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Monday 25 May 2026

Column: US summit signals shift to trusted supply chains, reshaping global manufacturing partnerships

At the 2026 SelectUS Investment Summit in Maryland, US officials used the flagship investment forum to outline a national industrial strategy prioritizing supply chain reconstruction...

Monday 25 May 2026

Tech Forum 2026: AI data centers turn to on-site power amid grid constraints

DIGITIMES analyst Sabrina Yu warned that artificial intelligence data centers face four major energy challenges — rising GPU thermal design power, a new high-voltage direct current...

Monday 25 May 2026

Syntec Technology profit hits record as AI drives factory automation demand

Syntec Technology reported record quarterly revenue and profit for the first quarter of 2026, as demand for high-end control systems and...

Monday 25 May 2026

Embedded substrates draw AI chip interest as packaging turns strategic

Rising interest in embedded substrates among Nvidia, AMD, and Intel signals potential shifts in AI data‑center supply chains, as the technology promises improved signal integrity...

Sunday 24 May 2026

OpenAI opens first lab outside the US in Singapore as Google deepens government AI ties

Google and OpenAI's expanded cooperation with Singapore aims to accelerate AI adoption, workforce training, and safety measures, providing a model for other countries. The moves could...

Sunday 24 May 2026

Geopolitics disrupts chips — can Taiwan and South Korea cooperate to hold the line?

The global semiconductor industry is being pulled in two directions. On one side, the cost of building a single advanced chip factory has ballooned to as much as US$40 billion, concentrating...

Saturday 23 May 2026

Jensen Huang says he uses Claude at work and his son runs AI agents at home to manage the family

Jensen Huang fielded a wide-ranging set of questions during his Taiwan visit this week, touching on China market access, rising memory costs, silicon photonics, the LPU versus GPU...

Saturday 23 May 2026

Tokens per joule: Microsoft's quiet metric for separating AI hype from reality

The AI race has no clear winner — and may never have one, a senior Microsoft executive argued on the third day of the Plug and Play May Summit in Sunnyvale.

Saturday 23 May 2026

Interview: XCaliber challenges million-dollar missile defenses with cheap drone interceptors

The Ukraine War and ongoing tensions in the Middle East have exposed a technological revolution reshaping modern warfare: the rise of cheap drones. These developments, along with AI-powered...

Saturday 23 May 2026

Tech Forum 2026: Autonomous driving enters commercial validation era, shifting competition to algorithms, chips, and data

As Computex approaches, DIGITIMES hosted a forum where analyst Mark Yee argued that Physical AI is driving autonomous driving into full commercial validation, with implications for...

Saturday 23 May 2026

SK Hynix weighs opening Seoul office at SK Group headquarters

SK Hynix is reportedly considering opening a Seoul office and sales operation inside SK Group's Seorin Building in Jongno, Seoul, a symbolic...

Saturday 23 May 2026

Research insight: China’s auto industry turns to robotaxis and AI at Beijing Auto Show

The 2026 Beijing Auto Show, which concluded on May 3, offered a glimpse into what may become the next defining chapter of China's automotive industry: not simply electric vehicles,...

Saturday 23 May 2026

Hotai to build Taiwan production for Toyota Noah and Voxy, exports to Japan start October 2026

Hotai Motor Co. said it will produce Toyota's Noah and Voxy models in Taiwan and begin exporting them to Japan in October 2026, a move aimed at deepening Taiwan's role in the global...

Saturday 23 May 2026

Huawei continues to erode Nvidia's market share as China remains closed despite hopes of reopening

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he expects Chinese authorities to eventually allow imports of US artificial intelligence (AI) chips, according to Bloomberg Television. Still,...

Saturday 23 May 2026

Lenovo revenue rises 27% as AI demand helps offset PC market strain

Lenovo reported a 27% increase in revenue for the fourth quarter of its 2026 fiscal year, which ended March 31, as demand tied to artificial...

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