South Korea's private data center market is set to expand rapidly as generative AI demand drives a global investment boom, with AI infrastructure, power supply, geographic dispersion, and data sovereignty reshaping the industry's development path. Jong-hyun Shin, a researcher at the Korea Data Center Council (KDCC), said 2028 is expected to be the peak year for data centers finishing construction.

ASRock Rack, a subsidiary of Pegatron Group's ASRock Inc., has won an order to supply 587 GPU servers equipped with Nvidia B200 accelerators to Japan-based AI infrastructure provider Datasection Inc., the two firms announced. The systems are contracted for deployment at Datasection's AI data center near Bangkok, Thailand, and will serve as a dedicated high-performance computing platform for US companies.

JCET has opened a new advanced manufacturing facility at its Chengdong production base in Jiangyin, strengthening the Chinese OSAT provider's push into advanced packaging for AI computing, power modules, and next-generation data centers.

Aspeed chairman Chris Lin said on June 3 that rapid growth in agentic AI is boosting demand for AI and general-purpose servers, with the chip maker's main constraint now supply-chain capacity rather than orders. He said the company already has visibility into a large volume of 2027 orders as customers rush to secure supply.

Aewin announced a push into two-phase direct liquid cooling to address rising data center thermal demands as rack power consumption moves past 100kW, with demonstrations and product plans shown at COMPUTEX 2026 and a roadmap targeting commercial shipments in 2026 and scaled volume in 2027. The company positioned its two-phase direct liquid cooling, or 2P DLC, as a core element of a broader cooling stack that spans data centers to edge sites and as an infrastructure contributor to Qisda Group’s AI strategy.

Taiwan Mobile announced at Computex 2026 that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with GMI Cloud to expand AI data center and high-end compute services across emerging markets in Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia, the Americas, and Europe. The firms said the agreement aims to deliver AI data center offerings that comply with local regulations and cybersecurity standards while competing for cross-border compute business.

Qisda is accelerating its transformation into an AI solutions provider amid the intensifying AI race. President Cally Ko has highlighted changes to the company's AI roadmap since taking the helm, aiming to build a full AI ecosystem spanning data centers, edge computing, and vertical applications by integrating hardware and software resources across the group.

After years of supplying camera modules for consumer electronics, Taiwanese imaging company Altek is betting its future on a different vision: helping robots, drones, and autonomous machines understand the physical world.

As artificial intelligence moves beyond cloud-based chatbots and into factories, hospitals and warehouses, industrial computing company Advantech is positioning itself at the center of what it sees as the next phase of the AI revolution: the rise of edge and physical AI.

Phison Electronics CEO K.S. Pua said the company is moving beyond its roots as an IC component supplier and repositioning itself as a system solutions provider, warning that AI-driven memory shortages could become more severe in 2027 than in the second half of 2026.

Jensen Huang arrived in Seoul on June 5 for what looked like a replay of his Taiwan trip — meetings with Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, LG Group and Hyundai Motor Group, all companies whose strengths in HBM, advanced packaging, autonomous driving, robotics and smart factories are increasingly tied to Nvidia's future. But his first stop was none of them.

Jensen Huang wrapped up his Taiwan run at GTC Taipei and Computex 2026 and flew to South Korea on June 5. His first stop was not Samsung or SK Hynix. It was Hongdae, where he met T1 star Faker — Lee Sang-hyeok — co-signed an RTX 5090 graphics card, and immediately set the internet on fire.

As artificial intelligence (AI) drives demand for more powerful computing systems and smarter machines, Taiwanese optics manufacturer Ability Opto-Electronics Technology is positioning itself at the intersection of two emerging technology frontiers: metalenses and optical interconnects.

Hiwin Technologies and Qualcomm Inc. announced a partnership at Computex 2026 to integrate Qualcomm Dragonwing Q6 series processors into Hiwin's Load Port products, delivering edge AI capabilities for semiconductor panel-level packaging (PLP) equipment. The collaboration positions Hiwin's Load Port as the smart edge node in front-end modules, aiming to improve real-time image processing, status sensing, and anomaly detection on the equipment side.

Industrial factories are likely to become the first major market for robots at scale, according to Rafael Sotomayor, NXP President and CEO, who said manufacturers want stable systems, dependable performance, and clear financial returns. This view suggests that the earliest gains from robotics may come in places where efficiency improvements are easiest to measure.

Senior US officials have begun exploring a highly unconventional idea: taking equity stakes in leading artificial intelligence companies and using the proceeds to share the gains of the AI boom with the American public.

As artificial intelligence (AI) workloads place unprecedented demands on data storage systems, South Korean SSD controller designer FADU is betting that next-generation storage architecture will become a critical battleground in the AI infrastructure race.

AI rack power density has increased 50 times in five years — and the next jump may be the hardest yet.

When Jensen Huang was asked in Taipei about Samsung Electronics' recent labor dispute, the Nvidia chief executive offered a characteristically direct response.

Anthropic has warned about the deepening capabilities of AI and called for the world to slow down research in frontier models. The startup said that the quickening pace of AI development may make models difficult to control in the coming years.

Alibaba is opening its Qwen AI assistant to external brands and third-party agents, turning the consumer app from a chatbot into a transactional platform for food orders, travel planning, and other everyday services.

As artificial intelligence fuels demand across the electronics supply chain, Taiwanese conductive paste supplier Ample Electronic is seeing a rebound in one of the industry's most overlooked segments: passive components.

Meta has postponed the public release of the application programming interface (API) for its latest AI model, Muse Spark, multiple times since its April debut, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. The delay comes as Meta seeks to turn massive AI investments into sustainable revenue streams and compete more directly with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

Nvidia is moving deeper into humanoid robotics, combining robot hardware, secure computing, world models and developer platforms as AI shifts from digital workloads to physical AI.