Despite challenges such as high market penetration, extended replacement cycles, tariffs, and inflation, Taiwan’s smartphone market saw July shipments rebound above 400,000 units. This recovery was driven by continuous new product launches and diverse promotional offers from major brands.
During his visit to South Korea, Microsoft founder Bill Gates met with President Lee Jae-myung and SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won to explore business cooperation in small modular reactors (SMRs). President Lee underscored South Korea’s readiness to become a leading SMR nation, citing the country’s competitiveness in both domestic and international markets.
The Trump administration’s move to take a 10% stake in Intel has intensified debate over whether CHIPS and Science Act subsidies could be linked to equity ownership, fueling concerns about deeper government intervention in the semiconductor sector and the potential impact on other US chipmakers.
xMEMS Labs has unveiled a prototype of AI smart glasses designed to address two prominent challenges in the industry: integrating high-fidelity audio into slim frames and managing heat dissipation from powerful computing components. The company’s new technologies aim to improve both comfort and functionality for extended smart glasses use.
Meta Platforms has reportedly signed a six-year agreement worth US$10 billion with Google Cloud, marking an unprecedented partnership between two dominant companies in digital advertising. The collaboration underscores both Meta’s growing need for cloud computing resources and Alphabet’s expanding presence in the cloud services market.
PC demand remains soft under macroeconomic pressures, but the phase-out of Windows 10 is expected to drive an upgrade cycle that will accelerate PCIe Gen5 adoption. NAND flash controller maker Silicon Motion Technology is ramping up mass production of next-generation chips to capture a larger slice of the client SSD market.