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Friday 3 January 2025
Motherboard and graphics card makers embrace AI server boom
Taiwan's major motherboard and graphics card manufacturers are capitalizing on opportunities in the AI server sector, with projected operational growth in 2025, according to industry...
Friday 3 January 2025
Jinpao Precision eyes growth from liquid cooling AI server cabinets
Machining parts and chassis maker Jinpao Precision Industry (JPP) expects robust growth in 2025 from AI server cabinets and aerospace-related orders. Due to the surge in AI server-related...
Friday 3 January 2025
Quanta gearing up for AI supercomputer shipments
Quanta Computer is positioned to maintain its leadership in the AI sector, according to Barry Lam, chairman of the Taiwan-based ODM company. Building on AI advancements, he expects...
Friday 3 January 2025
China's Horizon Robotics targets 10 million automotive chips in 2025
Horizon Robotics, a Chinese manufacturer of intelligent driving chips, has announced its goal of shipping over 10 million chips in 2025, positioning itself to become the first Chinese...
Friday 3 January 2025
China's LLM market reached a boiling point, Alibaba cuts prices again to capture market share
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group Holding, has recently slashed prices on its visual language model Qwen-VL by more than 80%, as price wars continue to rage...
Friday 3 January 2025
Tesla's annual EV sales drop for first time in over a decade
Tesla's annual vehicle sales dropped for the first time in more than a decade despite a year-end push that sent deliveries to a record in the fourth quarter.
Friday 3 January 2025
China's automotive IC self-sufficiency bid faces high barrier from European IDMs
Chinese chip vendors' efforts to achieve self-sufficiency in automotive ICs have shown progress, but their advancement is hindered by a high barrier formed by European IDMs, according...
Friday 3 January 2025
China to tighten the screw over battery and mineral tech exports
According to Bloomberg, Beijing is set to impose new restrictions on exports of technologies related to battery component production and the processing of key metals, as...
Friday 3 January 2025
Chinese tech firms geared up for public trading in 2025
Three prominent Chinese tech companies -- semiconductor firm Eswin Technology Group, battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), and smartphone manufacturer Honor -- are...
Friday 3 January 2025
Taiwan EV charging market braces for consolidation amid rising cost
Market consolidation looms as Taiwan's expanding electric vehicle charging sector grapples with rising operational costs and intense competition among more than 40 operators across...
Friday 3 January 2025
Strategic pivot: major automakers invest billions in EV-only plants
Amid the shifting market dynamics of 2024, traditional automakers have recalibrated their electrification strategies. The emergence of dedicated electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing...
Friday 3 January 2025
Software-defined vehicles reshape auto industry amid EV slowdown
Global electric vehicle adoption is losing momentum, with industry experts warning of turbulent times ahead. At Sharp's technology showcase in September 2024, Foxconn EV Chief Strategy...
Friday 3 January 2025
Humanoid robots race heats up as Tesla, Huawei eye 2025 production
Tesla's ambitious humanoid robots initiative, first unveiled during its AI Day in 2021, is approaching a crucial milestone. Elon Musk's Optimus robot, designed to handle mundane,...
Friday 3 January 2025
China's SiC growth prompts US security measure as global IDMs diversify
The US Department of Commerce has launched a Section 301 investigation into China's semiconductors, particularly Silicon Carbide (SiC), highlighting growing concerns over technological...
Thursday 2 January 2025
Xiaomi intensifies LLM investment with GPU cluster
Xiaomi is reportedly in the process of constructing a massive GPU cluster to significantly invest in artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLMs). According to a source...