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Wednesday 6 May 2026
Nvidia, AMD expand in Taiwan as US touts strategic ties at SelectUSA Summit
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) said its A+ Industrial Innovation R&D Program has helped attract Nvidia to invest in Taiwan and set up an overseas headquarters in Taipei, while AMD has also received major ministry support to establish a research and development center in the southern city of Tainan.
Wednesday 6 May 2026
AI networking surge pushes Lumentum to record growth

The fiscal third quarter of 2026 results from Lumentum Holdings offered one of the clearest signals yet that a powerful new cycle in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure is underway and that the bottleneck is no longer computing power, but the networks that connect it.

Wednesday 6 May 2026
Anthropic strikes massive cloud pact with Google, highlighting AI industry concentration

A sweeping new agreement between Anthropic and Google Cloud is throwing into sharp relief just how concentrated — and how enormous — the artificial intelligence boom has become.

Wednesday 6 May 2026
Personal feud between Elon Musk and OpenAI cracks open in court as IPO plans loom
The bitter feud between Elon Musk and OpenAI's leadership continues to spill into the open since a trial between the two began last week. This legal fight pits two of the world's most prominent AI creators against each other in a case that could have large ramifications for OpenAI's future.
Wednesday 6 May 2026
GlobalWafers reports weaker quarter as expansion weighs on margins

GlobalWafers said on May 4 that its first-quarter performance reflected a transitional period, as short-term cost pressures and capacity expansion weighed on margins even as demand tied to artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing began to strengthen.

Wednesday 6 May 2026
Flex jumps on 2027 outlook beat, AI data-center unit spinoff plan

Flex shares rose 13% in after-hours trading on May 5 after the electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider forecast fiscal 2027 results above Wall Street expectations and announced plans to spin off its Cloud and Power Infrastructure segment into a separate publicly traded company.

Wednesday 6 May 2026
AMD earnings call: AI is turning CPUs back into the main event

AMD's fiscal first-quarter 2026 earnings call was not just a victory lap for another data center beat. It was a strategic argument from management: AI infrastructure is no longer only an accelerator story. It is becoming a full compute-platform story, where CPUs, GPUs, memory, software, and rack-scale systems all have to move together.

Wednesday 6 May 2026
China's cloud providers raise AI prices as model usage surges
Rising demand for generative AI is prompting major Chinese cloud providers to raise prices for large-scale services and data products, with implications for global AI users and developers, as usage-based billing and efficiency become central to costs and deployment decisions across international markets and could soon influence provider strategies worldwide.
Wednesday 6 May 2026
Analysis: The US$2.5 billion smuggling case hanging over Supermicro's US$40 billion year
Supermicro CEO Charles Liang used the opening of his fiscal third quarter of 2026 earnings call to address a topic unrelated to revenue or margins: the DOJ indictment of former employees for allegedly smuggling AI servers equipped with Nvidia GPUs to China through Southeast Asian transshipment networks.
Wednesday 6 May 2026
Lumentum sees explosive expansion as AI demand fuels record results
Lumentum reported record third-quarter fiscal 2026 results, with revenue rising to US$808 million, reflecting strong year-over-year growth driven by demand for optical components used in AI infrastructure, according to the company.
Wednesday 6 May 2026
DeepSeek pulls multimodal paper after brief release, reveals new visual reasoning approach
DeepSeek briefly released, then removed, a multimodal research paper that offers rare insight into its evolving AI strategy, drawing attention across the developer community.
Wednesday 6 May 2026
From China to Arizona: How AI and TSMC are redrawing Taiwan's economic map
Taiwan's decades-long tilt toward China is giving way to a sharper, US-focused strategy. Semiconductor expansion and surging demand for AI infrastructure are redrawing the island's trade flows — and its industrial ambitions.
Wednesday 6 May 2026
How Plug and Play is bridging Taiwan's deep tech startups with Silicon Valley capital
For much of the past decade, Taiwan watched from the sidelines as global venture capital poured into software. The island's world-class manufacturers, semiconductor giants, and precision hardware suppliers were celebrated — but they weren't what investors were chasing. That window has now closed. Plug and Play, one of the world's largest startup accelerators, has decided the time is ripe for it to make a move into Taiwan.
Tuesday 5 May 2026
Tesla AI5 dual sourcing may not mean equal weight for Samsung
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has confirmed that the company's in-house AI5 chip has completed design tape-out and entered a critical pre-production validation stage. The move has drawn renewed attention from supply chains in Taiwan and South Korea as Tesla builds a scalable computing infrastructure for vehicles, AI training systems, and humanoid robots.
Tuesday 5 May 2026
SEMICON SEA 2026: Delta showcases AI-enabled smart manufacturing
Delta Electronics presented its latest AI-enabled smart manufacturing solutions at SEMICON Southeast Asia 2026, underscoring its efforts to advance efficiency, precision, and scalability in semiconductor packaging production amid intensifying industry demands.
Tuesday 5 May 2026
South Korea eyes memory-led AI order against Nvidia
As AI shifts from training to inference and from single-task use to multi-agent collaboration, South Korea's semiconductor industry is seeking to recast the market around memory rather than GPUs. South Korean academia and industry figures say the AI era will be defined by memory architectures, with the country aiming to build its own framework and challenge an order long dominated by Nvidia.
Tuesday 5 May 2026
Google's TPU push hits Nvidia's neocloud grip

Google's effort to expand its tensor processing units (TPU) beyond its own cloud is meeting resistance from some of the AI infrastructure companies best positioned to distribute alternative chips, with executives from Nebius, Lambda, and CoreWeave saying they do not plan to adopt TPUs anytime soon, according to The Information.

Tuesday 5 May 2026
Another Qualcomm exec joins Intel to lead PC and physical AI unit
Intel has announced that it has appointed Alex Katouzian as head of its Client Computing and Physical AI Division. With this hire, Intel seeks to align its consumer PC business with physical AI applications spanning robotics and AI -enabled devices.
Tuesday 5 May 2026
OpenAI, Anthropic race to lock in enterprise AI deals with Wall Street capital
OpenAI and Anthropic are moving in parallel to build new enterprise AI distribution engines, teaming up with some of the world's largest asset managers to accelerate adoption of their models and unlock commercial returns ahead of potential IPOs.
Tuesday 5 May 2026
Delta Electronics' security tie-up positions it to push into integrated smart buildings
Delta Electronics has moved to consolidate its security brands, aiming to align AI video analytics and cloud services with its building automation strategy. This shift could accelerate its push into the growing smart building market. The integration brings together VIVOTEK and March Networks to jointly target retail, financial services, transportation, factories, and smart cities.
Tuesday 5 May 2026
Analysis: Big Tech's AI tab tops US$700 billion with Google Cloud pulling ahead — but investors are picking sides
The AI spending arms race just got more expensive — and more consequential.
Tuesday 5 May 2026
CHPT posts record April revenue on AI-driven HPC demand
Semiconductor test interface provider Chunghwa Precision Test Tech (CHPT) said its revenue in April 2026 continued to set a new all-time monthly high, driven by rising demand for semiconductor testing linked to artificial intelligence (AI) applications.
Tuesday 5 May 2026
Apple's AI-driven architecture shift could reshape Taiwan supplier roles and industry competition
Apple's product strategy is moving toward an AI-centered architecture, prioritizing on-device intelligence, tighter chip integration, and system-level design, a shift that could change how Taiwan's suppliers compete and collaborate. The company has signaled the direction through recent executive comments and its continued in-house chip work.
Tuesday 5 May 2026
Onsemi sees AI data center and Treo driving revenue and margin recovery
During an earnings call on May 4, Onsemi portrayed its artificial intelligence data center business and new Treo platform as central to a recovery that began in the first quarter, saying improving order patterns and product ramps are translating into higher revenue, expanding gross margins, and stronger cash returns to shareholders.
Tuesday 5 May 2026
SignalPro positions itself as 'translator' to enter AI sensing sector, builds own AI data center as model refinery
Amid the rapid advancement of generative AI and the simultaneous rise of autonomous vehicles and robotics, industry competition is shifting away from pure computing power and hardware scaling toward deeper control of "perception capabilities" and "real-world data."