Oracle's demand for GB Rack surges; production complexity slows early shipments; NVIDIA H20 faces geopolitical challenges but retains growth potential.
Micron has announced the halt of future mobile NAND Flash development, shifting focus to higher-margin areas like SSDs and HBM. This move addresses market competition and sluggish demand, reallocating resources to more profitable sectors, enhancing competitiveness.
Current progress in humanoid robotics is centered on optimizing vision-language-action (VLA) models, integrating multimodal data, and enhancing instruction comprehension as well as the ability to interpret human intent. Training relies heavily on world models, human video data, and VR-based remote training, with increasing emphasis on first-person perspectives to strengthen perception. While the ultimate goal is to achieve general-purpose humanoids, development remains constrained by significant challenges, leading Western and Chinese companies to pursue divergent technological pathways.
In its endeavor to bolster its global leadership, the United States is actively promoting the reorganization of supply chains and the repatriation of manufacturing through the implementation of reciprocal tariffs and a significant increase in strategic investments. This report provides a comprehensive examination of the U.S. smart manufacturing landscape, with specific attention to the semiconductor, automotive, and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sectors. It delves into the strategic postures of key companies and their deployments in hardware (e.g., chips and sensors), software, and integrated systems.
In 2025, the electronics industry sees diverging trends: strong AI demand, weak consumer devices, early pull-in erases seasonality, and future growth slows.
In the second half of 2025, DDR4 faces structural shortages and soaring prices due to limited capacity and robust demand, with supply prioritized for servers. PC and consumer markets struggle with high prices and low availability, accelerating DDR5 adoption amid unresolved supply tension.
NVIDIA has resumed sales of its AI chip H20 in China, prioritizing this year's targets. TSMC's production capacity could be a bottleneck. NVIDIA will also launch the Blackwell platform RTX PRO 6000 to address diverse application needs.
Cloud data center expansions drive upgrades in power and cooling supply chains. BBU lithium batteries and liquid cooling are key trends, offering growth opportunities for related suppliers.
NVIDIA H20 may resume sales to China, boosting AI GPU supply and demand for HBM and GDDR. US policy shift favors Chinese adoption of high-end AI chips. New products like RTX PRO 6000 will further support diverse AI developments.
The AI ASIC market is rapidly expanding, with TPUs shifting from internal use to external commercialization due to their energy efficiency and customization. Leading cloud and tech firms actively develop in-house ASICs to reduce costs and supply risks, driving AI hardware toward high performance, low power, and diverse applications, becoming the main accelerator after GPUs.