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Monday 7 July 2025
Taiwan IPC makers bet on AI agents to drive edge computing boom
Taiwan's industrial PC manufacturers see AI agents as the catalyst for widespread AI adoption, expecting the application market to expand significantly over the next two years as...
Monday 7 July 2025
Xiaomi's 'toys for grown-ups' strategy fuels hype for YU7 EV, smart glasses
Xiaomi's latest breakout products, the YU7 electric vehicle and AI-powered smart glasses, are making waves not just for their functionality, but for how they're being positioned and...
Monday 7 July 2025
Huawei rejects allegations that its Pangu AI model copied Alibaba's Qwen
Huawei has pushed back against claims that its newly open-sourced Pangu Pro MoE 72B model plagiarized Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen (Qwen-2.5 14B), after a technical analysis flagged unusually...
Monday 7 July 2025
Talent crunch in Vietnam puts Luxshare's investment plans in limbo
Apple supplier Luxshare-ICT (also known as Luxshare Precision) has called on the Vietnamese government to address ongoing skilled labor shortages and bureaucratic inefficiencies in...
Monday 7 July 2025
'Taiwan Tongues' initiative launches to amplify Taiwan's linguistic voice in global AI models
On July 4, the Taipei-based Information Management Association (IMA) announced the launch of the "Taiwan Tongues" project, a major initiative to build an open, high-quality AI corpus...
Monday 7 July 2025
Integrating elite hires poses challenge for Meta's AI reboot
Meta Platforms has announced the formation of Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), aiming to challenge rivals in the artificial intelligence sector through a substantial recruitment...
Monday 7 July 2025
Intumit sees growth in Japan, eyes SEA amid AI expansion push
As artificial intelligence (AI) providers increasingly offer free tools, Intumit highlights enterprises' preference for secure, comprehensive solutions over open-source variants....
Monday 7 July 2025
STSP avoids typhoon damage, HannStar suffers fire incident
Typhoon Danas made landfall in Chiayi on the evening of July 6, 2025, marking the first typhoon to hit Chiayi in over a century. The Yunlin, Chiayi, and Tainan regions experienced...
Monday 7 July 2025
Taiwan energy startup eyes AI-powered grid solutions as power demand surges
Energy AIoT startup Thingnario is positioning Taiwan to capitalize on surging electricity demand from generative AI while meeting net-zero targets, bringing together industry and...
Monday 7 July 2025
Lutnick says Trump's tariffs will take effect on August 1
US President Donald Trump's country-by-country tariffs will take effect August 1, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said, signaling some breathing room for US trading partners...
Monday 7 July 2025
Weekly news roundup: Samsung secures patents, Intel leadership shakeup, Apple foldable prototype
Below are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories from June 30 to July 6, 2025. This week's highlights include Samsung's strategic licensing of Intel patents to avoid global...
Monday 7 July 2025
Foxconn sees year-over-year June growth, hit by currency woes
Foxconn's June 2025 revenue rose 10.09% year-over-year to NT$540.24 billion (approx. US$18.62 billion), driven by strong AI cloud demand, but fell 12.26% from May due to currency...
Monday 7 July 2025
China trains AI natives as it closes the algorithm gap with the US
As global competition in artificial intelligence (AI) intensifies, the US-China rivalry has expanded beyond chips and models to include the competition for talent and education int...
Monday 7 July 2025
Malaysia's electricity tariff hike prompts data center cost reassessments
Malaysia has revised its electricity tariff structure, resulting in a sharper-than-expected rise in power costs that is prompting data center operators to reassess their expenses...
Monday 7 July 2025
Oracle emerges as key AI cloud partner in hyperscaler data center boom
By the first quarter of 2025, hyperscalers operated 1,189 data centers, representing 44% of global data center capacity, according to Synergy Research Group. This share is expected...