DIGITIMES says the most closely watched model in Apple's high-end iPhone 18 lineup, launched in September 2026, is the long-anticipated first foldable smartphone, the iPhone Duo.

DIGITIMES observed that cloud service providers (CSPs) such as Google and AWS will sharply ramp up self-developed ASICs in 2027, lifting high-end cloud AI accelerator shipments to 25.951 million units, up 64.5% year-over-year.

DIGITIMES notes that China continued to advance smart glasses policies from the central government to local governments in 2026, driving both enterprise production and consumer purchase subsidies.

Continued advances in top-tier LLM capabilities, coupled with the potential for business automation enabled by agentic AI, are prompting major North American cloud providers, Neo Clouds, and leading AI labs to accelerate AI data center buildouts in 2026.