IT demand has entered the fourth quarter off-season, but panel makers are coping by balancing supply and demand. AI demand has driven up prices for upstream materials such as memory, putting pressure on panel makers to hold the line on IT panel prices. This is especially true for mainstream monitor panels, whose quoted prices are already near total cost, making price locking a top priority.

Semiconductor test equipment leader Chroma ATE announced that its founder and chairman, Leo Huang, will step down as CEO, handing the role over to I-Shih Tseng, the current president of the integrated system solutions and optical inspection systems business units.

In a DIGITIMES interview with Acer’s Chao-Guang Yang, senior vice president of the Computing Software Technology Division, Yang stated that an AI PC is essentially still just a more advanced PC. Every major technological upgrade ultimately comes down to applying the newest technologies to make a “better” PC. Most AI PC upgrades are built upon fundamentals such as performance, battery life, lighter design, and integrated peripheral AI functions. The core of Acer’s strategy boils down to making improvements that consumers can naturally adapt to, which will enable smoother penetration into the mass market.

DIGITIMES’ Tech Forum took place on December 3, 2025, with Quanta vice chairman C.C. Leung fully participating and closely following the pulse of the technology industry, particularly developments in the smart glasses sector.