Global supply chain: CE, IPC, automotive

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Tuesday 6 January 2026

As supply chains fracture, Foxconn repositions for the auto age

The true significance of Foxconn's acquisition of Luxgen lies less in the purchase of a single automotive brand than in how the deal...

Monday 5 January 2026

Qualcomm cloud AI ASIC business strategy

Qualcomm advances from edge to cloud AI ASIC, challenging the existing cloud computing power supply chain landscape.

Monday 5 January 2026

Black Sesame's Huashan A2000 clears US Commerce, Defense reviews, secures global sales approval

Black Sesame Technologies has secured a rare regulatory breakthrough for a China-based automotive AI chip developer. On January 4, 2025, the company said its high-performance Huashan...

Monday 5 January 2026

Geopolitics-driven auto industry reshuffling on display at CES 2026

Geopolitically driven supply-chain realignment is pushing the global auto industry into a critical moment of risk diversification. An emerging industrial bloc centered on "non-China"...

Monday 5 January 2026

Samsung bets on smart driving, testing old alliances

Samsung Electronics' decision to acquire a major advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) business through its subsidiary Harman is...

Monday 5 January 2026

Weekly news roundup: TSMC widens 2 nm edge as South Korea boosts chip spending; Huawei eyes memory bottlenecks

These are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories in the week of Dec 29 - Jan 4.

Monday 5 January 2026

Asus pulls back from smartphone market after two decades of losses

Asus announced on January 2, 2026, that it will not release any new smartphones this year, effectively suspending a mobile business the Taiwanese hardware giant has sustained for...

Monday 5 January 2026

Foxconn reportedly emerges in supply chain reports tied to OpenAI's rumored AI devices

OpenAI is accelerating plans to enter the consumer hardware market, with reports indicating that the company is preparing a new voice-focused AI model to underpin its first generation...

Monday 5 January 2026

Taiwan power chipmakers bank on AI data centers and auto orders for 2026 growth

Taiwan's power semiconductor suppliers are positioning for steady growth through 2026. The momentum comes from two fronts: artificial intelligence data centers adopting new power...

Saturday 3 January 2026

Analysis: Chip boom squeezes device makers as surging component costs threaten margins

The global semiconductor market is projected to reach US$1 trillion as early as 2026, significantly ahead of previous industry forecasts targeting 2030. The World Semiconductor Trade...

Friday 2 January 2026

Asus to pause new smartphone launches in 2026, maintain mobile operations

Smartphone distributors in Taiwan have recently said they are no longer able to obtain Asus handsets through local agents and claimed they had received information indicating that...

Friday 2 January 2026

Global auto market faces turning point in 2026 as competition in China intensifies

The global automotive market reached a critical turning point in 2025 amid unprecedented pressures from tariffs, policies, and inflation, triggering preemptive buying before expected...

Friday 2 January 2026

Budget impasse halts Taiwan's first quantum-classical hybrid platform, undermining computing sovereignty

Taiwan's push to build strategic AI, robotics, and quantum computing infrastructure is facing delays after the National Science and Technology Council's (NSTC) NT$10.85 billion (approx...

Friday 2 January 2026

Smartphones and notebook prices could increase as memory lead times extend

Demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) is crowding out production capacity for consumer memory. Despite capacity expansions by major memory makers, including Micron, Samsung, and...

Friday 2 January 2026

Edge AI poised for commercial breakthrough in 2026, driving industrial PC market shifts

As artificial intelligence (AI) moves beyond its infrastructure build-out phase, the industrial PC (IPC) sector anticipates 2026 as a key year for scaling AI from centralized cloud...

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