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NEWS TAGGED EAST ASIA

Monday 25 May 2026

Huawei bypasses 3D NAND limits with 122TB AI SSD packaging breakthrough

Huawei is using self-developed packaging technology to build ultra-high-capacity enterprise SSDs, underscoring how Chinese technology companies...

Monday 25 May 2026

DeepSeek makes 75% API discount permanent, intensifying global AI price war

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has permanently reduced the API pricing of its flagship DeepSeek-V4-Pro model to one-quarter of its original...

Monday 25 May 2026

Exclusive: G2 Lithium battery rivalry heats up—US taps 4th-gen LFP to crack China's patent wall

The US is shifting from ternary batteries used in electric vehicles (EVs) toward lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries for both energy storage and automotive applications. This is...

Monday 25 May 2026

Analysis: Lisa Su moves on China — and Nvidia's CUDA moat

For AMD CEO Lisa Su, the current moment presents an opening that Nvidia does not have. Nvidia's high-end chips have repeatedly faced scrutiny and export restrictions in China, and...

Monday 25 May 2026

Weekly news roundup: TSMC faces its first real rivals; Agibot claims 100% success rate in factory deployment

Below are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories from the week of May 18-24, 2026:

Monday 25 May 2026

Huawei targets AI optical networking with InP chip startup investment

Huawei is expanding deeper into AI optical networking and silicon photonics (SiPh) through a new investment in an indium phosphide (InP) optical chip startup, as rising AI data center...

Monday 25 May 2026

Manus eyes US$1 billion buyback after Beijing blocks Meta deal

Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup Manus is reportedly evaluating a US$1 billion fundraising round to buy back control of the company from Meta Platforms, in response to...

Monday 25 May 2026

Samsung Electro-Mechanics secures large silicon capacitor supply contract

Samsung Electro-Mechanics (Semco)'s KRW1.5 trillion (approx. US$990 million) silicon capacitor supply contract with a major global company could reshape component supply for AI servers,...

Monday 25 May 2026

China's EV price war gives way to rising costs

China's electric-vehicle market is entering an unfamiliar phase: cars are getting more expensive.

Monday 25 May 2026

Samsung's China exit shows Korean brands under pressure

Samsung Electronics' retreat from China's TV and home-appliance market is raising broader questions for South Korean industry, as Chinese...

Monday 25 May 2026

AI server boom lifts memory interface chip leader, but DDR5 risks linger

Montage Technology, a company that does not manufacture memory chips itself but instead supplies the interface chips linking CPUs and memory, has quietly emerged as one of the semiconductor...

Sunday 24 May 2026

China smartphone sales plunge 16% around May Day holidays as memory price hikes squeeze demand

China's smartphone sales fell 16% year‑over‑year during the two weeks surrounding the 2026 May Day holiday, a drop that signals wider implications for global supply chains...

Sunday 24 May 2026

Geopolitics disrupts chips — can Taiwan and South Korea cooperate to hold the line?

The global semiconductor industry is being pulled in two directions. On one side, the cost of building a single advanced chip factory has ballooned to as much as US$40 billion, concentrating...

Sunday 24 May 2026

AI server boom squeezes Samsung Electro-Mechanics' component supply

Samsung Electro-Mechanics is emerging as another beneficiary of the AI data center buildout, as demand for high-end capacitors and package...

Saturday 23 May 2026

SK Hynix weighs opening Seoul office at SK Group headquarters

SK Hynix is reportedly considering opening a Seoul office and sales operation inside SK Group's Seorin Building in Jongno, Seoul, a symbolic...

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