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.
China-based Vivo is set to open a large manufacturing facility in northern India. The company is reportedly looking for Indian partners to run the facility amid intensifying regulatory pressure from India against Chinese investors.
With the intensifying competition in the AI memory chip market, leading memory vendors like SK Hynix, Micron Technology, and Samsung Electronics are gearing up for proxy patent battles through Non-Practicing Entities (NPEs), commonly known as "patent trolls." These entities, adept at purchasing patents from companies, are increasingly resorting to litigation to claim damages and settlement fees.
India is expected to see surging infrastructure investments from global companies in the AI supply chain, as Microsoft, Amazon, and Nvidia are eyeing the opportunities brought by sovereign AI in India.
Taiwan-based automotive power and safety parts manufacturer Global PMX disclosed its plans for EVs, hybrid vehicles, and fuel-cell EVs at a recent shareholders' meeting. The company also said it has seen the rebound of order pull-ins from major electronics customers as demand for AI takes off.
As AI applications expand to portable devices such as notebooks, demand for the latest generation of graphics memory, GDDR7, is gaining momentum, especially after AI chip leader Nvidia unveiled that its next-generation laptop GPUs will adopt GDDR7 for graphics processing. Major memory makers are gearing up for mass production competition.
The US and India announced fresh initiatives to enhance cooperation in semiconductors, AI, critical minerals, advanced telecommunications, and defense space, as the US is leading the charge to build a resilient supply chain that depends less on China.
Intel invested in China-based Dongguan Luxshare Technology, a subsidiary of Luxshare Precision, amid deepening Intel-Luxshare ties as demands for high-speed interconnect products rise with servers.
H3C Technologies, owned by Tsinghua Unigroup and HPE, recently announced that it will collaborate with Foxconn to establish its first overseas factory in Malaysia.
Japan has been one of the fastest countries to embrace the use of new artificial intelligence tools and has the potential to accelerate its economy and tech sector by going further, according to Microsoft Japan President Miki Tsusaka.
Chinese EV manufacturers may feel resentment toward the additional tariffs imposed by the EU, but in reality, they still have multiple options to maintain sales growth.
