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Monday 11 August 2025

China's EV strategy: build local, sell smart, win global

As Western automakers wrestle with supply chain bottlenecks and regulatory shifts, China's electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers are rapidly...

Monday 11 August 2025

AI boom spurs shift to rack-scale, open-standard servers as cooling demands soar

The accelerating demands of artificial intelligence are redrawing the blueprint of data center infrastructure, driving server design into an era defined by rack-scale integration,...

Monday 11 August 2025

Asia Optical profit soars on strong camera and drone lens sales

Asia Optical held an online investor conference on August 6, 2025, where chairman Yi-Jen Lai praised its second quarter performance. He shared that digital cameras and action cameras...

Monday 11 August 2025

Against the odds, Toyota and Nissan find footing in China’s EV market

After years of defense, Japanese electric vehicles are mounting a quiet yet striking comeback in China—a market now dominated almost...

Monday 11 August 2025

South Korea accelerates AI data center expansion amid global compute race

With the rapid development of the global AI industry, demand for high-performance computing and GPU resources continues to rise, and the global AI data center market is expanding...

Monday 11 August 2025

China's Qihoo 360 retools cybersecurity with AI agent swarms to meet 'machine vs. machine' threat

The 13th Internet Security Conference (ISC.AI 2025) kicked off on August 6 at the China National Convention Center in Beijing. Co-hosted...

Monday 11 August 2025

UCIe 3.0 doubles bandwidth, expands chiplet ecosystem — Intel's Das Sharma on AI and compatibility

The Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) standard has taken a decisive step forward with the release of version 3.0, delivering up to 64 GT/s throughput and doubling bandwidth...

Monday 11 August 2025

SoftBank reportedly acquires Foxconn's US EV plant for Stargate

The SoftBank Group has reportedly acquired Foxconn's Ohio EV factory through Crescent Dune LLC...

Monday 11 August 2025

South Korea urged to fast-track AI law to safeguard competitiveness amid US-China rivalry

South Korea recently held a public hearing on the proposed Special Act on AI Industry Development, with industry leaders urging the government to speed up its review. Youchul Kim,...

Monday 11 August 2025

OpenAI's GPT-5 fails to impress market despite advanced claims

OpenAI's recent release of its GPT-5 model alongside the open-weight gpt-oss series has generated mixed reactions, with the much-anticipated GPT-5 falling short of expectations in...

Monday 11 August 2025

Weekly news roundup: 'China for China' Strategy, Xiaomi's open-source voice AI, and Broadcom at OCP APAC

Below are the top DIGITIMES Asia stories from Aug 4 to Aug 10, 2025. The top three topics include 'China for China' drives Western chipmakers' strategy, Xiaomi releases open-source...

Monday 11 August 2025

Airtel's Xtelify unveils sovereign cloud and AI tools to target telecom and enterprise growth

India-based Bharti Airtel's digital services arm, Xtelify, has launched Airtel Cloud, a sovereign cloud platform, along with an AI-powered software suite aimed at boosting efficiency...

Monday 11 August 2025

Taiwan leads global SiPh development; optical industry set for explosive growth by 2027

Silicon photonics (SiPh) is one of the most critical technologies in the AI world and broadband sectors, according to Paul Liu, chairman of Taiwan's National Development Council (NDC)...

Monday 11 August 2025

HTC continues to post losses in 2Q25 despite collaboration with Google

HTC announced its revenue for July 2025 and the financial results for the second quarter of 2025 on August 6. Constrained by slowing momentum in hardware product sales as well as...

Sunday 10 August 2025

China's EV makers slashing prices, ignoring government warnings

Despite repeated clear statements from the Chinese central government urging automakers to stop vicious price-cutting, the market's price war has not eased. Instead, it has intensi...

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