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Monday 30 March 2026

Weekly news roundup: AI, supply chains, new entrants intensify global chip race

Below are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories from the week of March 23-27, 2026:

Monday 30 March 2026

Swancor debuts fully recyclable AI robots, leveraging advanced composites for scalable industrial adoption

Swancor Holding's subsidiary, Swancor Robotech, on March 27, opened an intelligent robot application demonstration center in Neihu, Taipei, highlighting progress in integrating artificial...

Monday 30 March 2026

AI meets reality: why physical data is the real constraint

Artificial intelligence is entering a new phase centered on agentic systems, with momentum shifting from digital environments to real-world...

Monday 30 March 2026

Apple to open Siri to rival AI services beyond ChatGPT

Apple plans to open its Siri voice assistant to rival artificial intelligence (AI) services, moving beyond its partnership with OpenAI,...

Monday 30 March 2026

Taiwan’s AI pivot: from chip factory to “silicon innovation island”

Taiwan is moving to cement its status as the "beating heart" of the global technology industry by transitioning from a hardware manufacturing powerhouse into what Acer founder Stan...

Monday 30 March 2026

AI compute shifts to inference, reshaping data center bottlenecks

The focus of artificial intelligence computing is set to shift from training to inference beyond 2025, a transition that will also redefine...

Monday 30 March 2026

Research Insight: Perovskite solar cells push efficiency beyond silicon limits

At the 2026 Smart City Summit & Expo in Taipei, a new generation of solar technology took center stage.

Monday 30 March 2026

India roundup: India resets FDI policy as rising GPU costs reshape AI strategy

India is recalibrating FDI rules, semiconductor incentives and AI policy while expanding power capacity and attracting global players like Tesla, Keysight and DNP. Data center ambitions...

Monday 30 March 2026

Chipmakers race to secure helium as tensions disrupt supply, prices reportedly up 50%

Semiconductor manufacturers are racing to secure critical materials as Middle East tensions disrupt supply chains, with the risk of production...

Monday 30 March 2026

IBM Taiwan CTO: why AI agents stay stuck in pilot mode

Companies are racing ahead do accelerate their productivity by using AI agents, but many run into obstacles that tend to keep these agents from progressing beyond the pilot stage....

Sunday 29 March 2026

Innodisk says AI success depends on software-hardware integration, signaling shifts for edge and industry deployments

Innodisk told attendees at the 2026 AI EXPO that effective AI deployment requires more than raw computing power; it depends on tight integration between software and hardware, and...

Sunday 29 March 2026

A race to the bottom: China’s auto boom turns brutally competitive

The global auto industry is entering a turning phase of structural transformation, and nowhere is the upheaval more intense than in China, where a fierce competitive shakeout is un...

Sunday 29 March 2026

Adata invests US$3 million in KonstTech to boost AI computing infrastructure

Amid the rapid development of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and large language models (LLM), global demand for high-performance computing (HPC) continues to rise. Memory...

Sunday 29 March 2026

AI race turns into real-time elimination game as advantages fade within months

The global AI is entering a new phase where competitive advantages are increasingly short-lived, often eroding within months or even weeks. Across models, products, and platforms,...

Sunday 29 March 2026

Semicon China 2026: AI spending nears US$800 billion, IBS flags 2028 chip cycle risk

SEMICON China 2026 spotlighted the scale of the AI investment boom, with Handel Jones, CEO of International Business Strategies (IBS),...

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