Intel has disclosed plans to hike its CPU prices by 10-20% starting October, but AMD is not expected to follow suit amid the waning terminal market demand, according to industry sources.

Long driven by smartphone chips sales, MediaTek, the world’s 5th largest IC design house by revenue as of first-quarter 2022, is gearing up for growth potential in the connectivity market driven by 5G and Internet of Things (IoT). On August 18, MediaTek released the T830 platform, built with the company’s M80 modem supporting sub-6GHz operations, for 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) routers and customer-premise equipment (CPE). Earlier this May, MediaTek also released the Genio open platform software design kit (SDK) for AIoT devices, in combination with Genio 1200, a chipset for advanced smart home and industrial IoT applications.

Foxconn chairman Young Liu has revealed the company’s plans to establish an ESG (environmental, social and governance) green energy fund with the goal of helping other companies invest in sustainability. This came on the heels of China’s recent power cuts in Sichuan, further highlighting how ESG is now a key factor in the supply chain.

In term of enterprises’ adoption of cloud computing services for digital transformation, multi-cloud or hybrid cloud has become the mainstream architecture, according to Lin Han, consulting hybrid cloud service partner for IBM Taiwan.