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Wednesday 17 June 2026
Commentary: US delays DeepSeek blacklist, exposing AI export-control dilemma
The US has held back from adding Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, memory chipmaker CXMT, and more than 100 other entities to a key trade blacklist, underscoring Washington's struggle to...
Wednesday 17 June 2026
Research Insight: Japanese automakers pivot to HEV profits, AI, and SDV

Toyota, Honda, and Nissan are accelerating strategy shifts as Chinese automakers rise rapidly, global EV competition intensifies, and...

Tuesday 16 June 2026
Exclusive: Synopsys CEO eyes subscription-plus-token model in AI Agentic era

Synopsys celebrated the 35th anniversary of its Taiwan operations and the opening of its new Hsinchu office on June 15. During the...

Tuesday 16 June 2026
Commentary: AI memory boom turns WF6 squeeze into an opening for CXMT

The semiconductor supply chain is facing another raw material shock — this time from tungsten hexafluoride, or WF6, a specialty...

Tuesday 16 June 2026
Interview: From language to motion— Japanese startup APTO builds the data backbone for physical AI

Physical AI is emerging as a new frontier of model development. Any model, however, is only as good as the data used to train it. Because...

Monday 15 June 2026
Exclusive: Wiwynn sees no AI bubble for 4 years as capex surges
Wiwynn president William Lin says AI demand has exceeded expectations, with orders so strong that even rapid global expansion still feels too slow. The server maker is expanding capacity...
Monday 15 June 2026
Exclusive: Wiwynn president rallies AI ecosystem to tackle power, cooling, optics

AI is reshaping Taiwan into the center of a technological revolution, and the upstream and downstream supply chain is running at full...

Saturday 13 June 2026
Commentary: Precision vs. breadth—Why Taiwan's lens giants have opposite CPO playbooks

Optical industry leaders Largan and Genius Electronic Optical (GSEO) have recently discussed progress in co-packaged optics (CPO), a...

Saturday 13 June 2026
Commentary: Five things I noticed at SuperAI Singapore that the keynotes did not tell you
Ten thousand attendees. One hundred and fifty speakers. Three exhibition floors. Two days. SuperAI Singapore 2026 generated enough keynote content, panel discussion, and product announcements...
Saturday 13 June 2026
Commentary: The cost of over-concentration—How TSMC's liquidity dominance is reshaping Taiwan's banking system
TSMC's financial dominance has reached unprecedented heights, with the world's leading foundry posting first-quarter 2026 profit of over NT$570 billion (approx. US$18.04 billion) and...
Thursday 11 June 2026
Commentary: TSMC's pricing power stays intact as AI demand keeps fabs full
Market chatter about TSMC has intensified, with reports that its advanced process and packaging prices will rise again in the second half of 2026 and 2027, while some Google TPU production...
Thursday 11 June 2026
Commentary: At WWDC 2026, Apple's AI platform eclipses the OS

Apple's WWDC 2026 keynote pointed to a major shift in the company's platform strategy, as Apple Intelligence, Siri, and Safari moved...

Thursday 11 June 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: Power, not chips, is now the binding constraint for AI data centers
During COMPUTEX 2026 and Nvidia GTC Taipei, energy once again dominated the AI data center conversation — only this time the question was not whether enough electricity existed,...
Thursday 11 June 2026
Analysis: Taiwan suppliers pivot to physical AI as humanoid robots draw attention
Humanoid robots are attracting global interest, and COMPUTEX 2026 has opened its first robotics zone. Yet Taiwanese suppliers are focusing on physical AI, including AI computing platforms,...
Wednesday 10 June 2026
Commentary: How AI boom gave Nokia and BlackBerry a second life
The artificial intelligence boom has created clear winners among semiconductor and memory manufacturers. Shares of companies such as Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix and Micron Technology...