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Friday 21 August 2026

Power supply lags behind AI compute growth: chips, optical interconnects battle for energy efficiency

At the "AI on Chips: Semiconductor Industry Trends Forum" hosted by DIGITIMES in Taipei on August 20, semiconductor, investment, and...

Friday 21 August 2026

Honor Robot Phone moves from concept to mass production

With the official launch of Honor's new Robot Phone, foreign media outlets have renewed their attention on how Chinese smartphone makers...

Friday 21 August 2026

Analyst: 2028 key year for optical interconnects in AI racks

Optical communications will likely enter AI server racks in 2028, DIGITIMES analyst Joyce Chen said on August 20 at a semiconductor industry forum in Taipei, as rising AI cluster scale...

Friday 21 August 2026

800VDC adoption in AI data centers is set to reshape power chip demand

A shift to 800VDC power architectures in next-generation AI data centers is gathering pace, with implications for GPU planning, power semiconductor demand, and rack design. Many vendors...

Friday 21 August 2026

Taiwan export orders near US$98 billion in July, with US as top buyer

Taiwan's export orders climbed by US$207.3 billion, or 52.5%, in the first seven months of 2026 compared with the same period in 2025, according to data released on August 20 by the...

Friday 21 August 2026

Alibaba’s 45% AI cloud jump masked by 75% capex surge and margin squeeze

Alibaba Group's June quarter is the clearest statement yet that the company now runs as an AI infrastructure business with an e-commerce cash engine attached, rather than the other...

Friday 21 August 2026

Unitree chief says humanoid robots are not yet ready for mass real-world work

Unitree Technology's soaring debut underscored investor enthusiasm for humanoid robots, but the company's founder said the industry still faces key limits before machines can perform...

Friday 21 August 2026

Alibaba guides AI cloud revenue toward US$10 billion run-rate next quarter

Alibaba is signaling that its most capital-intensive bet yet — a three-year, CNY380 billion (US$56.33 billion) buildout of AI compute — is starting to compound into a self-reinforcing...

Friday 21 August 2026

Elice to build South Korea's first warm-water-cooled AI data center, unveils coding agent

South Korean AI infrastructure provider Elice Group is expanding on two fronts, adding enterprise AI transformation (AX) solutions while building what it says will be the country's...

Friday 21 August 2026

DIGITIMES's Colley Hwang warns Taiwan AI data center capacity lags South Korea

The inference economy has arrived, and Taiwan's tech industry must transition from the "knowledge economy" to the "inference economy,"...

Friday 21 August 2026

Column: Is 800V really 'high voltage'? —AI data centers revive an old power debate

High-voltage direct current (HVDC) is currently one of the hottest areas of technology and product development for AI data centers. It is not only the first layer of what Nvidia CEO...

Friday 21 August 2026

Charts: Foxconn is losing share of Taiwan's EMS revenue as Quanta and Wistron near double

The sub-sector's dominant supplier grew 37.9% year to date and still ranks only seventh of 20, while the other 19 companies grew 56.9% between them.

Thursday 20 August 2026

Nexcom brings together dozens of partners to build open AI robotics ecosystem

Industrial computer (IPC) maker Nexcom International on August 19 officially unveiled its RoboWIZ AI Robotics Open Platform concept at the 2026 Automation Taipei exhibition, bringing...

Thursday 20 August 2026

Kenmec subsidiaries target SiC, AIDC growth

Kenmec Group founder and president Frank Hsieh said on August 19 that two of the company's new businesses have taken shape, with Taisic...

Thursday 20 August 2026

InPsytech 1H26 revenue jumps over 50% on AI data center wins

InPsytech held its second-quarter 2026 earnings briefing and reported strong first-half results, with first-half revenue reaching NT$289 million (approx. US$9 million), up 50.4% from...

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