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Tuesday 26 August 2025

Taiwan's automotive lens market looks promising, but hurdles from China remain

As the global auto industry shifts toward electrification, autonomy, and digitalization, the collection and processing of data have become...

Tuesday 26 August 2025

Samsung's DX chief TM Roh unveils AI-centric 2030 strategy at first town hall

Samsung Electronics' Device eXperience (DX) Division acting chief Roh Tae-moon unveiled a new AI-focused "2030 Strategy," pledging to reshape the unit into a fully AI-driven company...

Tuesday 26 August 2025

xAI open-sources Grok 2.5 model to bolster US AI competitiveness

Elon Musk's AI company xAI has announced the release of the Grok 2.5 model as an open source project, featuring an estimated 268 billion parameters. This initiative aims to enhance...

Tuesday 26 August 2025

Musk's xAI sues Apple and OpenAI over alleged anticompetitive practices

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup, xAI, along with his social network X, filed a lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI in federal court in Texas on August 25, 2025. The lawsuit...

Tuesday 26 August 2025

NOR flash prices set to surge in 4Q25 on cost pressures, supply constraints

After months of sluggish demand and weakened pricing, the NOR Flash memory market appears poised for a significant turnaround, particularly...

Tuesday 26 August 2025

Google shifts Pixel 10 to AI, TSMC Tensor still trails

Google's Pixel 10 highlights a strategic shift as the company moves production of its Tensor processor from Samsung to TSMC. The decision was aimed at improving performance, yet benchmark...

Tuesday 26 August 2025

From polyester to AI: Shinkong's reinvention in the post-textile era

Long seen as a traditional industry, Taiwan's textile sector is finding new relevance in the AI era. As demand grows for lightweight electric vehicles, heat-dissipating components,...

Tuesday 26 August 2025

Research Insights: Humanoid robots are coming, but hardware may decide how fast

Nvidia's framing of the next AI wave as "physical AI" has fueled investor and industry excitement around humanoid robots, accelerating development. But according to a DIGITIMES...

Monday 25 August 2025

Taiwan plans to train 200,000 AI talent amid US tech layoffs

Taiwanese engineers offer employers high cost-performance value and a competitive advantage compared to their peers from Europe, the US, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong...

Monday 25 August 2025

Solomon Technology adopts Nvidia's 'robot supercomputer' to speed humanoid AI

Taiwan's Solomon Technology, a major player in AI 3D vision, has maintained a close partnership with Nvidia. The company has developed a natural language-driven humanoid robot simulation...

Monday 25 August 2025

Taiwan's Walrus Pump rides AI liquid cooling wave, fast-tracks revenue growth in technology pumps

Taiwan's largest water pump brand, Walrus Pump, is seeing a sharp rise in inquiries from ODMs and cooling module makers for liquid cooling and immersion cooling systems. The company...

Monday 25 August 2025

Research Insights: Win-win alliance between Tesla and Samsung strengthens chip and foundry ambitions

Tesla and Samsung have struck a US$16.5 billion chip deal seen as a win-win, with Samsung's Texas...

Monday 25 August 2025

Chipping away at H20: DeepSeek's UE8M0 FP8 signals Beijing's AI pivot toward homegrown chips

DeepSeek has introduced its new large language model, DeepSeek-V3.1, featuring a key upgrade: the "UE8M0 FP8 Scale" precision format. The company emphasized that the format was tailored...

Monday 25 August 2025

China's AI drive accelerates: data centers power 40% jump in computing capacity

China's computing power for artificial intelligence is expanding at a blistering pace, with capacity expected to rise more than 40% this year, according to the Ministry of Industry...

Monday 25 August 2025

CMC teams up with Taiwanese suppliers to launch ET35 electric commercial vehicle

Taiwan-based auto maker China Motor Corporation (CMC) held a press conference at its Hsinchu plant on August 22, 2025, for the launch of the ET35, a 3.5-ton electric commercial vehicle...

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