In comments last month, US President Donald Trump hit out at Taiwan, once again accusing Taiwan of stealing the American semiconductor industry. This time around, however, Trump went on to state that he would place tariffs on Taiwan of up to 100%, with a focus on semiconductor manufacturing giant TSMC...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company recently won a $6.6 billion grant from the US Department of Commerce to subsidize the construction of three semiconductor manufacturing fabrication plants in Phoenix, Arizona. The total package could come to $11.6 billion, inclusive of loans. This is the largest cash grant the US has awarded a foreign company and the largest single greenfield project by a foreign company in US history...
TSMC announced late last month that it would no longer be considering Longtan as a possible location for fab construction. This took place after the company–the major Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturing giant–previously considered building facilities in the Longtan Science Park...
Recent comments by US House of Representatives member Seth Moulton suggested that the US should destroy TSMC facilities in the event of a Chinese invasion. Moulton’s comments were later seized on, mostly by pan-Blue media, to suggest the unreliability of the US as an ally. Since then, Moulton has claimed that the comments were selectively clipped...
Plans to build what will be Taiwan’s largest energy storage facility led to protests earlier this month from local residents, given concerns about safety...
Over 10,000 have signed a petition against plans to construct a 1.2 gigawatt gas power station in Annan District, which is located in Tainan. Plans to construct the gas power station are to power a TSMC fab that the semiconductors manufacturing giant hopes to build in nearby Anding District. Plans for the fab were first announced in 2017...
Controversy has erupted in Taiwan over the construction of TSMC factories in the US. It is claimed that, as part of this controversy, this represents the company shifting operations to the US away from Taiwan and this represents the abandonment of Taiwan....
It seems that articles that treat Taiwan as a geopolitical chess piece–with no agency of its own–are a dime a dozen these days. The latest example may be a piece in the Asia Times by Gabriel Honrada, which touts dramatically in its headline that the “US mulls scorched earth strategy for Taiwan...
TTY Biopharm is currently under investigation for insider trading, with 26 company officials held by authorities, and close to thirty locations raided. Among those detained was Robbin Shih, the company’s general manager. Top executives were released on two to three million NT bail, with fifteen of those detained requiring bail...