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Monday 11 August 2025

SoftBank reportedly acquires Foxconn's US EV plant for Stargate

The SoftBank Group has reportedly acquired Foxconn's Ohio EV factory through Crescent Dune LLC...

Monday 11 August 2025

South Korea urged to fast-track AI law to safeguard competitiveness amid US-China rivalry

South Korea recently held a public hearing on the proposed Special Act on AI Industry Development, with industry leaders urging the government to speed up its review. Youchul Kim,...

Monday 11 August 2025

OpenAI's GPT-5 fails to impress market despite advanced claims

OpenAI's recent release of its GPT-5 model alongside the open-weight gpt-oss series has generated mixed reactions, with the much-anticipated GPT-5 falling short of expectations in...

Monday 11 August 2025

Weekly news roundup: 'China for China' Strategy, Xiaomi's open-source voice AI, and Broadcom at OCP APAC

Below are the top DIGITIMES Asia stories from Aug 4 to Aug 10, 2025. The top three topics include 'China for China' drives Western chipmakers' strategy, Xiaomi releases open-source...

Monday 11 August 2025

Airtel's Xtelify unveils sovereign cloud and AI tools to target telecom and enterprise growth

India-based Bharti Airtel's digital services arm, Xtelify, has launched Airtel Cloud, a sovereign cloud platform, along with an AI-powered software suite aimed at boosting efficiency...

Monday 11 August 2025

Taiwan leads global SiPh development; optical industry set for explosive growth by 2027

Silicon photonics (SiPh) is one of the most critical technologies in the AI world and broadband sectors, according to Paul Liu, chairman of Taiwan's National Development Council (NDC)...

Monday 11 August 2025

HTC continues to post losses in 2Q25 despite collaboration with Google

HTC announced its revenue for July 2025 and the financial results for the second quarter of 2025 on August 6. Constrained by slowing momentum in hardware product sales as well as...

Sunday 10 August 2025

China's EV makers slashing prices, ignoring government warnings

Despite repeated clear statements from the Chinese central government urging automakers to stop vicious price-cutting, the market's price war has not eased. Instead, it has intensi...

Sunday 10 August 2025

Tesla's Dojo shutdown signals new alliances with Samsung and Intel in AI race

Tesla is dismantling its in-house AI supercomputer project "Dojo" and shifting gears toward a new external chip strategy involving Samsung...

Sunday 10 August 2025

AI infrastructure era arrives: new quarterly capex records across the field

The AI race has evolved into a contest over the pace of AI infrastructure development. Seven leading global tech companies have hit a record high in combined quarterly capex, with...

Sunday 10 August 2025

Ample Electronic unveils advanced thermal paste for AI chip cooling

Ample Electronic Technology, a leading upstream supplier of conductive pastes and thick-film conductor materials for passive components,...

Saturday 9 August 2025

Dynamic's Thailand plant to volume produce AI server motherboards in 4Q25, with AI revenue expected to reach 20% by 2026

Automotive PCB manufacturer Dynamic Holding announced that as the learning curve at its new Thailand plant gradually improves, high-end new products are expected to enter small-scale...

Saturday 9 August 2025

Nvidia under fire as US eyes chip tracking to close export loopholes

The US has imposed export controls on critical chips bound for China, but smuggling and transshipment through third countries into China continue to occur, demonstrating that the...

Saturday 9 August 2025

South Korea's quintet of alliances for sovereign AI: Kakao notably left out

South Korea is progressing its autonomous AI model development by choosing five key industry alliances—Naver Cloud, SK Telecom, NC AI, LG AI Research, and Upstage. The government...

Saturday 9 August 2025

OpenAI reportedly eyes US$500 billion valuation in employee stock sale

OpenAI is reportedly in talks to allow employees—both current and former—to sell their shares in a deal that could value...

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