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Monday 22 June 2026
Anthropic joins US$915 million Frontier push to scale carbon removal
Anthropic joined Frontier, the carbon removal procurement coalition, becoming the first AI startup to participate as surging power demand from AI data centers made corporate climate...
Monday 22 June 2026
Groq CEO sees GPU and LPU as complementary as AI compute demand grows
Nvidia's planned US$20 billion strategic deal with Groq is built on a simple logic: as compute gets cheaper, demand keeps expanding. In a recent interview, Groq co-founder and CEO...
Monday 22 June 2026
AI server supply chain expansion accelerates across Southeast Asia
AI server orders are surging, and suppliers across the global supply chain are rapidly expanding capacity in Southeast Asia. Thailand, Malaysia, and Vietnam have emerged as the main...
Monday 22 June 2026
Panjit upgrades hot swap tech to drive 2H26 growth
AI data centers are driving growth in demand for power management and power semiconductor components. Hot swap products, in particular, require a wide safe operating area (SOA) to...
Monday 22 June 2026
Global suppliers race accelerates: TSMC's first CoPoS demo tools enter validation
TSMC is accelerating its CoPoS rollout, replacing traditional round wafers with larger rectangular glass panels to support packaging demand for AI GPUs and HPC chips over the next...
Monday 22 June 2026
Memory costs push Samsung Galaxy A37 pricier as S26 holds steady

AI-driven memory price spikes are presenting a challenge for Samsung's smartphone business, with rising component prices eroding the...

Monday 22 June 2026
Toto reportedly bets bigger on semiconductor materials as AI pushes industry toward 1nm era

Japanese bathroom fixture maker Toto is deepening its commitment to the semiconductor industry, unveiling plans to invest JPY80 billion...

Monday 22 June 2026
China's InP export relief falls short, suppliers race to secure 2027 supply

China began approving a new batch of indium phosphide (InP) substrate exports in late May 2026, but optical communications supply chain...

Monday 22 June 2026
Weekly news roundup: Micron CEO turns visa rejection into US$1 trillion milestone; Taiwan LED makers look beyond lighting
Below are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories from the week of June 15-21, 2026:
Monday 22 June 2026
ASMedia launches second transformation plan, targets revenue doubling, AI server market expansion
High-speed transmission IC design company ASMedia Technology held its annual shareholders meeting on June 17, completing a full board reshuffle. ASMedia president Che-Wei Lin stated...
Sunday 21 June 2026
Taiwan memory chip designers set for 245% revenue jump on AI storage demand

Taiwan's memory chip designers are heading into a sharply stronger 2026 as rising memory prices and a wave of AI-driven demand push the...

Saturday 20 June 2026
Surging AI power demand pushes data centers toward higher-voltage designs

As AI computing continues to scale, power systems are facing sharper load swings, along with rising requirements for power density and...

Saturday 20 June 2026
Techman Robot pushes lightweight cobots with built-in AI vision into Southeast Asia
Techman Robot brought a lineup of collaborative robots and AI vision automation systems to the ME Assembly & Automation 2026 trade show in Bangkok this week, targeting manufacturers...
Friday 19 June 2026
China chip supply chain feels squeeze from AI server MLCCs to 8-bit MCUs
China's semiconductor supply chain is showing fresh signs of pricing strain, with microcontroller unit (MCU) makers and passive component suppliers facing rising costs, tighter capacity,...
Friday 19 June 2026
Apple to work with Intel on US chip design and manufacturing, Trump says
US President Donald Trump said on June 18 that Apple has agreed to work with Intel to design and manufacture chips in the US, a claim he made in a post on his Truth Social platform...