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Sunday 1 February 2026
China controls 80% of global AI glasses production
China has become the primary manufacturing and innovation hub for AI glasses, backed by an integrated supply chain. Omdia and IDC forecast global shipments exceeding 10 million units...
Sunday 1 February 2026
LMOC ramps silicon photonics output with new MOCVD expansion plan
LandMark Optoelectronics Corporation (LMOC) reported strong fourth-quarter 2025 performance, driven by a sharp ramp in silicon photonics (SiPh) shipments, with all three profitability...
Sunday 1 February 2026
Transsion profits halved in 2025 because of memory price increases
The smartphone industry is bearing the brunt of rising memory prices, and the impact is most evident in mid- to low-end models. Transsion, the Chinese smartphone maker regarded as...
Sunday 1 February 2026
CSPs ramp up AI capex as supply chain gains confidence
The AI arms race among cloud service providers (CSPs) is intensifying rapidly. Meta has announced plans to more than double its capital expenditure in 2026 compared to 2025, while...
Saturday 31 January 2026
LG Display plans KRW 2 trillion OLED investment in 2026, but holds back on next-gen IT panels

LG Display, fresh off its first profitable year in four years, is preparing to step up investment in 2026 as it seeks to strengthen its...

Saturday 31 January 2026
Taiwan's capital markets reach new highs, signaling broader global role

At a Lunar New Year press conference, the Financial Supervisory Commission said that combined revenues of Taiwan's listed companies surpassed...

Saturday 31 January 2026
China claims 64% of ESS battery market as South Korea scrambles to launch a comeback
The global energy storage system (ESS) market based on lithium-ion batteries expanded in 2025. According to ET News and Ddaily, SNE Research reported that global...
Saturday 31 January 2026
Morris Chang resurfaces as Jensen Huang returns to Taipei
TSMC founder Morris Chang made his first public appearance in more than a year on January 29, 2026, dining with Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang just hours after Huang arrived in...
Friday 30 January 2026
ASML gains from rising EUV demand and US chip spending
After TSMC chairman C.C. Wei said on a recent earnings call that AI demand is real and that AI is becoming embedded in daily life as a long-term trend, expectations for ASML's performance...
Friday 30 January 2026
Apple dominates 2025 smartphone rankings, with iPhone 16 as the world's best-seller

According to a recent report from Counterpoint Research, the Apple iPhone 16 finished 2025 as the world's best-selling smartphone,...

Friday 30 January 2026
ABF substrate crunch reshapes market: Unimicron leads and rivals close in

AI server architectures are rapidly shifting toward ultra-high-density designs, keeping advanced CoWoS packaging capacity persistently tight...

Friday 30 January 2026
Hyundai and Kia hit hardest by Korea-US tariffs
Hyundai Motor Group's vehicle brands Hyundai and Kia saw their combined revenue exceed KRW300 trillion (US$208.6 billion) for the first time in 2025, breaking a record high. Even so,...
Friday 30 January 2026
DRAM price surge ripples downstream as CWE plans EMC hike
The recent surge in DRAM prices is widening pricing headroom across the semiconductor supply chain, prompting Chang Wah Electromaterials (CWE), a major semiconductor materials supplier...
Friday 30 January 2026
Smart glasses market transitions from Meta dominance to three-way showdown in 2026
Counterpoint held an online seminar on January 28, 2026, to discuss the smart glasses market outlook, noting that with Google, Samsung, and Apple potentially entering the space, the...
Friday 30 January 2026
Nexcom eyes robot market growth, targets ramp-up in 2027
Physical AI has emerged as an important direction for AI applications in smart manufacturing and automated services, addressing labor shortages, with humanoid robots taking the spotlight...