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Wednesday 21 January 2026
Inventec doubles 2026 capex to US$1 billion to seize AI server growth opportunities
Inventec plans to double its capital expenditure (capex) in 2026 to US$1 billion, looking to seize opportunities in the artificial intelligence (AI) server market. Company chairman...
Wednesday 21 January 2026
Behind trade barriers, Detroit risks falling behind
The opening of the North American International Auto Show in Detroit this year offered a revealing portrait of an industry caught at the intersection of political crosscurrents and...
Wednesday 21 January 2026
Taiwan rolls out tiered electricity rates for data centers amid AI power crunch
Taiwan's comprehensive industrial supply chain, ICT talent pool, and competitive land and utility costs have attracted global tech giants like Microsoft and Google to establish data...
Wednesday 21 January 2026
Quanta EVP Mike Yang interview: AI industry paradigm shift just begun
The server industry is reaping the benefits of AI. Quanta's revenue hit a record high in 2025, surpassing the NT$2 trillion (US$63.2 billion) mark, with AI servers as the primary growth...
Tuesday 20 January 2026
Musk moseys into encyclopedia arena as Wikipedia multiplies AI data partnerships
Wikipedia is marking its 25th anniversary by broadening its paid data licensing partnerships with major AI companies, disclosing its list of collaborators publicly for the first time...
Tuesday 20 January 2026
Foxconn lighthouse factory brings sustainable manufacturing and GenAI-driven decarbonization to Vietnam
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has named Foxconn Industrial Internet's (FII) Bac Ninh Province facility in Vietnam as the country's first Sustainable Lighthouse Factory, recognizing...
Tuesday 20 January 2026
ASUS chairman lays out 'All In AI' strategy under global trade headwinds

At its year-end celebration on January 16, ASUS held a confident tone amid a turbulent global outlook. Jonney Shih, the company's chairman,...

Tuesday 20 January 2026
Nvidia Alpamayo sparks VLA computing power race as South Korea preps for autonomous ecosystem
At CES 2026 in the US, Nvidia unveiled its open-source vision-language-action (VLA) model series, Alpamayo, signaling a new phase in the development of autonomous driving technologies...
Tuesday 20 January 2026
HTC highlights security and enterprise deployment as keys for AI glasses growth
As generative AI (Gen AI) and sensing technologies mature, AI glasses are evolving from standalone wearables into a new generation of human-computer interaction interfaces. Featuring...
Tuesday 20 January 2026
CviLux gains from AI server power overhaul as HVDC reshapes data center connectors
As the AI chip computing power race intensifies, data center electricity demand is surging, forcing a fundamental redesign of server power architectures. Taiwanese connector maker...
Tuesday 20 January 2026
Alibaba's Qwen expansion links AI directly to consumer services
Alibaba is repositioning its Qwen artificial intelligence app as more than a chatbot, turning it into a gateway to the company's vast consumer ecosystem. The app now connects directly...
Tuesday 20 January 2026
HTC accelerates AI glasses ecosystem with AR roadmap and China-focused LLM partnerships
Taiwan's HTC Corporation is rapidly expanding its AI glasses ecosystem following the debut of its first AI eyewear, Vive Eagle, as it scales distribution, deepens AI partnerships,...
Tuesday 20 January 2026
AI bubble concerns ease with Taiwan's IT sector-driven economic growth
Nvidia Corporation's market value has surged to US$4.5 trillion amid the expansion of the AI industry, overtaking Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corporation, while Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing...
Tuesday 20 January 2026
Exclusive: Nvidia targets 2026 launch for Windows on Arm notebook
Nvidia is expanding its data center business while advancing personal and edge AI computing platforms, outlining a product roadmap that spans the current N1 and N1X series through...
Tuesday 20 January 2026
Musk’s gigawatt AI bet is accelerating the global compute arms race
Elon Musk's xAI division has achieved a milestone by bringing online Colossus 2, the world's first gigawatt-scale artificial intelligence (AI) training cluster, a development praised...