Hello from Taipei! This is Lauly. I hope you had a good start to your summer holidays. I was hoping for a break myself after covering the annual general meeting season for tech suppliers, which took me around Taiwan's west coast cities amid scorching heat.
During the past month of AGMs, I listened to executives share their visions, outlooks and concerns for the year ahead. Some suppliers are busy with rush orders thanks to the generative artificial intelligence boom sparked by ChatGPT, while others are still cautious about the recovery of the global economy in the second half of this year.
