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Tuesday 30 September 2025

Qualcomm AI PC strategy emerges with enhanced creator features and gaming support

Qualcomm is set to officially launch its new PC chip series, Snapdragon X2 Elite, in 2025. To offer customers higher performance options, Qualcomm has developed the Snapdragon X2...

Tuesday 30 September 2025

US carmakers are in a struggle with the cost of Trump's “America First”

Under the banner of "America First," President Donald Trump sought to revive US manufacturing by wielding tariffs as a blunt-force economic...

Tuesday 30 September 2025

Taiwan's first cobot brand Techman Robot goes public

Techman Robot, a subsidiary of Quanta, was listed and began trading on September 26, 2025. The company focuses on developing three core technology areas: AI, vision, and robotics,...

Tuesday 30 September 2025

Research Insight: Taiwan’s e-scooter market shifts from subsidies to survival

Taiwan's electric scooter market is off to a slow start in 2025. Total sales in the first half of the year reached just 20,000 units...

Tuesday 30 September 2025

Schneider Electric and Nvidia announce global partnership on AI data center infrastructure

Schneider Electric and Nvidia have announced a global strategic partnership to advance the development of infrastructure supporting artificial intelligence workloads. The collaboration...

Sunday 28 September 2025

Qualcomm China head says robots, smart glasses could surpass phones, eyes deeper Android ties

Frank Meng, Chairman of Qualcomm China, believes that in the long run, two emerging categories have the potential to rival, or even eclipse, smartphones in market scale: robots and...

Sunday 28 September 2025

Commentary: OpenAI faces two major challenges after cash infusion

Following Nvidia’s plan to invest up to US$100 billion in OpenAI, six of the seven major US tech giants—excluding Tesla—have either partnered with or are potential...

Saturday 27 September 2025

Why DeepSeek's R2 still isn't here: Liang Wenfeng's balancing act

On September 22, DeepSeek released the upgraded DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus model through its API platform and quickly made it open source. The update fixed user-reported issues, but once...

Saturday 27 September 2025

Qualcomm ramps up Snapdragon branding in bid to lead AI PC market

At the opening keynote of the Snapdragon Summit 2025, Don McGuire, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Qualcomm, presented the company's latest branding achievements,...

Saturday 27 September 2025

Humanoid robots still 10 years away from homes, says Agility Robotics co-founder

Despite market anticipation for the deployment of humanoid robots in home applications, significant safety risks still remain. Because of this, Jonathan Hurst, co-founder of US-based...

Friday 26 September 2025

Tariffs, visas, and strikes: South Korea's auto industry in disarray

South Korea's largest automotive parts manufacturer Hyundai Mobis is grappling with consecutive strikes at its production subsidiaries, forcing partial shutdowns at Hyundai Motor...

Friday 26 September 2025

Southern Taiwan Science Park rides AI wave to surpass NT$1 trillion revenue in 1H25

Driven by the global AI boom, the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP) surpassed the NT$1 trillion revenue mark in the first half of 2025. The total operating revenue reached NT$1.38...

Friday 26 September 2025

Apple, Qualcomm, and MediaTek pivot toward AI accelerators as 3nm era closes

The 2025 generation of flagship smartphone chips will mark the final run for 3nm processors — closing a chapter in semiconductor...

Friday 26 September 2025

Taiwan-based top auto groups roll out strategies to drive market rebound in 4Q25

Taiwan's auto industry is experiencing a tough 2025, with tariffs and weak consumer demand clouding the outlook. Nevertheless, the country's three leading automotive groups —Yulon,...

Friday 26 September 2025

Ennostar advances AI optical communication with X-Celeprint partnership to promote SiPh integration

Ennostar, a Taiwan-based developer of optoelectronic semiconductors, is actively expanding its presence in the AI optical communication market. It has announced a collaboration with...

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