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Friday 30 January 2026
MediaTek and Arm-backed Arbor drives layered growth with AI strategy
As generative AI gradually extends from the cloud to enterprise and edge environments, industry competition is shifting from a single high-performance computing platform toward multi-layered application scenarios. With expanding demand across use cases, market competition is evolving from a single technology path to a layered market structure that clearly segments large cloud data centers, enterprise data centers, and Small Office, Home Office (SOHO) personal applications. This segmentation is also reshaping supply chain roles and collaboration.
Friday 30 January 2026
Aspeed profits rise for second year on server upgrade demand

As artificial intelligence (AI) applications expand, the rising scale and density of server computing have placed a premium on system stability. AI servers, characterized by high costs, extreme power consumption and significant heat generation, face the risk of substantial losses from system outages. This has heightened the importance of baseboard management controllers (BMCs), which provide real-time monitoring of voltage, temperature and system status, driving steady growth in Aspeed Technology's operating performance.

Friday 30 January 2026
Altos taps Acer's regional footprint to ride enterprise AI boom, eyes double-digit growth in 2026
Altos Computing, Acer's AI server solutions subsidiary, is optimistic about its 2026 outlook as enterprise AI adoption gains momentum across Asia-Pacific. With a growing project pipeline and rising demand for practical AI deployments, the company expects a significant portion of its opportunities to convert into orders, supporting its double-digit growth goal for the year.
Friday 30 January 2026
South Korea NAND flash gains strategic role in next-gen AI infrastructure

With artificial intelligence (AI) technology advancing at a breakneck pace—particularly as applications move from the training phase to inference—demand for high-capacity, high-performance storage in data centers and embedded devices is surging. Once considered a low-margin segment prone to market volatility, NAND flash has taken on a new strategic role in Nvidia's blueprint for next-generation AI infrastructure, becoming an indispensable component for AI inference workloads.

Friday 30 January 2026
Taiwan pledges equal incentives for US investors under new MOU, with no cap on subsidies
Taiwan is stepping up efforts to anchor global investment at home, offering equal incentives to US and foreign firms even as cross-border commitments under the Taiwan–US Investment Cooperation MOU remain asymmetric.
Friday 30 January 2026
Huawei scales cloud ecosystem in Asia-Pacific; Volcengine surges in AI cloud
Huawei is expanding its public cloud business across overseas markets, refining its partner strategy, and advancing its "platform plus ecosystem" model in Asia-Pacific. The company said that by the end of 2025, Huawei Cloud had more than 40 master distributors and over 50 cloud service provider partners outside China, serving over 4,000 customers globally. In the Asia-Pacific region, the company has become the region's fastest-growing public cloud provider, supported by service teams in more than 10 locations.
Friday 30 January 2026
MediaTek, Alchip, Marvell clash for ASIC runner-up spot
The competition among cloud service providers (CSPs) and AI companies for application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) has entered a new phase with Microsoft officially launching its Maia 200 chip. Industry forecasts indicate that 2027 will be a breakout year when multiple major players ramp up ASIC production simultaneously.
Friday 30 January 2026
Record Taipower profit masks rising pressure from AI data centers on Taiwan's power system
Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) announced a net profit of NT$72.9 billion (approx. US$2.32 billion) for 2025, setting a new single-year earnings record and surpassing its previous high of NT$61.7 billion in 2015. The results, released at a recent board meeting, were driven by electricity tariff increases and lower international fuel costs amid ongoing financial challenges.
Thursday 29 January 2026
Foxconn Industrial Internet drives growth in high-end computing market through cloud and AI server focus
Foxconn's subsidiary, Foxconn Industrial Internet (FII), is accelerating its operational shift toward the high-performance computing market, driven by dual engines of cloud and AI businesses. FII highlighted that in 2025, cloud service provider (CSP) related operations will become the main growth driver, especially as AI servers and high-performance general-purpose servers ramp up. This expansion in cloud product lines not only fuels rapid revenue growth but also significantly enhances FII's product mix and profitability structure.
Thursday 29 January 2026
Analysis: AI server power shifts to rack-level architectures as Delta, Liteon take lead

As artificial intelligence (AI) development accelerates, power consumption across computing platforms is climbing sharply. Competition among data and computing centers is no longer limited to server specifications or the efficiency of individual power supply units. Instead, it is moving toward rack-level integration of power distribution, cooling, energy storage, and monitoring, with implications extending into broader infrastructure design.

Thursday 29 January 2026
Celestica posts sharp revenue gains as cloud and AI spending rise

Celestica, a global supplier of data center infrastructure and advanced technology manufacturing, reported sharply higher revenue and earnings in the fourth quarter of 2025, a performance that reflects the accelerating demand for artificial intelligence–driven computing systems and the company's growing role in the global AI supply chain.

Thursday 29 January 2026
Microsoft tops US$50b cloud milestone as AI capex surges and Copilot adoption accelerates

Microsoft's earnings conference call for the fiscal second quarter of 2026 underscored a company accelerating into an AI-first era—while also confronting investor scrutiny over the scale of its infrastructure spending.

Thursday 29 January 2026
Microsoft faces $625B backlog bottleneck as AI infrastructure limits bite
Microsoft's latest financial results point to accelerating demand for AI and cloud infrastructure, with Intelligent Cloud growth approaching 30% year on year. The figures underline mounting pressure on data center capacity and capital spending, signaling continued tightness across the AI infrastructure supply chain.
Thursday 29 January 2026
Tesla bets future on custom chips as profit plunges 64%
Tesla's latest earnings showed softer vehicle demand but improving margins, while management and analysts focused on the company's accelerating investments in custom chips, AI compute, and robotics as key to sustaining growth across its automotive, autonomy, and energy businesses.
Thursday 29 January 2026
Meta targets 2026 for massive AI infra push following solid earnings
Meta Platforms' latest results point to a sustained escalation in AI infrastructure investment, with capex set to rise sharply in 2026. The outlook suggests growing implications for data center capacity, chip demand, and the broader AI supply chain, even as investors weigh rising costs against resilient earnings.
Thursday 29 January 2026
Seagate's nearline capacity booked through 2027 as AI datacenters fuel storage boom
Seagate Technology posted record revenue, profit, and total storage capacity shipped in the second quarter of fiscal year 2026 (2QFY26, ended January 2), fueled by strong AI-driven data center demand, with its nearline storage capacity for 2026 fully booked.
Thursday 29 January 2026
IPC cost and memory supply pressures accelerate product upgrades
The surge in AI demand is driving massive memory consumption, pushing the memory industry into a bullish phase. Market consensus expects tight memory supply and demand conditions to ease only by 2028. This shift is impacting industrial PC (IPC) manufacturers not just through short-term inventory fluctuations but evolving into mid- to long-term structural changes. IPC players are now comprehensively adjusting pricing mechanisms, product platforms, and procurement strategies to adapt to this new environment.
Thursday 29 January 2026
How Sega's US$5 million lifeline saved Nvidia from collapse
In a recent interview with Jodi Shelton, Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, reflected on a life spent in near-constant motion. After years of crisscrossing the globe, he said, there are three places where he always lands with a sense of joy: Hawaii, Taiwan, and Japan.
Wednesday 28 January 2026
Phison's Pascari SSDs power world's first lunar data center, set new reliability benchmark
Taiwan's leading NAND controller and storage solution provider, Phison Electronics Corp., recently announced that its enterprise SSD brand Pascari has partnered with US space data company Lonestar Data Holdings on the award-winning Freedom Mission, a milestone project highlighting the rising strategic importance of secure and resilient data storage in the AI era.
Wednesday 28 January 2026
Corning signs up to US$6 billion supply agreement with Meta for US data center expansion
Corning and Meta Platforms have agreed to a multiyear deal valued at up to US$6 billion to supply optical fiber, cable, and connectivity solutions for Meta's US data center expansion. The agreement aims to support Meta's applications, technologies, and AI infrastructure needs.
Wednesday 28 January 2026
Lightmatter leverages Taiwan ecosystem to bridge the gap between photonics prototypes and production
Lightmatter is hosting its Tech Day in Taiwan on January 28, 2026, following the announcement of strategic partnerships with Global Unichip Corp. (GUC), Cadence Design Systems, and Synopsys. The company is positioning itself to advance AI infrastructure and accelerate the commercialization of co‑packaged optics (CPO) solutions.
Wednesday 28 January 2026
TI sees uneven recovery: Industrial rebuilds and data center booms, but consumer electronics fade
Texas Instruments' latest commentary during its Q4 2025 earnings call on January 27, 2026, shows a company increasingly shaped by industrial, automotive, and data center demand, even as consumer-facing segments remain uneven. Management framed fourth-quarter results as broadly in line with expectations, while emphasizing that the mix of end markets—not pricing—is driving both near-term performance and longer-term strategy.
Tuesday 27 January 2026
Taipower taps Westinghouse for nuclear restart safety checks in the face of AI power surge and net-zero pressures
Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) has launched autonomous safety inspections for the planned restart of its second and third nuclear power plants, targeting submission of formal reactivation plans by March 2026, as Taiwan grapples with rising electricity demand from AI data centers and mounting net-zero carbon commitments.
Tuesday 27 January 2026
US shows endorsement of Taiwan industry by granting MFN status on Section 232 tariffs, Taiwan officials say
Taiwan's finance minister and central bank governor have welcomed the US promise to extend most-favored-nation treatment under Section 232 tariffs, calling it a strong endorsement of Taiwan's industries in the trade negotiations between the two countries.
Tuesday 27 January 2026
AI and localization reshape China's semiconductor supply chain as price hikes arrive
After navigating pandemic tailwinds, US-China conflicts, and tariffs under US President Donald Trump, the global semiconductor and electronics industries are emerging from inventory adjustments and price bottoms starting in 2025. While China's electronics sector has yet to fully recover, AI infrastructure, high-performance computing (HPC), automotive, and industrial control applications are driving a new AI-led pricing cycle across components and semiconductor supply chains.