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Friday 30 January 2026
Taiwan's smartphone shipments exceeded 5 million in 2025, iPhone 17 drives market dynamics
Taiwan's monthly smartphone shipments surpassed 500,000 units in October and November 2025, largely driven by strong sales of Apple's iPhone 17 series. However, shipments declined...
Friday 30 January 2026
Lam Research hits US$20.6 billion revenue high, sees 2026 WFE spending at US$135 billion
Lam Research, a leading supplier of semiconductor manufacturing equipment dubbed the "US version of ASML," capped off fiscal 2025 with stellar performance, fueled by surging AI demand...
Friday 30 January 2026
Advantest to boost SoC test equipment capacity to 5,000 units by 2027
Japan's Advantest has announced an acceleration of its capacity expansion plans for system-on-chip (SoC) test equipment in response to surging demand driven by artificial intelligence...
Friday 30 January 2026
Tex Year Industries eyes strong 1H26 growth on India, Vietnam capacity, and specialty chemicals
Tex Year Industries anticipates returning to growth in 2026 following a slight revenue decline in 2025, driven by expanded production capacity in India and Vietnam and the maturation...
Friday 30 January 2026
AsiaTech Imaging expects strong first-quarter revenue growth following difficult 2025 performance
Asia Optical's subsidiary AsiaTech Imaging forecasts a 20-30% sequential revenue increase in the first quarter of 2026, signaling a recovery from a difficult 2025, President Iris Wu...
Friday 30 January 2026
Memory, CPU shortages hit Wintel notebooks, benefiting Apple
Notebook makers are under growing pressure as memory shortages and price increases persist, while a widening shortage of CPUs adds a second constraint. What began as a supply gap at...
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...
Friday 30 January 2026
Greatek hits full capacity on AI-driven flip chip, QFN packaging demand
Powertech Technology (PTI) and its subsidiary test and assembly firm Greatek jointly held an online investor conference to discuss future operations. Greatek president Yu-Chang Chi...
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...
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...
Thursday 29 January 2026
Samsung foundry hit by China pullbacks in 2025, eyes late-year stabilization
Chinese customers who had planned to use Samsung Electronics' foundry services abandoned a number of projects in 2025 as US regulatory pressure on China intensified and uncertainty...
Thursday 29 January 2026
Tech giants' US$100bn bet on OpenAI: Nvidia, Microsoft lead US$730bn power play
OpenAI is pursuing a landmark funding round, potentially reaching US$100 billion to fuel its escalating AI infrastructure needs amid intense competition. Major tech giants and existing...
Thursday 29 January 2026
Analysis: ASML earnings prove AI demand is hitting the factory floor
The artificial intelligence boom has moved from cloud infrastructure to the factory floor, and ASML Holding NV's latest earnings prove it.
Thursday 29 January 2026
In-depth: DeepSeek's one-year breakthrough shows how China builds AI without cutting-edge chips
In January 2025, while the global AI and semiconductor industries remained focused on advanced process nodes and high-performance GPUs, China's large-scale model DeepSeek-R1 emerged...
Thursday 29 January 2026
Sunny Optical restructures as China's lens makers face layoffs prompted by smartphone slump
China's optical industry is confronting significant challenges as several lens module manufacturers reportedly plan layoffs early in 2026, prompted by sluggish smartphone sales and...