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Thursday 29 January 2026
Vivo exits smart glasses race, citing three insurmountable obstacles
After preparing for half a year, China-based smartphone maker Vivo has reportedly decided to terminate its AI glasses project. Its exit was not due to a lack of technical capability,...
Thursday 29 January 2026
Column: How chip value spillover is redefining Taiwan's economic and industrial trajectory
I describe the close integration of Taiwan's semiconductor and electronics industries as the spillover of chip economic value. In earlier phases of the industry, economic value creation...
Thursday 29 January 2026
Why can't tech giants escape China's smartphone production grip?
Global technology companies, including Google, are increasingly shifting new product introduction (NPI) stages away from China to reduce geopolitical risks, with recent reports indicating...
Wednesday 28 January 2026
Phison's Pascari SSDs power world's first lunar data center, set new reliability benchmark
Taiwan's leading NAND controller and storage solution provider, Phison Electronics Corp., recently announced that its enterprise SSD brand Pascari has partnered with US space data...
Wednesday 28 January 2026
Beijing greenlights Nvidia H200 shipments to ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent

China has approved purchases of Nvidia’s H200 artificial intelligence chips by ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent, four people familiar...

Wednesday 28 January 2026
Anthropic targets OpenAI with bigger revenue goals—compute costs stand in the way
Anthropic is aiming to narrow the gap with rival OpenAI as it boosts its revenue forecasts for the coming years. According to The Information, the company has raised its internal...
Wednesday 28 January 2026
SoftBank in talks to invest additional US$30 billion in OpenAI
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), citing informed sources, reported that SoftBank Group is negotiating a new investment with OpenAI, potentially reaching up to US$30 billion,...
Wednesday 28 January 2026
Musk plans to cut AI chip design cycle to 9 months
Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted on X that the AI5 chip design is "almost done and AI6 is in early stages," with AI7, AI8, and AI9 "aiming for a 9-month design cycle." Musk stated that the...
Wednesday 28 January 2026
Mouser Electronics expands manufacturer lineup with 63 new partners in 2025
Mouser Electronics, a global authorized distributor of electronic components and industrial automation products, added 63 new manufacturers to its line card in 2025, further increasing...
Wednesday 28 January 2026
Corning signs up to US$6 billion supply agreement with Meta for US data center expansion
Corning and Meta Platforms have agreed to a multiyear deal valued at up to US$6 billion to supply optical fiber, cable, and connectivity solutions for Meta's US data center expansion...
Wednesday 28 January 2026
Lightmatter leverages Taiwan ecosystem to bridge the gap between photonics prototypes and production
Lightmatter is hosting its Tech Day in Taiwan on January 28, 2026, following the announcement of strategic partnerships with Global Unichip Corp. (GUC), Cadence Design Systems, and...
Wednesday 28 January 2026
Post-CES 2026: China leads humanoids, South Korea rivals the US
Humanoid robots are the next frontier of embodied intelligence, and CES 2026 was proof that Chinese companies are in the lead. Among the 38 humanoid robot companies that exhibited...
Wednesday 28 January 2026
Jensen Huang prioritizes 'empty chairs' over wrong hires; says Nvidia holds bench of 60 potential CEOs
"There will never be one like me," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang proclaimed recently in an interview, a bold assertion of his singular journey from novice founder to titan of the AI revo...
Wednesday 28 January 2026
TI sees uneven recovery: Industrial rebuilds and data center booms, but consumer electronics fade
Texas Instruments' latest commentary during its Q4 2025 earnings call on January 27, 2026, shows a company increasingly shaped by industrial, automotive, and data center demand, even...
Wednesday 28 January 2026
Taiwan-US tariff resolution to boost machine tool industry, signaling structural recovery and growth
Following the resolution of tariffs between Taiwan and the US, market concerns are expected to ease, leading to clearer procurement signals from end users and fostering optimism that...