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Monday 2 November 2026
Schneider and Foxconn accelerate modular AI factory deployment as token usage surges 60-Fold
The boom in generative AI is rapidly driving demand for data center construction, making power supply, cooling, and energy management central challenges for AI infrastructure. Speaking...
Monday 2 November 2026
Samsung partners with PXPay to bolster Samsung Wallet in Taiwan
Samsung Electronics Taiwan is partnering with local mobile payment platform PXPay as part of its expansion of Samsung Wallet applications. The move, announced on October 30 with services...
Monday 2 November 2026
Lite-On boosts 2027 capex as AI race raises stakes for CSPs
Lite-On Technology will continue increasing capital expenditure in 2027 as cloud service providers (CSPs) pour money into the artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure race, president...
Monday 2 November 2026
Dixon maps AI hardware expansion through Inventec, Gemtek, prospective packaging partners
Dixon Technologies is pursuing separate partnerships for servers, optical communications, and advanced semiconductor packaging as it seeks a role in AI infrastructure manufacturing,...
Monday 2 November 2026
Foxconn's FII, FIT join forces to tackle AI data center bottlenecks beyond computing power
Foxconn subsidiaries Foxconn Interconnect Technology (FIT) and Foxconn Industrial Internet (FII) are combining their expertise in computing, connectivity, power delivery and cooling...
Monday 2 November 2026
Exclusive: Metal adhesion poses challenge for aluminum nitride in AI optics
As AI and large-scale data center buildouts drive up data transmission speeds, heat is becoming increasingly concentrated in key components. This has drawn attention to ceramic substrates...
Monday 2 November 2026
India's Mivi opens electronics plant in Hyderabad as it moves into smartphones
Indian consumer electronics brand Mivi has inaugurated an INR2 billion (approx. US$21.05 million) research, development, and manufacturing facility at E-City in Tukkuguda, Hyderabad,...
Monday 2 November 2026
Lite-On reports record third-quarter profit as AI revenue exceeds 30%
Lite-On Technology reported record net profit for the third quarter of 2026 as demand for AI infrastructure boosted its cloud and power businesses. The Taiwanese electronics supplier...
Monday 2 November 2026
Nvidia's Korea robotics push gains ground as LG starts data factory operations
Nvidia's robotics partnerships in South Korea are moving beyond initial agreements, with LG Electronics beginning partial operations at its robot-training Data Factory and LG Innotek...
Sunday 1 November 2026
TWM's BNPL users rise 49.9% as Taiwan targets gig-worker demand
Taiwan Mobile (TWM) said its buy now, pay later (BNPL) service is expanding beyond e-commerce checkout to travel, pet care, and other consumer scenarios, driven by the growth of atypical...
Saturday 31 October 2026
Global smartphone shipments fall 14% as brands launch more 5G models
Global smartphone shipments fell an estimated 14% year-over-year in the first three quarters of 2026, even as the number of new 5G smartphone models rose 18.4%, according to DIGITIMES...
Saturday 31 October 2026
MediaTek raises ASIC outlook as fourth-quarter revenue could jump 32%
MediaTek reported third-quarter 2026 revenue of NT$168.06 billion (US$5.17 billion), up 10.4% quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) and 18.3% year-over-year, and projected fourth-quarter revenue...
Saturday 31 October 2026
Renesas expands AI data center capacity, targets 33.2% margin in 2026
Japan’s Renesas Electronics expects strong demand for AI data centers, industrial applications, and automotive semiconductors to drive 2026 revenue to JPY1.6668 trillion (US$10.55...
Saturday 31 October 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: Arm extends from IP licensing to server CPU products, with strong growth potential in China
Arm is expanding its business model from licensing Neoverse core IP and compute subsystem (CSS) technologies to selling finished server CPUs for artificial general intelligence (AGI)...
Saturday 31 October 2026
Interview: Why this Taiwan mmWave maker chose to sidestep SpaceX and look to niche markets for demand
Millimeter-wave (mmWave) technology was previously used mainly in military and aerospace applications, where costs were extremely high. Now, as high-frequency communications and non-terrestrial...