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Tuesday 21 January 2025
ByteDance outpaces Alibaba, Baidu: a deep dive into China's evolving AI chatbot market
ByteDance's Doubao has emerged as a leading contender in China's competitive AI chatbot landscape. In December 2024, Doubao achieved an impressive 29% growth in downloads, reaching...
Tuesday 21 January 2025
AI GPU drives ASIC opportunities amid Broadcom, Marvell rivalry
The explosive growth of ChatGPT has triggered unprecedented demand for artificial intelligence (AI) computing power, leading to industry-wide supply constraints. While Nvidia maintains...
Tuesday 21 January 2025
LG targets 45% B2B revenue by 2030 through AI-driven expansion
LG Electronics has embarked on a strategic transformation in 2024, shifting its focus toward non-hardware businesses and B2B operations. The company has enhanced investments in automotive...
Monday 20 January 2025
Rise of China's memory chip industry challenges the market
New players are joining the supply chain competition as China's major memory chip manufacturers have rapidly developed. It seems to challenge the market positions of Samsung Electronics,...
Monday 20 January 2025
Cal-Comp Electronics (Thailand) pushes AI transformation to boost small ventures in 2025
As global manufacturing continues to shift away from mainland China, companies with established operations in Southeast Asia are seeing major opportunities emerge. Tony Chou, managing...
Monday 20 January 2025
EV makers pivot: Trump 2.0 day one threatens charged-up industry
The global electric vehicle industry faces an immediate reset as Donald Trump returns to the White House. Markets are already reacting to his promised dismantling of key industry...
Monday 20 January 2025
WT Microelectronics expects AI-driven surge in 2025, optimistic about recovery in automotive and industrial sectors
Taiwan-based electronics distributor WT Microelectronics has steadily expanded its global distribution network following the completion of its acquisition of Future Electronics. The...
Monday 20 January 2025
Demographics drive new business opportunities at CES 2025
AI integration and changing social trends took center stage at the world's largest consumer electronics exhibition, CES 2025. According to Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research...
Monday 20 January 2025
Wistron optimistic about 2025 AI growth amid US-Sino policy shifts
At Wistron's year-end party in Taiwan on January 17, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang emphasized the early stage of AI development and the crucial role of partners like Wistron in the supply...
Monday 20 January 2025
OpenAI hiring to build mass-produced general-purpose robots
OpenAI is expanding its robotics division with ambitious plans to develop and mass-produce advanced general-purpose robots that integrate proprietary AI models with custom-designed...
Monday 20 January 2025
Weekly news roundup: Europe's chip ambitions falter; TSMC maintains CoWoS equipment orders
These are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories in the week of January 13 – January 17.
Monday 20 January 2025
Microsoft-OpenAI partnership raises antitrust concerns: FTC
Microsoft Corp.'s US$13 billion investment in OpenAI raises concerns that the tech giant could extend its dominance in cloud computing into the nascent artificial intelligence market,...
Friday 17 January 2025
The era of 'subtraction': Q&A with HCMF Group executive director Jeffrey Hsi
Taiwan-based HCMF Group, a long-standing supplier of automotive parts and systems to global Tier 1 OEMs, operates nearly 30 sales, manufacturing, and R&D facilities worldwide...
Friday 17 January 2025
Massive budget cuts could threaten Taiwan's AI ambitions and cripple science parks operations, warns NSTC minister
As the Legislative Yuan nears the end of its current session, opposition parties have proposed significant cuts and freezes to the 2025 central government budget. At a press conference...
Friday 17 January 2025
Taiwan EV charging operator U-Power plans IPO by end of 2025
Electric vehicle charge point operator (CPO) EVGallop Mobility System, commonly known as U-Power, intends to file for an initial public offering (IPO) in Taiwan by the end of 2025.