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Monday 5 October 2026
Chipmakers turn balance sheets into AI sales tools: How customer financing is becoming the new industry norm
Recent reports citing Anthropic's IPO filings show that Broadcom has agreed to provide up to US$42 billion in convertible-note financing to help fund the AI company's infrastructure...
Monday 5 October 2026
South Korean SMEs expand space supply chain from reusable rockets to satellite shielding
As South Korea prepares for the fifth launch of its Nuri rocket, small and medium-sized enterprises are taking on increasingly important roles in the country's space supply chain alongside...
Monday 5 October 2026
SpaceX's Starship reaches orbit, but engine issues raise stakes for NASA's Moon plan
SpaceX's Starship reached Earth orbit for the first time on its 14th test flight and successfully deployed 26 third-generation Starlink satellites, marking a major milestone for the...
Friday 2 October 2026
Wi-Fi 8 races ahead of the standard, putting networking chips on a faster 2027 growth track
Wi-Fi 8 adoption is accelerating well ahead of the standard's expected finalization in the first half of 2028, with device brands and chipmakers already moving into early commercial...
Friday 2 October 2026
GMI Cloud secures NT$14.05 billion loan for AI factory
CTBC Bank and GMI Cloud on October 1 announced the closing of an NT$14.05 billion (about US$445 million) syndicated credit facility to fund Taiwan's first AI factory. The deal is the...
Thursday 1 October 2026
GPS-free indoor drones target high-rack inspection as smart warehouses expand
The drone market is expanding beyond military applications as commercial demand gains momentum. Following the rollout of drone logistics services for Taiwan's outlying islands, industry...
Thursday 1 October 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: Agentic AI shifts inference bottleneck to token control and task quality
DIGITIMES Intelligence observes that AI applications are moving through a clear progression: from early classification AI focused on feature recognition, to generative AI capable of...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
India bars Semicon 2.0 chip plants from selling or mortgaging assets before full production
India has barred semiconductor projects approved under its Semicon 2.0 program from selling, disposing of, or mortgaging project assets until commercial production of the entire project...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Commentary: Garmin returns to OLED, putting Micro LED on notice
Garmin's decision to offer OLED options but no Micro LED version in its new flagship smartwatches, the fenix 9 and fenix 9 Pro, has revived debate over whether the emerging display...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
SoftBank subsidiary Saimemory taps Shinko to bring ZAM closer to commercialization
Saimemory, a SoftBank subsidiary, has brought Shinko Electric Industries into its effort to commercialize Z-Angle Memory (ZAM), adding packaging-substrate, high-density integration...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
AIDC sees NT$30 billion military maintenance boost, eyes drones
As the last Brave Eagle advanced trainer rolls off the line in September 2026, Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC) says its military business is not ending with the...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Meta's Muse raises questions about AI model leadership, product moats
Meta's Muse AI agent has become a fresh example in the debate over whether frontier model performance still determines commercial success. In a new Stratechery article, founder...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Behind CoWoS (part 2): How TSMC turned a niche packaging experiment into an industry standard
As chip design enters the AI era, heterogeneous integration is driving foundry giants like TSMC, Samsung, and Intel to bring advanced front-end fab capabilities into back-end packaging...
Monday 28 September 2026
Beyond ASML: China rethinks EUV race with light-source strategy
China is trying to broaden the definition of the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) race. Rather than focusing only on building a domestic equivalent to ASML's lithography platform, Chinese...
Monday 28 September 2026
India roundup: India's tech ambitions widen from electronics manufacturing to chips, cloud and talent
India's technology push is widening across electronics manufacturing, semiconductors, cloud infrastructure and talent, as domestic expansion draws deeper investment, tighter scrutiny...