Amid rising geopolitical tensions, Western tech giants are retreating from China. According to South China Morning Post, Microsoft has quietly shut down its IoT & AI Insider Lab in Shanghai’s hi-tech zone. The report suggests that the lab, once a hub to boost China’s local IoT and AI deve...

According to Economic Daily News, citing The Information, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is adopting a price-cutting strategy to persuade customers to switch to its own Trainium AI chip-powered servers instead of the more expensive NVIDIA solutions. As noted in the report, a long-time AWS cloud servic...

Has the AI boom turned into a bubble? According to Bloomberg, Microsoft, as OpenAI’s biggest backer, has started canceling or not renewing a large number of data center lease agreements in the U.S., which raises concerns over Microsoft’s potential over-investment in AI computing power. Bloomb...

According to a report from UDN News, Taiwan’s contract manufacturers are gearing up to invest in the U.S. amid escalating tariffs under Trump’s administration. The report, citing Taiwan Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers’ Association (TEEMA) Chairman Richard Lee, notes that Taiwan’s le...

As president-elect Donald Trump calls for tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada and China, the AI server supply chain is expected to bear the brunt of the impact, given that U.S. imports the highest value of servers from Mexico, according to a report from the Economic Daily News. Taiwanese companie...