Deloitte Taiwan released a report on December 23, 2025, highlighting that AI has moved beyond proof of concept to large-scale commercial deployment, rapidly expanding across core areas such as smart manufacturing, generative content, personalized marketing, and integration with 5G/6G and edge computing. Notably, advances in agentic AI are becoming a major driver of industrial growth. Taiwan continues to hold a critical position as a global node for AI and semiconductors.

Memory giant Samsung Electronics is slowing its planned DDR4 DRAM production phase-out in the fourth quarter of 2025 amid surging market prices and tightening supply. Sources say Samsung will sign long-term non-cancellable, non-returnable (NCNR) contracts with select server customers starting the first quarter of 2026 to secure maximum profit from capacity allocation as DDR4 demand heats up.

Samsung Electronics is preparing to escalate the foldable smartphone race. Industry sources say the company plans to launch a new foldable handset, internally dubbed “Wide Fold,” in autumn 2026, positioning it directly against Apple’s long-anticipated foldable iPhone. If timelines hold, the two products will debut within the same launch window, setting up a rare head-to-head between the world’s two largest smartphone vendors.