Sharp President and CEO Tetsuji Kawamura said the company has eased some long-standing management pressures, but its main challenge now is to expand its brand, develop new businesses, and accelerate globalization simultaneously. He outlined the strategy in an interview with DIGITIMES.

The building where Saeed Amidi runs his global venture empire was once one of the most important semiconductor facilities on the West Coast. Philips Electronics operated a fabrication plant here in Sunnyvale, California, employing 8,000 people at its peak. Then, like much of America's chip manufacturing base, it moved to Asia — to Taiwan, to Korea, to the supply chains that would come to define the global electronics industry for the next three decades.

Geopolitics and price are reshaping who builds the world's AI infrastructure. Across emerging markets in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America, governments and enterprises are increasingly turning to Chinese server makers as an affordable alternative to US-dominated tech ecosystems — driven partly by budget constraints and partly by a deliberate push to avoid dependence on any single power.

The Ukraine War and ongoing tensions in the Middle East have exposed a technological revolution reshaping modern warfare: the rise of cheap drones. These developments, along with AI-powered decision-making and the growing importance of resilient supply chains, are increasingly occupying the minds of military strategists — from great powers to smaller upstarts.

Governments are losing the race against AI. That is the blunt assessment of Nicole Quinn, vice president of policy and government affairs for Asia-Pacific at Palo Alto Networks. Policy moves too slowly, she argues, and overly rigid rules only make things worse.

The global mobile standards race has moved into the 6G prelude, with Ericsson saying the first fully implementable 6G specification is expected as early as March 2029. In an exclusive interview with DIGITIMES, Marie Hogan, who leads the 6G portfolio strategy for Ericsson's global networks business, said 3GPP is pushing ahead with 6G standardization as the industry weighs the technology's AI-native design, uplink demands, and migration path from 5G.

As the semiconductor industry grapples with the growing energy demands of artificial intelligence, Cyient Semiconductors is repositioning itself away from being a primarily semiconductor engineering and ASIC services provider and toward a more product-oriented hybrid model centered on intelligent power and proprietary semiconductor products.