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Tuesday 12 May 2026
Research insight: Taiwan's auto tech pushes beyond components into autonomous systems
A DIGITIMES Research observation at the 2026 Taipei International Auto Electronics Show found that Taiwan's automotive electronics industry is steadily shifting from supplying individual...
Tuesday 12 May 2026
Commentary: Musk's xAI exit shows Anthropic's AI strength
On May 6, Elon Musk was in several places at once: confronting OpenAI in court, announcing on X that xAI would no longer operate as an independent company, and handing over a large...
Tuesday 12 May 2026
Interview: Cyient Semiconductors CEO on Kinetic acquisition — why power is the new compute bottleneck
As the semiconductor industry grapples with the growing energy demands of artificial intelligence, Cyient Semiconductors is repositioning itself away from being a primarily semiconductor...
Monday 11 May 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: MediaTek denies Intel link as TSMC's packaging lead faces new test

DIGITIMES senior analyst Luke Lin said Warren Buffett's investment in Apple should be viewed not simply as a stock trade, but as a bet...

Monday 11 May 2026
Analysis: Forget the hardware race — Unitree wants to own the robot platform
When Unitree Robotics added "Mantis Boxing", Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do and even "Kamehameha" moves to its humanoid robot application store, the immediate reaction from many observers...
Friday 8 May 2026
Analysis: Anthropic's xAI deal puts Musk's GPU efficiency problem in focus

Elon Musk's latest move to team up with Anthropic in a major computing-capacity agreement captures the logic of "the enemy of my enemy...

Friday 8 May 2026
Commentary: Trump-Xi Summit puts Taiwan's chip industry at center of global politics

US President Donald Trump is expected to visit Beijing on May 14-15 for a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. If the trip proceeds...

Friday 8 May 2026
Analysis: AMD overtakes Intel in data center revenue as agentic AI revives x86 CPUs
AMD data center revenue surpassed Intel's for the first time in the first quarter of 2026, highlighting how the rise of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping demand across...
Friday 8 May 2026
Analysis: Samsung's China appliance exit signals Chinese brands' upmarket march
Samsung Electronics remains one of the global capital market's major beneficiaries of the AI memory boom, with its market value briefly surpassing US$1 trillion in May. Yet another...
Friday 8 May 2026
Column: The sim-to-real problem—why robots that pass every test still fail on the floor
Simulators are robotics' most seductive shortcut. Spin up a virtual environment, generate millions of training trajectories at near-zero cost, tune the weather, reposition the obstacles,...
Thursday 7 May 2026
Commentary: The real AI war may be the models nobody sees

The global race in large AI models continues to intensify, with Chinese state-backed capital accelerating its push into the sector. According...

Thursday 7 May 2026
Commentary: Why Apple's Intel and Samsung talks remain preliminary—and what that means for TSMC
A year of Intel-Apple negotiations and recent Samsung chatter amount to familiar supply-chain posturing—and TSMC's technical advantages remain unbeatable.
Thursday 7 May 2026
Research Insight: AI memory boom squeezes automotive supply, driving costs higher
Autonomous driving and smart cockpit technologies are pushing vehicles to demand far more computing power and data processing. Memory has become a critical component in automotive...
Wednesday 6 May 2026
Explainer: Why Supermicro's margins bounced back — one customer pulled back
Supermicro's third-quarter of fiscal 2026 gross margins snapped back to 10.1% non-GAAP, up from 6.4% in the second quarter of fiscal 2026. CEO Charles Liang attributed the recovery...
Tuesday 5 May 2026
Analysis: Big Tech's AI tab tops US$700 billion with Google Cloud pulling ahead — but investors are picking sides
The AI spending arms race just got more expensive — and more consequential.