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Thursday 7 August 2025
Qualcomm's smartphone struggles deepen as Apple, Samsung chart own paths
Qualcomm is at a critical crossroads as it attempts to pivot beyond its reliance on the smartphone business in the era of artificial intelligence and expands into growth areas such...
Thursday 7 August 2025
LGES secures major LFP battery contract, challenging China's dominance
Amid US sanctions on China, South Korean battery production has attracted significant attention. With LG Energy Solution (LGES) recently securing a large contract for lithium iron...
Thursday 7 August 2025
AUO pushes strategic shift toward asset-light model amid global realignment
AUO has confirmed that the sale of its Singapore plant is still underway, aligning with its strategy to streamline global operations. The move follows a similar step by Taiwanese...
Thursday 7 August 2025
TI triggers largest chip repricing in years, stuns China clients with 60,000-part hike
As President Donald Trump accelerates reshoring efforts, US-based chipmakers are facing rising cost pressures that are now cascading through the global supply chain. Texas Instruments...
Thursday 7 August 2025
Huawei open-sources CANN to challenge Nvidia's CUDA dominance
Huawei plans to open-source its Compute Architecture for Neural Networks (CANN), a heterogeneous AI computing framework positioned as a direct alternative to Nvidia's dominant CUDA...
Thursday 7 August 2025
Can Microsoft sustain US$4 trillion valuation amid AI uncertainty and OpenAI tensions?
Microsoft's market capitalization surged past US$4 trillion following its latest earnings release. While the company exceeded revenue expectations, significant challenges persist,...
Thursday 7 August 2025
Zettabyte secures strategic investment from Lam Research to expand global AI data center footprint
Zettabyte, an AI data center service provider, has secured a strategic investment from Lam Capital, part of Lam Research Corporation. The funding round also saw involvement from Taiwanese...
Thursday 7 August 2025
J-Star Holding lists on Nasdaq, aims to be pioneer for Taiwan's SMEs
J-Star Holding, known as YMA, was listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market on July 29, 2025. Chairman Jonathan Chiang noted that this marks a significant milestone for the company, aiming...
Thursday 7 August 2025
Broadcom’s Jericho4 extends AI networking beyond 100km
Broadcom has begun shipping its new Jericho4 Ethernet fabric router, a high-performance platform designed to meet the growing demands of distributed artificial intelligence (AI) in...
Thursday 7 August 2025
Nvidia pushes deeper into autonomous driving with AI-focused strategy
Artificial intelligence is reshaping the autonomous driving landscape, shifting the development paradigm from algorithm-driven systems to AI-centric architectures. At the forefront...
Wednesday 6 August 2025
Taiwan speeds toward low-carbon transit, targets full electrification by 2030
As Taiwan races toward its 2030 goal of fully electrifying city buses and achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, the pressure on the domestic electric vehicle supply chain —...
Wednesday 6 August 2025
EV adoption stalls in Taiwan as net-zero targets quietly recede

Since early 2025, Taiwan's real estate and auto markets have been sluggish, with car sales in a prolonged downturn. Though the government...

Wednesday 6 August 2025
APN transforms transmission architecture, bringing new energy-saving solutions to Taiwan
With the rapid rise of generative AI (GenAI) and immersive applications, traditional network technologies are struggling to meet the surging data transmission demands. At the Open...
Wednesday 6 August 2025
Meta highlights heterogeneous integration as key for GPU deployment scaling to millions
The Open Compute Project Asia-Pacific Summit began on August 5 in 2024, in Taiwan, attended by several Meta Platforms Inc. representatives. Industry sources indicate that once GPU...
Wednesday 6 August 2025
Intel's server chip dominance erodes as AMD expands market share
Intel's grip on the server CPU market is slipping, with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) closing the gap at a pace that may soon bring the once-dominant chipmaker to parity. As Intel...