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Friday 19 December 2025
Memory shortage drives price hikes in China's PC and smartphone markets
China's 3C market has been reporting successive price hikes despite a sluggish macroeconomic environment and deflationary pressure. Xiaomi, followed by Honor, Lenovo, and Dell, have...
Friday 19 December 2025
Analysis: US leads AI in humanoid robots while China excels in cost and hardware
As humanoid robots emerge as a key technology riding the wave of AI, the US and China are rapidly forming two competing camps. Industry insiders analyzing their strengths say the...
Thursday 18 December 2025
Rising memory and wafer costs to weigh on 2026 smartphone shipments, Counterpoint Research says
The smartphone market is expected to contract in 2026 as rising costs for memory and advanced process wafers drive manufacturers to reconsider pricing and specifications, according...
Thursday 18 December 2025
Cost surge for wafer, memory, and materials threatens consumer electronics pricing in 2026
After sharp price hikes across multiple memory categories caused by tight supply-demand conditions, overall supply-chain costs have come into sharper focus. Memory is far from the...
Wednesday 17 December 2025
Samsung Foundry reportedly wins Intel 8nm order after Nvidia
Samsung Electronics' foundry division is reported to have secured an 8nm manufacturing order from Intel, adding another blue-chip customer to its mature advanced-node portfolio after...
Tuesday 16 December 2025
Apple braces for DRAM cost surge as Korean suppliers reprice contracts
Apple is facing renewed cost pressure as its long-term DRAM supply contracts with South Korean memory makers approach expiry in January 2026, heightening concerns that higher component...
Tuesday 16 December 2025
Smartphone industry faces cost challenges in 2026 amid memory shortages and rising prices
The smartphone industry is facing considerable cost challenges in 2026 amid ongoing memory supply shortages and rising prices. This situation is expected to lead to a 1.6% decrease...
Tuesday 16 December 2025
SenseTime's Seko 2.0 ties AI video breakthrough to Cambricon chips, signaling China's multimodal push

SenseTime has released Seko 2.0, which it describes as the industry's first multi-episode video generation agent, marking a step beyond...

Friday 12 December 2025
AI hardware landscape shifts from GPUs to NPUs as edge computing gains ground
As artificial intelligence (AI) transitions from cloud-centric operations to edge devices, the hardware that powers AI is undergoing significant change. While graphics processing...
Thursday 11 December 2025
Canon and DNP push 1.4nm nanoimprint tech, target 2027 production
Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) said it has developed a nanoimprint template capable of producing 1.4nm chips using only one-tenth of the power required by extreme ultraviolet lithography...
Monday 8 December 2025
Auto supply chains face stricter demand for non-Chinese standards
As geopolitical tensions between China and multiple countries intensify alongside China's aggressive expansion into overseas automotive markets, supply chain players reveal that customer...
Monday 8 December 2025
IBM CEO warns AI data center investments tough to break even due to short hardware cycles
As tech giants race to build data centers targeting artificial general intelligence (AGI), IBM CEO Arvind Krishna cautions that the industry is on a costly path that's difficult to...
Friday 5 December 2025
Strong EV sales don't guarantee profits for Xiaomi's supply chain

Xiaomi's electric vehicle has dominated headlines since its debut, and its sales have been impressive by any measure. But that excitement...

Thursday 4 December 2025
IT panel makers lock prices as memory prices surge
IT demand has entered the fourth quarter off-season, but panel makers are coping by balancing supply and demand. AI demand has driven up prices for upstream materials such as memory,...
Thursday 4 December 2025
Tech Forum 2026: Quanta races ahead to lead high-end AI servers in 2026
Google's TPU has drawn massive attention to the competitive landscape between ASIC and GPU servers. During the DIGITIMES Tech Forum 2026, DIGITIMES Research senior analyst Jim Hsiao...