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Monday 24 August 2026
Nvidia's strikes US$6B licensing deal with Poolside to accelerate Nemotron models
Nvidia reportedly struck a US$6 billion deal with startup Poolside to license its technology and hire much of its staff. The technology and personnel will reportedly support the chipmaker's...
Monday 24 August 2026
Taiwan's Iron Force shifts airbag output to Poland, targets AI server component ramp in 2027
Taiwan-based Iron Force Industrial is reshaping its manufacturing footprint as pressure on its traditional auto-parts business weighs on earnings. The company plans to expand its Poland...
Monday 24 August 2026
Pixel 11 preorder surge lifts Google's Taiwan smartphone share
Google's newly launched Pixel 11 series drew a strong preorder response in Taiwan after telecom carriers rolled out expanded promotions and sales plans. The early momentum has renewed...
Monday 24 August 2026
Analysis: SK Hynix pushes beyond HBM with HBF and CPO
SK Hynix is moving on several fronts as it pushes deeper into system-level memory competition. From high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and high-bandwidth flash (HBF) to a recently published...
Monday 24 August 2026
Nvidia server prices to rise up to 17% as memory costs climb
Prices for some Nvidia-based server systems due for delivery in 2027 are set to rise by more than 15%, with certain flagship configurations increasing about 17%, as higher memory and...
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
Robots shift from POC to ROI as logistics, manufacturing lead
The 2026 World Robot Conference (WRC 2026) ran from Aug. 19 to 23 in Beijing, and one question dominated the show floor: whether robots are truly ready for real work settings and whether...
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
India targets domestic mobile phone design capabilities with new US$7.5 billion manufacturing scheme
India has announced an INR625 billion (US$6.53 billion) Mobile Phone Manufacturing Scheme aimed at moving the country's electronics industry beyond large-scale assembly and toward...
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
India advances Wi-Fi mmWave FWA trial as Gemtek eyes 100x shipments
Gemtek has made new progress in its India-based Wi-Fi mmWave fixed wireless access (FWA) rollout after India's Telecommunication Engineering Centre (TEC), under the Department of Telecommunications...
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
Supermicro's internal probe clears senior management in export-control case
Super Micro Computer (NASDAQ: SMCI) said Thursday that an internal investigation run by its independent directors found no evidence that any current senior manager knew of an alleged...