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Chip rally: South Korea pips India in global market capitalisation race

Investor enthusiasm for AI-linked semiconductor companies has lifted Taiwan and South Korea above India in global market-cap rankings, highlighting India's limited exposure to the sector

Foxconn has immense confidence in growth momentum due to AI: Chairman

The traditional mid-year seasonal slump for tech suppliers no longer happens, Liu told an annual shareholders meeting in New Taipei, adding that he was very optimistic about the second half of year

Satellite images show China building launch pads near nuclear missile silos

The images reveal more than 80 pads for possible use by China's expanding fleet of mobile missile launchers and air-defence batteries

Nvidia to raise Taiwan spend to $150 billion annually: CEO Jensen Huang

Huang was speaking at a launch celebration in Taipei for the chip company's planned Taiwan headquarters, which he said will break ground this year and aims to become operational in 2030

Taiwan, Nvidia overtake India market capitalisation amid AI frenzy

Taiwan has become the world's fifth-largest stock market while South Korea narrows the gap with India amid a global rally in AI-linked technology stocks

Taiwan overtakes India as world's 5th largest stock market on TSMC rally

Taiwan's ascent up the global equity rankings is largely driven by TSMC, which now accounts for about 42 per cent of the benchmark index, representing intense market concentration

Taiwan, Chinese coast guards in maritime standoff at South China Sea

Taiwan and Chinese coast guards exchanged warnings near the Pratas Islands amid rising tensions in the South China Sea

Philippines to be involved in any Taiwan conflict due to proximity: Marcos

Philippines, which has a territorial dispute with Beijing over the South China Sea, is increasing its engagement with China to help maintain peace, Marcos said

US won't travel '9500 miles' to fight Taiwan's war for independence: Trump

The US President further claimed that Taiwan's current leadership was moving towards independence under the assumption that Washington would support it militarily

Trump's praise meets Xi Jinping's resolve as Beijing talks expose divides

In contrast to his rhetoric about China at home, President Trump spoke in conciliatory terms with Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader

Trump-Xi summit: Why Taiwan remains important to US-China relations

The two leaders discussed trade, AI, Iran and Taiwan, with Xi warning that mishandling the island issue could push ties into a "dangerous place"

TSMC posts 17.5% jump in sales on sustained AI buildout momentum

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing and Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation are planning to form a joint venture to build next-generation image sensors

TSMC widens weight gap with India in widely tracked MSCI Emerging Markets

Chipmaker rally lifts Taiwan to the top of EM hierarchy; India's weight at 6-yr low

Taiwan's equity market overtakes Canada's to become world's sixth largest

Taiwan surpasses Canada as the sixth-largest equity market, powered by AI-driven chip stocks and the meteoric rise of TSMC

Taiwan market capitalisation tops $4 trillion on AI boom, overtakes UK

Taiwan's market capitalisation rose to $4.14 trillion as of Wednesday, making it the world's seventh largest, according to data compiled by Bloomberg

TSMC profit for Jan-Mar qtr jumps 58% on AI demand, flags Iran war risks

Taiwan's chipmaker TSMC, one of the world's largest companies, reported a 58 per cent jump in profit on Thursday for the January-March quarter, thanks to strong demand driven by the artificial intelligence boom, even as the Iran war was driving up costs. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., a key supplier for Apple and Nvidia and the largest contract chipmaker in the world, reported a record net quarterly profit of 572.5 billion new Taiwan dollars (USD 18.1 billion) for the first three months of the year, better than analysts had expected. Profit for the quarter was 58.3 per cent higher compared to the 361.6 billion new Taiwan dollars (USD 11.5 billion) booked in the same period a year earlier. It was also 13.2 per cent higher compared with the previous quarter in October-December. Revenue increased 8.4 per cent in the January-March period from the previous three months to USD 35.9 billion, the company said. For the current April-June quarter, TSMC expects revenue to further gr

China to resume some ties with Taiwan including more direct flights

China said Sunday it would resume some ties it had suspended with Taiwan, such as direct flights to cities across China and imports of Taiwanese aquaculture products, as the island's opposition party leader concludes her visit. The Taiwan Work Office under China's Communist Party issued a statement saying it would explore setting up a longstanding communication mechanism between the Communist Party and Taiwan's Kuomingtang Party, and facilitate the import of Taiwan's aquaculture products, after it banned them in recent years. Cheng Li-wun, the head of the Kuomingtang, and China's President Xi Jinping held a high-profile meeting Friday during which both called for peace without offering specifics. Taiwan is self-ruled, but China claims the island as part of its territory. Relations between China and Taiwan have been tense since 2016, when the Taiwanese public elected Tsai Ing-wen from the Democratic Progressive Party as president. Since then, Beijing cut off most of its official ...

China won't tolerate Taiwan's independence, says President Xi Jinping

Meeting in the Great Hall of the People, Xi told Cheng that today's world was not entirely at peace, and peace was precious

Taiwan Oppn leader visits China for talks as Beijing pushes reunification

Taiwan opposition leader Cheng Li-wun arrived in China on Tuesday at the invitation of President Xi Jinping, in what she's calling a "journey for peace" as Beijing pushes for the self-ruled island to come under its control. The visit is the first by a Taiwanese opposition leader in a decade and comes ahead of a meeting in Beijing between Xi and US President Donald Trump scheduled to take place in May. Meanwhile, Taiwan's opposition-controlled parliament has stalled attempts by its government to pass a USD 40 billion special defence budget, expected to fund arms deals with the United States and the development of Taiwan's indigenous defence industry. China claims the self-ruled island as its own territory and has not excluded the use of force to take it. Beijing has been ramping up its military pressure against the island by sending warplanes and naval vessels near it almost daily, while its military occasionally stages live-fire drills around the island, the latest in December. Th