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Thursday 9 April 2026

AmTRAN's high-value product shipments boost 1Q26 revenue

AmTRAN reported stable shipments of high-value products, supported by a return to normal working days following the Lunar New Year and renewed customer demand. These factors have pushed the company's March revenue to reach NT$2.4 billion (approx. US$73.8 million), up 44% from February and 11% higher than the same month in 2025, demonstrating strong growth momentum.

Thursday 9 April 2026

Column: Embodied AI reshapes real-world automation marks ChatGPT moment for robots

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated three surprising capabilities in recent years: generalization—providing reasonable answers to unseen questions; multitasking—handling programming, translation, financial analysis, and legal interpretation within a single model; and reasoning—breaking down complex problems into stepwise solutions. Together, these abilities have triggered a paradigm shift in the digital world.

Thursday 9 April 2026

ODMs erase seasonal slump as notebooks and AI servers drive March surge

Electronic ODM makers' surge in March revenue, driven by accelerated notebook orders and booming AI server demand, erased the typical first-quarter slump, with implications for global device supply chains and enterprise AI deployments. As major assemblers outperform expectations and reshape shipment and stocking patterns heading into the second quarter of 2026, component markets are poised to benefit.

Thursday 9 April 2026

Chenbro Micom sees AI-driven hardware surge bolstering global data center deployments

Chenbro Micom's strong March and first-quarter 2026 results underscore accelerating global demand for data center hardware driven by end-user AI, suggesting broader supply-chain and infrastructure implications for cloud providers, enterprises, and regional production strategies as companies scale up servers, storage, and networking gear to meet worldwide AI workload needs.

Thursday 9 April 2026

Aspeed and ASMedia propelled to top IC design ranks

Although Taiwanese firms have largely missed the core AI chip development battlefield, a few with critical technological barriers have broken through—most notably Aspeed and ASMedia. These two companies boast remarkable profitability and capital market performance that even outpace MediaTek, Taiwan's largest IC design firm. Significantly, their founding management teams mostly originated from the once-dominant PC chipset giants Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) and VIA Technologies.

Thursday 9 April 2026

India's measured reset with China highlights trade dependence and strategic calculus

India is cautiously recalibrating its economic relationship with China, easing restrictions on trade and investment while balancing supply chain needs with strategic concerns, according to government documents and multiple media reports.

Thursday 9 April 2026

Alibaba tightens AI strategy with CEO-led committee and executive reshuffle

Alibaba is restructuring its artificial intelligence (AI) leadership, forming a new CEO-led technology committee and streamlining executive responsibilities in a bid to accelerate innovation and stay competitive in China's fast-moving AI race.

Thursday 9 April 2026

Samsung Foundry launches new 2nm temperature sensor IP to improve chip thermal and area efficiency

Samsung Electronics' foundry division has introduced a new temperature sensor intellectual property (IP) designed to address heat dissipation and area efficiency challenges in advanced 2nm process nodes. Industry experts view this move as Samsung's strategic effort to secure a technological edge over competitors.

Thursday 9 April 2026

MetaOptics claims three-year lead in advanced micro-optics

MetaOptics' emphasis on 150nm direct-write semiconductor techniques could reshape global supply chains for advanced micro-optics, promising higher optical efficiency and a manufacturing edge over imprint methods that struggle below 200nm. The development may affect suppliers, device makers, and research collaborations worldwide that are seeking compact, high-performance imaging components, thereby accelerating commercialization timelines.

Thursday 9 April 2026

Microloops rides AI boom, aims to double 2026 revenue

Cooling module manufacturer Microloops has said its major cloud service provider (CSP) customer has been increasing pull-ins starting in the second quarterof 2026, driving significant growth in cooling product shipments related to artificial intelligence (AI) servers. This is expected to boost the share of AI-related cooling products in overall revenue quarter by quarter.

Thursday 9 April 2026

Corning's shift into AI server components could reshape data-center energy and supply-chain dynamics

Corning marks its 175th anniversary in 2026, celebrating a long history of materials innovation that began with contributions to Thomas Edison's light bulb and later the optical fiber revolution. The company positions itself at the center of a new technological transformation driven by AI infrastructure needs.

Thursday 9 April 2026

Apple hit by Mac shipping delays as DRAM shortage intensifies

Apple's US online store is currently showing extreme shipping delays of 4-5 months for several upgraded RAM configurations of the Mac mini and Mac Studio, highlighting a severe supply bottleneck in its high-end desktop lineup.

Thursday 9 April 2026

Nvidia demo highlights China's role in humanoid robot hardware

Nvidia, Google, and Tesla are driving the humanoid robotics race, but competition is shifting to the hardware supply chain. The US leads in AI models and advanced chips, while China's manufacturing ecosystem is becoming central to global humanoid robot production.

Thursday 9 April 2026

French President's visit reportedly links Mistral AI with Samsung for AI memory supply talks

French AI startup Mistral AI recently visited Samsung Electronics' campus to discuss collaboration on AI memory solutions. Industry analysts see this move as part of Mistral AI's push to build Europe's largest AI infrastructure, signaling Samsung as a key partner for memory chips.

Wednesday 8 April 2026

AI server cooling demand boosts heat sink makers' growth outlook

Heat sink manufacturers continue to benefit from the surge in AI-driven server growth, with Asia Vital Components (AVC), Auras, and Jentech all posting record-high revenues in March 2026. Liquid cooling solutions are the main driver behind this momentum. Industry players note that liquid cooling units command average prices several times higher than air-cooling modules. As 2026 is set to be the inaugural year for widespread liquid cooling adoption, its share will keep rising, ensuring strong growth momentum throughout 2026.

Wednesday 8 April 2026

US-China tech clash over chips intensifies ahead of summit, with global supply-chain implications

As US and Chinese leaders prepared for a mid-May summit, proposed US export controls on semiconductor equipment under the MATCH Act and China's sharp state-media rebuttal signaled heightened tech tensions with far-reaching global supply-chain implications. Analysts have characterized the moves as pre-summit leverage that could reshape chip manufacturing and trade flows.

Wednesday 8 April 2026

Chinese SSD maker DapuStor sees rising QLC demand as AI drives storage growth

Chinese enterprise SSD (eSSD) maker DapuStor entered its IPO subscription phase in early April 2026, driven by rapid expansion in AI infrastructure. The company recently observed multiple downstream customers significantly revising their order forecasts upwards after the Lunar New Year holidays. DapuStor highlighted that QLC SSDs are becoming a key trend for North American and Chinese cloud service providers (CSPs) to ease cost and capacity pressures. Its 245TB product has officially reached customer sampling stages.

Wednesday 8 April 2026

Analysis: China's humanoid robot market forms three-player structure at scaling inflection point

China's AgiBot Innovation (Shanghai) Technology has shipped its 10,000th humanoid robot, the Agibot Expedition A3, signalling early mass production at scale. Output doubled from 5,000 units at the end of 2025 within three months. While Tesla's Optimus timeline remains under scrutiny, China's humanoid robot push is already scaling, led by AgiBot, Unitree Robotics, and Ubtech Robotics in an emerging three-player structure.

Wednesday 8 April 2026

Apple leverages supply chain advantage to boost market share despite AI lag

As the industry enters the second quarter of 2026, Apple plans to significantly shift its shipment schedule for iPhones and other consumer electronics, with a base iPhone model possibly debuting early in the quarter. Despite varying views on Apple's AI progress, the company's core strategy for 2026 remains consistent with 2025: aggressively pursuing market share by attracting new users through strong price-performance ratios across smartphones and PCs.

Wednesday 8 April 2026

Corning to showcase breakthrough tech at Touch Taiwan 2026

Corning will present materials and connectivity innovations at Touch Taiwan 2026 in support of global AI infrastructure, semiconductor packaging, and consumer electronics supply chains, signaling potential shifts in how data centers, displays, and automotive interiors are designed and manufactured in the years ahead.

Wednesday 8 April 2026

Chicony Power eyes 2x growth in 2H26 communication power supply on notebook orders, satellite demand

Power supply manufacturer Chicony Power Technology reported on April 7 that its unaudited consolidated revenue for March 2026 reached NT$882 million (approx. US$27.6 million), up 35.92% sequentially, with first-quarter 2026 performance also meeting expectations.

Wednesday 8 April 2026

China's first dedicated supply chain security law raises the compliance stakes

On March 31, Chinese Premier Li Qiang signed Order No. 834 issued by the State Council, which was officially released on April 7 as the Regulations of the State Council on Industrial Chain and Supply Chain Security (hereinafter referred to as the Regulations). The Ministry of Justice released detailed explanations publicly, and the Regulations took immediate effect upon release.

Wednesday 8 April 2026

Nvidia moves to build US$10B AI empire, one acquisition at a time

Since the generative AI (GenAI) boom, Nvidia has leveraged its near-monopoly on AI GPUs to drive explosive profits, with free cash flow reaching US$96.5 billion in fiscal 2026. Coupled with two prior cryptocurrency mining surges in 2017 and 2019, Nvidia's decade-long cash hoard has fueled aggressive acquisitions and investments. Starting with a US$20 billion deal announced in late 2025 to acquire AI chip startup Groq, followed by a recent US$2 billion investment in Marvell, Nvidia is rapidly expanding its moat built on CUDA and GPU technology.

Wednesday 8 April 2026

Arm reportedly plans to sell AGI CPUs in China despite core licensing ban

Arm recently unveiled its first self-developed AGI CPU, marking a significant milestone as the company shifts from a pure technology IP licensor to a standard CPU supplier competing directly with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Ampere, and Intel.

Wednesday 8 April 2026

Humanoid robots drive tactile sensor development as Taiwan firms vie for differentiation

Labor shortages in the service sector are more severe than in manufacturing. This, coupled with its largely unstructured environments, makes it a market urgently keen on adopting AI robots. However, current AI robots still face limitations, including insufficient physical data and the ability to perceive real-world environments—key factors determining whether robots can effectively solve on-site problems.

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