Southern Taiwan emerges as global semiconductor and AI hub with 300 international startups

The 2025 Meet Greater South, held August 22-23 at the Kaohsiung Exhibition Center, brought together 300 startup teams from nine countries. Centered on the themes of semiconductors, AI, and sustainability, the event underscored how these sectors are becoming the core drivers of industrial upgrading and international integration in southern Taiwan.

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Nvidia launches Jetson AGX Thor to accelerate robotics and physical AI adoption

Nvidia has announced the general availability of the Nvidia Jetson AGX Thor developer kit and production modules, representing a new class of robotics computers designed to power next-generation robots across manufacturing, logistics, transportation, healthcare, agriculture, and retail. The company said the platform aims to enable developers to deploy advanced generative AI capabilities directly on robots and machines operating in real-world environments.

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Research Insight: Broadcom defends Ethernet ecosystem as NVLink and UALink push specialized interconnects

At the OCP APAC Summit, Ethernet and UALink advocates clashed over data center interconnect architectures. Kurtis Bowman, UALink board chair and AMD’s director of architecture and strategy, questioned Ethernet’s latency performance in scale-up scenarios, arguing that its technical limits hinder high-performance application scaling.

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Gemtek enters India with mmWave FWA, mass shipment in 2026

Taiwan-based networking manufacturer Gemtek Technology announced on August 25, 2025, that it has begun shipments of its latest 5G millimeter wave (mmWave) fixed wireless access (FWA) products, which will be deployed by a major telecom operator in India. This marks another milestone in Gemtek’s efforts to expand its presence in the global high-speed broadband market.

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