Apple has confirmed it will release a new generation of Siri in 2026, marking a major software update and a renewed effort to compete in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector. The move follows a cautious approach by Apple compared to faster developments by competitors.
India's tightening AI governance rules are no longer just shaping compliance strategies. They are beginning to influence where artificial intelligence workloads are deployed, pushing sensitive applications toward India-hosted and on-premise infrastructure.
Etron Technology founder Nicky Lu says the boom in AI is accelerating semiconductor innovation and restoring the momentum of Moore's Law, even as a global memory shortage threatens to persist through the first half of 2027. Speaking in Taipei as the industry closes a record-breaking year, Lu noted that the demand for high bandwidth and customized memory architectures is forcing a structural shift in how chips are designed and manufactured.
These are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories in the week of December 15 to December 21, 2025.
Sun Tech, a third-party payment brand under Softstar Entertainment, submitted its application on December 17, 2025, to list on the Taiwan Exchange's Emerging Stock Board (ESB). The company will hold a pre-listing earnings call on December 29, 2025, to outline its future business strategies and growth drivers, with the official ESB debut scheduled for January 5, 2026.
The PC market has been heavily impacted by memory supply disruptions. In response, Acer Group's subsidiary Acer Gadget has partnered with Quanta Group's RoyalTek and Taiwan's leading auto parts retailer New Focus Auto (NFA) to launch smart in-vehicle products.
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Inc. and founder of xAI, recently declared that if xAI survives the critical next two to three years, it will surpass competitors like OpenAI and Google by harnessing massive GPU computing power. Speaking at an all-hands meeting at xAI's San Francisco headquarters, Musk outlined an aggressive expansion plan for the company's AI infrastructure and emphasized its substantial financial backing.
Wistron's board approved a new investment plan on December 19 to expand AI server and networking production. The company will build a new factory in Vietnam for network products and increase AI server capacity at its Hsinchu campus. To support this growth, Wistron authorized up to NT$21.528 billion (approx. US$683 million) for machinery and facility upgrades at Hsinchu, aiming to meet rising AI demand.
Taiwan's Amtran Technology is reshaping its growth trajectory, pivoting from scale-driven contract manufacturing to a profit-focused strategy built around high-value products—a shift now clearly reflected in its financial performance and product mix.
Amid sustained investments in AI computing infrastructure fueled by cloud service providers (CSPs) and large data centers, a structural differentiation has quietly emerged in the supply chain for power supplies. Due to differences in power architecture and site conditions between cloud-based hyperscale AI data centers and edge AI applications, power supply makers have adopted different approaches, leading to different timelines in realizing benefits.
At the HAIC2025 Artificial Intelligence Innovation Conference in Kunshan on December 18, Dawning Information Industry Co. (Sugon) unveiled its scaleX 10,000-accelerator supercluster, marking the first physical debut of a domestically developed AI cluster at this scale.
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