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Monday 5 January 2026

iPhone 17 sales surge lifts Apple past 20% share in China

Apple's iPhone 17 series has driven a notable recovery in China, pushing the company's market share back above 20% and lifting monthly...

Monday 5 January 2026

Weekly news roundup: TSMC widens 2 nm edge as South Korea boosts chip spending; Huawei eyes memory bottlenecks

These are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories in the week of Dec 29 - Jan 4.

Monday 5 January 2026

SK Telecom unveils South Korea's first 500-billion-parameter AI model A.X K1

South Korea's leading telecom operator SK Telecom (SKT) has introduced A.X K1, a 500-billion-parameter AI model developed under a national AI initiative to establish a foundational...

Monday 5 January 2026

Asus pulls back from smartphone market after two decades of losses

Asus announced on January 2, 2026, that it will not release any new smartphones this year, effectively suspending a mobile business the Taiwanese hardware giant has sustained for more...

Monday 5 January 2026

Foxconn opens year with dual push into automotive electronics and AI computing at CES 2026

Against a backdrop of cyclical adjustment and structural transformation in the global electronics industry, Foxconn Technology Group is...

Monday 5 January 2026

Taiwan fortifies silicon shield with 2026 push to set global chip agenda

As AI server and semiconductor companies look set to close out a profitable 2025, recent Chinese military encirclement exercises and live-fire drills around Taiwan have once again...

Saturday 3 January 2026

Asus halts 2026 smartphone plans, eyes entry into drone and AI glass markets

Asustek Computer has confirmed it will not launch any new smartphones in 2026, effectively scaling back its mobile device business. At the same time, the company emphasized that after-sales...

Saturday 3 January 2026

Commentary: When the grid can't keep up with the algorithm

Artificial intelligence continues to be the central force behind the upcoming productivity revolution. Yet in the US, foundational energy constraints threaten to stall progress. The...

Friday 2 January 2026

Asus to pause new smartphone launches in 2026, maintain mobile operations

Smartphone distributors in Taiwan have recently said they are no longer able to obtain Asus handsets through local agents and claimed they had received information indicating that...

Friday 2 January 2026

Taiwan networking firms expect 2026 growth as AI drives switch upgrades and Wi‑Fi 7 adoption

Taiwanese networking companies are broadly optimistic about returning to growth in 2026 as an AI-driven expansion moves beyond chips and servers into network transmission layers, and...

Friday 2 January 2026

Twoway chair indicted in Taiwan for alleged attempted breach of trust

Twoway Group announced on December 31, 2025, that its chairperson, Bi-shuang Chen, along with other business personnel, has been indicted by the Taoyuan District Prosecutors' Office...

Friday 2 January 2026

Budget impasse halts Taiwan's first quantum-classical hybrid platform, undermining computing sovereignty

Taiwan's push to build strategic AI, robotics, and quantum computing infrastructure is facing delays after the National Science and Technology Council's (NSTC) NT$10.85 billion (approx...

Friday 2 January 2026

Power supply chain weighs price hikes, long-term contracts as copper price increases

In the midst of the global energy transition, expanding AI infrastructure, and rising electricity demand, international copper prices have recently remained at high levels, bringing...

Friday 2 January 2026

Smartphones and notebook prices could increase as memory lead times extend

Demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) is crowding out production capacity for consumer memory. Despite capacity expansions by major memory makers, including Micron, Samsung, and SK...

Friday 2 January 2026

Chunghwa Telecom upgrades certificate governance, applies for Chrome root trust list

Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) announced on December 31, 2025, that its CHT Trust Root CA has completed a six-month systematic overhaul and top-level comprehensive review, achieving an organizational...

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