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Thursday 13 August 2026
Quanta raises 2026 capex to NT$40B as AI visibility runs to 2028

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.

Thursday 13 August 2026
ChipMOS lifts capex for 2026-2027 on memory and AI ASIC growth

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.

Thursday 13 August 2026
Foxconn broadens beyond AI servers with EVs, robotics and Japan chip fab above 90% utilisation
Foxconn used its second-quarter 2026 earnings conference on August 12 to detail progress beyond its fast-growing AI server business, spanning cloud and data centre solutions, electric vehicles, robotics, semiconductors, satellite communications and AI platforms.
Thursday 13 August 2026
PC 2H26 pull-forward correction hits peripheral chip makers
As 2026 enters its second half, the PC market is facing pressure from both demand and supply. Rising memory and CPU prices are pushing up system prices and weighing on end-market demand, while AI data centers are crowding out memory capacity and reducing allocation for the consumer market; shortages are also appearing in CPUs and a range of peripheral chips.
Thursday 13 August 2026
Foxconn signals sharper push into AI as Sharp partnership enters new phase

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.

Thursday 13 August 2026
Univacco reports record 2Q profit and revenue as 3Q demand builds

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.

Thursday 13 August 2026
Commentary: Shut out of Nvidia and AMD, Compal charts a different path to AI servers

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.

Thursday 13 August 2026
Foxconn buys new land for optical communications expansion

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.

Thursday 13 August 2026
Nvidia seeks to ease credit risk concerns over US$500B AI financing plan

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.

Wednesday 12 August 2026
Foxconn's profit growth outpaces capex; no equity raise planned for 2027 buildout
Foxconn told investors on August 12 that its earnings are now growing faster than the spending required to expand AI server capacity — and that it can fund a bigger 2027 buildout without issuing new shares.
Wednesday 12 August 2026
OCP APAC 2026: Cloud AI's growth hits a new bottleneck— networking, not compute

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.

Wednesday 12 August 2026
Foxconn earnings call eyes four themes: AI racks, transaction models, Apple, EVs
Foxconn will hold its second quarter 2026 earnings call on the afternoon of August 12, as AI racks continue to ship and July consolidated revenue topped NT$900 billion (approx. US$27.9 billion) for the first time. Investors are expected to focus on the shipment pace of AI servers and racks, plus how changes in the underlying transaction model are reshaping the company's operating structure.
Wednesday 12 August 2026
Supermicro defends margin outlook and order quality amid analyst scrutiny
Supermicro executives fielded a wave of questions from Wall Street analysts following the company's fourth-quarter and full-year fiscal 2026 earnings report. Much of the discussion centered on the sustainability of its gross margins, the composition of its record order backlog, and how the company is balancing rapid growth with profitability.
Wednesday 12 August 2026
CoreWeave accelerates power expansion as AI infrastructure demand surges
CoreWeave reported second-quarter fiscal 2026 revenue of US$2.6 billion, up 112% year-over-year and 24% sequentially, and raised its full-year outlook as demand for its AI cloud infrastructure continued to outstrip supply, executives said on the company's August 11 earnings call.
Wednesday 12 August 2026
Lumentum targets US$2B quarterly run rate as optical capacity expansion accelerates

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.

Wednesday 12 August 2026
Lumentum's AI optics boom drives revenue past US$1 billion, though one-time charge masks underlying profit swing
Lumentum Holdings closed its fiscal 2026 with a fourth-quarter revenue surge that underscores the centrality of optical components to the AI data center buildout, even as a large one-time accounting charge tied to debt restructuring pushed the company to a steep headline loss.
Wednesday 12 August 2026
CoreWeave's revenue more than doubles as US$104 billion backlog tests its ability to build fast enough
CoreWeave's second-quarter results showed the AI cloud provider converting demand into revenue faster, even as its widening net loss and ballooning capital spending underline the central question hanging over the "neocloud" sector: whether infrastructure can be built out quickly enough to keep pace with contracted demand.
Wednesday 12 August 2026
Silicon Motion raises private placement to US$1B, targets agentic AI

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.

Wednesday 12 August 2026
MediaTek July 2026 revenue falls as non-mobile units offset slowdown

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.

Wednesday 12 August 2026
Nvidia denies Rubin Ultra downgrade, cites flexible SKUs

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.

Wednesday 12 August 2026
OCP APAC 2026: Murata upgrades power, optical products as AI data centers strain global infrastructure
Murata Manufacturing has unveiled upgraded power converters and optical components, highlighting how rising AI workloads are pushing data centers worldwide toward denser, more efficient power systems and higher-speed connectivity. The Japan-based company says its latest hardware is aimed at helping operators balance performance, heat, and space constraints.
Wednesday 12 August 2026
Taiwan's 20-qubit superconducting quantum computer wins 2026 Future Tech Award

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).

Wednesday 12 August 2026
Lite-On's LEO satellite power growth signals a deeper shift in global manufacturing

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.

Tuesday 11 August 2026
Walsin sees B/B ratio hit 1.8, 2026 capex at NT$4B

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.

Tuesday 11 August 2026
Taiwan's AI server supply chain posts record July as growth spreads down the component tier

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.