Trends in industrial computing

Digitimes trackes the latest trends in industrial computing applications, including IoT, Industry 4.0 and automation and robotics.

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Friday 2 October 2026

Global annual AI server shipments, 2025-2026

Continued advances in top-tier LLM capabilities, coupled with the potential for business automation enabled by agentic AI, are prompting major North American cloud providers, Neo Clouds,...

Friday 2 October 2026

ficonTEC, Hermes Testing target CPO testing scale-up with INS-2 platform

ficonTEC, a maker of optoelectronic automation assembly and test equipment, has announced a strategic partnership with Hermes Testing Solutions Inc. (HTSI) to support Taiwan's rapidly...

Friday 2 October 2026

Hitachi and Fanuc launch Physical AI partnership for factory automation

Hitachi and Fanuc announced on September 30, 2026, that they have formed a strategic partnership on Physical AI, with internal testing beginning immediately and customer promotion...

Thursday 1 October 2026

ASE expands smart OSAT push with six university research partnerships

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) held its 11th Automation Industry-Academia Project Results Presentation on September 30, unveiling 12 technology projects developed with six...

Thursday 1 October 2026

Synopsys and OpenAI to share revenue from AI model built to run chip design tools

Synopsys is betting that the surest way to keep generative AI from eroding its electronic design automation (EDA) franchise is to build the model together with the AI developer and...

Tuesday 29 September 2026

RoboTechnik completes Hong Kong listing to fund ficonTEC expansion in silicon photonics

RoboTechnik completed a Hong Kong listing on September 29 and began trading on the Hong Kong stock exchange, according to its German photonics automation subsidiary ficonTEC. The new...

Tuesday 22 September 2026

AirTAC sees pneumatic demand cycle extending through 2027 on China automation growth

AirTAC International Group said demand for pneumatic components in China's automation market has entered a more gradual expansion phase,...

Monday 21 September 2026

Samsung builds fab robot team, targets chip equipment maintenance

Samsung Electronics has formed a dedicated organization to develop and deploy robots in its semiconductor fabs, with equipment preventive...

Thursday 17 September 2026

Taiwan machine tool makers target aerospace, semiconductor boom at major trade shows

Taiwanese machine tool manufacturers are taking part in two major manufacturing trade shows in Europe and the US this September. The participation reflects a shift in Taiwan's machine...

Thursday 17 September 2026

Onsemi puts power density at the center of its next-decade strategy

Onsemi is seeking to capture more value from AI, electrification, and automation by expanding from individual semiconductors into integrated...

Monday 14 September 2026

DIGITIMES Insight: Taiwanese firms lead in FOPLP as overseas rivals race to catch up

Taiwanese chip packaging firms are advancing fan-out panel-level packaging (FOPLP) and glass-substrate development as AI processors demand ever-larger reticle sizes and more complex...

Monday 14 September 2026

Weekly news roundup: HBM4 strain, Intel price hikes and the next AI infrastructure buildout

AI demand remained the dominant force across semiconductors, memory, foundry and data-center infrastructure this week. Intel raised CPU prices while Qualcomm and MediaTek targeted...

Monday 14 September 2026

Lite-On revenue rises in August on cloud power demand

Lite-On Technology posted NT$19.6 billion (approx. US$622.1 million) in consolidated revenue in August 2026, up 3% month-over-month and 25% year-over-year, as strong demand continued...

Monday 14 September 2026

Scaling Photonics: Assembly, Test and Fiber Automation at SEMICON Taiwan

As AI continues to accelerate demand for high-speed optical connectivity, technologies such as silicon photonics, CPO, LPO, NPO and OCS are moving rapidly toward commercial deployment...

Sunday 13 September 2026

Column: What is SLAM? The first step in Physical AI

We previously discussed how automation removes environmental uncertainty, while autonomy requires systems to operate in complex settings. The biggest difference is that autonomous...

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