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Thursday 21 May 2026
Tech Forum 2026: Taiwan must design space, not just build it
At DIGITIMES' Tech Forum 2026 this week, Taiwan's top space official delivered a blunt assessment of the island's growing role in the global space economy: Taiwan has become...
Thursday 21 May 2026
Anthropic estimates show US$559 million operating profit on US$10.9 billion quarter

Anthropic has unlocked an era of explosive commercial growth, hitting a milestone with its first-ever profitable quarter. According to The...

Thursday 21 May 2026
GigaDevice sees niche DRAM and NAND prices rising through 2026
GigaDevice said tight supply and rising prices across DRAM, NOR Flash, and SLC NAND Flash continued to fuel strong first-quarter 2026 earnings growth, supported by recovering demand...
Thursday 21 May 2026
Taiwan's export engine stalls in April as global orders pull back
Taiwan's export orders fell 4.0% in April compared to March levels, with orders from the US, China, Europe, Japan, and the ASEAN region all declining. According to data released on...
Thursday 21 May 2026
AI chip boom strains ABF substrate supply chain
AI is shifting the semiconductor supply chain's next bottleneck from wafer fabrication and HBM memory to ABF substrates — a lower-profile but critical packaging material used...
Thursday 21 May 2026
Tech Forum 2026: Taiwan suppliers could win a critical role in humanoid robot supply chains as commercialization accelerates
AI-driven humanoid robots are entering a visible phase of commercialization. At the same time, software lags hardware, creating an opening for Taiwan component suppliers to target...
Thursday 21 May 2026
LG Innotek wins long-term substrate deals as Intel and cloud giants secure supply
LG Innotek has secured substrate supply terms with major technology customers that increasingly resemble long-term agreements used in the memory-chip sector, boosting the South Korean...
Thursday 21 May 2026
Auras Technology raises 2026 revenue outlook as AI-driven liquid cooling demand grows
Auras Technology said strong AI server demand will sustain growth in thermal management through 2028, driving the company to raise its full-year revenue growth forecast for 2026. Executives...
Thursday 21 May 2026
Anthropic surpasses OpenAI in enterprise adoption amid rising compute and cost pressures
Anthropic overtook OpenAI in enterprise AI adoption in April 2026, according to spending data from Ramp, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and VentureBeat,...
Thursday 21 May 2026
Tech Forum 2026: How much longer can semiconductors sustain Taiwan?
During a keynote discussion session at Tech Forum 2026, DIGITIMES senior reporter Monica Chen and semiconductor analyst Andrew Lu shared their views on current AI server technology...
Thursday 21 May 2026
TSMC's cautious capex is averting an AI bubble, says investor
TSMC's restrained expansion strategy is helping the global market avoid an AI bubble, according to veteran semiconductor investor Gavin Baker, the chief investment officer at Atreides...
Thursday 21 May 2026
Samsung labor dispute adds pressure to memory chip market
Surging demand for AI data center infrastructure has already pushed the memory market into a structural shortage. Now, Samsung Electronics' labor dispute is adding another layer of...
Thursday 21 May 2026
Nvidia prices rivals out of AI factory race with Blackwell, Vera CPU, and Rubin
Nvidia used its first quarter of fiscal year 2027 earnings call on May 20, 2026 to lay out a three-tier silicon cadence that should make any rival roadmap look thin: a Blackwell ramp...
Thursday 21 May 2026
South Korea bets on KIST, LG to catch up in humanoid robots
South Korea has launched a five-year public-private project to build a domestic AI humanoid robot platform, bringing together KIST, LG affiliates, universities, and a hospital as the...