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Air Liquide opens Taiwan factory as helium shortage tightens around chip makers — 200 specialized helium containers stranded near the Strait of Hormuz (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-27 | by Luke James | get Helium Gas Tank Set → | tags: air liquide, taiwan factory, helium shortage

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City Officials Forced This Restaurant to Remove Its ‘Stinky’ Signature Dish. Now It’s Fighting Back. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-03-25 | by Jonathan Small | tags: stinky tofu, san gabriel, golden leaf

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Grab to buy Foodpanda Taiwan from Delivery Hero for $600 million (techcrunch.com)

2026-03-23 | by Kate Park | get Foodpanda Taiwan Delivery Pack → | tags: foodpanda, grab, delivery hero

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US trade deficit hits a record $1.2 trillion as AI hardware imports surge under the Trump administration — massive demand for chips from Asia outpaces domestic production, fueling a 60% increase in imports in 12 months (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-19 | by Ben Stockton | get AI Chip Development Kit → | tags: ai hardware, semiconductors, taiwan

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Meta rolls out in-house AI chips weeks after massive Nvidia, AMD deals (cnbc.com)

2026-03-11 | by Katie Tarasov Jonathan Vanian | get Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 → | tags: meta, hyperion data center, mtia chips

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Salt Typhoon is hacking the world’s phone and internet giants — here’s everywhere that’s been hit (techcrunch.com)

2026-03-09 | by Zack Whittaker | get Smartphone → | tags: salt typhoon, cisco routers, taiwan invasion

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Salt Typhoon is hacking the world’s phone and internet giants. Here’s everywhere that’s been hit. (techcrunch.com)

2026-03-09 | by Zack Whittaker | get Smartphone → | tags: cisco routers, salt typhoon, taiwan invasion

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TSMC considers an additional $100 billion investment into Arizona fabs to bolster American chipmaking efforts — move would help TSMC's chips avoid tariffs due to local production (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-16 | by Anton Shilov | get Chipmaking → | tags: billion, capacity, taiwan

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U.S., Taiwan ink trade deal after months of talks — agreement cuts tariffs on Taiwanese goods to 15% in exchange for direct investments on U.S. tech sector, semiconductors still excluded (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-13 | by Jowi Morales | get Smartphone → | tags: billion, deal, finally

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U.S. signs trade deal with Taiwan, lowering tariffs to 15%, while Taipei to boost American goods purchases (cnbc.com)

2026-02-13 | by Lim Hui Jie | get Smartphone → | tags: defense, island, semiconductor

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The fascinating history of the century-old sport of ‘buildering’ (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-30 | get I cannot provide information on a non-existent sport called → | tags: alex, alex honnold, architecture

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Nvidia CEO denies that US wants to shift 40% of Taiwan's chipmaking capacity to America — Jensen Huang says onshoring is all new capacity, will preserve island nation's silicon shield (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-29 | by Anton Shilov | get Silicon Shield → | tags: chinese, huang, nvidia

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Taiwan VP declares that U.S. deal won’t erode island’s chip industry — says Section 232 tariffs won't apply, ‘the U.S. will grant Taiwan the most favorable treatment: zero tariffs within the quota’ (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-20 | by Jowi Morales | get Semiconductor → | tags: billion, future, island

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CNBC Daily Open: AI trade reignited by TSMC earnings blowout (cnbc.com)

2026-01-16 | by Yeo Boon Ping | get Smartphone → | tags: announced, cnbc, semiconductor

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TSMC is set to expand its $165 billion U.S. investment — here’s what we know (cnbc.com)

2026-01-16 | by Dylan Butts Emily Tan | get Smartphone → | tags: arizona, chief, manufacturing

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CNBC Daily Open: TSMC earnings draw investors' eyes back to AI (cnbc.com)

2026-01-16 | by Yeo Boon Ping | get Smartphone → | tags: european, markets, profit

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Taiwan Pledges $250 Billion in U.S. Spending in Exchange for Lower Tariffs (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-01-15 | get Nuclear Reactors → | tags: add new, agreement, agreement taiwan

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Taiwan will invest $250 billion in U.S. chipmaking under new trade deal (cnbc.com)

2026-01-15 | by Kif Leswing | get Semiconductors → | tags: agreement, building, capacity

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The US claims it just strongarmed Taiwan into spending $250 billion on American chip manufacturing (theverge.com)

2026-01-15 | by Emma Roth | get Microchip → | tags: billion, chipmaking, percent

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Taiwan Issues Arrest Warrant for OnePlus CEO in Crackdown on Tech Talent Poaching (gizmodo.com)

2026-01-14 | get Smartphone → | tags: allege, allege pete, approval

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OnePlus CEO faces arrest warrant in Taiwan amid major probe (androidauthority.com)

2026-01-14 | get Smartphone → | tags: bloomberg, china, oneplus

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TSMC chipmaking factories rocked by magnitude 7.0 earthquake that was the strongest in 27 years, but facilities escaped unharmed — company's earthquake protection measures pay off (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-28 | by Bruno Ferreira | get Chipmaker → | tags: damage, earthquake, safety

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Nvidia partner Foxconn reports 26% revenue spike as AI boom continues (cnbc.com)

2025-12-05 | by Kai Nicol-Schwarz | get Graphics Card → | tags: apple, foxconn, infrastructure

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Taiwan bans Chinese social media app RedNote for one year on fraud risks (cnbc.com)

2025-12-05 | by Lim Hui Jie | get RedNote → | tags: million, ministry, ministry said

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Taiwan hits Japanese firm with indictment in TSMC data theft saga — Tokyo Electron charged with failing to prevent its staff from stealing trade secrets (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-02 | by Jon Martindale | get TSMC → | tags: electron, prosecutors, taiwan

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Intel says star hire from TSMC didn’t steal secrets (theverge.com)

2025-11-27 | by Dominic Preston | get Intel Core → | tags: intel, secrets, taiwanese

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M5 Vision Pro goes on sale in two more countries as gradual global rollout continues (9to5mac.com)

2025-11-20 | by Ben Lovejoy | get Smartwatch → | tags: apple, hours, korea

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Taiwan to spend $3 billion turning nation into 'AI island', targets top five global compute power — new goals threatened by energy shortfalls (tomshardware.com)

2025-11-18 | by Luke James | get Artificial Intelligence Island → | tags: billion, kaohsiung, nvidia

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Taiwan to up defense spending and develop Iron Dome-inspired missile protection — expert warns one well-placed Chinese missile could make it 'impossible to get a new iPhone for three years' (tomshardware.com)

2025-11-13 | by Jowi Morales | get Iron Dome → | tags: china, production, science

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Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up (techspot.com)

2025-11-10 | get Solid State Drives → | tags: according taiwan, ai firms, based drives