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Monday 29 June 2026
Taiwan smartphone shipments rose in May despite higher component costs
Taiwan's smartphone market saw shipments expand in May as Mother's Day buying and demand for AI-enabled premium models offset rising upstream component costs, industry participants...
Monday 29 June 2026
Samsung, SK Hynix to build KRW800 trillion chip hub in South Korea’s southwest

South Korea is pushing to establish a second national semiconductor production base in Gwangju and South Jeolla in the country's southwest,...

Monday 29 June 2026
China adds 40 Japanese entities to export control and watch lists

China has imposed new export control measures on 40 Japanese entities, placing 20 organizations on its export control list and another...

Monday 29 June 2026
Wistron expands US production to meet AI server demand

Wistron is stepping up factory spending in the US, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia to meet rising demand for AI servers. The expansion signals...

Monday 29 June 2026
Weekly news roundup: South Korea takes physical AI push from policy to practice; Europe aggressively pursues non-red supply chains
Below are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories from the week of June 22-28, 2026:
Monday 29 June 2026
Hsinchu Science Park draws new semiconductor service investments as chipmaking shifts to advanced nodes

Taiwan's Hsinchu Science Park is still attracting semiconductor service companies even as major foundries run short of land, underscoring...

Monday 29 June 2026
Hyundai, LG and Doosan ramp up robotics plans as South Korea's Physical AI race heats up

South Korea's government is preparing to designate Physical AI, the convergence of robotics and artificial intelligence, as a new national...

Monday 29 June 2026
Taiwan electronics sector stays upbeat as AI demand lifts exports
Taiwan's electronics-machinery sector is heading into the second half of 2026 with cautious optimism, as global demand for AI infrastructure, high-end semiconductors, and cloud services...
Monday 29 June 2026
FIT consolidates EV charging brands, builds Saudi plant to localize supply
Foxconn Interconnect Technology (FIT) unveiled its global automotive platform brand One Mobility at The smarter E Europe 2026, the continent’s largest energy industry trade alliance,...
Monday 29 June 2026
LG expands data-center liquid cooling push, eyes Taiwan server partnerships amid AI infrastructure boom
As AI infrastructure pushes server power consumption to unprecedented levels, liquid cooling is rapidly moving from an alternative technology to a data-center necessity. Amid fragmented...
Monday 29 June 2026
Samsung slows next-gen memory push as price surge rewards existing lines

Samsung Electronics is slowing its investment schedule for 1d DRAM, the seventh-generation 10nm-class DRAM node, as a sharp surge in...

Monday 29 June 2026
Taiwan joins post-HBM memory race with Intel, SoftBank

Taiwan's semiconductor ecosystem has entered the race to develop a possible post-HBM memory architecture, with Powerchip Semiconductor...

Monday 29 June 2026
Taiwan Power ends three-year losing streak in 2025, but posts NT$9 billion loss in early 2026
Taiwan Power reported a NT$9.0 billion loss in the first four months of 2026, executives said at the company's shareholders meeting on June 26, attributing the shortfall to a spike...
Monday 29 June 2026
AI drives TV platforms as Samsung and LG chase smart-home ecosystems
South Korea's top TV brands, Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, are stepping up their use of AI to sharpen product differentiation as they face intense competition from Chinese...
Sunday 28 June 2026
Rakuten, AST SpaceMobile JV aims to break Starlink's grip on Japan's satellite market
Japan's Rakuten Group plans to establish a new joint venture with US-based AST SpaceMobile in 2026 to build a dedicated low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications network for Japan,...