Taiwan's government will soon look at whether it needs to help its domestic industry over threats by U.S. President Donald Trump to put tariffs on semiconductors, Premier Cho Jung-tai said on Wednesday.

Donald Trump called for tariffs on foreign computer chips, semiconductors, and pharmaceuticals from places like Taiwan in the near future.

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Taiwan will consider supporting its domestic industry the government said Wednesday, after US President Donald Trump warned he will soon place tariffs on overseas-made semiconductor chips. Speaking at a Republican congressional retreat in Miami on Monday,

Hours after Donald Trump’s chilly inauguration in Washington, Taiwan’s parliament voted to freeze billions of dollars in defense spending, in a move some worry could frustrate the famously transactional president,

The semiconductor business between Taiwan and the United States is mutually beneficial, with Taiwan being a critical player in the global technology supply chain. Despite tariff threats from Donald Trump,

If $2,000 for Nvidia's toasty new RTX 5090 graphics card feels a little steep, things might be about to get a whole lot more expensive. Speaking to Republicans at a conference in Miami on Monday, President Trump threatened to impose up to 100% tariffs on chips from Taiwan.

Another U.S.-aligned democracy in Asia is mired in political gridlock, with Taiwan’s opposition challenging defense spending aimed at fending off China.

That means Mr. Liang had a cornucopia of technical talent at his disposal, all galvanized by the challenge of doing AI without violating U.S. restrictions on the memory bandwidth of their Nvidia graphics processing units.

China shocked the West with its announcement of DeepSeek, an artificial intelligence network capable of competing with OpenAI, Meta and Google.

When Marco Rubio arrives in Latin America this weekend on his first foreign trip as Donald Trump's secretary of state, he'll find a region reeling from the new administration's shock-and-awe approach to diplomacy.