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Tuesday 28 April 2026

New flagship launches expected to narrow Taiwan phone shipment decline in the second quarter

The Taiwan smartphone market showed resilience after the Lunar New Year peak as manufacturers introduced multiple new flagship models, and industry sources said the launches should...

Tuesday 28 April 2026

Rising component costs push Chinese phone makers to speed product cycles and favor high-end models

Chinese smartphone manufacturers accelerated product cycles in response to rising upstream component costs and weak sales, as memory price increases in 2026 squeezed margins and prompted...

Tuesday 28 April 2026

End of exclusivity becomes industry norm as OpenAI-Microsoft reset signals broader AI shift

OpenAI and Microsoft have agreed to end one of the AI industry's most prominent exclusive partnerships, underscoring a wider shift toward multi-cloud deployment and cross-platform...

Tuesday 28 April 2026

Alphabet's US$40bn Anthropic stake heats up AI cloud and compute race

Alphabet's decision to invest up to US$40 billion in Anthropic marks a defining shift in the artificial intelligence race: control over computing infrastructure is becoming as critical...

Tuesday 28 April 2026

GrandTech drives growth with AI cloud and 3D printing for drone market

GrandTech Chairman Frankie Hsu highlighted the company's successful transformation from a software agency to a dual-engine growth model, powered by its investment in GrandTech Cloud...

Monday 27 April 2026

Tmytek expands testing capacity with new high-frequency lab

As 6G standardization accelerates and low-Earth-orbit satellite applications gain traction, the communications industry is entering a new phase — one defined by the native integration...

Monday 27 April 2026

Taiwan's Rapidtek establishes link with second IoT CubeSat in orbit

Rapidtek Technologies said its second 8U Internet-of-Things CubeSat, Black Kite-2, developed under a startup satellite program led by Taiwan...

Monday 27 April 2026

OpenAI reportedly taps Apple suppliers for hardware push; MediaTek, Qualcomm, Luxshare in focus

OpenAI's expanding push into consumer hardware is drawing attention to potential supply chain shifts, after industry analyst Ming-Chi...

Monday 27 April 2026

Meta signs deal for AWS's Graviton CPUs as inferential and agentic AI enter the scene

Meta and Amazon announced on April 24 that Meta will use Graviton5 CPUs made by Amazon Web Services (AWS). The deal illustrates the growing importance of CPU chips for increasingly...

Monday 27 April 2026

Broadcom, Marvell set to benefit as 1.6T optical modules near mass production

1.6T optical communication modules are set for broad adoption in AI data centers in 2026, with optical transceiver vendors and key IC design houses preparing for shipments. Broadcom's...

Monday 27 April 2026

Taiwan's supply chain remains irreplaceable as AI hardware demand continues to surge

Global cloud service providers (CSPs) continue to expand their procurement of AI servers from Taiwan, while high-end GPUs and TPUs manufactured by TSMC are in short supply. Analysts...

Monday 27 April 2026

Foxconn's 48% export surge cements India's role in Apple's supply chain

India's smartphone manufacturing expanded 8% year on year in 2025, driven by a 28% surge in exports and modest domestic sell-in growth of 1%, according to Counterpoint Research. Exports...

Monday 27 April 2026

Naver Cloud and HanmiGlobal target global data center expansion amid AI infrastructure race

South Korea's Naver Cloud and construction project management firm HanmiGlobal have formed a strategic alliance to jointly pursue large-scale data center projects overseas, with a...

Monday 27 April 2026

Quanta bets on speed and scale to power next growth wave

Quanta Computer is doubling down on speed, scale, and execution as it heads into 2026, with leadership expressing strong confidence that surging AI server demand will drive another...

Monday 27 April 2026

India roundup: Micron ramp, Dholera SEZ push India toward full-stack chip manufacturing

India is accelerating its semiconductor ambitions, from Micron Technology's Sanand ramp to new...

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