Auras Technology reported record first-quarter results and said it expects revenue and profit to grow quarter by quarter in 2026, dismissing market talk that a design tweak on Nvidia's Vera Rubin server cooling system would harm its business. The cooling-module maker posted first-quarter revenue of NT$49.038 billion (approx. US$1.56 billion), up 110.17% year-over-year, gross profit of NT$14.597 billion, up 142.15%, operating profit of NT$12.019 billion, up 175.6%, and net profit after tax of NT$7.916 billion, or NT$20.17 per share.
Foxconn used its first quarter of 2026 earnings call to signal that its long-term "3+3+3" strategy is transitioning from technical validation into commercialization, highlighting growth in AI servers and advances across smart manufacturing, electric vehicles, semiconductors, and low-Earth-orbit communications. The group also framed its COMPUTEX 2026 positioning as a "Token Factory" to signal a broader role in the AI era, executives said.
Pan-International Industrial Corp. said it recorded about NT$1.25 billion (US$39.62 million) in revenue and a small loss in the first quarter of 2026 after customers deferred shipments and copper prices rose. The company called the period its annual operating trough, announced measures to stabilize results and expected a significant recovery and a return to profitability in the second quarter.
TECO Electric & Machinery reported first-quarter 2026 revenue of NT$14.235 billion (US$451.17 million), a 4.54% year-over-year increase, and earnings per share of NT$0.51, as executives said the company's power and energy business grew more than 30% and rose to a 24.5% share of revenue from 19% a year earlier. The firm announced plans to expand its Southeast Asia footprint by acquiring a majority stake in Malaysia's Dynaciate Engineering and bringing a new Penang Busway manufacturing plant into volume production to serve the region's data center market.
Nvidia expanded a rapid investment campaign in 2026, deploying US$17.5 billion in the fiscal year that ended January 25, 2026, and topping US$45.3 billion so far in 2026, according to the company's financial disclosures and PitchBook data. Executives framed the activity as targeted moves across model providers, compute and cloud firms, and hardware and optical interconnect suppliers aimed at securing end demand and reducing bottlenecks in the AI inference stack.
Tensions are escalating between OpenAI and Apple, threatening what was once seen as one of the most important alliances in the generative AI industry.
Quanta posted record revenue and earnings per share for the first quarter of 2026, but gross margin collapsed as the company absorbed costs tied to a rapid shift into high-priced GPU-based AI servers.
Edge AI is accelerating across consumer devices and is increasingly embedded in wearables, reshaping smartwatches, earbuds, and smart rings into proactive sensing and response endpoints, industry research showed. Market analysts describe this shift as unfolding now and expected to deepen through 2032, with wearables moving from passive connected accessories to devices that sense, understand, and act on user status and environment in real time.
Hon Hai Precision Industry (Foxconn) reported first-quarter 2026 consolidated revenue of NT$2.11 trillion (approximately US$66.95 billion), up 29.68% year over year but down 19% from the fourth quarter of 2025 due to seasonal factors. Core profitability improved despite the slowdown.
Foxconn (Hon Hai) held an online investor briefing on May 14, where executives outlined that cloud and networking products accounted for nearly 50% of group revenue in the first quarter of 2026 and that AI server shipments will more than double year-over-year for 2026. The company said a shift toward consignment supply for some AI server transactions has depressed reported revenue sequentially but did not affect overall profitability and helped reduce working capital and improve capital efficiency.
Ubiqconn Technology reported consolidated revenue of NT$130 million in April 2026, down 25% month-over-month and down 20% year-over-year, and cumulative revenue for the first four months of 2026 totaled NT$678 million, a 12% decline from a year earlier. The firm said short-term revenue was affected by market demand adjustments, but ongoing product mix optimization had begun to drive structural, differentiated growth across its end markets.
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