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Friday 21 August 2026
Broadcom reportedly eyes up to US$100B debt financing to expand AI chip push
Broadcom is in talks with asset managers to raise more than US$60 billion in debt financing, with the potential package reaching as much as US$100 billion, as the chipmaker moves to...
Friday 21 August 2026
SK Chairman warns of 2027 memory shortage, ties expansion to long-term orders
SK Group Chairman Tae-Won Chey said in a recent interview with CNBC that memory demand is surging explosively and that the most severe "memory shortage" will hit in 2027. He also apologized...
Friday 21 August 2026
Research Insight: Upstream memory giants eye threefold 2026 revenue as 2027 capacity eases price surge
The global memory market is entering a sharp upcycle as cloud providers boost capital spending and demand for AI infrastructure lifts DRAM, NAND, and HBM prices. According to DIGITIMES,...
Friday 21 August 2026
Google, Marvell long-term deal keeps Broadcom at bay, limits MediaTek impact

Marvell filed a Form 8-K with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on August 19, 2026, revealing that it signed a commercial agreement...

Friday 21 August 2026
AI paid user conversion rate in US only 3% as rising token costs fuel edge AI server demand
At the "AI on Chips: Semiconductor Industry Trends Forum" hosted by DIGITIMES, industry experts highlighted that the massive volume of tokens consumed by AI services has become a growing...
Friday 21 August 2026
Iris Optronics upgrades solar-powered ChLCD e-paper series, expands outdoor and indoor displays
Iris Optronics, a manufacturer of cholesteric liquid crystal display (ChLCD) e-paper, announced upgrades to its Infinity solar-powered ChLCD e-paper series, including a mass-producible...
Friday 21 August 2026
Explainer: Why South Korea's semiconductor concentration may fare better than Taiwan's
As South Korea's semiconductor exports continue to power its economic expansion, market concerns are growing regarding the risks of excessive concentration in the tech sector. Recent...
Friday 21 August 2026
China's new solid-state battery standards could reshape the industry
China has introduced the world's first national standards for automotive solid-state batteries, setting off market speculation that most of the country's more than 320 players may...
Friday 21 August 2026
Charts: TSMC's share of Taiwan chip manufacturing revenue falls to 81.8% as memory makers scale up
Foundry leader Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) grew 37% year to date — and still lost four percentage points of the sub-sector's revenue share, because the...
Friday 21 August 2026
China's humanoid robot shipments hit 40,000 in the first half of 2026
China shipped more than 40,000 humanoid robots in the first half of 2026, lifting its share of global shipments to 97%, according to a development report released on August 20 at the...
Friday 21 August 2026
DIGITIMES's Colley Hwang warns Taiwan AI data center capacity lags South Korea

The inference economy has arrived, and Taiwan's tech industry must transition from the "knowledge economy" to the "inference economy,"...

Thursday 20 August 2026
Why Chinese automakers are racing into humanoid robots
As subsidies for China's new energy vehicle market gradually wind down and automaker margins continue to narrow, Beijing is shifting policy support toward embodied AI and humanoid...
Thursday 20 August 2026
Aurotek targets humanoid robot rollout gap with Physical AI push
Aurotek Corporation is accelerating its push into the robotics market, unveiling its first lights-out factory solution integrating multi-brand, multi-form-factor robots at Automation...
Thursday 20 August 2026
China tightens grip on global LCD market as TV panel share tops 70%
The global LCD panel industry continues to consolidate around Chinese manufacturers, whose share of the LCD TV panel market has remained firmly above 70% and is gradually approaching...