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Wednesday 14 January 2026
Darfon Energy Tech acquires Hitron to boost edge AI and industrial power solutions
Darfon is actively expanding into the energy and high-end niche application markets. Its subsidiary focused on new energy solutions, Darfon Energy Tech, announced on January 12, 2026,...
Wednesday 14 January 2026
Acer Asia-Pacific targets double-digit annual growth
Acer is promoting the independent development of its subsidiaries, using a multi-faceted strategy to drive group growth. Three subsidiaries under Acer's Pan-Asia operations headquarters...
Wednesday 14 January 2026
BlueField creates storage-powered AI boom, controller market expected to expand
At CES 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang showcased plans for next-generation AI-native infrastructure. Aside from its Vera Rubin timeline, Huang introduced the inference context memory...
Wednesday 14 January 2026
AI boom pushes Taiwan's GDP growth past 7%, masking tariff and talent strains on non-ICT sectors
Taiwan recorded a GDP growth of over 7% in 2025, driven by an AI-fueled export surge, yet the headline growth conceals mounting pressures on traditional industries grappling with...
Tuesday 13 January 2026
WT Microelectronics and WPG post record 2025 revenues driven by AI momentum
Leading IC distributors WT Microelectronics and WPG reported strong revenue growth in 2025, fueled by robust demand from AI and data-center sectors. WT Microelectronics posted a record...
Tuesday 13 January 2026
EU plans to adjust rules on Chinese EV imports; shifts from tariffs to minimum import prices

The EU said this week that it is considering setting minimum import prices for Chinese-made electric vehicles (EVs), a move that would...

Tuesday 13 January 2026
Taiwan's EMS/ODM sector ends 2025 with AI servers driving record months and reshaping the rankings
Taiwan's electronics manufacturing services (EMS) and original design manufacturing (ODM) sector closed December 2025 with a sharply bifurcated performance: AI server and cloud data-center...
Tuesday 13 January 2026
Taiwan OSAT sector posts broad 2025 revenue gains as AI testing offsets weak consumer recovery
Taiwan's outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) industry closed December 2025 with a pattern that investors have increasingly come to expect: revenue growth was widespread...
Tuesday 13 January 2026
DeepSeek V4 update: Conditional memory reshapes large-model efficiency
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng has published a new paper with a research team from Peking University, outlining key technical directions for next-generation sparse large language...
Tuesday 13 January 2026
CES 2026: Chinese humanoid robots dominate the spotlight
Humanoid robots emerged as a centerpiece of CES 2026 this week as the world's largest technology trade show pivoted from traditional consumer electronics toward the commercialization...
Tuesday 13 January 2026
CES 2026: The auto industry's AI boom meets growing doubts
The exhibition halls brimmed with visions of the future: autonomous vehicle cabins designed for emotional interaction, humanoid robots capable of perceiving their surroundings with...
Tuesday 13 January 2026
Nvidia denies requiring Chinese customers to prepay for H200 chips
Nvidia said it does not require customers to make upfront payments for its H200 artificial intelligence chips. The statement pushes back against a Reuters report claiming...
Tuesday 13 January 2026
Unprecedented AI infrastructure frenzy sparks global memory shortage, hits consumer wallets
The global race to build AI data centers has triggered an unexpected casualty: the memory supply that powers everyday consumer electronics.
Tuesday 13 January 2026
Exclusive: Behind the scenes at CES 2026, the SDV vision meets hard limits

If the main stage at CES 2026 still tried to preserve a sense of future possibility for software-defined vehicles, conversations away...

Tuesday 13 January 2026
Exclusive: EVs gain edge as computing hits ceiling in fuel vehicles

At CES 2026, the global auto industry's conversation has shifted. The focus is no longer confined to the aspirational language of software-defined...