China's AI server vendors are accelerating their shift toward self-developed architectures, bringing RISC-V from edge devices into data-center workloads. StarFive Technology has entered this space with the Lion Rock chip, its first RISC-V–based data-center management processor and one of the earliest large-scale commercial deployments of the ISA in China's server market.

DFI is sharpening its focus on edge AI and long-lifecycle industrial markets as global supply chains shift and AI deployments accelerate. At the company's investor briefing on November 17, DFI president Claire Tien said the Taiwanese industrial computer supplier plans to build its next phase of growth around manufacturing strength, localized production and long-term project stability.