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Thursday 12 June 2025
Posiflex plans full board re-election, leans on Acer alliance to strengthen succession and global resilience
Taiwan-based industrial PC and POS system provider Posiflex is taking steps to ensure long-term sustainability and corporate resilience, particularly as founder-led companies face...
Thursday 12 June 2025
Chinese MCU providers pivot to humanoid robots amid genAI boom
As generative AI and humanoid robotics converge, Chinese microcontroller unit (MCU) manufacturers are shifting their strategic focus away from the automotive sector toward humanoid...
Wednesday 11 June 2025
Avalue acquires majority stake in Champ Vision Display to boost vertical integration competitiveness
Industrial PC (IPC) maker Avalue Technology held its annual shareholders' meeting on June 10, 2025, reaffirming its steady growth outlook for 2025 despite ongoing exchange rate volatility...
Wednesday 11 June 2025
Apple's 'Liquid Glass' UI redesign backfires, creating opportunities for Android 16
Apple's introduction of its redesigned user interface at WWDC has elicited a range of responses from consumers, coinciding with Google's official launch of Android 16, the newest...
Wednesday 11 June 2025
OpenAI teams with Google Cloud; highlights shifting alliances in AI
OpenAI plans to onboard Google Cloud—part of Alphabet Inc.—as one of its computing infrastructure providers to meet surging demand for AI workloads, according to sources...
Wednesday 11 June 2025
Apple's WWDC AI pitch overshadowed by research paper critique of rival models
Apple's 2025 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) was supposed to be a turning point for the company's artificial intelligence ambitions. Instead, it has left many in the developer...
Wednesday 11 June 2025
Google's AR comeback: Project Aura marries dual-chip design with native 6DoF precision

Google has reentered the smart glasses arena with Project Aura, an AR headset co-developed with Chinese firm Xreal and powered by Qualcomm...

Wednesday 11 June 2025
Fragmented IPC demand spurs modular shift: speed, profit stability in spotlight
Driven by Industry 4.0, smart manufacturing, and edge computing, the industrial PC (IPC) market is undergoing structural change. As deployment scenarios become more fragmented, manufacturers...
Wednesday 11 June 2025
China's STAR Market reforms spark record M&A wave as tech firms seek scale and strategy
Marking the first anniversary of China's "Eight Measures for the STAR Market"—a landmark reform package aimed at boosting tech innovation and industrial upgrading—the...
Wednesday 11 June 2025
AMD nears 40% server market share in 1Q25, poised to match Intel in 2026
In 2017, AMD held nearly zero market share in the server processor segment. After CEO Lisa Su implemented a comprehensive platform strategy overhaul, AMD set ambitious goals for annual...
Wednesday 11 June 2025
Hygon absorbs Sugon in US$16.2 billion share swap to forge China's full-stack compute giant
Chinese processor developer Hygon Information Technology and supercomputing firm Dawning Information Industry Co. (Sugon) unveiled a CNY116 billion (US$16.2 billion) share-swap merger...
Wednesday 11 June 2025
Qualcomm demonstrates new processor for AI-based smart glasses
Qualcomm Inc., the top maker of smartphone processors, is making a bigger push into smart glasses with low-power components that can run artificial intelligence software.
Wednesday 11 June 2025
Behind the trust breach: How Chunghwa Telecom lost Chrome’s confidence
Google Chrome announced on May 30 that it would revoke default trust for transport layer security (TLS) certificates issued by Chunghwa Telecom, due to numerous certificate management...
Tuesday 10 June 2025
MSI to ramp AI server shipment in 2H25; US plant to begin operation in 3Q25
Micro-Star International (MSI) held its annual shareholders' meeting on June 10, 2025, with chairman Joseph Hsu outlining cautious optimism for 2025 despite lingering global and operational...
Tuesday 10 June 2025
UK is in 'Goldilocks' moment, says Nvidia CEO
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang praised the UK for its top-tier artificial intelligence (AI) talent and described the country as being in a "Goldilocks" position for AI advancement. However,...