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Saturday 21 June 2025
Taiwan port operator migrates key system to Microsoft Azure in smart management push
Taiwan International Ports Corp. has migrated part of its core "Taiwan Port Net" system to Microsoft's Azure cloud platform in Taiwan, marking a significant deployment case for the US technology giant's local data center operations.
Saturday 21 June 2025
What Ren Zhengfei didn’t say—lessons for Taiwan’s tech playbook
In a rare and insightful interview with People's Daily, Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei shared his perspective under the headline "The More Open a Country Is, the More It Advances."
Saturday 21 June 2025
Beijing sends signal with Huawei: sanctions won’t stop AI ambitions
Just as US and Chinese officials resumed trade negotiations in London, China's state-run People's Daily did something unusual: it ran a rare front-page interview with Huawei's founder, Zhengfei Ren. Although a rather peculiar timing, but not likely a coincidence.
Saturday 21 June 2025
GSEO signals cautious optimism under global trade uncertainty
GSEO, a key supplier of camera lenses for Apple's iPhone, addressed shareholders on June 17, 2025, with President Jones Chen and General Manager Lee Kuo offering a guarded yet forward-looking outlook on smartphone component demand, supply chain resilience, and geopolitical risks.
Saturday 21 June 2025
Nidec's Takisawa taps China's robot boom with precision tool push
Takisawa Machine Tool, a subsidiary of Japan's Nidec Corp., is leveraging its parent company's extensive sales networks and industrial connections to expand its presence in China's rapidly developing automation and humanoid robotics market. The move is designed to boost sales of Takisawa's high-precision lathes and machining tools in a competitive landscape dominated by both Japanese and Chinese firms.
Friday 20 June 2025
AI boom pushes Wistron to rapidly scale up server production
The demand for AI remains robust, and visibility is high. Wistron President and CEO Jeff Lin noted that most customers are placing rolling 12-month orders, and current demand is expected to remain strong through May 2026. How strong? According to Lin, Wistron's newly completed AI Smart Campus in Zhubei is already expected to face capacity constraints by 2026.
Friday 20 June 2025
SoftBank pitches US$1 trillion US AI hub to TSMC, Trump team
SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son is seeking to team up with TSMC to realize what could be his biggest bet yet — a trillion-dollar industrial complex in Arizona to build robots and artificial intelligence (AI).
Friday 20 June 2025
SK Hynix widens lead over Samsung as HBM race accelerates
South Korea's top chipmakers, SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics, are heading into 2025 with dramatically diverging fortunes, as the global race for AI-driven memory dominance accelerates. Fueled by surging demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM), SK Hynix is expected to outpace Samsung's semiconductor division by nearly KRW13 trillion in first-half 2025 operating profit, according to industry estimates.
Friday 20 June 2025
Taiwan ports enhance AI monitoring to combat illegal boat landings along coast
Taiwan International Ports (TIPC) is introducing AI-enabled monitoring systems to address frequent attempts by unidentified small boats to land illegally along Taiwan's coastal waters, president Chin-Jung Wang said. These vessels often disable their positioning systems, complicating detection efforts.
Friday 20 June 2025
Taiwan launches program to cultivate 200,000 AI professionals in four years
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has launched the "AI Fresh Talent Cultivation Program," an ambitious initiative to cultivate 200,000 AI professionals over four years. The program aims to accelerate industrial transformation, address workforce shortages, and enhance the nation's competitiveness in the global AI economy.
Friday 20 June 2025
Soaring AI electricity demand challenges South Korea's energy policy
The rapid growth of the global generative AI industry has sharply increased electricity demand, straining national power grids and energy security worldwide. South Korea faces particular challenges in maintaining a stable power supply amid rising consumption. President Lee Jae-myung's recent energy policies addressing this issue have drawn significant attention domestically.
Friday 20 June 2025
Unimicron bets on AI boom as substrate demand set to surge

Unimicron, a leading manufacturer of IC substrates, is gearing up for the strong rebound in 2025, driven by surging demand for high-end ABF substrates used in cloud-based AI applications. At its annual shareholders meeting, chairman Tzyy-Jang Tseng said his company will benefit from new advanced packaging capacity in the second half, particularly CoWoS lines, setting the stage for high single-digit revenue growth in 2025.

Friday 20 June 2025
Nvidia's Asia hub in Taiwan sparks calls for open-source investment to boost local talent
Nvidia plans to open its Asia headquarters in Taipei's Beitou-Shilin Science Park and launch a major hiring push, CEO Jensen Huang said at COMPUTEX 2025. The move underscores intensifying global competition for skilled tech workers at a time when Taiwan is grappling with a growing shortage of IT talent.
Friday 20 June 2025
Johor emerges as SEA data center hub amid Singapore's green push
Data center construction is accelerating in Malaysia's Johor state as Singapore charts a sustainable digital infrastructure strategy. Singapore's Infocomm Media Development Authority unveiled its Green Data Center Roadmap, targeting at least 300 megawatts of additional capacity in the near term while promoting energy-efficient technologies.
Friday 20 June 2025
Singapore looks to build its own Shenzhen with AI-powered SEZ in Johor
The AI data center industry encompasses advanced semiconductor manufacturing, high-end chips (GPU, CPU, ASIC), and system integration (SI). As countries push for "sovereign AI," regional supply chains are gradually replacing globalization. Taiwan, with its robust electronic hardware manufacturing capabilities, has played a pivotal role in this industrial transformation.
Friday 20 June 2025
Overseas appetite drives Pudu past 100K robot milestone
A viral video of a food delivery robot in Shanghai recently sparked online buzz, but such scenes are routine across Asia. In Taiwan, China, and South Korea, service robots are already embedded in hospitality and foodservice operations. Now, China-based Pudu Robotics has surpassed 100,000 cumulative shipments of its commercial service robots globally, marking a significant milestone in its expansion.
Thursday 19 June 2025
Urgent orders boost memory packaging and testing in 2Q25; AI stabilizes variables for 2H25
Benefiting from a rapid recovery in memory market demand during the first half of 2025, memory packaging and testing companies are sharing in the gains. Although the US 90-day tariff exemption period is about to expire, increasing uncertainties around order visibility starting from the third quarter are expected to make customers adopt more conservative stocking strategies.
Thursday 19 June 2025
Wistron chair urges Taiwan to lead in AI, calls it key to future national power
Wistron chairman Simon Lin emphasized AI as a symbol of national power during the opening of the company's global operations headquarters at its Zhubei AI Park in Hsinchu County, on June 19. Lin underscored the urgency for Taiwan to lead in AI applications to secure its future competitiveness.
Thursday 19 June 2025
Nvidia CEO cautions US: China's AI momentum won't be stopped by sanctions
In recent interviews, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has repeatedly invoked the names "China" and "Huawei," sounding an increasingly urgent alarm about the pace of China's AI progress. If anyone thinks a single move can halt China's AI development, that is pure ignorance, Huang warned in a recent conversation with reporters.
Thursday 19 June 2025
Exclusive: Understanding Taiwan is key to understanding the world, says MWC CEO
The 2025 Mobile World Congress in Shanghai (MWC Shanghai) officially opened on June 18, 2025. Just before the event, Francesc Fajula, CEO of Mobile World Capital Barcelona, made his first visit to Taiwan and granted an exclusive interview to DIGITIMES. He shared his views on the Shanghai exhibition and emphasized Taiwan's critical role in the global technology ecosystem.
Thursday 19 June 2025
Wistron opens global HQ in Zhuubei as Taiwan pushes AI partnership with US
Wistron inaugurated its global operations headquarters at the Zhubei AI park in Hsinchu County on June 19, 2025, with Vice President Bi-khim Louise Hsiao in attendance. Hsiao underscored the strength of Taiwan's AI industry and the need for ongoing governmental discussions with the US.
Thursday 19 June 2025
Taiwan launches multi-pronged AI strategy to advance innovation and global competitiveness
Taiwan's Ministry of Digital Affairs (MODA) has introduced a comprehensive set of artificial intelligence (AI) development policies, emphasizing the private sector as the primary engine of innovation. Minister Yen-nun Huang noted that the government's role is to create an enabling environment through targeted policy tools that support a vibrant and sustainable AI ecosystem.
Thursday 19 June 2025
OpenAI confirmed ending collaboration with Scale AI, seeking new data suppliers
OpenAI has phased out its partnership with Scale AI as part of a long-term strategy to find data suppliers more aligned with its model needs, independent of Meta Platforms' recent investment.
Thursday 19 June 2025
AWS expands AI collaboration with Germany's RWE Group
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing arm of Amazon, has announced an expansion of its partnership with RWE Group, a major German energy company. The collaboration extends beyond their existing power purchase agreements (PPAs) focused on renewable energy, with AWS now supporting RWE's efforts to develop predictive models using artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing technologies. This move exemplifies the growing reliance of the energy and technology sectors on AI to optimize operations and anticipate electricity consumption patterns.
Wednesday 18 June 2025
Apple turns to Alibaba for AI push in China, drawing US concern

Alibaba has open-sourced 32 variants of its latest Qwen 3 language models, designed specifically to run on Apple's MLX machine learning framework. The models are now publicly available on platforms like Hugging Face, widely used by AI developers around the world.

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