Ken Phua, former Arm China co-CEO, spent 25 years abroad building someone else's business model. He came home to Singapore to build his own.

The speed of AI data center deployment is raising the bar for power and cooling suppliers. Chipmakers such as Nvidia and AMD are refreshing platforms annually, with each generation bringing sharp increases in power density and thermal requirements. Suppliers that cannot match that pace in R&D or capacity deployment risk missing the next design cycle.

In July, an OpenAI AI agent model successfully bypassed safety restrictions during internal testing and even launched an automated cyberattack against Hugging Face, the world's largest open-source AI community platform, drawing intense attention. The incident, seen as the first publicly disclosed case of "AI attacking the AI ecosystem/platform," underscores how AI's rapid evolution is shifting cyber risk from "humans attacking systems" to "AI attacking AI."

When people talk about responding to supply chain shocks, the instinct is often to stockpile inventory or build backup production lines. However, after visiting Inner Mongolia Shuangjie Saidu Electric with a delegation in June 2026, I came away with a different understanding: true "supply chain resilience" is not created through last-minute crisis fixes. It is embedded in factory layout, product design, business diversification, and service models.

Global AI computing is rapidly moving beyond single-GPU systems toward AI Factory architectures, where agentic AI and inference workloads are pushing data centers to rely on networking, optics, packaging, cooling, power delivery and software co-design rather than raw accelerator counts. In a DIGITIMES interview, Nvidia Senior Vice President of Networking Gilad Shainer said the real unit of computing is now the entire data center, not an individual server.

Google has carried out its biggest artificial intelligence (AI) reorganization since merging Google Brain and DeepMind in 2023, putting Sundar Pichai and Koray Kavukcuoglu at the center of its AI strategy. The move ends the company's three-year scientist-led model and creates a clearer chain of command across research, models, products, and business. The implications extend beyond personnel, suggesting Google is prioritizing execution, accountability, and commercial returns over academic prestige.

DeepSeek's participation in Unitree's Shanghai STAR Market IPO was made at the corporate level, not personally by founder Liang Wenfeng or a fund associated with him.

Taiwan's role in the global AI supply chain is shifting from manufacturing toward engineering, Nvidia networking senior vice president Gilad Shainer told DIGITIMES in an interview. The island, he said, is increasingly serving as an engineering partner for next-generation AI factories rather than simply an assembler.

Driven by global net-zero commitments and China's "dual carbon" goals of peaking carbon emissions before achieving carbon neutrality, Inner Mongolia is rapidly transforming from a traditional resource-based economy into a strategic hub for renewable energy and AI computing infrastructure.

Tech talent has moved from being simply a hiring priority to a matter of national security. As major economies increasingly tie talent to competitiveness and national security, control over its cross-border movement is tightening. That shift is visible today: Taiwan's Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau is probing 17 companies accused of illegally recruiting tech talent in Taiwan, China is preparing to tighten exit controls on key technical workers, and the US continues expanding semiconductor and AI export controls and research security reviews.

The 2026 OCP APAC Summit will take place in Taipei on August 11-12. Ahead of the event, Lightmatter founder and CEO Nicholas Harris spoke exclusively with DIGITIMES about the company's advantages after joining the Nvidia NVLink ecosystem, its technology roadmap and the importance of close collaboration with Taiwan's supply chain.

Suppliers locked supply and price floors through 2030. The collateral protecting them runs out first — and that is when procurement leverage comes back.

Taiwan's hardware manufacturing sector leads globally, but the country's level of investment in cybersecurity software and identity governance still ranks in the back half of the Asia-Pacific region, SailPoint Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau managing director Simon Tai told DIGITIMES in an interview. As the tech industry speeds up digital transformation, remote collaboration, outsourced workflows, and AI agents are increasingly common in enterprise operations, shifting the focus of corporate cybersecurity defenses.

China's State Council has released a revised version of the regulations on the protection of IC layout designs, set to take effect on October 15, 2026. It is the first full overhaul since the rules were issued in 2001, adding protection for photonic and quantum IC designs, increasing punitive damages for intentional infringement, and improving systems for layout design registration, licensing, and rights enforcement.

Nvidia Senior Vice President of Networking Gilad Shainer said the company is building the key network architecture and optical interconnect technologies needed for AI factory deployments at scale, in a DIGITIMES interview ahead of the OCP APAC Summit on August 11-12, 2026. He said the biggest shift in AI factories is that the computing unit is no longer a single server but the entire data center, while Nvidia's announcement that co-packaged optics (CPO) switch has entered mass production signals a new round of upgrades for the optical communications industry and the AI networking market.