At the opening day of the Healthcare+ Expo in Taipei, HiMEDt—co-founded by Foxconn and the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI)—held its fourth annual symposium, outlining a new blueprint for healthcare in Taiwan. The event highlighted progress in next-generation hospital information systems, digital-twin-driven multimodal medical models, and real-world applications of collaborative robots.

The annual Healthcare+ Expo in Taipei opened with a breakthrough: the Czech Republic has agreed to purchase EUR200 million (US$233 million) worth of Taiwanese medical devices, marking the largest procurement deal ever reported at the event.

India's Dixon Technologies has emerged as one of the fastest-growing electronics manufacturing services (EMS) players globally, reflecting the country's expanding role in regional and global supply chains. DIGITIMES' latest data for the third quarter of 2025 shows Dixon climbing to 22nd in global EMS/ODM revenue rankings, up from 31st in the first quarter of 2024, signaling an unprecedented growth trajectory.

Murata Manufacturing introduced its latest smart wearable module at the Healthcare+ Expo Taiwan. The company showcased several next-generation medical solutions, including Picoleaf piezoelectric film sensors, wearable platforms, and ultrasonic micro air pumps, as it seeks to expand from component-level offerings to full system applications.

Brightek's newly opened Nantong plant in China is set to drive revenue growth with smart sensing, automotive lighting, and integrated chip LEDs (IC LED). According to general manager CH Tseng, these three core product lines combined accounted for roughly 56% of revenue in 2025, and are expected to contribute to 65% of revenue in 2026. Thirty clients will complete validation at this new facility before the Lunar New Year holiday, with overall operations next year set to outperform 2025.

Nvidia has made another major move by investing US$2 billion in Synopsys, one of the world's largest chip design and engineering software companies. The investment will expand Nvidia's reach into software, chip design automation, and AI-driven engineering.

Since its launch on November 30, 2022, OpenAI's ChatGPT has reshaped global technology, productivity, and capital markets, becoming the world's most popular AI chatbot. Despite its continued dominance, ChatGPT now faces significant challenges from Google's Gemini 3 and Anthropic's rapidly growing presence in enterprise AI.

Google DeepMind's latest AI model, Gemini 3, has made a stunning debut, outperforming ChatGPT, Claude, and other competitors, signaling a new phase in the generative AI landscape. This has drawn attention to the Google-developed TPU chips that train this model, which have also attracted interest from other US-based cloud service providers (CSPs).

AppWorks Accelerator #31 held a joint Demo Day event on December 2, 2025, with Wistron Accelerator #9 and Indonesia's Telkomsel-backed TINC Batch X, showcasing startups that reflect Asia's evolving AI landscape. About 35% of the participating teams have surpassed US$1 million in annual revenue.

The next wave of humanoid robot development is focusing on physical agents, with the core challenge being robots that not only see but also understand and act successfully. The critical vision-language-action (VLA) multimodal model competition is heating up, attracting global giants like Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI.