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Tuesday 31 March 2026
Flex to acquire Electrical Power Products for US$1.1 billion
Flex said it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Electrical Power Products (EP2), a specialist in engineered-to-order electrical control and protection systems, as it expands...
Tuesday 31 March 2026
Memory chip shortage drives surge in China's used phone chip market
The used mobile phone recycling market in China has recently heated up, with even non-functional old phones being collected at significantly higher prices than before. This surge is...
Tuesday 31 March 2026
MediaTek and Airoha deepen telecom open-source platform to challenge Broadcom, Qualcomm in edge AI
Airoha announced on March 30, 2026, that it has expanded the adoption of open-source systems in networking communications, becoming the world's first fiber broadband chip platform...
Tuesday 31 March 2026
Top 10 chart: Taiwan's AI winners diverge as market corrects ahead of lagging revenue data

By late March, Taiwan's equity market is offering a more nuanced read of the AI infrastructure boom. While accumulated revenue and year-over-year...

Tuesday 31 March 2026
Memory shortage persists as AI-era supply-demand imbalance deepens
Global memory chip shortages have shifted industry focus from price competition to securing supply, driven by explosive demand for AI servers. Advanced production capacity is being...
Tuesday 31 March 2026
South Korea invests US$166 million in chip startup Rebellions

South Korea has approved a KRW250 billion (approx. US$166 million) investment in local artificial intelligence (AI) chip startup Rebellions,...

Tuesday 31 March 2026
Huawei poaches top scientist as Germany's tenure rules drive talent away
Huawei has recruited a leading scientist from a German research institute, raising concerns among the German government and academic circles. According to Nikkei Asia, Martin...
Tuesday 31 March 2026
Samsung faces 17,700-worker strike as DS division talks collapse
Samsung Electronics is embroiled in a deepening labor dispute after intensive negotiations between management and workers — which began on March 26, 2026 — broke down without...
Tuesday 31 March 2026
DDI price hikes mainly aim to pass on costs, not boost profits
The recent surge in display driver IC (DDI) price hikes has spread from China to Taiwan, with reports indicating that Taiwanese DDI design firms will begin raising prices starting...
Tuesday 31 March 2026
Commentary: AI drives global tech layoffs, but Intel, QNAP, and Realtek tell different stories

Generative AI is moving from concept to commercial deployment, reshaping the global technology supply chain. It is shifting from a productivity...

Tuesday 31 March 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: Terafab funding questions emerge as CPU resurgence reshapes AI chip demand
On a recent podcast, DIGITIMES analyst Luke Lin spotlighted Elon Musk's Terafab as a retro IDM bet with major funding questions, while arguing CPUs are resurging in the AI era as inference...
Tuesday 31 March 2026
Taipower freezes electricity rates in Taiwan amid volatile fuel prices
Amid ongoing conflict in the Middle East, Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) convened an electricity price review committee on March 27. Taking into account the need to stabilize...
Tuesday 31 March 2026
Samsung, SK Hynix reportedly set for record profits as long-term contracts expand
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are expected to post record first-quarter profits as surging artificial intelligence demand drives memory prices higher, with suppliers pushing to...
Tuesday 31 March 2026
Jensen Huang unpacks what's behind TSMC's staying power
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently appeared on the popular Lex Fridman Podcast for a deep, over two-hour discussion covering AI scaling laws, compute and power bottlenecks,...
Tuesday 31 March 2026
China's analog chip price surge spreads, benefiting mature AI process assets
As global semiconductor supply chain prices continue to rise, China's analog chip industry is undergoing a structural shift. Several domestic players have recently raised product prices,...