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Wednesday 27 May 2026
GlobalWafers expands into space, drones, marine applications; uses specialized solar tech to avoid China's low-price competition
The global solar industry remains trapped in a low-price competition ruled by Chinese manufacturers, but geopolitical shifts are creating new opportunities for differentiated players...
Wednesday 27 May 2026
Qualcomm and ByteDance's rumored AI ASIC deal signals potential shift in China's data center chip supply
The agreement between Qualcomm and ByteDance positions the former for large-scale AI ASIC demand from the latter, as reported by Bloomberg, but market viability remains uncertain...
Wednesday 27 May 2026
Huawei Tau Law series 2: Advanced packaging, AI interconnects, EDA lead the way
Huawei's Tau Law proposal is rapidly redirecting attention across China's semiconductor industry away from pure lithography competition and toward advanced packaging, 3D stacking,...
Tuesday 26 May 2026
Samsung unveils industry-first 6K Odyssey gaming monitor as China ramps panel competition
Samsung Electronics announced a new 2026 gaming monitor lineup that includes the industry's first 6K (6,144×3,456) gaming display, positioning the company to defend high-end...
Tuesday 26 May 2026
Inside China's humanoid robot boom: Price war, fractured supply chains
China's humanoid robot market is expanding rapidly, but intensifying price competition and growing concerns over product reliability are beginning to expose structural weaknesses across...
Monday 25 May 2026
Beyond Silicon Valley: Lam Capital's startup contest goes global
Lam Research's Lam Capital recently held its fourth startup competition, drawing teams from the US, South Korea, Singapore, India, and Taiwan to vie for a sizeable prize pool. US startup...
Monday 25 May 2026
DeepSeek makes 75% API discount permanent, intensifying global AI price war

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has permanently reduced the API pricing of its flagship DeepSeek-V4-Pro model to one-quarter of its original...

Sunday 24 May 2026
Geopolitics disrupts chips — can Taiwan and South Korea cooperate to hold the line?
The global semiconductor industry is being pulled in two directions. On one side, the cost of building a single advanced chip factory has ballooned to as much as US$40 billion, concentrating...
Saturday 23 May 2026
Tech Forum 2026: Autonomous driving enters commercial validation era, shifting competition to algorithms, chips, and data
As Computex approaches, DIGITIMES hosted a forum where analyst Mark Yee argued that Physical AI is driving autonomous driving into full commercial validation, with implications for...
Friday 22 May 2026
EverDisplay appoints former Hua Hong executive as chairman in board overhaul
China AMOLED panel maker EverDisplay Optronics completed a board reshuffle and senior management overhaul after a board meeting on May 20, appointing a former Hua Hong Semiconductor...
Thursday 21 May 2026
OpenAI moves up IPO timeline to get ahead of Anthropic
OpenAI is preparing to file for an initial public offering (IPO) in the coming weeks, a move that could sharpen its competitive edge in the AI race. While company executives had previously...
Thursday 21 May 2026
Texas Instruments sues former exec over trade secret theft at GlobalFoundries
Bloomberg reports that Texas Instruments (TI) has sued former vice president Kannan Soundarapandian, alleging he joined GlobalFoundries without fully disclosing his new employer...
Thursday 21 May 2026
China uses iron-fist policies to expel inefficient TOPCon capacity from solar supply chain
China's top-down policies are creating a tech elimination battle in its solar supply chain. Because of severe oversupply in the mainstream N-type tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon)...
Wednesday 20 May 2026
Google I/O 2026: Consumer hardware competition and smart glasses market entry
Google's announcement of Android XR smart glasses marks its direct entry into a fast-growing wearable AI market, signaling confidence in rapid consumer adoption and the category's...
Tuesday 19 May 2026
Samsung turns to health features as Galaxy Watch loses ground to Chinese rivals
Samsung Electronics is putting health care at the center of its smartwatch strategy as Chinese rivals Huawei and Xiaomi gain ground in the global wearables market.