MediaTek announced that Navid Shahriari will join the company on November 9 as Senior Vice President, reporting to the General Manager and Chief Operating Officer.

Alphabet’s autonomous taxi service Waymo began operations in San Diego, California, in September 2026 and expanded its coverage on October 27. However, EV owners have reported that large numbers of robotaxis are using public fast-charging stations, forcing other drivers to queue and prompting local politicians to call for tighter oversight of autonomous vehicles.

Voters in Sunbury, Ohio, approved a ban on large data centers in the November 3 election, raising a new obstacle to Amazon’s proposed US$2 billion project as communities across the US move to restrict AI infrastructure development.

Asian stocks wavered on November 4 in response to the US midterm election results. While the final votes are still being counted, current results show the Democratic Party winning majorities in both the House of Representatives and Senate, a clear indication of voters’ discontent about data center development in their localities, which could usher in more regulation of the AI industry.

Industrial memory module maker Innodisk is deepening its AI data center strategy by supplying critical components for AI infrastructure, including enterprise solid-state drives (eSSDs) and AI server memory modules. Its data center SSD series is now undergoing full customer sampling, while DDR5 and RDIMM products will launch in stages to support data-intensive model training, inference, and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads for cloud service providers and emerging cloud operators (Neoclouds).

Display driver IC designer Raydium Semiconductor reported consolidated revenue of NT$6.57 billion (≈ US$200 million) for the third quarter of 2026, down 3.8% sequentially but up 21.0% year on year. Gross margin reached 26.4%, rising 0.7pp from the previous quarter but falling 2.2pp from a year earlier. Operating profit declined 13.1% sequentially and 11.7% year on year to NT$310 million.