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Wednesday 14 January 2026
Meta reportedly to cut 10% from Reality Labs, launches Meta Compute for AI infrastructure
Meta is accelerating its internal resource realignment by cutting about 10% of staff at Reality Labs, while launching a new division called Meta Compute to oversee global AI computing...
Wednesday 14 January 2026
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek drives global adoption, raises geopolitical concerns
Microsoft's AI for Good Lab has revealed that Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's free, open-source generative model is rapidly gaining adoption in developing countries, contributing to...
Wednesday 14 January 2026
Darfon Energy Tech acquires Hitron to boost edge AI and industrial power solutions
Darfon is actively expanding into the energy and high-end niche application markets. Its subsidiary focused on new energy solutions, Darfon Energy Tech, announced on January 12, 2026,...
Wednesday 14 January 2026
Acer Asia-Pacific targets double-digit annual growth
Acer is promoting the independent development of its subsidiaries, using a multi-faceted strategy to drive group growth. Three subsidiaries under Acer's Pan-Asia operations headquarters...
Wednesday 14 January 2026
BlueField creates storage-powered AI boom, controller market expected to expand
At CES 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang showcased plans for next-generation AI-native infrastructure. Aside from its Vera Rubin timeline, Huang introduced the inference context memory...
Wednesday 14 January 2026
AI boom pushes Taiwan's GDP growth past 7%, masking tariff and talent strains on non-ICT sectors
Taiwan recorded a GDP growth of over 7% in 2025, driven by an AI-fueled export surge, yet the headline growth conceals mounting pressures on traditional industries grappling with US...
Tuesday 13 January 2026
WT Microelectronics and WPG post record 2025 revenues driven by AI momentum
Leading IC distributors WT Microelectronics and WPG reported strong revenue growth in 2025, fueled by robust demand from AI and data-center sectors. WT Microelectronics posted a record...
Tuesday 13 January 2026
EU plans to adjust rules on Chinese EV imports; shifts from tariffs to minimum import prices

The EU said this week that it is considering setting minimum import prices for Chinese-made electric vehicles (EVs), a move that would...

Tuesday 13 January 2026
Taiwan's EMS/ODM sector ends 2025 with AI servers driving record months and reshaping the rankings
Taiwan's electronics manufacturing services (EMS) and original design manufacturing (ODM) sector closed December 2025 with a sharply bifurcated performance: AI server and cloud data-center...
Tuesday 13 January 2026
Taiwan OSAT sector posts broad 2025 revenue gains as AI testing offsets weak consumer recovery
Taiwan's outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) industry closed December 2025 with a pattern that investors have increasingly come to expect: revenue growth was widespread...
Tuesday 13 January 2026
DeepSeek V4 update: Conditional memory reshapes large-model efficiency
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng has published a new paper with a research team from Peking University, outlining key technical directions for next-generation sparse large language models...
Tuesday 13 January 2026
CES 2026: Chinese humanoid robots dominate the spotlight
Humanoid robots emerged as a centerpiece of CES 2026 this week as the world's largest technology trade show pivoted from traditional consumer electronics toward the commercialization...
Tuesday 13 January 2026
CES 2026: The auto industry's AI boom meets growing doubts
The exhibition halls brimmed with visions of the future: autonomous vehicle cabins designed for emotional interaction, humanoid robots capable of perceiving their surroundings with...
Tuesday 13 January 2026
Nvidia denies requiring Chinese customers to prepay for H200 chips
Nvidia said it does not require customers to make upfront payments for its H200 artificial intelligence chips. The statement pushes back against a Reuters report claiming...
Tuesday 13 January 2026
Unprecedented AI infrastructure frenzy sparks global memory shortage, hits consumer wallets
The global race to build AI data centers has triggered an unexpected casualty: the memory supply that powers everyday consumer electronics.