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Monday 24 August 2026

Interview: Inside Foxconn's playbook for the sovereign AI data center race

Foxconn is repositioning its AI data center business around system integration, modular deployment, and sovereign computing, as the rapid growth of GPU infrastructure changes how customers...

Monday 24 August 2026

ASE's Huang urges AI profits to fund R&D for CPO, PLP

As chip processes move to 2nm and advanced packaging accelerates heterogeneous integration, semiconductor materials are shifting from...

Monday 24 August 2026

USITC opens cylindrical battery probe as China-Korea competition intensifies

The US International Trade Commission (USITC) has opened a trade investigation into certain cylindrical batteries and related products...

Monday 24 August 2026

Half of GenAI projects stall at PoC as data gaps widen

As generative AI spreads rapidly across enterprise operations, gaps in data foundations and governance are emerging as a key dividing line in how quickly AI projects move forward....

Monday 24 August 2026

Jinpao Precision anticipates 2H26 growth from AI orders, aerospace progress

Thailand-based precision sheet metal manufacturer Jinpao Precision Industry delivered strong results in the second quarter of 2026. Fueled by orders for artificial intelligence (AI)...

Monday 24 August 2026

MIT study finds AI image attribution weakens as training data grows

MIT researchers said a larger training set makes it harder to trace an AI image back to a specific source, a pattern they call attribution decay. The findings, reported in connection...

Monday 24 August 2026

Alibaba plans HKD80 billion share placement to fund AI expansion

Alibaba Group Holding said it plans to raise HKD80 billion (US$10.2 billion) through the placement of newly issued shares to non-US investors outside the US, a move that could bolster...

Monday 24 August 2026

AI compute race heads toward space as MediaTek executive says 1 million H100s will be mid-tier by 2030

Speaking at DIGITIMES' "AI on Chips: Semiconductor Industry Outlook Forum," MediaTek senior director Bor-Sung Liang said AI development is shifting from individual large language models...

Monday 24 August 2026

AMRA expands robot testing standard to cover legged systems

The Autonomous Mobile Robot Alliance (AMRA), formed by Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute and industry, academia, and research partners, has released a new standard...

Monday 24 August 2026

AI chip boom lifts South Korean semiconductor materials makers' profits in 2Q26

The AI semiconductor investment boom is increasingly spilling over into the materials supply chain. South Korea's major semiconductor materials suppliers broadly improved profitability...

Monday 24 August 2026

Taiwan lifts 2027 tech budget, studies new TTA site in BSTP

Taiwan's Executive Yuan approved a larger 2027 technology budget of NT$229.2 billion (approx. US$7.2 billion), an increase of NT$25.9 billion from 2026, as the government also raised...

Monday 24 August 2026

Agentic AI opens new era for humanoid robots, shipments to jump fourfold by 2030

Humanoid robots have entered a clear new phase since agentic AI emerged in 2025, with DIGITIMES analyst Zouhao Shen saying the category...

Monday 24 August 2026

Research Insight: ASIC shipments projected to overtake GPU by 2027 as AI reshapes memory

ASIC and GPU shipments will reach a "golden cross" in 2027, with ASIC shipments expected to surpass GPU shipments for the first time at 15.3 million units, DIGITIMES Intelligence analyst...

Monday 24 August 2026

CPO hurdles linger as 800G and 1.6T SiPh surge, says analyst

Challenges around co-packaged optics (CPO) remain unresolved, but they have not slowed the rapid rise of 800G and 1.6T silicon photonics, DIGITIMES analyst Kiwi Hsu said on August...

Saturday 22 August 2026

Automation Taipei 2026: If AI is advancing so fast, why is the factory floor still so hard to automate?

For all the extraordinary progress made by artificial intelligence, the physical world remains stubbornly difficult to automate.

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