Rising AI startups, including OpenAI and Perplexity, have shown interest in acquiring the Google Chrome browser, with Perplexity offering US$34.5 billion. Yahoo has also expressed acquisition intentions. However, Google has not indicated any willingness to sell Chrome, despite ongoing antitrust pressures

Over the past five years, Huawei's drive to localize smartphone components has shifted from a crisis response into a calculated, strategic effort to build a self-reliant supply chain. With the Kirin 9030 set to debut in the Mate 80, the series is widely seen as a near-fully domestic flagship, a culmination of Huawei's transformation from relying on stopgaps to reshaping its position in the industry

Despite positive news that Nvidia and AMD's H20 and MI308 chips have received official approval from the US government to resume exports to China, this permission comes with an unprecedented condition: Nvidia must remit 15% of its sales revenue from these chips in the Chinese market back to the US government. This move immediately sparked uproar in Chinese public opinion

US President Donald Trump and Apple CEO Tim Cook held a press conference to announce upcoming semiconductor tariffs and Apple's new US$100 billion investment in the US, increasing their total investment to US$600 billion

As Taiwan races toward its 2030 goal of fully electrifying city buses and achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, the pressure on the domestic electric vehicle supply chain — especially battery manufacturers — is rapidly mounting

A recent incident involving employees from TSMC and Japan's Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL) has sparked a Taiwanese investigation into a possible breach of national security-level semiconductor technology. But beyond the headlines, a more pressing question emerges: was this an act of deliberate espionage, or a symptom of internal security complacency within one of the world's most advanced chipmakers

TSMC is dealing with a high-stakes internal security breach after several employees were dismissed over attempts to leak confidential information regarding its 2nm process technology, according to a report from Nikkei Asia

China's electronics manufacturing sector has surged over the past decade, driven by the Made in China 2025 (MIC2025) initiative and strong demand from global brands like Apple and Tesla. Domestic contract manufacturers, including Luxshare Precision, Lingyi iTech, and Lens Technology, have increasingly captured business once dominated by Taiwanese firms. Luxshare's rise, led by chairwoman and co-founder Wang Laichun, often called "the female Terry Gou," embodies China's transformation from basic assembly operations to full-system, high-value manufacturing

As product iteration cycles come increasingly under client control and the manufacturing technology gap narrows, competition among electronics manufacturers, including Foxconn, has intensified. The window of opportunity for exclusive or custom-designed products is shrinking, and this dynamic is now unfolding across the AI server integration market

AI data center chipmaker Astera Labs will showcase its next-gen interconnect technologies at this week's Open Compute Project (OCP) APAC event. In an exclusive interview with DIGITIMES, Chris Petersen, a fellow of Technology and Ecosystems at Astera Labs and UALink director, offers an in-depth analysis of high-speed interconnect prospects and UALink's key role in the cloud AI ecosystem

The Open Compute Project APAC Summit (OCP APAC) will officially open in Taipei in early August 2025. American IC design giant Broadcom, which holds a critical position in cloud AI application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and networking chips, is one of the event's key exhibitors

Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently made headlines with a large order placed with Samsung Foundry. Aside from the reported eight-year contract valued at US$16.5 billion, speculation about Samsung adopting 2nm process technology for this deal remains unconfirmed

Foxconn has formed a strategic alliance with Teco Electric and Machinery via a share swap, merging capabilities in ICT and electromechanical engineering. The collaboration targets the fast-growing global AI data center (AIDC) sector, focusing on standardized and modular infrastructure to accelerate deployments and capitalize on emerging opportunities

Samsung's major AI chip contract with Tesla has sparked heated discussions, with Elon Musk pledging to personally step in to help Samsung improve production efficiency while hinting at an even higher contract value

The strategic share swap between Foxconn and Teco Electric & Machinery Co., Ltd. marks a significant escalation in Taiwan's AI data center server industry. Traditionally focused on motherboard and rack assembly stages, Taiwanese firms are now aggressively expanding into L12 system integration, targeting rapid deployment solutions for AI data centers