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Monday 5 May 2025
Barcelona rises as Europe's strategic tech investment nexus as US-China rift widens
While the Czech Republic is often seen in Taiwan as Europe's semiconductor hotspot, Spain receives the most EU funding for tech initiatives. In early 2025, the DIGITIMES...
Monday 5 May 2025
Lip-Bu Tan's Intel: leaner, flatter, and betting big on packaging

Intel is undergoing its most sweeping transformation in decades under new CEO Lip-Bu Tan, who is steering the company away from the ambitious—but...

Monday 5 May 2025
Indian smartphone market sees decline in shipments as Mediatek dominates chipset share, Apple gains premium traction
According to Counterpoint, India's smartphone market experienced a 7% year-over-year shipment decline in the first quarter of 2025, impacted by high inventory levels and fewer product...
Monday 5 May 2025
Taiwan's Coretronic disrupts drone market, outflanks DJI with non-red supply chain edge
Coretronic Intelligent Robotics Corporation (CIRC), a subsidiary of Taiwan's Coretronic Group, is carving a niche in the global drone market, capitalizing on its non-red supply chain...
Monday 5 May 2025
Trump eases auto tariff impact for North American-made vehicles
On April 3, 2025, the White House announced a sweeping new 25% tariff on imported automobiles and auto parts. Less than a month later, on April 29, President Donald Trump signed an...
Monday 5 May 2025
Qualcomm clinches full Samsung S25 win, yet real growth rides on auto and AI bets
After delays, Samsung Electronics dropped its in-house Exynos 2500 from the Galaxy S25 lineup, opting instead to power the entire series with Qualcomm's Snapdragon chips, securing...
Monday 5 May 2025
Weekly news roundup: EUV leap, Intel reboot, Nvidia's China reckoning, and TSMC's AI power play
These are the top-read DIGITIMES Asia stories from the week of April 28 – May 4. From China's EUV light source milestone and Intel's turnaround push to Nvidia's evolving...
Monday 5 May 2025
UBTech, Midea fast-track humanoid robots as China races toward industrial AI supremacy
China is accelerating the commercialization of humanoid robots, with key players UBTech Robotics Inc. and Midea Group Co. rapidly advancing deployments in factory environments. UBTech...
Monday 5 May 2025
Network infrastructure crucial to growth for Nokia and Chunghwa Telecom
Nokia saw lower-than-expected performance in the first quarter of 2025, with net sales sliding by 3% year-over-year to EUR4.39 billion (US$5 billion), as well as EUR156 million in...
Monday 5 May 2025
Silicon Motion optimistic about consumer recovery in second half of 2025 amid strong AI inference demand
Silicon Motion, a NAND controller provider, reported that its first-quarter revenue and profit almost met the high end of prior forecasts, largely due to increased demand for AI inference...
Monday 5 May 2025
Semco and Daeduck poised to power Tesla's autonomous Cybercab with key substrate supply

South Korea's leading substrate manufacturers, Samsung Electro-Mechanics (Semco) and Daeduck Electronics, are preparing to supply crucial...

Sunday 4 May 2025
Holtek sees growth as clients rush orders ahead of US tariff deadline
Microcontroller manufacturer Holtek Semiconductor is experiencing increased orders as customers in both China and the US accelerate purchases ahead of potential tariff implementation,...
Saturday 3 May 2025
Rick Tsai bets on AI as MediaTek’s next growth engine
During MediaTek's first-quarter 2025 earnings call, CEO Rick Tsai reaffirmed that artificial intelligence is central to the company's long-term growth. He emphasized that the broader...
Saturday 3 May 2025
PTI sees operational rebound as memory and AI markets recover in 2025
Memory testing firm expects growth following first-quarter trough, expands advanced packaging capabilities amid semiconductor market recovery
Saturday 3 May 2025
Primax powers ahead on AIoT tailwinds and PC rebound, but tariff turbulence persists
Primax Electronics Ltd. delivered strong first quarter 2025 results, driven by early PC order pull-ins and rising shipments of AIoT and professional acoustic products. Despite the...