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Tuesday 7 October 2025
US AI ambitions face blue-collar worker crisis
As the Trump administration enlists tech giants OpenAI, Oracle Corp., and Nvidia Corporation to develop AI infrastructure through Stargate data centers, concerns grow over labor shortages...
Tuesday 7 October 2025
Weekly news roundup: Intel and TSMC pour billions into Arizona; Memory chip prices soar, Hanmi expands to Singapore to support Micron
Below are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories from the week of September 29–October 5.
Tuesday 7 October 2025
Kolin pivots to small appliances as demographics reshape Taiwan market
Ever since Action Electronics acquired the Kolin brand and its service system in 2012, chairwoman Ting-yu Peng has noted a fundamental change in Taiwan's major appliance market. Kolin...
Tuesday 7 October 2025
Taiwan PCB posts record 1H25 output, TPCA projects 12% annual growth
According to the Taiwan Printed Circuit Association (TPCA), the PCB manufacturing output value of Taiwanese companies in the second quarter of 2025 reached NT$218.2 billion (US$7.2...
Monday 6 October 2025
India roundup: Number of Apple suppliers in India likely reaches 45
Despite bottlenecks, including culture, Taiwan-India bilateral ties are expanding. The number of Apple suppliers in India is likely to reach 45 amid production diversification.
Monday 6 October 2025
South Korea's physical AI drive hits data bottlenecks
With the AI training market firmly dominated by Nvidia and other global leaders, South Korea's AI semiconductor startups are turning their attention to inference as the next frontier...
Monday 6 October 2025
Indian state courts SK Hynix with investment proposal amid global expansion plans
The government of Andhra Pradesh is stepping up efforts to attract SK Hynix, one of the world's leading memory chipmakers, to establish a facility in India. According to The Deccan...
Monday 6 October 2025
Potential Intel-AMD partnership reshapes semiconductor landscape
US chip manufacturers Intel and AMD are negotiating foundry cooperation, which could bring structural changes to the global semiconductor industry. Besides potentially boosting Intel's...
Sunday 5 October 2025
Acer's Stan Shih and Pegatron's TH Tung urge Taiwan to focus on high-value services
Acer founder Stan Shih and Pegatron chairman TH Tung shared their perspectives on Taiwan's future role in the global market during an October 2 forum hosted by the Yu Chi-Chung Cultural...
Sunday 5 October 2025
PlayNitride bets on microLED tools to drive its next growth phase
PlayNitride is positioning its mass transfer process equipment as a key "microLED 3D printer" to accelerate mass production and expand applications beyond current panel customers...
Sunday 5 October 2025
V2X risk becoming Trojan horses in AI cyber arms race
As the automotive industry is transitioning from hardware manufacturing toward software-defined vehicles (SDVs), a digital war is also accelerating. The recent cyberattack on Jaguar...
Sunday 5 October 2025
AI data center surge tests connector makers on speed, power, and cooling
The global AI boom is driving a new wave of server and data center build-outs. With hyperscalers and chipmakers expanding compute infrastructure, data transmission is surging, and...
Friday 3 October 2025
Industrial clusters are key to Taiwan-US high-tech partnership
After returning to Taiwan, Executive Yuan Vice Premier Cheng Li-chun provided updates on the status of Taiwan-US economic and trade negotiations, particularly addressing the contentious...
Friday 3 October 2025
India joins XR optics race with Kaynes-DigiLens waveguide line
Kaynes Technology has opened India's first waveguide manufacturing line in Mysuru in partnership with US-based DigiLens, placing the country in the global supply chain for extended...
Friday 3 October 2025
Taiwan pushes back on US '50-50 chip split' demand
Taiwan's Executive Yuan Vice Premier Cheng Li-chun highlighted on October 2, 2025, that the US's proposal for a "50-50 chip production split" between Taiwan and the US diverges from...