XING Mobility announced it will showcase advancements in electric vehicles (EVs), energy storage systems, and AI data center backup batteries at the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2026) in the US. The presentation will focus on a decade of development in immersive cooling technology.

ByteDance is preparing to raise its capex to CNY160 billion (approx. US$22.70 billion) in 2026, allocating over half of this amount, CNY85 billion, towards purchasing artificial intelligence chip processors, according to sources cited by the Financial Times. The planned increase from CNY150 billion in 2025 reflects ByteDance's intensified emphasis on AI development.

Chinsan, a Taiwanese aluminum capacitor manufacturer, held an in-person investor briefing on December 22, 2025. General manager Ching-Hsin Chiang said that growth momentum in the first half of 2026 will be driven mainly by the cloud and server markets, which are expected to show strong positive trends extending into 2027. In contrast, consumer electronics, industrial automation, and new energy sectors are forecasted to remain flat or slow down.

Tech giants, including OpenAI, Meta Platforms, and Anthropic PBC, are sparking intense competition for artificial intelligence (AI) talent. Google, in particular, has turned to rehiring former employees to strengthen its workforce. Internal data cited by CNBC shows that about 20% of AI software engineers hired by Google in 2025 are returning employees, a significant increase from previous years.

Taiwan's major automation equipment controller maker Syntec Technology has begun construction of its second-phase factory in Malaysia, representing a strategic investment of over NT$600 million (approx. US$19 million). The new facility aims to serve as the firm's key overseas manufacturing and operation hub, supporting markets including India, Turkey, ASEAN, and the US.

Alphabet has agreed to acquire Intersect, a provider of data center and energy infrastructure solutions, in a cash deal valued at US$4.75 billion plus the assumption of debt, the company said on December 22, 2025. The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2026, subject to customary regulatory and closing conditions.

The South Korean government will pursue a dual-track strategy to become one of the world's top three AI powers, advancing both upgrades to domestically produced neural processing units (NPU) and support for advanced graphics processing units (GPU), while also accelerating the development of 6G networks.

Competition in the GPU industry ultimately comes down to developer ecosystems. Against that backdrop, Moore Threads' inaugural MUSA Developer Conference (MDC 2025) on December 20-21 marked a clear pivot away from headline benchmarks toward ecosystem depth.

Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, better known as Foxconn, is rapidly expanding its manufacturing footprint in India, hiring tens of thousands of workers at a new iPhone plant near Bengaluru and laying the groundwork for what sources familiar with the project describe as a factory-city model similar to those it previously built in China, according to the Economic Times.

QNAP Systems officially listed on Taiwan's over-the-counter stock exchange on December 22, 2025, but faced reports of a suspected hacker intrusion on its first day. The company quickly clarified that the incident stemmed from maintenance negligence involving a single user device and was not due to any systemic security vulnerability in its myQNAPcloud service platform.

Nvidia is reportedly planning to resume shipments of its second-most powerful artificial intelligence chips to China before the Lunar New Year holiday in mid-February, underscoring how the US chipmaker is navigating shifting export controls while testing the limits of political approval in Washington and Beijing.