DIGITIMES Asia news

Thursday 11 June 2026

China red-chip crackdown forces IPO hopefuls to rethink offshore listings

China's tighter scrutiny of foreign capital is forcing more companies to unwind red-chip structures, the offshore ownership model that powered a decade of overseas listings by Chinese technology groups

Thursday 11 June 2026

Singapore launches new supercomputer to expand AI and research capabilities

Singapore launched ASPIRE 2B on June 8, its latest national supercomputer, as part of efforts to strengthen the country's artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced computing capabilities

Thursday 11 June 2026

Montage Tech samples 9200 MT/s DDR5 RCD06 chip for AI server memory upgrade

Montage Technology has begun sampling its sixth-generation DDR5 registering clock driver chip (RCD06) to customers, marking a step forward in the performance upgrade of next-generation server memory platforms

Thursday 11 June 2026

Meta and Reliance expand India partnership with AI data center plan

Meta and Reliance Industries are expanding their partnership with plans for an AI-enabled data center in India. The move could strengthen digital infrastructure for one of the world's fastest-growing internet markets. The agreement also includes major clean energy contracts, highlighting how global tech investment is increasingly tied to power, water, and sustainability

Thursday 11 June 2026

Foxconn, Brookfield deepen Vietnam push with 1GW renewables plan

Foxconn and Brookfield Asset Management announced on June 9, 2026, that they will jointly invest in and develop up to 1GW of renewable energy projects in Vietnam, seeking to secure stable green power for Foxconn's manufacturing operations and supply-chain partners

Thursday 11 June 2026

CanSemi IPO exposes strains in China's mature-node chip push

CanSemi Technology's planned ChiNext listing has exposed the financial strain behind China's push to build mature-node semiconductor capacity, as the Guangzhou-based foundry seeks fresh capital despite persistent losses, negative gross margins and a long road to profitability

Thursday 11 June 2026

Unitree, Nvidia expose humanoid robotics' biggest question: who controls the body, brain and ecosystem?

Unitree Robotics' Nvidia-backed H2 Plus has sparked debate in China over who controls the robot body, AI brain and autonomy in a global ecosystem

Thursday 11 June 2026

Applied Materials invests US$500 million in Singapore to meet AI chip demand

As artificial intelligence (AI) fuels an unprecedented surge in demand for advanced semiconductors, Applied Materials is deepening its commitment to one of Asia's most important chipmaking hubs

Thursday 11 June 2026

China's embodied AI boom tests whether robots can repeat the EV miracle

China's embodied AI sector is entering a financing cycle that increasingly resembles the early days of electric vehicles. Investors, local governments, and technology groups are backing robotics companies that could translate AI into machines for factories, warehouses, public services, and eventually homes

Wednesday 10 June 2026

Unigroup Guoxin targets Beijing IPO as China's DRAM pipeline gains another contender

Unigroup Guoxin Microelectronics is moving closer to a Beijing Stock Exchange IPO, adding another DRAM-focused player to China's domestic memory chip pipeline

Wednesday 10 June 2026

Tech analyst unpacks why AI eats the world at SuperAI Singapore

Sam Altman's vision of artificial intelligence as a utility bought by the meter — like electricity — may be the wrong model entirely, and the telecommunications industry's last decade shows why. Benedict Evans, the technology analyst and former Andreessen Horowitz partner, made that case Wednesday in the second keynote of SuperAI Singapore 2026, drawing on mobile data's growth trajectory to argue that volume and valuation do not travel together in commodity infrastructure businesses

Wednesday 10 June 2026

ByteDance takes direct aim at Claude Code and Codex at SuperAI Singapore

ByteDance's enterprise technology arm took a direct shot at Anthropic and OpenAI's coding tools at SuperAI Singapore 2026 on Wednesday, with Kan Yang, head of solutions at BytePlus, naming Claude Code and Codex as competitors to ByteDance's own agentic engineering product, Trae

Wednesday 10 June 2026

Commentary: Nvidia CEO visit spotlights Samsung in HBM supply race

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's multi-day trip to South Korea put the "triangle relationship" among Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and Nvidia over high-bandwidth memory (HBM) in the spotlight, even as he toured AI factories and sealed partnerships in robotics and physical AI. The visit underscored how HBM has become a strategic supply asset for Nvidia's expanding AI platform

Wednesday 10 June 2026

Closed AI models face a capex reckoning as open-weight alternatives close gap, SuperAI speaker warns

The economics of closed artificial intelligence (AI) models may be fundamentally broken, and the centralized cloud infrastructure supporting them is the next target — that was the sharpest argument to emerge from the opening keynote of SuperAI Singapore 2026 on Wednesday, where entrepreneur and former Coinbase chief technology officer Balaji Srinivasan laid out a case for why the software industry may have no choice but to decentralize

Wednesday 10 June 2026

China's CNY2tn data center plan puts domestic AI chips at the core

Beijing is preparing a plan to spend CNY2 trillion (US$295 billion) over the next five years to build data centers across China, a move aimed at strengthening the country's domestic AI computing infrastructure and reducing reliance on US chip suppliers, according to Bloomberg

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