In a showcase of Taiwan's burgeoning AI ecosystem, the 2024 AI Expo held at the Expo Dome in Taipei Expo Park featured a lineup of 56 local AI startups, each offering diverse and innovative AI solutions tailored to meet the evolving needs of businesses worldwide.
Microsoft reported strong quarterly results. The surge was driven by corporate demand for Microsoft's cloud and AI offerings, particularly Azure. Microsoft plans to ramp up Capex to keep capitalizing on the explosive growth.
Japan-based semiconductor company Renesas released its financial results for the first quarter of 2024 on April 25. The company experienced a limited profit decline and expected the weaker performance to continue in the second quarter.
As the US-China technology war enters its seventh year, with the process of domestic substitution policy of China's semiconductor industry continuing to deepen, China's local Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software products have made considerable progress in recent years and accelerated their development to bridge the 15 years gap with their American and European rivals.
Microsoft touted as the world's largest AI service provider, has reportedly invited several leading figures in the South Korean tech industry to attend a high-level meeting.
Synaptics Incorporated has unveiled its Synaptics Astra platform, featuring the SL series embedded AI native IoT processor and the Astra Machina Foundation series development kit.
The governments of Europe, the US, Japan, and China see quantum computers as a long-term strategic investment project. With the support of stable and long-term funding, the related start-up investments grew at an annual rate of about 20% between 2021-2023, according to CB Insights.
Lenovo has unveiled its AI PC series, including the Yoga Book 9i, which features an AI agent named "Xiao Tian" powered by Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen model.
Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) unveils a JPY 72.5 billion (US$480 million) subsidy to back Generative AI (GenAI) development by five local firms, including telecom leader KDDI.
Amidst a series of challenging developments, Tesla CEO Elon Musk's planned visit to India was anticipated as a potential morale booster for Tesla as well as for India.
Samsung Electronics is reportedly expanding its artificial intelligence (AI) chip design research organization in Silicon Valley to challenge Nvidia, the current leader in the AI semiconductor market, by developing AI chips based on the RISC-V architecture.
In the rush to train Large Language Models (LLMs), tech giants encounter not just power supply hurdles but also confront the scarcity of internet data.
Affected by the overall global economic situation in 2023, Taiwanese industrial PC (IPC) manufacturers saw high inventory levels among their downstream customers with DIGITIMES Research estimating that the total revenue of Taiwanese IPC manufacturers reached NT$283.66 billion (US$8.66 billion) for annual decrease of 1.3% in 2023, a relatively weak performance, according to DIGITIMES Research's latest AIoT report covering Taiwanese IPC makers' performance in recent years.
The landscape of humanoid robots is evolving rapidly, with industry pioneer Boston Dynamics announcing the retirement of its 11-year-old hydraulic humanoid robot, Atlas, on April 16.
Microsoft's substantial investment of US$1.5 billion has secured it a board seat in the United Arab Emirates-based AI firm G42, albeit with a trade-off.
Under the fast-changing technology trend, no matter which way China's AI industry chooses to build its ecosystem or stay compatible with CUDA, the elimination and consolidation processes will ultimately be driven by the choice of the market and customers. The Chinese market is simply too big to ignore.
