Qualcomm outlined a clear roadmap for its next phase of growth, focusing on data centers and extended reality during its fourth-quarter fiscal 2025 earnings call. The company's leaders described how Qualcomm's power-efficient chip designs and expanding role in artificial intelligence and smart devices will fuel future revenue opportunities.
Qualcomm ended fiscal 2025 with solid revenue growth but saw profits tumble due to a one-time US$5.7 billion non-cash tax charge linked to new US tax legislation. Despite the hit, the company projected up to US$12.6 billion in revenue for the first quarter of fiscal 2026, signaling resilient chip demand.
LG Electronics continues to diversify its operations, strengthening both R&D and sales efforts in home appliances, displays, and air conditioning for consumer markets, while pursuing new growth opportunities through innovation and expansion.
With the continuous rollout of various edge AI application projects, industrial PC (IPC) provider Winmate has seen steady growth in both revenue and profitability, achieving record highs in revenue, net profit, and earnings per share (EPS) in the third quarter of 2025. In addition to continuing its global expansion, the company plans to focus on target industries and further advance edge AI application solutions.
In less than a week, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has orchestrated two of the largest national AI infrastructure deals in history—first delivering 260,000 AI chips to South Korea, then unveiling a EUR1 billion (US$1.15 billion) AI factory in Germany. The rapid-fire announcements signal a deliberate strategy: building sovereign AI capabilities that allow nations to control their own technological destinies.
Nvidia has officially ushered in the "quantum GPU computing era" by unveiling NVQLink, claimed to be the world's first architecture connecting quantum systems with classical CPU and GPU-based systems. CEO Jensen Huang announced this breakthrough at GTC Washington.
The Incheon Free Economic Zone (IFEZ) Authority has concluded its fifth annual Boom-Up Festival at Incheon Startup Park. The event, themed "Beyond Limits, Toward Unicorns," underscored Incheon's goal to become the center of South Korea's innovation economy.
Despite tariff and exchange rate uncertainties clouding the global outlook, Taiwan's machinery industry remains on its growth track in 2025, supported by strong demand from the AI and semiconductor sectors, said David Chuang, chairman of the Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry (TAMI).
The Content Overseas Distribution Association (CODA) of Japan has formally requested that OpenAI cease using Japanese copyrighted materials to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models and respond transparently to related allegations.
The traditional year-end peak for notebook shipments has failed to materialize in the fourth quarter of 2025, with demand weaker than even the typically slow midyear months. Supply chain executives blame early inventory pull-ins tied to US tariff concerns and fading consumer appetite in major markets, signaling that this year's holiday shopping season may disappoint.
In Learning Resources v. Trump, the administration states that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) of 1977 authorizes the president to impose tax rates on any country at any level. On November 5, 2025, the US Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether US President Donald Trump has overstepped federal law with his tariff impositions. Both the US Court of International Trade (CIT) and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) have previously ruled that Trump did not have power under the IEEPA to set tariffs under the alleged national emergency.
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