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Tuesday 10 March 2026
Anthropic sues US over Pentagon supply-chain risk label

Anthropic PBC has filed a lawsuit against the US government after the Pentagon designated the AI startup a national security supply-chain risk, escalating a dispute over the company's refusal to lift restrictions on the military use of its technology. In a complaint filed March 9 in federal court in California, the San Francisco-based company alleged the designation was unlawful and requested that a judge block federal agencies from enforcing related directives. The move follows a decision by the US Department of Defense to shift its AI work away from Anthropic and its Claude chatbot.

Tuesday 10 March 2026
HPE sees surging AI orders and pull-forward, while memory shortages force pricing and supply strategies
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) reported a strong fiscal first quarter with surging AI orders that outpaced revenue, while rising DRAM and NAND costs and constrained memory supply prompted contract and pricing changes to protect margins and secure capacity.
Tuesday 10 March 2026
HPE beats earnings expectations as networking strength offsets cloud softness
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) reported stronger-than-expected profitability for the first quarter of fiscal 2026, supported by robust networking demand and cost discipline. Analysts said the company navigated rising component costs better than expected, although cloud and AI revenue slightly missed estimates. The company also raised parts of its full-year outlook.
Tuesday 10 March 2026
Moxa eyes Middle East market growth amid energy and AI infrastructure demand
Industrial communication and networking equipment provider Moxa has identified the Middle East as a key fast-growing market over the next three to five years, highlighting the region at its Lunar New Year media event. General Manager Eddy Lin emphasized that geopolitical conflicts remain a concern, but ongoing semiconductor capacity expansion, supply chain diversification, edge AI upgrades, data center buildout, and critical system monitoring will drive double-digit growth for Moxa in 2025.
Tuesday 10 March 2026
Phison says NAND prices jumped 50% overnight as supply crunch continues
NAND flash prices have surged amid tightening supply, with some manufacturers raising quotations by as much as 50% overnight, according to Phison Electronics CEO Khein-seng Pua.
Tuesday 10 March 2026
SAS Group leverages semiconductor and energy synergy from space tech to net zero
Amid a global supply chain restructuring and energy transition, Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) has expanded into three major sectors: semiconductors, automotive electronic components, and renewable energy. In 2025's volatile market, SAS's subsidiaries—including GlobalWafers and affiliates Taiwan Specialty Chemicals (TSC), Actron Technology (ATC), and Advanced Wireless Semiconductor Company (AWSC)—have successfully secured profits in advanced processes and AI applications through technological collaboration.
Tuesday 10 March 2026
Japan targets JPY40 trillion in domestic semiconductor sales by 2040
Japan plans to boost domestic semiconductor sales to JPY40 trillion (approx. US$253.5 billion) by 2040, a sharp increase from current levels, as the government intensifies efforts to rebuild its chip industry and capture growing demand from AI and data center applications, according to Nikkei.
Tuesday 10 March 2026
AI short drama 'Huo Qubing' goes viral, Seedance 2.0 cuts video generation cost below US$0.14/sec
AI-generated video technology is rapidly disrupting the film and television industry. The recent AI-generated Chinese short drama Huo Qubing has gone viral on social media, sparking discussions with its near-realistic visuals and extremely low production costs.
Monday 9 March 2026
China's new Five-Year Plan pairs tech push with consumption pivot
China's draft 15th Five-Year Plan for 2026–2030 signals that Beijing is seeking to rebalance its economic model while keeping technological development at the center of national strategy.
Monday 9 March 2026
MWC 2026: How AI is reshaping devices, networks, and data policy
MWC 2026 placed comprehensive AI integration front and center. The show covered everything from smartphones and wearables to telecom networks and cloud infrastructure. Industry observers noted that AI is reshaping the entire sector's development trajectory.
Monday 9 March 2026
Foxconn's deep Nvidia ties and full-stack integration fuel AI server ambitions
Foxconn chairman Young Liu said the company expects robust growth in 2026, driven by recovering consumer electronics demand and expanding AI-related business. He expressed strong confidence in Foxconn's AI server shipments and market share prospects.
Monday 9 March 2026
US weighs global AI chip export licensing to curb third-country diversion
The White House is reportedly drafting a new regulatory framework that would tighten US oversight of global AI chip exports. This move could reshape how advanced computing power is distributed worldwide.
Monday 9 March 2026
Micron: LPDRAM server demand to outpace market; Taiwan key production base
The rapid expansion of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) is driving a new phase of transformation in data center memory architecture, according to Micron Technology.
Monday 9 March 2026
Nvidia halts China-bound H200 production, shifts TSMC capacity to Vera Rubin

Nvidia has halted production of artificial intelligence (AI) chips intended for the Chinese market and redirected manufacturing capacity at TSMC to its next-generation Vera Rubin platform, as regulatory barriers in both the US and China continue to cloud prospects for sales to Chinese customers, the Financial Times reported.

Monday 9 March 2026
OpenAI, Oracle rethink Texas expansion, though Stargate buildout continues
OpenAI and Oracle's decision to drop a planned expansion at their flagship Texas AI campus highlights the shifting economics and technology cycles of large-scale AI infrastructure. The move suggests developers are becoming more flexible about where and when to deploy compute capacity rather than abandoning megaprojects.
Monday 9 March 2026
Weekly news roundup: TSMC probe, AI boom, and memory price surge
Below are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories from the week of March 2 - March 8, 2026.
Monday 9 March 2026
Taiwan stands firm on US investment commitments, pursuing strategic high-tech partnership amid legal shifts
Taiwan's tariff negotiations with the US initially yielded relatively favorable terms, bringing Taiwan's export tariffs in line with those of Japan and South Korea. However, a recent US Supreme Court ruling has complicated the outcome. While 70% of Taiwan's exports—primarily electronics and components—remain duty-free under International Trade Administration (ITA) rules, new uncertainties have emerged that could influence Taiwan's trade strategy going forward.
Monday 9 March 2026
Meribank extends semiconductor precision to biomedicine with AI and modular process
Meribank Biotech has signed a letter of intent with Ahead Medicine and Apexcella Biomedical, focusing on optimizing allogeneic natural killer (NK) cell manufacturing and building an AI-based immune cell detection platform. The collaboration aims to strengthen the technical foundation for mass production and standardization of NK cell therapies, expanding clinical applications of umbilical cord blood immune cells.
Sunday 8 March 2026
Broadcom CEO sees copper interconnects viable through 2028

Broadcom reported strong results for the first quarter of fiscal 2026, driven by robust demand for cloud application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), and issued an upbeat outlook. During the earnings call, however, industry attention centered less on the company's financial performance and more on its views on silicon photonics and copper interconnect technologies.

Saturday 7 March 2026
Qwen shake-up sparks AI talent war with Z.ai and DeepMind
According to TechWeb, on March 5, 2026, Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu formally approved Alibaba's core Qwen team member Jun-Yang Lin's resignation in an internal letter to Tongyi Lab, announcing the creation of a "foundation model support group" to coordinate resources and strengthen future LLM development.
Saturday 7 March 2026
Foxconn and TSMC advanced packaging spur V5 to consider France, US sites
High-end semiconductor inspection equipment leader V5 Technologies has steadily entered the supply chains of foundry and testing giants in recent years. Chairman Quincy Lin said amid a semiconductor expansion wave, V5 expects double-digit revenue growth in 2026 with gross margins holding steady from 2025.
Saturday 7 March 2026
TienPin eyes stable growth in 2026 as AI server liquid-cooling cleaning demand heats up
TienPin United Enterprise has been benefiting from a rapid surge in the artificial intelligence (AI) server liquid-cooling cleaning business since the second half of 2025, with its capacity utilization rate reaching a high level in the fourth quarter of 2025.
Friday 6 March 2026
AW 2026: how AX is advancing traditional automation

Automation World (AW) 2026 has concluded at COEX in Seoul, marking a turning point regarding hardware-centric automation. As the industry faces pressures from demographic shifts, supply chain volatility, and changing regulations, the event served as a global stage for the transition toward physical AI and Software-Defined Automation (SDA).

Friday 6 March 2026
Nvidia's LPU push could reshape inference economics as OpenAI signals major buy
Nvidia plans to shift the AI compute battleground from training to inference by integrating language processing unit technology and offering multiple inference chips, with OpenAI agreeing to be a major customer, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Friday 6 March 2026
Foxconn eyes double-digit revenue growth in 2026, driven by AI servers and smartphones

Foxconn chairman Young Liu said on March 6 that 2026 is expected to be "a very good year" for the company, with full-year revenue projected to grow at a double-digit rate from approximately NT$8.1 trillion (approx. US$253 billion) in 2025, provided there are no major uncertainties.