Global supply chain: Mobile, telecom, computing

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Tuesday 25 August 2026

Taiwan AI server supply chain expands China footprint

Taiwan's AI server supply chain is stepping up investment in China, but expansion is concentrated in components rather than full-system assembly. By contrast, Taiwan's notebook PC...

Tuesday 25 August 2026

AI boom drives Foxconn past 40% of Taiwan-listed firms' China returns, with FII leading the way

Global demand for AI and high-performance computing (HPC) has lifted investment returns for Taiwan-listed companies in China, with Foxconn continuing to lead the pack. According to...

Tuesday 25 August 2026

Vera Rubin transition gap eases as ASIC, general servers rescue supply chain

As Nvidia's next-generation Vera Rubin platform enters deployment, Taiwan's server supply chain is finding ways to bridge the transition gap before ramping up volume production. Ongoing...

Tuesday 25 August 2026

Intel pitches Diamond Rapids at Hot Chips as server CPU competition heats up

Intel pitched its next-generation Diamond Rapids Xeon at Hot Chips 2026 as the company bets that agentic AI will increase the role of general-purpose processors in AI infrastructure,...

Tuesday 25 August 2026

Energy law amendments lift AIDC storage demand in Taiwan

AI data centers (AIDCs) will increasingly rely on energy storage because of its fast response and grid impact mitigation capabilities, according to Recharge Power, a Taiwan-based battery...

Tuesday 25 August 2026

China opens satellite IoT to private players as Geespace wins two-year commercial trial

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has approved Geely-backed Zhejiang Geespace Technology to conduct a two-year...

Tuesday 25 August 2026

Foxconn scales AI server production in US and Mexico, keeps Asia expansion diversified

AI server demand and the continued regionalisation of global supply chains are keeping Foxconn's capital spending on an upward trajectory in 2026, with the company maintaining its...

Tuesday 25 August 2026

Commentary: Nvidia's 15% hike piles pressure on the AI supply chain, lifts ASIC prospects

Nvidia has reportedly notified major customers that server systems using its AI chips will rise by more than 15%, with the new pricing set to apply to models shipping from early 2027,...

Tuesday 25 August 2026

Novosense encoder launch highlights China's push into robot joint sensing

Chinese analog and mixed-signal chipmaker Novosense Microelectronics has introduced the NSM350x series, a Hall-based magnetic encoder designed for high-precision angular measurement...

Tuesday 25 August 2026

AI infrastructure boom drives Taiwan export orders, exposing power bottleneck, net-zero tech needs

Global artificial intelligence infrastructure buildouts and rising capex by cloud service providers pushed Taiwan's July export orders...

Tuesday 25 August 2026

Taipower pushes 'information flow' strategy to ease northern Taiwan's AI data center power crunch

As artificial intelligence chip power consumption continues to rise, server racks are moving toward the megawatt (MW) scale. Amid the "electrical power is computing power" trend, the...

Tuesday 25 August 2026

Nvidia Groq 3 LPX enters full production for faster agentic AI inference

Nvidia said its Groq 3 LPX inference accelerator is now in full production, a move that could speed up agentic AI systems used worldwide...

Tuesday 25 August 2026

SpaceXAI to use Nvidia Vera CPUs for faster agentic AI at scale

SpaceXAI plans to deploy Nvidia's new Vera CPUs to speed up agentic AI workloads, a move that could influence how advanced AI systems...

Tuesday 25 August 2026

Broadcom's debt push signals AI compute is becoming Wall Street asset class

The AI infrastructure race is entering a phase where access to silicon is no longer the only constraint. As compute demand expands into multi-gigawatt projects, the industry is increasingly...

Tuesday 25 August 2026

SK Hynix and Alibaba tackle the next AI bottleneck: getting more value per chip

The AI infrastructure race has been marked by a near-fixated drive to expand AI-powered buildouts, as demand for increasingly complex chip configurations pushes against the physical...

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