Samsung Electronics is facing a looming labor strike in May as its memory and foundry businesses take off, marking a more complex challenge than the initial 2024 walkout. The upcoming strike reflects significant changes in industry conditions and union size, highlighting Samsung’s structural difficulties with labor issues amid evolving laws and its broad business portfolio.

Innodisk told attendees at the 2026 AI EXPO that effective AI deployment requires more than raw computing power; it depends on tight integration between software and hardware, and on selecting components tailored to specific environments. The company argued that edge AI has progressed from image recognition and language models to autonomous learning and decision-making.

The global auto industry is entering a turning phase of structural transformation, and nowhere is the upheaval more intense than in China, where a fierce competitive shakeout is underway.

Amid the rapid development of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and large language models (LLM), global demand for high-performance computing (HPC) continues to rise. Memory module maker Adata Technology announced a US$3 million investment in the Series A funding round of artificial intelligence (AI) computing infrastructure provider KonstTech (Konst).

The global AI is entering a new phase where competitive advantages are increasingly short-lived, often eroding within months or even weeks. Across models, products, and platforms, no single player appears able to maintain a durable lead. Instead, the likely long-term winners will be those that can continuously adapt, integrate capabilities into everyday user workflows, and control distribution at scale—rather than those that simply build the most advanced models.

SEMICON China 2026 spotlighted the scale of the AI investment boom, with Handel Jones, CEO of International Business Strategies (IBS), estimating that global AI and data center capital expenditure has surged from about US$110 billion in 2020 to roughly US$600 billion in 2026.