On November 14, Foxlink Group (formerly Cheng Uei Precision Industry) inaugurated Ubilink, establishing Taiwan's largest AI supercomputing center and first platform utilizing Nvidia Hopper GPUs. The center aims to serve small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that cannot afford dedicated computing facilities.
Huawei's "Songshan Lake Initiative," launched in late 2019 at its Dongguan facility, mobilized over 2,000 engineers globally over nine months to establish HarmonyOS for smartphones. This project marked a pivotal shift for Huawei, as covered by Yicai and The Paper.
Amidst China's raging AI boom, Kai-Fu Lee, Chairman of Sinovation Ventures and CEO of 01.AI has gone on record criticizing the structure of the AI ecosystem while outlining where he believes the direction of the AI evolution may go.
Two years into the AI boom, the industry has begun searching for the next trend of the new age. DeepLearning.AI General Partner Andrew Ng suggests that while much attention in generative AI has focused on technical aspects and models over the past two years, the industry's next wave of opportunities lies in applications, particularly in AI agents and agent-based workflows.
Huawei's HarmonyOS is encountering significant hurdles in its path to successful commercialization. However, since its launch, Huawei has integrated the digital yuan into HarmonyOS, reflecting a departure from traditional commercialization strategies.
The US currently holds a technological advantage in the field of AI, but China has considerable potential to catch up, especially in the application sector, according to Kai-Fu Lee, former head of Google China.
Acer e-Enabling Service Business Inc. (AEB) achieved record-high quarterly and cumulative revenue and profits in the third quarter of 2024. As the potential of generative AI (GenAI) unfolds, companies are accelerating digital transformation, which boosts demand for cloud services. This shift is also fueling reliance on data governance, value-added cloud solutions, and AI consulting, all contributing to AEB's impressive growth.
The top three global cloud service providers (CSPs) are committing to strong investments in AI data centers, ensuring steady operations for Taiwan's data center supply chain—covering servers, storage devices, and network switches—through 2025.
Southeast Asia's internet economy will log its slowest growth on record this year, a group of researchers said, underscoring weakness in consumer demand and a push to show profits instead of revenue gains.
As the first major US tech giant to report quarterly earnings, Alphabet delivered third-quarter results that outpaced analysts' predictions. Fueled by soaring demand for AI computing power, development tools, and resources, Alphabet's cloud services saw significant growth. However, the stakes are high: looming antitrust investigations by US regulators and fierce competition in search advertising could cast a shadow over Alphabet's future momentum.
Taiwan's hospitals are pioneering smart healthcare by combining medical expertise with advanced ICT. At a recent event hosted by the Smart Healthcare Industry-Academia Alliance, hospitals, including Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial, unveiled patient-centered solutions developed with Taiwan's ICT industry, demonstrating their commitment to emphasizing the importance of the patient journey.
Cloud giants have recently released their latest financial results, with Alphabet and Microsoft reporting robust cloud performance, easing prior market concerns about the monetization of AI applications.
Microsoft reported robust financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2025, with revenue reaching US$65.59 billion, primarily driven by its cloud business. Azure demonstrated impressive growth, with a 34% increase in constant currency. The company continues to actively procure Blackwell chips to ensure competitiveness in the rapidly evolving AI market.
Cloud AI development is surging in Southeast Asia (SEA), with major cloud service providers rapidly expanding their infrastructure investments in the region. The area's multilingual diversity and varying levels of digital adoption are proving to be key drivers of innovation and business opportunities.
Microsoft Corp.'s GitHub has agreed to bake artificial intelligence models from Anthropic and Alphabet Inc.'s Google into a coding assistant used by millions of software developers.
When tech giants and startups are leveraging AI to challenge Alphabet's dominance in various areas, the company's latest results show its core businesses remain resilient against the challenges brought by generative AI.
Meta is developing a search engine to provide conversational answers about current events to users of its AI chatbot on WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook.
Meta Platforms Inc. is losing third-party augmented reality developers to rival Snap Inc. following the social media giant's unexpected decision to shutter its AR studio.
Zomato's second-quarter financial results surpassed market expectations, driven by robust revenue growth across segments and improved profitability. However, analysts warn that the company's aggressive expansion plans and quick commerce investments could pressure margins in coming quarters.
Chinese tech giant Huawei announced the official launch of HarmonyOS NEXT at a launch event on October 22. The HarmonyOS Next is the 5.0 version of Huawei's self-developed mobile operating system (OS) HarmonyOS and is the first iteration to be built independent of the Android architecture.
Rising AI startup MiniMax has launched mobile-focused AI products, attracting major Chinese smartphone manufacturers including Oppo, Xiaomi, and Honor as clients for its foundational AI large models.
"Prompt injection attacks" are the primary threat among the top ten cybersecurity risks associated with large language models (LLMs) says Chuan-Te Ho, the president of The National Institute of Cyber Security (NICS). He stressed that, in addition to traditional security measures, LLM applications need to pay extra attention to the risks of misuse and abuse.
The announcement of the Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry has affirmed Google's long-standing position in advancing AI research. However, with the rise of generative AI, competitors like Microsoft and Meta are intensifying their efforts to catch up.
The UK government has announced that four US cloud technology and data center operators—ServiceNow, CoreWeave, CyrusOne, and CloudHQ—will invest a total of up to GBP6.3 billion (approx. US$8.2 billion) in the development of related infrastructure in the UK.
