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Monday 15 June 2026

Taiwan's IC design sector posts sharpest gains in years; May data hints at further acceleration into 2H26

Taiwan's fabless semiconductor design sector posted its strongest year-over-year growth figures in years as of May 2026, with a cluster of memory-adjacent and storage chip makers leading...

Monday 15 June 2026

China's new EV rules push European luxury PHEVs to the exit

European luxury automakers are pulling back from China's plug-in hybrid vehicle (PHEV) market after Beijing tightened eligibility requirements...

Monday 15 June 2026

Southeast Asia shifts from test-and-pack to multi-center advanced packaging hub

As global semiconductor supply chains are rebuilt, Southeast Asia is evolving from a back-end test-and-pack region into a resilient,...

Monday 15 June 2026

Taiwan firms ramped AI investment but must fix architecture to realize ROI

Taiwanese companies sharply increased enterprise AI investment and adoption in 2026, yet critical gaps in technology architecture and...

Monday 15 June 2026

Exclusive: Wiwynn triples capital, president says it signals confidence

Wiwynn, Taiwan's smallest-capital server ODM with the highest EPS, is set to triple its share capital after shareholders approve a retained-earnings-to-capital-increase plan in 2026...

Monday 15 June 2026

SK Hynix to test ChatGPT and Copilot as Samsung widens enterprise AI use

SK Hynix said it is evaluating external generative AI models, including ChatGPT Enterprise and Microsoft Copilot, as it pilots broader AI use across the company, following Samsung...

Monday 15 June 2026

Samsung's Exynos 2600 doubles on-device AI performance in MLPerf benchmarks

Samsung Electronics announced that its Exynos 2600 mobile application processor delivered more than double the on-device AI performance of the Exynos 2500, according to benchmark results...

Monday 15 June 2026

AI server tracker: Taiwan's AI supply chain posts triple-digit gains in May as server makers and memory chips surge

Taiwan's listed semiconductor and electronics companies posted robust revenue growth in May 2026, with the latest monthly data revealing a widening split between AI infrastructure...

Monday 15 June 2026

SK Hynix readies HBM4 packaging push as Nvidia demand grows

SK Hynix is bringing additional back-end equipment into its Cheongju P&T6 facility as it steps up mass-production preparations for...

Monday 15 June 2026

Exclusive: Wiwynn sees no AI bubble for 4 years as capex surges

Wiwynn president William Lin says AI demand has exceeded expectations, with orders so strong that even rapid global expansion still feels too slow. The server maker is expanding capacity...

Monday 15 June 2026

LG Energy Solution secures patent licensing deal with Sunwoda, ending two-year dispute

LG Energy Solution (LGES) reached a patent licensing agreement with Chinese battery maker Sunwoda, ending a two-year legal battle that had involved courts in Germany, China, and South...

Monday 15 June 2026

X app age rating raised to 19+ on South Korean Google Play Store after Grok's adult-content policy change

On South Korea's Google Play store, the X app (formerly Twitter) was reclassified to "19 and up" after the social platform updated its community guidelines to permit consensual adult...

Monday 15 June 2026

Weekly news roundup: Samsung foundry profit rebound may come in 3Q26; Nvidia unveils AI PC vision

Below are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories from the week of June 8-14, 2026:

Monday 15 June 2026

Taiwan's UBright broadens beyond optical films with push into semiconductors, passives and smart acoustics

Taiwan-based UBright Optronics is accelerating its transformation from an LCD optical film specialist into a diversified technology...

Monday 15 June 2026

Exclusive: Wiwynn president rallies AI ecosystem to tackle power, cooling, optics

AI is reshaping Taiwan into the center of a technological revolution, and the upstream and downstream supply chain is running at full...

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