Industry observers from Taiwan’s supply chain are speculating about Nissan’s future direction as its potential merger with Honda appears increasingly likely to fail.

Alibaba Group (Alibaba) has announced that its upgraded Qwen 2.5 Max model has achieved superior performance over the V3 model from Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek in several third-party benchmark tests. The achievement marks a significant milestone as Qwen 2.5 Max has emerged as the top-ranked non-reasoning model from China in prominent benchmarking and ranking platforms.

Silicon Motion Technology Corporation (SMI), a leading provider of NAND flash controllers, has achieved a significant milestone as its PCIe Gen4 SSD controller chip received ASPICE CL3 certification from global certifying body UL Solutions, becoming the world’s first SSD controller supplier to reach this certification level.

Global notebook shipments are seriously influenced by Trump’s tariffs with volumes to decline 7.4% sequentially in the first quarter of 2025.