China announced sanctions against five US subsidiaries of South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean on October 14, 2025. The move comes on the eve of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Gyeongju, South Korea, and signals China's growing retaliatory actions against the US, which are now beginning to affect South Korean companies.
As artificial intelligence (AI) workloads rapidly surpass the memory and software limits of PCs, workstations, and notebooks relied upon by millions of developers today, teams have had to shift their operations to cloud or edge data centers. Nvidia officially announced it has begun shipping the world's smallest AI supercomputer, the Nvidia DGX Spark. CEO Jensen Huang personally delivered the system to Elon Musk at SpaceX, demonstrating the close collaboration between the two parties.
On October 9, 2025, China's Ministry of Commerce issued its No. 61 and No. 62 notices, expanding export controls on rare earths. The scope now extends from raw materials to equipment, technology, and assemblies containing rare earth elements. Additionally, the notices include extraterritorial application mechanisms.
Apple COO Sabih Khan made his first visit to China's supply chain on October 14, 2025, highlighting the company's efforts to advance sustainable manufacturing at key suppliers. The visit included stops at AAC Technologies Holdings and Lens Technology, underscoring Apple's ongoing commitment to achieving carbon neutrality.
Taiwan-based Hotai Group has partnered with global satellite navigation and smart wearable brand Garmin to launch an upgraded version of the Drive+ Link intelligent in-car system. As smart vehicle technology advances, car infotainment systems have evolved beyond navigation and entertainment to become indispensable smart assistants during driving.
Axiado Corporation, a pioneer in AI-powered, hardware-based platform security and system management, has announced a strategic collaboration with Jabil, a global leader in engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing solutions. Together, they are developing AI-enhanced cybersecurity and Modular Hardware System (MHS) server solutions aligned with the Open Compute Project (OCP). These next-generation products, designed for advanced AI and cloud workloads, are showcased at the OCP Global Summit, taking place from October 13 to 16, 2025, at booths A1 (Axiado) and C12 (Jabil).
At the OCP Global Summit 2025, Arm's Mohamed Awad, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Infrastructure Business, delivered a keynote urging the data center industry to rethink how systems are built in the age of AI. His talk, titled "What AI Wants: New Silicon, New Systems, and a New Era for the Data Center," highlighted that performance-per-watt optimization, ecosystem collaboration, and custom silicon are key to meeting the explosive growth in AI workloads.
Foxconn Interconnect Technology (FIT) unveiled its latest high-speed interconnect and thermal management solutions aimed at enhancing 224G generation transmission and energy efficiency at the 2025 Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit in San Jose, the US. The exhibition highlighted FIT's efforts to address rising power consumption challenges in high-performance computing (HPC) and data centers.
Intel CTO Sachin Katti announced at the 2025 Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit that the company plans to launch a new AI server GPU, codenamed Crescent Island, in 2026. The company expects to provide samples to customers for testing in the second half of 2026, signaling its renewed efforts to compete in the AI hardware sector.
A seismic shift is underway in the global semiconductor industry. After a decade as the undisputed top client for chipmaking giant TSMC, Apple is on the verge of being unseated by Nvidia, whose business is skyrocketing amid the artificial intelligence boom.
At the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit held in San Jose, Dell Technologies CTO and senior vice president Ihab Tarazi outlined how open collaboration is driving the next phase of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure scaling. Tarazi emphasized Dell's decade-long partnership with OCP and its continued investment in open standards to enable high-performance, modular, and energy-efficient data centers that can meet the exponential demands of AI workloads.
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