For years, the logic of AI infrastructure has been straightforward: move more data, push more power, transmit more signals, remove more heat.
A new US government-linked report says American tariff revenue is being drained by tens of billions of dollars a year through illegal transshipment, with exporters routing China-origin goods through more than 40 third countries — many of them in Asia — to dodge higher US duties. The report, titled "The Great Transshipment Scam," traces the practice to Chinese exporters' response to the Section 301 tariffs imposed in 2018 and estimates current annual illegal transshipment flows at US$40 billion to US$303 billion, depending on methodology.
Nvidia is accelerating development and supply-chain alignment for its Feynman generation in the second half of 2028, even as Vera Rubin enters mass production and ramps up. The move is set to drive upgrades at TSMC and could trigger another wave of orders across the global equipment and materials supply chain.
Taiwan Mobile announced on August 13 that it will acquire additional common shares of Systex through its wholly owned subsidiary Taiwan Cellular, raising its total stake to more than 50% and securing majority control of the IT services provider.
Dixon Technologies has disclosed plans to incorporate a new subsidiary, Adivistar Electronics India Private Limited, in which it will hold a 51% equity stake, according to a regulatory filing dated August 12.
Global AI computing is rapidly moving beyond single-GPU systems toward AI Factory architectures, where agentic AI and inference workloads are pushing data centers to rely on networking, optics, packaging, cooling, power delivery and software co-design rather than raw accelerator counts. In a DIGITIMES interview, Nvidia Senior Vice President of Networking Gilad Shainer said the real unit of computing is now the entire data center, not an individual server.
