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Wednesday 5 November 2025
Astemo shifts from parts manufacturing to software services, betting on future EV market
The dominance of internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles in the 19th and 20th centuries is now being challenged by environmentally friendly cars in the 21st century. Automotive...
Wednesday 5 November 2025
SoftBank returns to robotics with US$5.4B ABB acquisition despite Pepper, Boston Dynamics setbacks
SoftBank announced in early October 2025 that it has agreed to acquire Swiss industrial giant ABB's robotics business for US$5.375 billion, with the deal expected to close in the...
Wednesday 5 November 2025
AR glasses get cheaper as the next platform race begins
Augmented reality (AR) glasses could become the next mainstream computing platform after smartphones. AR glasses are the core hardware of AR technology, but rely heavily on the integration...
Tuesday 4 November 2025
HPC and smart power reshape auto semiconductor market
The global automotive semiconductor market is expected to reach US$78 billion in 2025, according to Mike Cheng, regional president of Avnet Taiwan, one of the world's largest electronic...
Tuesday 4 November 2025
Foxconn unveils quantum computing roadmap with 2027 prototype target
Taiwanese electronics giant Hon Hai Precision Industry, known as Foxconn, has revealed its strategic plans to develop quantum computing technology as part of its expanding quantum...
Tuesday 4 November 2025
SoftBank's acquisition of ABB's robot business reshuffles competition
Following SoftBank's acquisition of ABB's robotics business, the global industrial robot landscape has shifted from a European-Japanese balance to dominance by Japanese firms and...
Monday 3 November 2025
Amazon launches Rainier data center in Indiana to support AI startup Anthropic
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has activated its Rainier data center in Indiana, US, to accelerate the training of Anthropic's large language model (LLM), Claude, using Amazon's proprietary...
Monday 3 November 2025
Vancouver's Ma Robot AI Aims to Solve Robots' 'Last Mile' Challenge with Interpretable AI
The robotics sector is booming, yet a fundamental challenge persists: moving autonomous machines safely and efficiently from the controlled environment of a warehouse into the complex,...
Friday 31 October 2025
Google, Meta, and Microsoft double down on AI infrastructure despite mixed earnings

Cloud service providers, including Google, Meta, and Microsoft, this week reported mixed quarterly earnings, yet one theme united all...

Friday 31 October 2025
Foxconn deepens AI collaboration with Nvidia, commits over US$1 billion to AI infrastructure
As the global wave of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) surges, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has positioned the company's AI strategy as an industry benchmark, with the annual...
Thursday 30 October 2025
Meta’s headset slump clouds short term, but AI glasses point to brighter future
Meta Platforms has projected a year-over-year decline in fourth-quarter revenue for its Reality Labs division, attributing the decrease primarily to the timing of product launches...
Tuesday 28 October 2025
India's semiconductor ecosystem expands beyond fabs with software-IP firms
As India prepares to begin commercial chip production by late 2025, much of the discussion has focused on new fabs in Gujarat.
Tuesday 28 October 2025
Apple's 2026 foldable debut set to reshape US-China market dynamics
Samsung Electronics currently leads the foldable phone market and holds the largest share of foldable phone sales in the US, alongside Motorola and Google. However, Apple is expected...
Monday 27 October 2025
India roundup: Tie-up with Dixon marks renewed Taiwanese investments in India's EMS
Dixon's joint venture with Taiwan-based Inventec is expected to operate after April 2026, as the Indian EMS major reports surging sales thanks to handset manufacturing business.
Saturday 25 October 2025
OpenAI, AMD, Broadcom unite behind Ethernet to reshape AI infrastructure
The Ethernet for Scale-Up Networking (ESUN) Alliance officially launched at the 2025 Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit, uniting North America's AI heavyweights, including OpenAI,...