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Monday 4 May 2026

Anthropic reportedly in talks with Fractile to buy inference chips amid AI compute crunch

Anthropic has been in talks with Fractile, a London-based startup, to purchase its inference chips for running its AI models more efficiently, as inferential AI tasks have pushed up...

Monday 4 May 2026

Meta acquires Assured Robot Intelligence to accelerate humanoid robotics push amid AI infrastructure shift

Meta Platforms has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI), a startup focused on AI models for humanoid robots, marking another step in the company's broader push into physical-world...

Monday 4 May 2026

AI's 1.6T shift turns InP into optical supply chain bottleneck

The transition from 800G to 1.6T optical modules is no longer an upgrade cycle — it is a physics-driven inflection point.

Monday 4 May 2026

Yageo's Pierre Chen says AI hardware boom is lifting passive component demand

Yageo chairman Pierre Chen said the rise of AI applications is driving stronger demand not only for advanced semiconductors and memory,...

Monday 4 May 2026

Weekly News Roundup: Terafab already affecting wafer fab landscape; Intel launches multi-year reset

Below are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories from the week of April 27-May 4, 2026:

Monday 4 May 2026

Apple's cash pivot: A new CEO and strategy for the AI arms race

In a landmark shift coinciding with its second quarter of fiscal 2026 results, Apple has announced that it will no longer maintain its formal "net cash neutral" target. This financial...

Monday 4 May 2026

Realtek sees PC revenue growth despite 2026 shipment decline

Realtek's projection of a sharp fall in full-year 2026 PC shipments amid tight memory supply signals wider device-market shifts: global brands are prioritizing mid- and high-end models...

Monday 4 May 2026

Foxconn shoots for the stars — and Starlink's playbook

Foxconn's Hon Hai Research Institute has launched its second-generation low-Earth-orbit satellites, PEARL-1A and PEARL-1B, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California aboard a SpaceX...

Monday 4 May 2026

Tata Electronics' rumored workforce expansion to 75,000 underscores rapid rise in Apple's supply chain

Tata Electronics has rapidly expanded its electronics manufacturing operations, emerging as one of Apple's most important contract manufacturers in India as the country strengthens...

Monday 4 May 2026

Asia Optical 1Q26 revenue, profit hit record highs on AI cooling and optics growth

Asia Optical reported its first-quarter 2026 financial results, posting consolidated revenue of NT$6.21 billion (approx. US$196.43 million), up 15% year-over-year. Gross profit rose...

Monday 4 May 2026

Delta Electronics posts record first-quarter revenue and margins as AI data center demand rises

Delta Electronics reported record consolidated revenue and profit in the first quarter, driven by stronger demand from cloud service providers and AI-related data center projects....

Monday 4 May 2026

Foxconn says Tucheng probe limited to employees and does not affect operations

Foxconn announced that a recent search at its Tucheng facility was focused on alleged misconduct by certain employees and did not have a material impact on the company's finances,...

Monday 4 May 2026

MIT Technology Review outlines 10 key AI trends shaping the future

In the fast-moving and often noisy world of AI, what truly merits attention? MIT Technology Review has long tracked the field's evolution to map its next directions. Their...

Monday 4 May 2026

India roundup: India accelerates AI, semiconductor, and manufacturing push with major investments and startup bets

India's technology ecosystem is seeing rapid expansion across AI infrastructure, semiconductors,...

Sunday 3 May 2026

Taiwan's Hsin-li Chemical to acquire up to 30% of golf equipment distributor Dacome in tender offer

Hsin-li Chemical, a subsidiary of Taiwan's Sun Yad Group, said it plans to launch an over-the-counter tender offer for shares of Dacome,...

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