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Nov 12
India's Tata Electronics reportedly seeks up to US$2 billion in loans
Tata Electronics is lining up fresh debt at a moment when nearly every leg of its expansion has run into friction: a flagship chip fab whose production start has moved from the end of 2026 to mid-2028 and will launch on an older process, losses that widened even as revenue doubled, and a run of incidents at its iPhone component plant in Tamil Nadu.
Nvidia's product pipeline is locked in for the next two years, analysts say, but Jensen Huang's resignation calls into question the annual upgrade cadence he personally drove and exposes how thin the company's formal leadership bench is beneath a CEO who ran it with dozens of direct reports and no second-in-command.
Compal splits server R&D and sales into subsidiary
Nov 13, 09:54
Compal Electronics will transfer the research and development and sales operations of its server-related Infrastructure Solutions Business Group (ISBG) to its wholly owned subsidiary Fusionite Corporation, while retaining manufacturing, under a board-approved spin-off plan.
Jensen Huang's departure from Nvidia has given AMD, Broadcom, and in-house chip programs at the largest cloud providers their clearest opening in years, analysts say. They expect existing orders to hold, with any meaningful shift in market share more likely from 2027 onward.
Jensen Huang's resignation removes the executive who turned Nvidia's balance sheet into a funding source for the AI buildout, raising questions about whether the company will keep writing the guarantees, investments, and capacity deals that helped its customers buy its chips, even as financial experts say the commitments already made pose limited systemic risk.
By handing the top job to its chief financial officer rather than an engineer, Nvidia's board has signaled that its priority after Jensen Huang's abrupt exit is to steady investors, customers, and operations, while the bigger strategic call on who will set the company's technology direction has been deferred to a search that analysts expect to take months.
Jensen Huang's resignation is expected to have short-term effects on Taiwan's server suppliers, which are developing Nvidia's Vera Rubin and Feynman platforms. However, suppliers say the leadership change creates uncertainty over Nvidia's longer-term direction, including products after Feynman, and whether a successor will maintain ties with Taiwan's local supply chain.
The 2026 UK National Quantum Technologies Showcase recently concluded in London, where the DIGITIMES team interviewed experts from the UK's industry, academia, and research sectors about the challenges facing quantum computing's transition into real-world applications, including cybersecurity, US-China geopolitical tensions, and talent shortages.
"If you want a future, you have to build it yourself."
India's release of the EKA-1, Dhīr 2B, and Dhīr 5B foundation models highlights a public-backed effort to develop multilingual AI for domestic and international use. The models range from those with large-scale reasoning and coding capabilities to lightweight, offline-capable assistants, with implications for data sovereignty, public services, enterprise deployment, and access in low-connectivity environments.
Pegatron's third-quarter operating profit jumped 149.7% from a year earlier to NT$8.04 billion (approx. US$244 million), as stronger server and smartphone shipments lifted revenue by more than 50%, the Taiwanese contract electronics manufacturer said on November 12.
The controversy surrounding Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has grown from a personal dispute into a broader question about corporate governance, succession planning, and the shifting power structure of the global AI supply chain. With Huang's formal resignation, the AI industry faces a new period of uncertainty, and Taiwan's supply chain must reassess its partnerships, order allocations, and industry interests.