According to OFweek Robotics, China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has issued a clear warning to the country's booming robotics sector: focus on practical applications and sustainable growth rather than blind speculation. Speaking at an August 28 press conference, NDRC spokesperson Chao Li called for a disciplined approach to development, urging governments and tech firms to build on local resource endowments and industrial strengths rather than blindly following trends.

The industrial PC (IPC) industry is entering a new AI-driven recovery cycle as artificial intelligence moves into a broader range of real-world applications. Market research estimates put global IPC output at about US$6.1 billion in 2025, rising to US$8.91 billion by 2030 — a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.9% that outpaces the broader PC industry.

U-Best Innovative Technology, a unit of Sun Yad Group, is accelerating development of fluorine-free coatings to capture replacement demand driven by EU and US state-level regulations restricting the use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and other "forever chemicals." The company is targeting high-end applications in foldable phones, semiconductors, and displays, with product launches expected in the first quarter of 2027 at the earliest.

Unimicron, a major Taiwanese IC substrate maker, came under intense supply chain scrutiny last week after reports that prosecutors and investigators searched the company over a suspected "origin washing" case. The move has put long-standing cross-border production arrangements in Taiwan's electronics sector under sharper review.

SEMICON Taiwan 2026 kicked off its pre-show program with the Silicon Photonics Global Summit.

What Tim Cook leaves John Ternus on September 1 is best measured not by margin but by geography. Cook spent twenty-eight years concentrating Apple's manufacturing in one country, then a decade trying to make that concentration politically survivable. Both halves are unfinished, and both are now Ternus's responsibility to bear.

MetaX posted its first half-year profit since listing, with rising GPU shipments and the mass production of its C600 accelerator strengthening its commercial position while China's domestic AI chip sector increasingly splits between profitable vendors and peers still absorbing heavy R&D costs.

Asustek Computer (Asus) is accelerating its artificial intelligence (AI) transformation plan, announcing the rebranding of its AIoT Business Group into the Physical AI Solutions Business Group (PAS BG), with humanoid robots positioned as an important strategic market for the future. The move underscores the company's push beyond AI servers into agentic AI, edge AI, and physical AI under the chairman Jonney Shih's AI strategy.

As artificial intelligence (AI) technology rapidly evolves, physical AI for industrial applications is drawing growing attention because repeatable and scalable tasks play to AI's strengths. Deloitte Taiwan has just released a full report on physical AI ahead of a physical AI seminar it is organizing in Taichung on September 15.

SiFive has introduced its BigSky SF-2U870 development server, positioning the 2U rack system as a platform for hyperscalers, software vendors and SoC developers to port server workloads to RISC-V, tune software and validate production-oriented data center designs.

As global net-zero efforts intensify, governments and major technology companies are investing in emerging nuclear technologies to meet the huge electricity demand from AI data centers and the semiconductor industry. Because nuclear power offers zero-carbon emissions, small modular reactors (SMRs) are drawing growing attention as a potential new power solution in the AI era.