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Taiwan Technology Update: May 6, 2026

Semiconductors, AI and Quantum Taiwan’s chip sector continues to thrive despite disruptions related to the Iran war. TSMC reported a 58%

A court in Taiwan sentenced Chen Li-ming (陳力銘), a former TSMC employee, to 10 years in prison for leaking corporate secrets on Monday. The case marks

Nvidia announced last fall that the first wafers for its Blackwell chips, which are designed for artificial intelligence workloads, had been

Semiconductors and Artificial Intelligence Taiwan’s Ministry of Finance announced this week that Taiwan was the 12th largest exporter in the world

In late January 2026, Jensen Huang, the chief executive of chip-making giant Nvidia, rang in the Lunar New Year with employees and customers in

Semiconductors and Artificial Intelligence Citing AI infrastructure demand and the finalization of a trade deal with the U.S., Taiwan raised its

Semiconductors and Artificial Intelligence Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos last month, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said

Chinese regulators have reportedly approved the first shipments of the H200, the flagship AI chip from Nvidia’s previous generation that had been

Semiconductors Taiwanese semiconductor powerhouse TSMC began mass-producing 2-nanometer chips — its most advanced chips to date — in the fourth

If the Trump administration’s primary objective were to make Chinese companies reliant on the American tech stack, then it would allow Nvidia to

When U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Taiwan’s envoy to APEC, Lin Hsin-i (林信義), met on Friday, they discussed chips. Bessent wanted to know

For almost every issue that could come up when Donald Trump meets with Chinese president Xi Jinping (習近平) at the APEC summit in South Korea on