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Tuesday 8 July 2025

Taiwanese firms upbeat about Vietnam's long-term prospects in auto manufacturing

Taiwanese firms remain optimistic about Vietnam's long-term automotive prospects, citing trade agreements, government support, and improving infrastructure. Though still developing...

Tuesday 8 July 2025

HTC prepares to storm the smart glasses battlefield with Android XR OS

August 2025—Meta dominates the smart glasses market. Over one million Ray-Ban Orion units sold. Wearable technology is now a battlefield.

Tuesday 8 July 2025

Foxconn's FII projects 50% profit surge on soaring AI server demand

Foxconn Industrial Internet (FII), a subsidiary of Foxconn focused on cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, announced a significant year-over-year increase in its...

Tuesday 8 July 2025

Chief Telecom sees 1H25 revenue exceed NT$200 million

Internet data center (IDC) provider Chief Telecom saw revenue in July 2025 drop by 2.11% year-over-year to NT$327 million (approx. US$11.2 million). However, total revenue in the...

Tuesday 8 July 2025

Meta tests proactive chat AI to deepen user engagement

Meta is reportedly working on a new artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot capable of proactively engaging with users by reviewing past conversations and initiating messages. The goal...

Tuesday 8 July 2025

Whistleblower exposes Huawei's PanGu AI model copycat scandal

On June 30, 2025, Huawei released the source code for its PanGu 7B dense parameter model and the larger PanGuPro mixture-of-experts (MoE) 72B model, both tailored for inference on...

Tuesday 8 July 2025

India at the center of Samsung's 2025 mobile strategy as it targets all price segments

Samsung has reclaimed the No. 2 spot in India's smartphone market in early 2025, driven by a dual strategy targeting both budget and premium buyers. Its renewed push includes AI-powered...

Tuesday 8 July 2025

EDA tool ban lifted, China's PCB industry seizes strategic opening

As demand surges for AI, HPC, and high-speed communications, the PCB industry is entering a new phase of advanced innovation. Chinese...

Monday 7 July 2025

CipherLab sees AI boosts orders; sets up Japanese subsidiary to expand operations

CipherLab, a manufacturer of automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) solutions, performed well in the first half of 2025, benefiting from large-scale orders from domestic...

Monday 7 July 2025

Nissan reportedly in talks with Foxconn to explore electric vehicle production at Oppama plant

Nissan Motor is engaging in discussions with Taiwan's Foxconn to potentially use its Oppama plant in Kanagawa Prefecture for electric vehicle (EV) production. This move forms part...

Monday 7 July 2025

Taiwan IPC makers bet on AI agents to drive edge computing boom

Taiwan's industrial PC manufacturers see AI agents as the catalyst for widespread AI adoption, expecting the application market to expand significantly over the next two years as...

Monday 7 July 2025

Samsung's 1H25 performance incentive rates: Samsung foundry bonus drops to 0

Samsung Electronics' Device Solutions (DS) division, which oversees its semiconductor operations, has capped its performance bonus for...

Monday 7 July 2025

Xiaomi's 'toys for grown-ups' strategy fuels hype for YU7 EV, smart glasses

Xiaomi's latest breakout products, the YU7 electric vehicle and AI-powered smart glasses, are making waves not just for their functionality, but for how they're being positioned and...

Monday 7 July 2025

Huawei rejects allegations that its Pangu AI model copied Alibaba's Qwen

Huawei has pushed back against claims that its newly open-sourced Pangu Pro MoE 72B model plagiarized Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen (Qwen-2.5 14B), after a technical analysis flagged unusually...

Monday 7 July 2025

'Taiwan Tongues' initiative launches to amplify Taiwan's linguistic voice in global AI models

On July 4, the Taipei-based Information Management Association (IMA) announced the launch of the "Taiwan Tongues" project, a major initiative to build an open, high-quality AI corpus...

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