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Monday 19 May 2025

Taiwan turns to robots to address labor shortage

In a future increasingly shaped by machines, Elon Musk is already looking ahead. He has declared robotics the next frontier of industry, and recently approached TSMC Chairman C.C...

Monday 19 May 2025

China's AI appliance chaos: DeepSeek boxes flood market as prices swing 100x between full and distilled models

Since its viral breakout in February, DeepSeek has triggered a rush for all-in-one AI appliances across China's enterprise and government markets. But the boom has also unleashed...

Monday 19 May 2025

Humanoid robots enter auto factories—cybersecurity risks surge

Humanoid robots are quickly gaining ground in the automotive sector, with industry leaders like BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Tesla incorporating them into factory operations to enhance...

Monday 19 May 2025

Computex 2025: TAITRA chairman and TCA chairman highlight Taiwan's central role in AI transformation

Computex 2025 is set to kick off on May 20 at the Nangang Exhibition Center Halls 1 and 2. The event will center around the theme "AI Next," focusing on three major topics: intelligent...

Monday 19 May 2025

Edison Opto holds steady on automotive orders, but strong Taiwan dollar pressures margins

Taiwan-based LED maker Edison Opto said customer orders and shipments remain on track despite mounting uncertainty tied to US tariff policies and currency market volatility. Automotive...

Monday 19 May 2025

Middle East key to extending cloud AI peripheral chip market growth by two years

US President Donald Trump recently led a large delegation of American companies to the Middle East for various political and business cooperation agreements. Reports indicate that...

Monday 19 May 2025

AI-driven server demand boom spurs explosive growth for Taiwan CCL suppliers

Despite recent uncertainties surrounding new tariff policies under US President Donald Trump, major US and Chinese cloud service providers have reaffirmed that their capex plans for...

Monday 19 May 2025

AI, EV boom thrusts advanced packaging to forefront of China's chip strategy

China's outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) industry is gaining momentum, driven by surging demand for artificial intelligence (AI) and electric vehicles (EVs). As the...

Monday 19 May 2025

Tesla sidelined in Trump's Middle East trip, as Lucid pushes for Saudi auto tariffs

US President Donald Trump's new agreement with Saudi Arabia will allow the state to procure AI chips from leading US-based chipmakers Nvidia and AMD, as part of the Saudi Vision 2030...

Monday 19 May 2025

From containment to control: Trump's Gulf deals isolate Huawei and heat up AI Cold War

The US Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has issued fresh guidelines targeting AI chips, delivering another major blow to Huawei. The directive explicitly...

Monday 19 May 2025

Chipmakers seek edge beyond Moore's Law as computing power race escalates

The semiconductor industry's decades-long strategy of shrinking transistors faces diminishing returns, forcing companies to explore alternative technologies for competitive advantage...

Monday 19 May 2025

Nvidia's quantum computing pivot spurs automakers' cybersecurity revamp

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang publicly reversed his quantum computing timeline at March's GTC conference, shrinking his earlier 20-year prediction made at CES to establish "Quantum Day"...

Monday 19 May 2025

Weekly news roundup: China sharpens its chip game, Samsung lands wins, TSMC widens global footprint

These are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories from the week of May 12 – May 18. From China's push in DUV lithography and Samsung's resurgence in foundry orders to...

Monday 19 May 2025

Nvidia's master plan: forging a strategic alliance for the future of AI infrastructure

For the past two years, the AI revolution has resembled a software arms race: the bigger the model, the better the odds of winning. But...

Monday 19 May 2025

Pre-tariff rush leaves US car market facing cold spell

As President Donald Trump's auto tariff policy begins to take effect—levying duties on foreign-made vehicles and parts while exempting...

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