Samsung Electronics is pursuing a two-track foundry strategy, accelerating its 2nm push for future customers while asking partners to step up sales of its 5nm and 8nm processes to support near-term utilization, according to ZDNet Korea.

Aspeed chairman Chris Lin said on June 3 that rapid growth in agentic AI is boosting demand for AI and general-purpose servers, with the chip maker’s main constraint now supply-chain capacity rather than orders. He said the company already has visibility into a large volume of 2027 orders as customers rush to secure supply.

Compared with China’s crowded humanoid robot market, where competition is becoming increasingly intense, the US humanoid robot sector is still concentrated among a small number of brands, the three major being Figure AI, Agility Robotics, and Tesla. According to DIGITIMES’ observations, these three leading US humanoid robot companies have actively expanded their patent portfolios in recent years, with the majority focusing on joint design, followed by software-related developments.