The development of artificial intelligence (AI) chips has brought the printed circuit board (PCB) and semiconductor industries closer together. Zhen Ding Technology chairman Charles Shen stated that as heterogeneous integration becomes the trend in advanced packaging technology, the AI wave is creating a once-in-a-lifetime growth opportunity for the PCB industry. He emphasized that this will show the world that, in addition to semiconductors, Taiwan also possesses comprehensive capabilities in PCB technology.

Xiaomi partner and president Weibing Lu is spearheading the company’s push into the premium smartphone segment, marking the Xiaomi 17 series in 2025 as a critical battle for the price tier above CNY6,000 (US$842.51). This range has long been dominated by Apple’s iPhone.

Contrary to long-held beliefs that attacking or contaminating large language models (LLMs) requires enormous volumes of malicious data, new research from AI startup Anthropic, conducted in collaboration with the UK AI Security Institute and the Alan Turing Institute, has found otherwise. The study demonstrates that as few as 250 poisoned documents can implant backdoor vulnerabilities into LLMs, regardless of their size or training dataset volume.