The latest January revenue data for Taiwan’s Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test (OSAT) sector—disclosed this month—confirms a powerful industry-wide resurgence.

SK Hynix, one of the world’s top three memory chip makers, told investors on a recent Goldman Sachs conference call that the global memory market has fully shifted to a “seller’s market,” with prices expected to climb throughout 2026.

As the global manufacturing and robotics industry shifts towards humanoid robots, China’s world-leading Big 5 humanoid robot companies will gather in Korea for the first time this March. Asia’s leading manufacturing AX expo, Smart Factory & Automation World (AW) 2026, announced on February 12 that key companies spearheading the global humanoid robot industry have confirmed their participation.

Anthropic has released a report accusing DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax of systematically extracting capabilities from its Claude large language model through large-scale distillation. The goal: to accelerate training of their own systems.