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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...
Thursday 4 December 2025
Commentary: Why Onsemi, STMicro, and Nvidia are all converging on Innoscience's GaN factory floor
Onsemi and Innoscience have signed a memorandum of understanding to expand mass production of GaN power devices using Innoscience's mature 8-inch GaN-on-silicon technology. Onsemi...
Thursday 4 December 2025
ASIC Shift for High-Speed Computing: PGC's Design Service Turnkey Platform Speeds Time-to-Market

As AI workloads move from cloud to edge, the volume of image and sensor data across industries is rising rapidly. Edge devices that previously relied on FPGAs and off-the-shelf...

Wednesday 3 December 2025
China's AI glasses market splits in two as ultra-low-cost models flood in
AI glasses have become a new competitive front for global tech giants. Since 2025, China's smart-glasses sector has accelerated into what analysts describe as a "hundred-model race,"...
Wednesday 3 December 2025
China's Kingboard raises prices again as copper and fiberglass costs soar

Following price-hike announcements from Taiwan's major copper-clad laminate (CCL) makers, including Nan Ya, China's market leader Kingboard...

Tuesday 2 December 2025
Samsung Electronics to maintain quarterly DRAM supply negotiations amid rising memory costs
Samsung Electronics' Device Solutions (DS) division will continue negotiating mobile DRAM supplies on a quarterly basis with its Mobile eXperience (MX) division, despite ongoing memory...
Monday 1 December 2025
Taiwan weighs long-term space strategy as scientists push for greater role

The Taiwan Space Union (TSU) recently convened a Satellite Science Workshop, where participants noted that the high cost of space research...

Monday 1 December 2025
Google’s TPU victory widens China’s path to a post-Nvidia future
Google's success training the Gemini frontier model entirely on in-house TPUs has boosted confidence among China's tech giants. It strengthens the view that reducing Nvidia dependence...
Monday 1 December 2025
Automotive OLED adoption stuck below 5% as LCD dominates; 8.6G fabs may close cost gap
OLED has yet to secure a meaningful foothold in the large-sized automotive display market, where stringent performance requirements and cost pressures keep LCDs firmly in the lead...
Friday 28 November 2025
China's fast-iterating humanoid robots challenge US leadership
The United States and China remain locked in a humanoid-robotics competition. Solomon Technology chairman Johnny Chen says the US leads in software and foundation models, while China...
Friday 28 November 2025
Chinese smartphone makers face cost pressures, plan product cuts or price hikes
Amid surging demand from artificial intelligence (AI) servers and high-end personal computers, prices of DRAM and LPDDR5 memory have soared, placing heavy cost pressures on budget...