The Commerce Development Administration of the Ministry of Economic Affairs released the 2026 Commercial Services Yearbook: 2025 service sector GDP reached NT$15.60 trillion, up 3.57% year-on-year, with AI adoption rising to 35.8%, focusing on smart transformation and sustainable business opportunities.
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The inaugural Taiwan Coffee International Auction Invitational concluded on the M-Cultivo platform, with over 144 domestic and international buyers placing 2,217 bids, total transactions exceeding 490萬元, average price over 6,000元 setting a new Taiwan record, and champion Xiangyang fetching nearly 14,000元 per kilogram.
SEMICON West 2026 concluded in San Francisco, with SEMI hosting its first Taiwan Supply Chain Forum. Industry, government, and business representatives from Taiwan and the U.S. gathered to focus on cooperation across five key areas, affirming Taiwan as a trusted partner and deepening supply chain resilience.
TSMC Vice President of Business Development Yuan Liben suggested at the TSIA annual meeting a shift to early-stage co-design, promoting a shared experimental platform and building a national-level AI talent pool, to address hundred-fold computing power growth and large-scale deployment challenges and help Taiwan become a global AI neural hub.
At its 30th anniversary annual meeting, the Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association estimated this year's output at 9.1 trillion, up 40% year-on-year. Chairman Yung-Ching Hou stressed stable power supply is the industry's lifeline, supporting restarting nuclear power evaluation under compliant and safe conditions to meet massive AI power demand and continued fab expansion needs.
The Ministry of Economic Affairs said on the 28th that with U.S. Section 232 tariffs settled, wait-and-see sentiment has dissipated and fastener orders have stabilized, with this year outperforming last year and second-quarter output returning to the 400億元 level. The government will continue to support upgrading and transformation.
Amway and Videoland's WULI Showdown reaches its Episode 4 music-control finale, testing improvisation with blind-box music for the episode MVP and four-episode overall championship, while warming up for the Amway Cup world competition on November 1 and igniting the ultimate showdown
Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital Tainan Branch held a Veterans Day celebration and agricultural specialty product fair on the 27th, inviting the Veterans Affairs Council's five major farms to exhibit high-mountain tea, organic rice and other specialty products, paying tribute to veterans and conveying health care, with lively on-site interaction, combining medical care concepts to safeguard health.
The FSC announced insurance industry pre-tax profit for the first 9 months was 3977 hundred million yuan, with life insurance accounting for 3523 hundred million yuan and non-life insurance 454 hundred million yuan. Life insurers' four FX reserve buckets totaled 1 trillion 1109 hundred million yuan, which under an extreme scenario can cushion 11.9% NT dollar appreciation, defending to 28.05.