newsDigiTimesAug 24, 2026
Notebook brands shift production back to China as Southeast Asia costs rise
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Export-control enforcement is vulnerable at the server-integration layer
AI infrastructure scaling is colliding with power delivery, memory and network constraints—not merely GPU availability
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