Intel’s Nova Lake-S targets 60% performance leap, aims leadership in high-end computing

Intel’s upcoming Nova Lake-S Desktop CPUs are stirring excitement across the tech industry, with early reports hinting at significant performance leaps. Leaked slides from the company suggest the chips could deliver more than a 10% increase in single-threaded performance and a remarkable 60% boost in multi-threaded performance, positioning Intel’s next-generation processors as top contenders for leadership in gaming performance and overall efficiency.

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DDR4 memory prices surge 80% amid supply cuts, but rally shows signs of cooling

The DDR4 memory market has experienced significant turbulence over the past month, as major manufacturers discontinue older production lines. This shift has triggered a surge in speculative purchasing, resulting in unprecedented price escalations. Spot prices for DDR4 8Gb (1Gx8) modules have risen by more than 80%, while DDR4 16Gb (2Gx8) chips are now trading at a premium exceeding 40% compared to similarly sized DDR5 units.

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China’s AI chip companies struggle for survival as four key players hold less than 1% market share

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has recently warned multiple times that the Trump administration may further tighten US export controls, inadvertently allowing Chinese domestic AI chips, such as those from Huawei, to fully capture the China market. AI chips can be divided into training and inference segments, with Nvidia historically dominating the high-barrier AI training chip sector in China.

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Taiwan’s Southern tech hubs boom on Nvidia chip demand and expansion

Fueled by booming global demand for Nvidia’s GB200 chips—and the anticipated launch of the more powerful GB300 in the second half of 2025—Taiwan’s semiconductor manufacturing sector is experiencing a rapid surge in revenue, particularly in the country’s southern science parks. Recent data from Taiwan’s National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), released in June 2025, shows that the Southern Taiwan Science Park generated NT$285.3 billion (US$9.8 billion) in revenue in April 2025—nearly three times the NT$109.6 billion recorded by the Central Taiwan Science Park.

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Taiwan govt to leverage AI, semiconductor expertise in growing biomedical industry

Strong demand for high performance computing (HPC) and generative AI (GenAI) has helped drive a 75% year-over-year revenue increase in the IC sector across Taiwan’s science parks in April 2025, leading all industrial categories in the parks, according to data from the Science Park Bureaus under the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC). Science and Technology Minister and Minister without Portfolio Cheng-wen Wu believes Taiwan should leverage its semiconductor and AI expertise through tight integration with the biomedical industry, to foster practical applications of AI in biotech and medicine.

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Honda pushes back hydrogen factory plans due to cost crunch

Honda has postponed the launch of its next-generation hydrogen fuel cell factory, pushing back the production timeline with no new start date confirmed. Citing reports from Nikkei and Jiji Press, the company now plans to reduce the facility’s annual capacity to fewer than 20,000 units, down from the originally projected 30,000. The plant, located in Tochigi Prefecture, was initially slated to begin operations in fiscal 2027 (April 2027–March 2028).

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Ennoconn transfers Kontron subsidiary shares to deepen computer-on-module strategy

Industrial PC (IPC) manufacturer Ennoconn announced on June 30, 2025, that its subsidiary, Kontron AG’s board of directors, has approved the sale of shares in two subsidiaries—Kontron America Modules LLC and Kontron Asia Embedded Design Sdn Bhd—to German company Congatec GmbH for EUR26 million (approx. US$30.5 million). This move aims to strengthen collaboration between both parties.

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