for Broadcom, offering their CPO (co-packaged optics) backend services for the US chipmaker, according to industry sources.

Almost all of TSMCs top-10 customers have readied plans to adopt the foundrys 2nm GAA-FET (gate-all-around field-effect transistor) process technology, to be commercialized in 2025 and with a production ramp-up in 2026. This may make Samsung unlikely to fulfill its claimed goal of surpassing TSMC with its 2nm GAA technology within five years, according to industry sources.

The MXL-CPHY-DPHY-DSI-RX is a high-frequency low-power, low-cost, source-synchronous, physical Layer. The PHY is configured as MIPI Slave supporting camera ...

Nvidia has seen a ramp-up in orders for its A100 and H100 AI GPUs, as a result of the generative AI boom, which has led to an increase in wafer starts at TSMC, according to market sources.