AMD is significantly expanding its footprint in India, with plans to increase its employee base to over 10,000 within the next two to three years. This move reflects the company’s confidence in the country’s engineering talent and its supportive environment for semiconductor and artificial intelligence (AI) development.

As growth in the PC, notebook, and home appliance markets slows, Taiwan Line Tek Electronic, a connector and cable manufacturer, is shifting its focus to emerging niche sectors such as low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites, artificial intelligence (AI), and cloud computing. The company has identified the LEO satellite industry as its primary area of development, with several ongoing collaborations and a projected increase in related product proportions from the second half of 2025.

MediaTek Research, the advanced research division of the MediaTek Group, has released MR Breeze ASR 25, an open-source automatic speech recognition (ASR) model optimized for Taiwanese Mandarin and local speech patterns. Based on OpenAI’s Whisper architecture, the model was designed to better understand the linguistic nuances of Taiwan, including Mandarin-English code-switching, a common feature in everyday speech.