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Friday 8 May 2026
Anpec plans midyear 15% price hike to protect PMIC margins
Taiwan power management IC (PMIC) maker Anpec Electronics recently said its 2026 growth momentum will mainly rely on demand in non-PC applications to offset declines in PC-related business, while more meaningful expansion is not expected until 2027. The company also said rising wafer packaging and testing costs will drive a price increase of its products by up to 15% in June-July to preserve gross margins.
Friday 8 May 2026
AI-driven capital spending by hyperscalers reshapes global EMS competition and supply chain strategy
Hyperscaler AI capital spending is rapidly reshaping global EMS and ODM strategies, driving firms like Luxshare to pivot from smartphones toward AI infrastructure opportunities, while US peers such as Flex restructure around data center power systems. With hyperscaler capex exceeding US$800 billion annually, supply chains are reorganizing around AI servers, cooling, and high-speed interconnect demand, redefining competitive dynamics across China and the US.
Friday 8 May 2026
Chenbro Micom sees strong second-half 2026 server demand as AI build-out continues
Chenbro Micom said demand driven by AI deployments remained clear for the second quarter and the second half of 2026 as the company accelerated localization of manufacturing and operations to bolster resilience against regional conflicts and potential tariff changes. The firm reported cumulative revenue of NT$9.17 billion (approx. US$290 million) for the first four months of 2026, a 49.7% year-over-year increase, and April revenue of NT$2.06 billion, up 4.6% year-over-year, which it attributed to rising end-market AI application demand that is fueling data center hardware build-outs.
Friday 8 May 2026
Memory shortages choke AI storage orders, says Hitachi Vantara

AI-driven demand is turning storage into one of the hottest segments in enterprise infrastructure, but tightening memory supply and rising component costs are creating growing pressure on customers, according to executives at Hitachi Vantara Taiwan.

Friday 8 May 2026
Column: The sim-to-real problem—why robots that pass every test still fail on the floor
Simulators are robotics' most seductive shortcut. Spin up a virtual environment, generate millions of training trajectories at near-zero cost, tune the weather, reposition the obstacles, and repeat — all without touching a single physical robot.
Thursday 7 May 2026
MediaTek opens AI R&D data center in Taiwan with Nvidia DGX SuperPOD
MediaTek announced the opening of a new research and development data center at the Tongluo Science Park in Miaoli, Taiwan, aimed at supporting growing demand for edge AI and cloud AI development.
Thursday 7 May 2026
Advantech warns supply constraints will temper near-term growth despite strong order momentum
Advantech reported sharply accelerated first-quarter 2026 order momentum but cautioned that tight component supply and rising material costs will constrain its near-term outlook, even as management remained optimistic about full-year 2026 visibility.
Thursday 7 May 2026
Gemtek sees no end to high-end optical demand, 1.6T mass production set for 4Q26
Network equipment maker Gemtek Technology, following the launch of its 800G linear-drive pluggable optics (LPO) optical module in 2025, announced on April 6 that it has successfully developed its next-generation 1.6T octal small form-factor pluggable (OSFP) optical transceiver module. The product targets hyperscale cloud data centers and is expected to enter mass production in the fourth quarter of 2026.
Thursday 7 May 2026
Alphabet's global debt blitz underscores explosive AI funding boom across tech industry
Alphabet has significantly expanded its global borrowing program to finance artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, raising nearly US$17 billion through euro- and Canadian dollar-denominated bonds in its latest funding push, according to Bloomberg. The move includes its largest-ever euro bond sale and its first issuance in Canadian dollars, underscoring the scale of capital required for AI-related investments.
Thursday 7 May 2026
Yotta Data Services reportedly weighs IPO as India's AI infrastructure race accelerates
Yotta Data Services is considering an initial public offering in Mumbai that could raise as much as US$900 million, according to sources familiar with the matter, as reported by Bloomberg. The company has engaged ICICI Securities Ltd and SBI Capital Markets Ltd as advisers, with additional banks expected to join ahead of a draft prospectus filing in the next two to three months.
Thursday 7 May 2026
Inventec sees strong NB and server demand but warns of component-driven margin pressure
Inventec reported April 2026 revenue of NT$84.786 billion (US$2.68 billion), down 3.17% month on month but up 36.53% year on year, signaling continued momentum in its notebook and server businesses heading into the second quarter of 2026, with broader implications for supply chains and enterprise AI deployments globally.
Thursday 7 May 2026
Flex says separate AI infrastructure company will better address hyperscaler power and thermal needs
Flex has announced a strategic plan to spin off its Cloud and Power Infrastructure (CPI) segment into an independent, publicly-traded company, with the transaction expected to be completed by the first quarter of calendar 2027. This move follows a record-setting fiscal year 2026, where the company reported total revenue of "US$27.9 billion, up 8% on continued strong growth in cloud, power, and industrial".
Thursday 7 May 2026
Nvidia, AMD and Intel starve the PC market to feed the AI boom
The AI boom is beginning to cannibalize the very consumer hardware market that once fueled the PC industry's growth.
Thursday 7 May 2026
Arm's $2 billion AGI CPU backlog signals strong hyperscaler demand
During the earnings call on May 6, Arm announced a significant expansion of its product strategy, centering on the emergence of "Agentic AI" and "Physical AI" as primary growth drivers for the next decade. The company defines agentic workloads as a shift from human-based queries to continuous, autonomous tasks where CPUs must coordinate data movement, manage memory, and orchestrate work across accelerators. To address this, Arm recently launched the Arm AGI CPU, a product purpose-built for these specific AI requirements.
Thursday 7 May 2026
Taiwan component maker Fositek rides AI server cooling demand
Fositek said strong demand from artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure is driving rapid growth in its liquid cooling business and will prompt continued capacity expansion to meet customer needs. The company expects server-related revenue to rise quarter by quarter through 2026 and said second-half shipments of a customer's new foldable phones will further lift margins.
Thursday 7 May 2026
Automakers face 2029 deadline to deploy quantum-resistant security systems
The opening of Taiwan's annual cybersecurity conference Cybersec 2026 has underscored a rapid global realignment in automotive cyber strategy, as major carmakers race to redefine security frameworks for the quantum era.
Thursday 7 May 2026
As AI expands, broadband upgrades fuel growth at Sercomm

Broadband equipment maker Sercomm reported a sharp surge in revenue for April, underscoring how demand for faster networks, fueled in part by artificial intelligence, is rippling through telecommunications infrastructure.

Thursday 7 May 2026
Supply chain walks pricing tightrope as AI demand lifts costs

The rapid spread of generative AI applications and rising demand for computing power have pushed global data center construction into a high-growth phase, further straining an already tight supply chain.

Wednesday 6 May 2026
Anthropic strikes massive cloud pact with Google, highlighting AI industry concentration

A sweeping new agreement between Anthropic and Google Cloud is throwing into sharp relief just how concentrated — and how enormous — the artificial intelligence boom has become.

Wednesday 6 May 2026
Intel Capital leads QuantWare's US$178 million bet on hyperscale quantum computing ambitions
QuantWare's US$178 million Series B round aims to accelerate the global rollout of larger, industrial-scale quantum processors, promising hyperscale quantum compute through its VIO-40K architecture and KiloFab foundry — a development that could reshape supply chains, national technology capabilities, and industrial adoption for countries seeking scalable quantum computing.
Wednesday 6 May 2026
Flex jumps on 2027 outlook beat, AI data-center unit spinoff plan

Flex shares rose 13% in after-hours trading on May 5 after the electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider forecast fiscal 2027 results above Wall Street expectations and announced plans to spin off its Cloud and Power Infrastructure segment into a separate publicly traded company.

Wednesday 6 May 2026
MediaTek unit Airoha targets AI networking surge with triple optical growth
MediaTek subsidiary Airoha Technology said its first-quarter 2026 performance met expectations, driven by continued improvement in product mix and accelerating demand across its optical communications, Ethernet, and fixed broadband businesses tied to AI infrastructure expansion.
Wednesday 6 May 2026
Explainer: Why Supermicro's margins bounced back — one customer pulled back
Supermicro's third-quarter of fiscal 2026 gross margins snapped back to 10.1% non-GAAP, up from 6.4% in the second quarter of fiscal 2026. CEO Charles Liang attributed the recovery to product mix improvement and growth in the company's Data Center Building Block Solutions (DCBBS) business. The earnings call transcript, however, tells a simpler story. The single customer that drove 63% of revenue in the second quarter fell to 27% in the third quarter. That mix shift — toward higher-margin enterprise and neocloud buyers — did most of the work.
Wednesday 6 May 2026
Analysis: The US$2.5 billion smuggling case hanging over Supermicro's US$40 billion year
Supermicro CEO Charles Liang used the opening of his fiscal third quarter of 2026 earnings call to address a topic unrelated to revenue or margins: the DOJ indictment of former employees for allegedly smuggling AI servers equipped with Nvidia GPUs to China through Southeast Asian transshipment networks.
Wednesday 6 May 2026
Supermicro posts US$10.2B in Q3 revenue, missing own guidance by US$2B as working capital swings drive US$6.6B cash outflow
Supermicro reported fiscal third-quarter revenue of US$10.24 billion, up 123% year-over-year but down 19% sequentially and well below both the company's own guidance of at least US$12.3 billion and the analyst consensus of US$12.33 billion. Management attributed the shortfall to customer data center readiness delays and industrywide supply constraints, saying it expects to capture the deferred revenue in the coming quarters.