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Wednesday 29 October 2025

Huawei Cloud on the back foot in China's AI race

Huawei Cloud is navigating one of its most turbulent periods yet. Confronted by internal and external headwinds—from a disciplinary probe and sweeping restructuring to a shrinking...

Wednesday 29 October 2025

Foxconn expands US AI server buildout, joins Nvidia-Stellantis-Uber robotaxi effort

Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn) used this week's GTC event in Washington to highlight two fronts of collaboration with Nvidia: expanding...

Wednesday 29 October 2025

Jensen Huang hails AI as 'America's next Apollo moment,' unveils US-built Blackwell supercomputers

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declared that the US is entering "America's next Apollo moment," framing the rise of artificial intelligence...

Wednesday 29 October 2025

Alibaba Cloud's price cuts widen global reach, deepen China's AI cloud duopoly

As China's AI cloud competition intensifies, Alibaba Cloud has introduced new price cuts across overseas markets to accelerate its global expansion, extending the "dual-giant" rivalry...

Wednesday 29 October 2025

Taiwan EV market gears up for showdown: Toyota, Hyundai, and Luxgen lead new wave of BEVs

Taiwan's electric vehicle (EV) market is poised to enter a new phase of fierce competition by the end of 2025, as the island's three major automotive groups prepare to launch a wave...

Wednesday 29 October 2025

Column: Niche markets and circular economy drive Taiwan battery industry's new growth strategy

The future development of Taiwan's battery industry must be grounded in the global competitive landscape and domestic industrial conditions, implementing differentiated, niche, and...

Tuesday 28 October 2025

Hon Precision ramps AI GPU and ASIC testing equipment with orders through 1H26

Semiconductor IC testing equipment manufacturer Hon Precision has, in recent years, successfully entered high-power application markets such as AI, high-performance computing (HPC),...

Tuesday 28 October 2025

CATL's dominance puts squeeze on South Korean battery rivals

Leading Chinese battery maker CATL's 2024 revenue was more than four times the average of South Korea's three major battery firms, highlighting a structural gap in the global battery...

Tuesday 28 October 2025

Toyota launches new bZ4X in Taiwan; Hotai Motor forecasts 40,000 BEV registrations in 2025

Hotai Motor, the Taiwanese distributor for Toyota, held a launch event for the newly redesigned bZ4X all-electric SUV on October 27, 2025, which features a maximum range of 743 kilometers...

Tuesday 28 October 2025

Foxconn-backed Smart Mobility showcases homegrown EV charging management system at Riyadh Auto Show

Smart Mobility, a joint venture between Foxconn's Foxconn Interconnect Technology (FIT) and Saudi Arabia's Saleh Suleiman Alrajhi & Sons, recently unveiled its self-developed...

Tuesday 28 October 2025

Applied Digital secures US$15 billion lease to expand computing capacity at Polaris Forge 2 campus

Applied Digital, a firm specializing in data center design, development, and operations, has signed a US$15 billion infrastructure lease agreement spanning 15 years with an unnamed...

Tuesday 28 October 2025

Apple's 2026 foldable debut set to reshape US-China market dynamics

Samsung Electronics currently leads the foldable phone market and holds the largest share of foldable phone sales in the US, alongside Motorola and Google. However, Apple is expected...

Tuesday 28 October 2025

Trump turns a blind eye to US's AI power grid problem

AI data centers are putting tremendous pressure on the US's already fragile power infrastructure. In addition to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, multiple Wall Street...

Tuesday 28 October 2025

Hybrid, not pure electric, may drive Taiwan’s next scooter wave, says SYM

Taiwan's electric scooter industry is currently coping with a number of bottlenecks in terms of domestic supply chains, battery reliability, government subsidy policies, and consumer...

Tuesday 28 October 2025

OpenAI acquires Apple-veteran startup to build next-gen AI assistant for ChatGPT

OpenAI has acquired startup Software Applications to integrate its unreleased AI assistant, Sky, into ChatGPT. Sky is designed to understand screen content and assist users with writing,...

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