Column: The everyday philosophy of supply chain resilience

When people talk about responding to supply chain shocks, the instinct is often to stockpile inventory or build backup production lines. However, after visiting Inner Mongolia Shuangjie Saidu Electric with a delegation in June 2026, I came away with a different understanding: true “supply chain resilience” is not created through last-minute crisis fixes. It is embedded in factory layout, product design, business diversification, and service models.

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Interview: Nvidia says networking is the core of AI computing as AI factories scale

Global AI computing is rapidly moving beyond single-GPU systems toward AI Factory architectures, where agentic AI and inference workloads are pushing data centers to rely on networking, optics, packaging, cooling, power delivery and software co-design rather than raw accelerator counts. In a DIGITIMES interview, Nvidia Senior Vice President of Networking Gilad Shainer said the real unit of computing is now the entire data center, not an individual server.

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Samsung races to qualify Taylor fab as 2nm demand turns US capacity into a strategic asset

Following growing momentum behind large-scale infrastructure buildouts in South Korea, the industry is witnessing an aggressive wave of AI-related initiatives aimed at expanding the nation’s semiconductor production capacity. But the broader objective extends beyond capacity ramps alone toward building a more self-reinforcing semiconductor ecosystem across some of the most critical stages of advanced chip manufacturing.

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KTC 25M1 is a 400Hz Fast TN gaming monitor built for pure speed

The KTC 25M1 has been launched to the market globally, featuring a Fast TN panel with a Full HD resolution and an exceptionally high 400Hz refresh rate, paired with a blistering 0.5 ms MPRT response time – specifications that position the 25M1 squarely in the competitive‑gaming segment. To further enhance motion performance, KTC integrates its Dynamic Clarity (DAC) technology, the company’s…

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