Taipei Times

The Taipei Times is Taiwan's sole daily English-language newspaper and the third one ever created in the country. It faces online competition from The China Post, Focus Taiwan, and Taiwan News. Launched on June 15, 1999, the Taipei Times is produced by the Liberty Times Group, which also publishes the Liberty Times. The Liberty Times is Taiwan's largest newspaper by circulation and supports a pro-Taiwan independence viewpoint.

National

English

Newspaper

Outlet metrics

Domain Authority

Ranking

Global

#91915

Taiwan

#2630

News and Media

#134

Traffic sources

Monthly visitors

Articles

Big Tech is green power’s best defense against Republican party

2 days ago | taipeitimes.com | Liam Denning

By Liam Denning / Bloomberg Opinion Under attack from US President Donald Trump, the cause of greening the US’ power grid now relies to a large degree on some of his most recent converts in Silicon Valley. This has nothing to do with politics; rather wealth, scale and urgent need are working together to advance renewable energy and nuclear power, albeit in different ways. The Trump tax bill working its way through the US Congress is a huge blow to renewables.
China Steel slashing domestic prices

3 days ago | taipeitimes.com | Lisa Wang

By Lisa Wang / Staff reporter China Steel Corp (中鋼), Taiwan’s biggest steelmaker, is slashing steel prices for domestic deliveries next month and lowering prices for most products for deliveries next quarter as the global steel industry is entering a short-term correction due to precarious US tariff policies and the slack season effect. The Kaohsiung-based company in a statement released on Thursday said that it is cutting prices of domestic deliveries by NT$600 per tonne next month.
GPTC gives bullish outlook for the year

4 days ago | taipeitimes.com | Lisa Wang

By Lisa Wang / Staff Reporter, in Hsinchu County Grand Process Technology Corp (GPTC, 弘塑科技), an advanced chip packaging equipment supplier, yesterday gave a bullish outlook for this year, saying it expects revenue to grow to a record high thanks to increasing customer demand amid new capacity expansion plans.
Not all ports are a national security threat

4 days ago | taipeitimes.com | Karishma Vaswani

By Karishma Vaswani / Bloomberg Opinion Australia’s northernmost maritime gateway has become a lightning rod for the fragile relationship between the US and China — but while national security concerns are warranted for many of the ports that Beijing controls or owns, this is hardly the one to worry about. US President Donald Trump’s trade war has meant that almost everything to do with China is now viewed through the lens of geopolitics.
Nanya, Winbond shares rise as DDR4 prices surge

5 days ago | taipeitimes.com | Lisa Wang

By Lisa Wang / Staff reporter DRAM chipmakers Nanya Technology Corp (南亞科技) and Winbond Electronics Corp (華邦電子) saw shares rally more than 4 percent yesterday after DDR4 DRAM prices surged about 6 percent on average. Supply of DDR4 and low-power DDR4 DRAM chips has been dwindling as major global players have been shifting to high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips or advanced DDR5 DRAM chips amid the artificial intelligence (AI) boom.
The big idea: should we embrace boredom?

5 days ago | taipeitimes.com | Sophie McBain

By Sophie McBain / The Guardian In 2014, a group of researchers from Harvard University and the University of Virginia asked people to sit alone with their thoughts for 15 minutes. The only available diversion was a button that delivered a painful electric shock. Almost half of the participants pressed it.
Taiwan seals deal to buy military drone software

6 days ago | taipeitimes.com | Ann Wang

‘COMBAT-PROVEN’: Auterion touted the success of its software in drones used by Ukraine to destroy tanks, naval assets and ‘other really expensive equipment’ By Ann Wang / Reuters Taiwan yesterday sealed a partnership deal with US and German-based Auterion for drone software battle-tested in Ukraine to help bolster its defenses against growing military threats from China.
MA-tek sees surge in testing demand

6 days ago | taipeitimes.com | Lisa Wang

EXPANSION: MA-tek is scaling up ultra-high-power burn-in testing and 2-nanometer chip analysis with NT$100 million in new equipment, chairwoman Hsieh Yong-fen said By Lisa Wang / Staff reporter Materials Analysis Technology Inc (MA-tek, 閎康) yesterday said it is experiencing strong demand for its advanced burn-in testing services from leading global artificial intelligence (AI) chip developers, including Nvidia Corp.
US rethink on Australian subs is win for China

6 days ago | taipeitimes.com | Karishma Vaswani

By Karishma Vaswani / Bloomberg Opinion The White House’s review of the AUKUS pact — a security arrangement between the US, the UK and Australia — is rattling one of Washington’s closest alliances and playing right into China’s hands. It sends yet another signal that “America first” might just mean everyone else alone.
Huawei’s AI chips are nearing a tipping point

1 week ago | taipeitimes.com | Catherine Thorbecke

By Catherine Thorbecke / Bloomberg Opinion It might seem like odd messaging from a tech chief, but Huawei Technologies Co founder Ren Zhengfei (任正非) said that the US has “exaggerated” his company’s chip achievements, which “still lag behind the US’ by a generation.”When it comes to the race for the hardware needed to support artificial intelligence (AI), his company “isn’t that powerful yet,” Ren said in a lengthy front-page interview with the People’s Daily last week.