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Tuesday 14 April 2026
Sovereign AI drives CSPs and telcos toward decentralized architectures for monetization
At the recently concluded GITEX AI Asia conference, executives from Nokia, AI chip innovator Blaize, and Indonesian telecom provider Datacomm discussed the evolution of AI infrastructure. In an exclusive interview with DIGITIMES, they highlighted that while training remains centralized in low-cost remote locations, inference architectures are rapidly shifting toward edge decentralization to enhance response times and data sovereignty.
Tuesday 14 April 2026
Exclusive: Edge AI inference set for 10x growth; Nokia, Blaize advance hybrid AI compute
As generative AI demand shifts from centralized cloud training to edge inference, Nokia and AI chip startup Blaize have expanded their partnership in Singapore, unveiling a full-stack solution for hybrid heterogeneous computing at GITEX AI Asia.
Tuesday 14 April 2026
Microsoft plans Copilot overhaul with OpenClaw-like agentic features to win over enterprise clients
Microsoft is developing new OpenClaw-like features for its AI assistant Copilot, according to The Information. The updated tool would be targeted at enterprise customers as a safer version of the popular – but famously risky – OpenClaw agent that has shaken the AI industry in recent months.
Tuesday 14 April 2026
Nanya Technology posts NT$26 billion profit in 1Q26 as DRAM prices surge over 70%
Nanya Technology reported strong financial results for the first quarter of 2026, driven by a significant rise in DRAM prices and artificial intelligence (AI)-fueled demand across key market segments.
Tuesday 14 April 2026
Phison eyes US$1.4B fundraising to tackle severe NAND shortage in 4Q26
Phison Electronics founder and CEO Pua Khein-Seng warned that the current NAND Flash shortage will worsen significantly in the second half of 2026, with an acute supply crunch expected in the fourth quarter of 2026, where "even money can't buy stock." To secure inventory amid this tight market, Phison has broken its no-debt tradition by launching a syndicated loan in March and plans to issue US$800 million in Euro-convertible bonds (ECB), targeting over NT$43 billion (US$1.4 billion) in total fundraising for 2026.
Friday 10 April 2026
Spingence and Advantech accelerate AI edge deployment plans in South Korea manufacturing
In response to strong demand for data security and on-premises AI deployment within South Korea's manufacturing and semiconductor sectors, Taiwanese AI company Spingence Technology is aggressively expanding into the South Korean market starting this year through its enterprise edge large language model (LLM) platform, Edgestar.
Thursday 9 April 2026
Column: Embodied AI reshapes real-world automation marks ChatGPT moment for robots
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated three surprising capabilities in recent years: generalization—providing reasonable answers to unseen questions; multitasking—handling programming, translation, financial analysis, and legal interpretation within a single model; and reasoning—breaking down complex problems into stepwise solutions. Together, these abilities have triggered a paradigm shift in the digital world.
Thursday 9 April 2026
Winmate eyes 2026 growth amid rising defense and edge AI demand
Winmate, an industrial PC (IPC) provider, has reported record-high revenue for March 2026 as global defense projects accelerate procurement and delivery schedules alongside growing demand for edge AI computing platforms. The company is actively preparing materials and ramping up production for the second half of 2026, maintaining an optimistic outlook for full-year 2026 growth.
Wednesday 1 April 2026
Huawei revenue hits US$122bn in 2025, nears peak as AI growth becomes key test

Huawei reported 2025 revenue of CNY880.9 billion, up 2.2% year-over-year, its second-highest on record, with net profit rising 8.63% to CNY68 billion (approx. US$9.87 billion). Growth slowed sharply from 22.4% in 2024, leaving revenue just below its 2020 peak of CNY891.4 billion and raising the bar for further expansion, analysts cited by Chinastarmarket.cn said.

Tuesday 31 March 2026
MediaTek and Airoha deepen telecom open-source platform to challenge Broadcom, Qualcomm in edge AI
Airoha announced on March 30, 2026, that it has expanded the adoption of open-source systems in networking communications, becoming the world's first fiber broadband chip platform vendor to integrate three major open-source systems—OpenWrt, RDK-B, and prplOS—into its own network chips.
Tuesday 31 March 2026
South Korea's ENERZAi partners with Advantech to expand global edge AI market
South Korean edge AI software startup ENERZAi, which has developed a 1.58-bit ultra-low bit quantization technology, is collaborating closely with Taiwan industrial PC leader Advantech to broaden its global edge AI footprint. Leveraging Taiwan's comprehensive hardware supply chain, ENERZAi is actively expanding partnerships with Taiwanese semiconductor companies as well as ODMs and OEMs.
Monday 30 March 2026
Kioxia outlines supply strategy, stresses new 2027 capacity won't disrupt NAND market balance
As generative AI (GenAI) shifts from large-model training to large-scale inference, Japanese NAND giant Kioxia forecasts continued price increases for NAND and SSD products. Despite planned capacity expansions by various NAND manufacturers in 2027, Kioxia expects no risk of oversupply imbalance due to the rapid growth in AI demand.
Friday 27 March 2026
Adata secures NT$12B syndicated loan to drive expansion, debuts Trusta for edge AI infrastructure
Taiwan's memory module giant Adata Technology has secured a NT$12 billion (US$375 million) syndicated loan led by Bank of Taiwan, strengthening its mid-term working capital while advancing its expansion into enterprise AI infrastructure.
Thursday 26 March 2026
Enterprises must treat agentic AI as engineering discipline, experts say
Enterprises seeking to harness agentic artificial intelligence must move beyond viewing the technology as a simple "time-saving" tool and instead treat it as a disciplined extension of software engineering, experts said at the AI Expo Taiwan 2026.
Wednesday 25 March 2026
Quantum computing moves into data centers as 2028 tipping point approaches

Quantum computing is shifting from isolated experiments toward hybrid architectures integrated with high-performance computing and artificial intelligence (AI), speakers said on March 25 at the AI Expo Taiwan 2026, as the industry looks to position quantum systems as components within data center infrastructure rather than standalone research platforms.

Wednesday 25 March 2026
At AI Expo, Google Quantum AI software engineering manager sees shifts toward fault-tolerant quantum computing

The annual AI industry showcase hosted by DIGITIMES, AI Expo, is set to open from March 25 to 27 at the Taipei Expo Park. This year's event will feature Ping Yeh, software engineering manager at Google Quantum AI, as a keynote speaker.

Tuesday 24 March 2026
MediaTek's Airoha takes on US giants in optical comms DSP chip arena
The expansion of AI data centers is creating new business opportunities that are opening the door for upstarts to challenge industry leaders. A prime example is the four-level pulse amplitude modulation digital signal processing (PAM4 DSP) chip market for optical communications, which is shifting from a duopoly dominated by US leaders Marvell Technology and Broadcom to a more diversified vendor landscape. MediaTek's subsidiary Airoha is now striving to climb this competitive ladder.
Tuesday 24 March 2026
Commentary: From chip performance to inference economics, Jensen Huang rewrites AI industry trends at GTC
Over the past three years, Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang has returned to the same two-axis chart at each annual GTC conference — but the story that chart tells has shifted dramatically, from a technical argument aimed at engineers to a financial argument aimed at CEO and boards of directors. That evolution is not accidental. It is a deliberate, multi-year strategy to elevate Nvidia's compute platform procurement from a line item in an IT budget to a question of corporate competitiveness.
Tuesday 24 March 2026
Ghost Robotics seeks Taiwan supply chain ties for quadruped robots
Ghost Robotics, a US-based developer of quadrupedal unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), has expressed interest in collaborating with Taiwan's supply chain as it moves to enter the local market. Discussions between the two sides are already at an advanced stage, according to supply chain sources.
Monday 23 March 2026
Brinno targets growth with time-lapse, visual AI, and defense imaging push for 2026
Brinno outlined time-lapse photography, visual AI, and defense imaging as its three core business pillars for 2026 at a spring banquet on March 20, saying the focus will accelerate R&D investment and growth through its global distributor network.
Monday 23 March 2026
IEI Integration eyes strong 2026 growth as networking projects scale up
Industrial computer (IPC) maker IEI Integration held an investor briefing on March 18, during which IEI president Jordan Jiang stated that several projects the company has been developing in the networking sector will begin shipping in phases in 2026, becoming the primary driver of revenue growth for the year.
Saturday 21 March 2026
AI robot fingertip sensing set to drive next tech breakthrough
The future of AI robot computing power is expected to shift significantly toward edge devices, with dexterous robotic hands playing a critical role as the core endpoint. Industry experts observe that the next major breakthrough in AI robotics will come from integrating sensing and real-time computing capabilities into these agile hands.
Thursday 19 March 2026
Meta's AI agent goes rogue, triggers data breach from within
A rogue AI agent at Meta triggered an internal security breach, exposing sensitive company and user data to unauthorized employees, according to The Information. The exposure lasted two hours before it was contained — a brief but alarming window that has reignited concerns about the industry's headlong rush to deploy AI agents, one of the most fiercely contested frontiers in tech today.
Sunday 15 March 2026
Think like an octopus: Microchip COO makes the case for distributed edge AI
The AI industry's obsession with bigger, faster, and more powerful models may be solving the wrong problem — at least when it comes to the billions of devices operating at the edge. At Embedded World 2026 in Nuremberg, Germany, Microchip Technology COO Richard J. Simoncic offered a pointed counterargument to the prevailing hype, and he used one of nature's most unusual creatures to make it.
Tuesday 10 March 2026
Qualcomm makes its move into physical AI and robotics
Semiconductor giant Qualcomm has recently announced new products and collaborations that bring it deeper into the realm of physical AI. The moves position the company at the forefront of humanoid and general-purpose robotics, one of the tech sector's most competitive emerging markets.