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Monday 9 June 2025
Middle East Stargate project reportedly faces US pressure to ban Chinese engineers
The Stargate UAE project, a major AI initiative backed by US tech firms, is facing delays due to unresolved US security reviews and export control conditions, according to reports from Reuters and Wccftech. The concerns center on potential technology leakage to China, despite the UAE's commitment to comply with US national security requirements.
Monday 9 June 2025
Shibaura takeover heats up as Yageo moves closer to Japan's regulatory green light
Taiwan-based Yageo Corporation has refiled its foreign investment application under Japan's Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act (FEFTA) as of June 2, in a renewed bid to acquire Shibaura Electronics. The move signals Yageo's growing confidence in clearing regulatory scrutiny—a key barrier that has held back its unsolicited tender offer since February.
Monday 9 June 2025
Quantum computing sidelined amid AI hardware boom
While ChatGPT and DeepSeek have already demonstrated the remarkable results that generative artificial intelligence applications can achieve using graphics processing units, the outlook for quantum computers driving AI remains uncertain.
Monday 9 June 2025
Taiwan EMS giants deepen smart healthcare push with AI
With AI transforming industries worldwide, major Taiwanese firms such as Foxconn, Quanta, and Inventec are accelerating their efforts in smart healthcare, recognizing its synergy with information and communications technology (ICT) and vast market potential. These companies have been investing in healthcare technology for over a decade, but recent AI advancements and improved digital infrastructure are enabling them to scale more sophisticated solutions.
Monday 9 June 2025
Inventec forecasts server-led expansion with tepid notebook outlook

Inventec reported modest notebook shipment growth in May and continued strength in its server business, which it expects to remain the primary driver of growth for 2025. The company remains cautious about full-year notebook performance, noting that second-half demand remains uncertain. Nonetheless, it projects a slight year-over-year increase in NB shipments.

Monday 9 June 2025
Wistron ITS sets record revenue for Jan–May 2025, unveils AI-driven growth strategy on 33rd anniversary
Wistron ITS (WITS), a subsidiary of the Wistron Group, reported consolidated revenue of NT$890 million (approx. US$29.83 million) for May, setting a new record high for the month. Although the ongoing appreciation of the New Taiwan dollar contributed to a 4.7% decline compared to the previous month, revenue still rose by 5.4% year-on-year. For the first five months of 2025, cumulative revenue reached NT$4.465 billion (approx. US$150 million), reflecting an 8.5% annual growth and maintaining a steady upward trajectory.
Monday 9 June 2025
Taiwan's Yageo plans to keep Shibaura's AI technology in Japan
Taiwan's Yageo Corp. said it would keep Shibaura Electronics Co.'s most advanced technology in Japan if it successfully acquires the artificial intelligence (AI) sensor maker.
Monday 9 June 2025
Largan chairman offers rare insights on robotics, smart glasses opportunities
Largan Precision Chairman En-Ping Lin, known for keeping a low public profile, provided unusually detailed commentary on emerging technology trends, addressing international expansion opportunities in robotics and smart glasses.
Monday 9 June 2025
Weekly news roundup: Arm's rebrand, Huawei's R&D blitz, and Asia's rising AI chip challengers
These are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories from June 2 to June 8, 2025. Top highlights include Arm's strategic rebrand and entry into proprietary chip design, Huawei's aggressive R&D-driven resurgence, and growing momentum across Asia in AI semiconductors and advanced packaging. As global tech giants recalibrate in response to shifting supply chain dynamics, export controls, and rising open-source threats, the week's top stories reflect deepening fault lines—and fresh opportunities—across the semiconductor and system architecture landscape.
Sunday 8 June 2025
Cloud ASIC market gains momentum as AI demand soars
The cloud application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) market continues to gather steam as both the US and Taiwanese semiconductor players ramp up investments and innovation to meet growing AI demand. From Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) highlighting persistent shortages in AI chip production capacity to sustained revenue growth at key ASIC developers, the sector is becoming a new focal point in the post-GPU era.
Sunday 8 June 2025
Aurotek eyes new growth curve through smart robotics push
As Taiwan faces mounting demographic challenges — an aging population and declining birth rate — Aurotek Corporation, a leading automation solutions provider, is placing a bold bet on robotics and artificial intelligence as future growth engines.
Saturday 7 June 2025
Amazon opens Taiwan cloud hub with US$5 billion pledge
Amazon.com Inc. launched its AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) regional data center, committing over US$5 billion for construction and operations in Taiwan to serve customers across the region with reduced latency.
Saturday 7 June 2025
MediaTek executive: AI still in early phase, edge inference to drive chip growth
The NTU SoC Center hosted a forward-looking technology forum on June 5, 2025, with artificial intelligence (AI) robotics as the central theme. During the event, MediaTek senior director Bor-Sung Liang highlighted the evolving nature of AI development and the emerging semiconductor opportunities it presents for Taiwan.
Saturday 7 June 2025
Sam Altman: AI agents will reshape business by 2026
At a recent summit hosted by US cloud database provider Snowflake, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared his vision for the future of artificial intelligence (AI), predicting that by 2026, AI agents will evolve to assist in solving complex business challenges and even help humans "discover" new knowledge.
Friday 6 June 2025
Can Huawei break Nvidia's hold? 2 key issues undercut Ascend 910C push
Huawei's efforts to displace Nvidia as the leading AI chip supplier in China with its Ascend 910C processor are facing significant setbacks. Industry insiders cite both entrenched software ecosystems and persistent performance issues, particularly overheating, as major obstacles. Nvidia's CUDA platform remains widely adopted and deeply integrated into China's tech infrastructure, limiting Huawei's appeal among private-sector developers.
Friday 6 June 2025
Flex partners with MIT to advance the future of US manufacturing

Global manufacturing and supply chain solutions provider Flex announced on June 5 a strategic collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to support its newly launched Initiative for New Manufacturing (INM) — an ambitious, campus-wide effort aimed at redefining industrial production in the US.

Friday 6 June 2025
Samsung's acting DX division head launches 'ABC' transformation to drive future growth
Samsung Electronics Device eXperience (DX) Division acting head Roh Tae-Moon recently introduced the core concept of the future growth strategy called "ABC," aiming to strengthen existing core areas while actively exploring emerging growth businesses.
Friday 6 June 2025
Broadcom reports strong earnings growth on robust AI-driven demand and VMWare boost
Broadcom reported a 20.2% year-over-year revenue jump to a record US$15 billion in the second quarter of fiscal 2025, driven by surging demand for AI chips and strong contributions from VMware, with profit more than doubling amid improved operating margins.
Friday 6 June 2025
Broadcom sees sustained AI momentum, eyes continued growth through fiscal 2026
Broadcom delivered a strong second-quarter performance for fiscal 2025, with AI-driven growth continuing to dominate the company's outlook. In the earnings call, President and CEO Hock E. Tan emphasized a marked uptick in AI inference workloads, highlighting a broader shift among customers from training to deployment as they monetize their AI platforms. The company now expects its AI semiconductor business to maintain a 60% year-over-year growth trajectory into fiscal 2026, underscoring strong demand visibility and deployment momentum across hyperscale clients.
Friday 6 June 2025
The AI chip wars: ASIC uprising challenges Nvidia's crown as TSMC takes all
As Nvidia tightens its near-monopoly grip on the AI GPU market, tech giants and chipmakers are accelerating efforts to develop and mass-produce ASICs, signaling a brewing showdown between Nvidia's GPU empire and a rising ASIC coalition. At the center of this technological arms race stands TSMC, poised to profit regardless of the outcome.
Friday 6 June 2025
OpenAI launches first overseas academy in India to boost AI learning
OpenAI has partnered with the Indian government's IndiaAI Mission under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to launch OpenAI Academy India, the first international rollout of its education platform, according to Mint, Business Today, and Business World.
Friday 6 June 2025
Microsoft CEO says OpenAI alliance changing but remains strong
Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella said his company's crucial partnership with OpenAI is changing, but remains strong.
Thursday 5 June 2025
Huawei cloud unit claims AI model breakthrough with new training method
Huawei's cloud division said its Pangu large language model achieved a breakthrough in training architecture with a new "Mixture of Group Experts" technology that outperforms competing methods in efficiency and resource allocation.
Thursday 5 June 2025
Nvidia surge powers Wistron to record revenue as AI server boom accelerates
Wistron Corporation reported a record-high monthly revenue in May, exceeding NT$200 billion (US$6.68 billion) for the first time, fueled by robust demand for AI servers. The company expects AI server shipments to sustain triple-digit sequential growth throughout the second quarter, with volumes increasing steadily month over month. Wistron is a major supplier of mainboards for Nvidia's AI accelerators.
Thursday 5 June 2025
Qualcomm, Advantech double down on Taiwan IoT partnership as AI drives demand
Qualcomm and Advantech are deepening their Internet of Things collaboration as artificial intelligence and automation reshape industrial markets globally.
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