ASE CEO Tien Wu said at the company's 2024 shareholder meeting on June 26 that the semiconductor industry will have better performance in the second half of 2024, thanks to the demand created by new applications including Artificial Intelligence (AI), robots, electric vehicles, energy and the Internet of Things (IoT).
Generative AI has helped boost the server industry throughout 2024, driving high demand for AI servers and a recovery in the conventional server market.
Amid the hype for liquid cooling in the server industry, Nidec Chaun-Choung Technology (CCI) chairman Junichi Nagai notes that the company will release liquid cooling solutions for servers according to plans from its parent company Nidec. In addition, mass production of the company's 3D vapor chamber (VC) air cooling products, which have received certification from its customers, will begin in the latter half of 2024.
Air cargo freight prices have been rising, despite the traditionally off-peak summer season. Industry experts in air transportation told DIGITIMES that AI chips are the reason behind this anomaly.
Since the beginning of May, several well-known Large Language Model (LLM) enterprises in China have announced price reductions, including Aliyun, Baidu, KU Xiaofei, Tencent Cloud, ByteDance, and other operators.
Taiwan's CyberLink, a specialist in multimedia software and AI facial recognition technology, has joined the AI PC bandwagon and is set to finalize new collaborations with PC manufacturers in the second half of 2024 to capitalize on the generative AI (GenAI) surge.
RISC-V, an open standard instruction set architecture, has garnered global attention due to its royalty-free nature and adaptability for custom hardware development.
Driven by the trend of electric vehicles (EV) and AI data centers, investments in infrastructure are also boosting the demand for heavy electrical equipment.
As AI servers drive up the demand for liquid cooling solutions, huge opportunities for growth lie ahead, says Allen Wu, chairman of thermal solutions specialist Kaori Heat Treatment.
Though not yet available for shipment, Nvidia's GB series of Superchips, which debuted at the 2024 GTC conference, have already generated significant chatter and altered customer payment behaviors.
Amazon.com Inc., the world's largest provider of cloud computing services and data storage, said it will invest an additional €10 billion ($10.7 billion) into its cloud infrastructure and logistics network in Germany as the technology giant expands its network of data centers globally.
The Biomedical Technology and Device Research Laboratories (BTDRL) of the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) has announced a strategic partnership agreement with major ICT conglomerate Qisda Group.
Japan's IT giant Fujitsu has recently unveiled its latest AI strategy, focusing not on developing Generative AI (GenAI) to compete with other companies, but on creating a platform that enables businesses to easily customize their own GenAI solutions.
Lumai, a spin out from the University of Oxford, was founded by a team with expertise in optics over two years ago, aiming to develop a new type of AI processor.
Intel China chairperson and SVP Rui Wang told the Chinese media in an interview that with Intel's IDM 2.0 strategy in place, its China 2.0 strategy will also be implemented to face up to the keen competition in the AI era.
In a rare move, Cisco is doubling down on its commitment to Taiwan's digital future, launching a third round of investment through its Country Digital Acceleration (CDA) program. The tech giant sees the island as a critical hub for innovation and semiconductor manufacturing in an increasingly AI-driven world.
Big technology companies including Microsoft Corp. and Google are eager to see more nuclear energy feeding their power-hungry data centers but are far less willing to provide the capital needed to pay for a growing interest in reactors.
Nvidia dominates the market for AI chips for training and deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) and its pricing power is reflected in gross margins as high as 78%, compared to competitors Intel and AMD's 41% and 47% gross margins, respectively, in the latest quarter. So how many high-end GPU chips did Nvidia sell?
