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Friday 7 November 2025
Volkswagen China launches first SOC chip for L3 autonomous driving

Long seen as a global automaker struggling to yield meaningful results from its massive investments in vehicle electronics and electrification,...

Friday 7 November 2025
Flexium Interconnect nears end of business transformation, eyes 2026 growth
Flexible printed circuit (FPC) manufacturer Flexium Interconnect said its challenging business transformation phase was approaching completion after a difficult 2025. The company...
Friday 7 November 2025
Cambricon hit with US$590M lawsuit from former CTO over stock buyback dispute
Chinese AI chipmaker Cambricon Technologies is facing a massive legal battle. The company's former chief technology officer, Liang Jun, has filed a lawsuit seeking CNY4.3 billion...
Friday 7 November 2025
Foxconn board member urges Taiwan to speed system design amid Moore's law slowdown
The global semiconductor industry is undergoing a structural shift as the AI era fully unfolds. Foxconn board member and former TSMC co-COO Shang-Yi Chiang stated that with Moore's...
Friday 7 November 2025
Elan Microelectronics posts solid results, eyes AI-driven growth in 2026
Touch IC leader Elan Microelectronics held an earnings call on November 6, reporting that third-quarter performance exceeded internal forecasts despite a weaker consumer market than...
Friday 7 November 2025
Google launches new TPU and Arm-based instances for AI workloads
Google has introduced Ironwood, its seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), designed for large-scale AI model training, reinforcement learning, and inference.
Friday 7 November 2025
Chinese automakers achieve record Europe market share with PHEV offensive
The European automotive industry faces unprecedented challenges in 2025, grappling with slow progress in electronic/electrical (E/E) transformation and widespread internal layoffs,...
Friday 7 November 2025
Taiwan machinery leverages AI for defense push
Taiwan's machinery industry is leveraging artificial intelligence to transform from a traditional manufacturing base into a high-tech powerhouse, with growing ambitions in the global...
Friday 7 November 2025
Unitree, Tesla take diverging routes in next phase of humanoid robotics

China's Unitree Robotics has launched the H2 humanoid robot, a 50% heavier successor to its H1 model. The design move stands in contrast...

Friday 7 November 2025
Update: Jensen Huang dined with CC Wei tonight in Tainan, and will attend TSMC's annual sports day in Hsinchu
Update: Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, is already in Tainan, a city about 300 kilometers south of Taipei. He dined with several key executives of TSMC, including CC Wei, chairman and...
Friday 7 November 2025
Anthropic reportedly poised to reach US$70 billion in revenue by 2028, driven by API sales surge
AI startup Anthropic is reportedly on track to generate US$70 billion in revenue by 2028, fueled by growing enterprise adoption and rapid expansion in API sales. TechCrunch,...
Friday 7 November 2025
AWS pledges US$9 billion for AI expansion in South Korea, eyeing agentic AI leadership
Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Matt Garman has announced an additional US$5 billion investment in South Korea, bringing AWS's total commitment to US$9 billion to expand AI data centers...
Friday 7 November 2025
Trump's trade policies trigger Taiwan's US$400 billion US investment surge
Amid US President Donald Trump's tariff threats and new incentives under the US "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," foreign companies are increasingly planning major investments in the...
Friday 7 November 2025
Automotive lenses drive growth for optical companies
End-market performance is expected to reflect improving demand for automotive chips in the second to third quarters of 2026. The optical industry has benefited significantly, with...
Friday 7 November 2025
Foxconn expects 4Q25 growth as AI servers, ICT products drive demand
Leading electronics contract manufacturer Hon Hai Precision Industry (Foxconn) reported October 2025 revenue of NT$895.71 billion (US$28.99 billion), up 7% sequentially and 11.29%...