Samsung Electronics has released comprehensive operational data for fiscal 2025, revealing a complex picture of shifting raw material costs and high production efficiency. Despite rising prices for essential smartphone components, the company maintained full capacity across its semiconductor and display divisions to meet global demand.
CNBC reports that Apple has acquired video editing tools developer MotionVFX, a move aimed at strengthening its professional creative software ecosystem and expanding subscription-based services tied to its creator tools. MotionVFX, founded in 2009 and based in Poland, develops motion graphics templates, plug-ins, and visual effects packages widely used with Final Cut Pro. The company sells editing tools and asset libraries through subscription plans starting at roughly US$19 to US$49 per month, building a loyal following among filmmakers, YouTubers, and professional video editors, according to The Tech Buzz.
Alibaba Group Holding is reorganizing its artificial intelligence operations, creating a new business unit to integrate its AI services and development efforts as the Chinese technology giant looks to accelerate the commercialization of its AI technologies.
As demand for memory chips in AI data centers continues to surge, the global "RAMaggedon" has now claimed another unwitting victim: the gaming industry. The sector is now feeling the brunt of the memory chip shortage, which has driven up hardware costs and, in turn, hindered both innovation in game development and gamer experience.
Shinkong Synthetic Fibers Corporation (SSFC) is accelerating its transformation into AI, semiconductors, biotechnology, and optical films, positioning itself as an advanced materials supplier for next-generation industries.
Samsung Electronics outlined the full range of AI computing technologies it will present at Nvidia GTC 2026 in San Jose, California, March 16-19, highlighting memory, logic, foundry, and advanced packaging products aimed at supporting AI infrastructure, on-device intelligence, and manufacturing digitization.
OpenAI is reportedly in advanced discussions with major private equity firms to form a joint venture aimed at accelerating enterprise adoption of AI, as competition intensifies with rival Anthropic.
Generative AI is becoming a primary search gateway, but the credibility of its underlying content sources is under increasing scrutiny. China has exposed a grey market industry chain manipulating generative AI search through "content poisoning," where generative engine optimization (GEO) is used to mass-produce low-cost content that steers AI model recommendations, including surfacing fabricated products in AI-generated answers.
Amid rising demand for AI computing power and sustained high capital expenditure from global cloud service providers (CSPs), AI servers and data center infrastructure have become the key growth drivers in the ICT supply chain over the past two years. Foxconn, a leader in the AI server industry, forecasts that its AI rack shipments in the first quarter of 2026 will grow by a high double-digit percentage compared to the previous quarter.
South Korea's largest job platform Saramin has named SK Hynix the top "most desired large company" for the first time, displacing perennial leader Samsung Electronics. The shift reflects the explosive growth of the AI chip market and its growing influence on job seekers' priorities.
Intel has confirmed its participation in Nvidia's GTC conference starting on March 16, signaling a deepening collaboration between the two chip giants to co-develop custom x86 CPUs aimed at easing current AI workload bottlenecks.
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