Quanta Computer told investors at its August 13 earnings call that customer AI product roadmaps and order visibility now extend into 2028, prompting the company to accelerate capacity expansion and raise its full-year 2026 capital expenditure target to NT$40 billion (US$1.28 billion) from NT$30 billion. Quanta expects its overall margin for 2026 to hold steady at first-half levels.
ChipMOS said strong demand for automotive panels and memory products drove revenue and profit to record highs in the second quarter of 2026. Chairman Shih-Jye Cheng said the company will raise capital expenditure (capex) for two consecutive years, in 2026 and 2027, to support memory, advanced logic, and new product demand. The company plans to boost capex to more than 25% of revenue as it begins a new expansion cycle.
Foxconn said its decade-long partnership with Sharp has entered a new growth phase, as the Taiwanese electronics group expands into AI servers, semiconductors, robotics, and next-generation communications. The comments, made at Foxconn's second quarter 2026 investor conference on August 12, came as the two companies marked 10 years since Foxconn completed its investment in Sharp.
Univacco Technology posted record second-quarter and first-half 2026 revenue and profit, driven by its expanding global distribution network, an improved product mix and stronger demand in North America. The vacuum metallized film and precision coating maker also said July revenue stayed at a historically high level, setting a solid tone for the third quarter, which it described as the industry's peak season.
Compal chairman Ray Chen said the company was still a newcomer to AI servers two years ago but has now moved into the middle tier and wants to keep closing the gap with the leaders. However, opportunities to break into Nvidia and AMD's supply chains remain difficult to win, whereas enterprise OEM business offers a more promising opening for Compal to catch up with front-runners.
Foxconn approved the purchase of an industrial property in New Taipei City's Tucheng District for NT$1 billion (US$31.08 million), the company said on the 12th. The site will support future planning in optical communications, ultra-precision molds and precision molding.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has sought to reassure investors over the chipmaker's exposure to a newly announced initiative designed to mobilize more than US$500 billion in third-party capital for artificial intelligence infrastructure.
At the 2026 OCP APAC Summit, debate over networking architectures in cloud AI data centers sharpened as industry players said the main bottleneck is no longer compute; beyond memory, networking has become a key constraint on how far AI infrastructure can scale.
Lumentum Holdings said it is pulling forward capacity investments across lasers, transceivers, and optical circuit switches (OCS) after fiscal fourth-quarter revenue surged 109% year-over-year to US$1.01 billion, with the company now guiding to hit its long-stated US$1.25 billion quarterly revenue target more than a quarter ahead of schedule.
Silicon Motion announced the pricing of a private placement of US$1 billion in aggregate principal amount of 0% convertible senior notes due 2031, increasing the fundraising size from the previously announced US$800 million.
MediaTek reported July 2026 revenue of NT$48.475 billion (US$1.5 billion), down 16.44% month-over-month but up 12.16% year-over-year, in line with its earlier conservative view that the third quarter would at best match the second quarter. The decline reflects weaker smartphone shipment momentum, even though the chipmaker still posted solid year-over-year growth.
Amid a swirl of rumors that Nvidia chip upgrades were being cut, scaled back, or delayed, the company has again pushed back on similar claims surrounding its latest Vera Rubin launch. Nvidia told Wccftech that its product strategy is not a downgrade but a flexible deployment model designed to meet different customer needs.
Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) announced the winners of its annual Future Tech Award on August 10, with the aim of encouraging the licensing and commercialization of breakthrough research projects. Among the selected technologies were Academia Sinica's 20-qubit superconducting quantum computer and quantum chip process development project, headed by distinguished research fellow Chii-dong Chen, and research into complementary field-effect transistors and other advanced stacked transistors, led by Chee Wee Liu of the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University (NTU).
Lite-On Technology reported strong revenue growth in the first seven months of 2026, fueled by demand for AI, cloud, and LEO satellite power systems. The results underscore how the company's overseas production strategy, especially in Vietnam, is becoming central to its growth as customers seek more resilient supply chains.
Chiao Yu-Heng, chairman of Walsin Technology, said the passive component market has improved sharply, with some parts even in short supply, and that order visibility now extends "beyond the end of 2026." The company plans to continue investing in AI-related passive component capacity as demand from AI applications stays strong.
The latest indication of global demand for AI hardware comes not from a hyperscaler capex presentation, but from unaudited monthly filings in Taipei. Major Taiwanese companies across the AI server supply chain, including server assembly, cooling, power, networking, and testing, reported combined July revenue of NT$2.59 trillion (US$80.34 million), according to the filings.
