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Typhoon Champi killed one person and injured hundreds in Taiwan, as well as downing trees and knocking out power for hundreds of thousands of people as the storm's strong winds and rains continued overnight Friday into Saturday morning. Although Champi did not hit Taiwan directly, the storm's span was large enough to impact most of Taiwan. The island's weather authorities said the storm was weakening Saturday morning and that by evening, the land warnings for the typhoon would be removed. Taiwan's Central Emergency Operations Centre reported that 350 were injured as of Friday night. The one death was a man who was washed away by waves in Taiwan's Pingtung county, the island's southernmost part. The storm knocked out power for 280,000 households, according to United Daily News, a local Taiwanese newspaper, citing the island's power authorities. But power had returned to 80 per cent of households by Saturday morning. Across the island, the storm downed trees and signs, some smaller .

TSMC reports record third-quarter revenue of $46.71 billion, beating market estimates as surging demand for AI applications drives chip sales.

The Taiex Index beat the Kospi by about 23 percentage points last quarter, the widest margin since the turn of the century

"The idea is to develop a steady pool of trained semiconductor engineers and shop-floor workers for allied components who can be hired directly from these institutes"

Taiwan's defence minister said Tuesday that existing US arms sales to Taiwan remain unchanged, and that Taipei remains in talks with the US over individual deals. A record USD 14 billion arms package to the island, however, remains stalled. The minister's remarks come as concerns mount that President Donald Trump could halt arms sales to Taiwan. China has pressed Washington to halt the arms sales, most prominently during a May summit in Beijing between Trump and China's President Xi Jinping. The United States paused the USD 14 billion arms deal after that meeting. "As for arms sales, we are in continuous discussions with the Americans on this," Taiwan's Defence Minister Wellington Koo told reporters in front of the Legislative Yuan in Taipei. "We haven't received any notice of any changes to sales or our cooperation." Koo said he received assurances from the US side that its policy towards the island remained unchanged. Koo also said that 66 advanced F16-V fighter jets have reached

Since coming to power in 2012, Xi has made bringing Taiwan under China's control a key goal and vowed to achieve it someday, by force if necessary

Micron's record employee payout in Taiwan has failed to end a labour dispute, with workers seeking a permanent profit-sharing formula tied to the company's operating profit and performance

China's defence ministry said on Tuesday the drill, to take place in mid-August at a location east of Taiwan it did not detail, would be a "navigation exercise" with an Indonesian navy ship

Foxconn expects its capital expenditure to continue growing and forecasts a 30 per cent increase in 2026 from a year earlier.

A joint ‌venture owned about ​60% by Sony ​and 40% by TSMC will start commercial ​production as early as 2029 in southern Japan's Kumamoto prefecture

Major Taiwan computer chipmaker TSMC said Thursday it plans to spend another USD 100 billion on expanding its manufacturing capacity in the United States. The latest commitment appears to bring the company's total pledges for investment in US chipmaking to USD 265 billion. It also raised its annual revenue forecast after booking record high profits thanks to runaway demand from the boom in artificial intelligence. The world's largest contract chip manufacturing and one of the world's most valuable companies, TSMC's results are seen as a barometer for the global chip industry and for AI at a time when worries about a potential AI bubble have been buffeting financial markets. As AI-related demand continues to surge, it has been expanding chip fabrication plants in the US, Japan and Taiwan. It said it is increasing its annual capital expenditure budget for this year to USD 60 billion-USD 64 billion, up from an earlier estimate of USD 52 billion-USD 56 billion. TSMC or Taiwan ...

The company's United States (US)-listed shares dropped 7.9 per cent to $154.7 in early trading after jumping more than 12 per cent in their Nasdaq debut on Friday

Taiwan Semiconductor ​Manufacturing Co (TSMC) is a major supplier to companies including Nvidia and Apple

Shipments of AI racks are expected to maintain their momentum in the current quarter, while demand for information and communications technology products is entering peak season

Mekkhala, currently a tropical storm, is nearing southern Japan's Ryukyu Islands after skirting Taiwan where it brought heavy rain to parts of the island, especially in the southern regions

China's government says 'ethnic unity' law safeguards national unity. However, critics argue it broadens the legal basis for pursuing ethnic minority activists, including some based overseas

AI-driven chip demand is powering South Korea and Taiwan's economies, but the windfall is deepening inequality and exposing a widening K-shaped divide

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Attempts by China to exert pressure on other countries to limit Taiwan's access to international events has become "the new normal", the island's foreign minister has said. Lin Chia-Lung was speaking on Wednesday after Taiwanese delegates were detained in Kenya and denied access to an ocean conference, reportedly due to Chinese pressure on the organisers, according to Taiwan's Foreign Ministry. China regards Taiwan, a self-ruled democracy, as a breakaway province and has not renounced the use of force to annex it. In recent months, Beijing has ramped up a campaign of pressuring other countries to limit the access of Taiwanese officials or delegates to various events. In April, Taiwan's president postponed a planned visit to the African nation of Eswatini after three countries withdrew permission for him to fly over their territories after pressure from China, his office said. He arrived days later, on a plane chartered by Eswatini's king. In the latest incident, two Taiwanese ...