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Monday 5 May 2025

Foxconn smashes April record with US$21.3B in revenue as AI servers take off

Foxconn Technology Group posted consolidated revenue of NT$641.37 billion (approx. US$21.32 billion) in April 2025, up 16.16% from March and 25.54% from a year earlier, marking a...

Monday 5 May 2025

Intel focuses automotive efforts on China with Auto Shanghai debut

Ever since Intel launched its automotive efforts in a high-profile announcement in early 2024, with its automotive business headquartered in China, the chipmaker's ambitions for this...

Monday 5 May 2025

Taiwan’s tech leader urged investment in power infrastructure for AI era

As AI reshapes global industries and geopolitical dynamics, Taiwan's business leaders are sounding the alarm on a critical yet often...

Monday 5 May 2025

Semco to start mass production of AI-use ABF substrates and trial production of glass substrates in 2Q25

Samsung Electro-Mechanics (Semco) is set to expand its advanced IC substrate business by officially ramping up mass production of IC substrates for artificial intelligence (AI) accelerators...

Monday 5 May 2025

Barcelona rises as Europe's strategic tech investment nexus as US-China rift widens

While the Czech Republic is often seen in Taiwan as Europe's semiconductor hotspot, Spain receives the most EU funding for tech initiatives. In early 2025, the DIGITIMES...

Monday 5 May 2025

China leans on industrial policy, not tariffs, to fast-track domestic GPU ascendancy

As US-China tech tensions escalate, Washington's tightened export controls—particularly targeting Nvidia's H20 chips designed for the Chinese market—are deepening compute...

Monday 5 May 2025

Trump eases auto tariff impact for North American-made vehicles

On April 3, 2025, the White House announced a sweeping new 25% tariff on imported automobiles and auto parts. Less than a month later, on April 29, President Donald Trump signed an...

Monday 5 May 2025

Texas emerges as key battleground in AI server race with US tariff push

President Donald Trump's aggressive use of tariffs has sent shockwaves through global trade and supply chains, prompting a reconfiguration of manufacturing strategies worldwide. Interpreted...

Monday 5 May 2025

Weekly news roundup: EUV leap, Intel reboot, Nvidia's China reckoning, and TSMC's AI power play

These are the top-read DIGITIMES Asia stories from the week of April 28 – May 4. From China's EUV light source milestone and Intel's turnaround push to Nvidia's evolving...

Monday 5 May 2025

UBTech, Midea fast-track humanoid robots as China races toward industrial AI supremacy

China is accelerating the commercialization of humanoid robots, with key players UBTech Robotics Inc. and Midea Group Co. rapidly advancing deployments in factory environments. UBTech...

Monday 5 May 2025

Network infrastructure crucial to growth for Nokia and Chunghwa Telecom

Nokia saw lower-than-expected performance in the first quarter of 2025, with net sales sliding by 3% year-over-year to EUR4.39 billion (US$5 billion), as well as EUR156 million in...

Monday 5 May 2025

Semco and Daeduck poised to power Tesla's autonomous Cybercab with key substrate supply

South Korea's leading substrate manufacturers, Samsung Electro-Mechanics (Semco) and Daeduck Electronics, are preparing to supply crucial...

Monday 5 May 2025

CyberLink embraces open-source GenAI as adoption gains steam

With OpenAI and Google rapidly rolling out new AI tools, smaller software firms risk falling behind. CyberLink, however, is taking a different approach, positioning itself as a technology...

Sunday 4 May 2025

Automotive and industrial control chip markets show signs of recovery, but tariffs risk looms

European and American integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) have released their financial reports. Among them, Texas Instruments (TI), a bellwether in the analog chip market, believes...

Sunday 4 May 2025

OpenAI's Singapore push cements city-state as Asia-Pacific AI powerhouse

OpenAI is making a decisive push into Asia, with Singapore emerging as a focal point for its regional ambitions. The AI giant is aggressively hiring across a wide range of functions,...

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