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Monday 23 June 2025
Taiwan electronic product export orders break US$100 billion in January-May 2025, driven by AI and HPC applications
Taiwan's export orders for January-May 2024 rose 15% year on year to reach US$263.8 billion, with electronics products recording an over 25% annual growth to break the US$100 billion...
Monday 23 June 2025
Frank Lee takes over Co-Tech chairman position, optimistic about AI-driven enterprise upgrades
Taiwan-based niche copper foil material manufacturer Co-Tech held its annual shareholders meeting on June 23, 2025. Chairman Raymond Soong officially stepped down after an 11-year...
Monday 23 June 2025
Weekly news roundup: Taiwan's Huawei export ban, Nvidia H20 blocked by US, TSMC-Samsung 2nm showdown
Below are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories from June 16 to June 22, 2025. Top developments include tighter US chip restrictions on China, updates on the next-gen 2nm...
Saturday 21 June 2025
Sigurd lifts capex by 75% to chase AI smartphone boom, BIS-driven test orders

Riding a wave of demand driven by AI smartphones, servers, ASICs, optical transceivers, and networking gear, Taiwan-based IC testing...

Friday 20 June 2025
GBM expands AI product line via Lincstech acquisition, focus on Singapore and Malaysia operations
Global Brands Manufacture (GBM), a PCB and EMS subsidiary of Walsin Technology, recently held a shareholders' meeting led by chairman Yu-Heng Chiao to discuss acquiring Japan's Lincstech...
Friday 20 June 2025
Auto market headwinds offset by AI servers; FHt expands production to capitalize on ASIC growth
Niche PCB manufacturer FHt held its annual shareholders meeting, where general manager Taylor Lee highlighted the strong demand for AI server orders from the ASIC sector in 2025....
Thursday 19 June 2025
New front opens in CPO, SiPh race: TSMC and Taiwanese supply chain in the lead
Surging demand for AI compute is driving global investment in GPUs, ASICs, and next-generation datacenter infrastructure. As conventional electronic interconnects fall short of meeting...
Thursday 19 June 2025
Urgent orders boost memory packaging and testing in 2Q25; AI stabilizes variables for 2H25
Benefiting from a rapid recovery in memory market demand during the first half of 2025, memory packaging and testing companies are sharing in the gains. Although the US 90-day tariff...
Wednesday 18 June 2025
Nittobo material price hikes exclude AI server-grade glass fabric
Japanese glass fiber supplier Nitto Boseki (Nittobo) reportedly has raised prices of its composite material products by up to 20% due to increasing costs, but the price hike does...
Wednesday 18 June 2025
Japan's AGC and University of Tokyo unveil laser tech 1 million times faster for AI chip manufacturing

AGC, a leading Japanese manufacturer of specialty glass and ceramics, has partnered with researchers at the University of Tokyo to develop...

Wednesday 18 June 2025
Sony accelerates image sensor growth in automotive amid record earnings and evolving market strategy
Sony Group has provided an update on its semiconductor business, particularly focusing on its position in the image sensor market. Despite failing to meet its ambitious target of...
Tuesday 17 June 2025
AI ASIC drives expansion in semiconductor test market, intensifying competition among Taiwanese test interface firms
As artificial intelligence (AI) applications extend from the cloud to the edge, the surge in AI application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) is accelerating growth in the semiconductor...
Monday 16 June 2025
Intelligo leverages AI acoustics to power Switch 2, drive 150% revenue surge in 2025
Taiwan-based Intelligo, an ASIC design firm focused on AI acoustics and voice recognition, expects substantial growth in 2025 driven by three core segments—gaming consoles,...
Monday 16 June 2025
Hanwha Semitech faces patent war with Hanmi Semiconductor over TCB breakthrough
A high-stakes patent dispute between Hanwha Semitech and Hanmi Semiconductor over a critical piece of equipment in the HBM production process — the TCB machine — is set...
Monday 16 June 2025
Beyond sci-fi: AI robots push PCB players into new frontier
Rapid advances in generative AI are accelerating the commercialization of humanoid robots, with 2025 projected as the industry's first year of mass production. Taiwanese PCB makers—Zhen...