These are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories in the week of August 19 – August 23.

When will AI PCs take off? The consensus in the PC industry is that 2024’s second half will be a warm-up, with a surge in demand expected to unfold gradually in 2025. By then, ARM-based players like Qualcomm and MediaTek will be gearing up to challenge x86 titans Intel and AMD in a high-stakes showdown.

Three years since the Japanese government’s decision in 2021 to support Taiwan’s large foundry company, TSMC, in establishing a factory in Kumamoto, Kyushu has not only seen growth in infrastructures such as the semiconductor industry, supply chains, and civil transportation, as well as industries such as retail logistics education, more factories have been further affected, allowing many sunset industries opportunities to transform and restructure themselves.