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Jul 24, 12:05

AMD Advancing AI 2026: Gorgon Halo brings 300-billion-parameter models to local AI with Cisco governance

Agentic AI is spreading rapidly across personal computers and enterprise endpoints, prompting AMD to expand its local AI strategy with a new platform capable of running significantly larger models on-device.

US moves to curb Chinese humanoid robots, opening a new front in the AI rivalry

Jul 24, 12:20

India approves two electronics manufacturing clusters in Tamil Nadu

Jul 24, 10:49

Commentary: Wistron's Texas AI factory shows why US manufacturing still needs Taiwan

Jul 24, 10:45

Kimi K3 under fire, part 3: China's AI industry questions success story

Jul 24, 06:29

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SERVER, IPC, CLOUD COMPUTING, IOTIEI pairs NANO-X100 with Ryzen AI for edge AI inference

Jul 24, 15:54

Industrial PC maker IEI Integration joined Castec International at AMD Advancing AI 2026 in San Francisco on July 21 and 22 to showcase the new NANO-X100 4-inch single-board computer and edge AI inference applications, underscoring the two companies' collaboration on integrated edge-computing hardware and software.

ICT MANUFACTURINGProduct mix optimization boosts Sinbon 2Q26 net profit up 19%

Jul 24, 15:28

Benefiting from product mix optimization and a higher contribution from industrial applications, connector maker Sinbon on July 23, 2026, announced its unaudited operating results for the second quarter of 2026. Consolidated revenue and net profit after tax both hit the highest level for the same period on record, rising 16.58% and 19.02% year-over-year, respectively. However, operating profit edged down 1.76% quarter-over-quarter, weighed by higher strategic investment expenses.

AIJensen Huang, Silicon Valley pushback against ban on Chinese open source AI models

Jul 24, 15:27

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has taken an increasingly forceful position against possible sanctions from the Trump administration, arguing that US companies should remain free to use Chinese open-source AI models.

SOFTWARE, BIG DATAEU fines Google EUR890M in anti-trust case over Search and Google Play

Jul 24, 15:07

Google has been fined EUR890 million (US$1.0 billion) under the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA) due to anti-competitive practices in its Google Search tool. The fine illustrates Europe's growing willingness to curb the power of US tech giants, despite diplomatic pressure from the US.

SERVER, IPC, CLOUD COMPUTING, IOTAdvantech deepens AMD tie-up for AI servers

Jul 24, 14:09

Industrial PC (IPC) maker Advantech is deepening its collaboration with AMD, unveiling a next-generation AI and edge computing server platform at AMD Advancing AI 2026 that is powered by the latest AMD EPYC 9006 series processors. Through a full board-to-system product lineup, the company is extending AI applications from data centers to the edge.

ICT MANUFACTURINGAMD advances telecom AI with AT&T and Microsoft

Jul 24, 13:45

AMD unveiled a next-generation open-source telecom large language model (LLM), OTel 2.0, with AT&T and Microsoft at its Advancing AI 2026 conference, completing a training pipeline of more than 1 trillion tokens. AT&T used AMD Instinct GPUs and Microsoft Azure Foundry compute for post-training, pushing the Open Telco AI initiative from proof of concept toward commercial deployment.

AIAMD launches ROCm.ai to accelerate agentic AI development, reporting up to 3.3x inference gains

Jul 24, 13:17

Alongside its expanding AI hardware portfolio, AMD is stepping up efforts to strengthen its AI software ecosystem in a bid to challenge NVIDIA's CUDA dominance. At its Advancing AI 2026 event, the company unveiled ROCm.ai, a new AI-native development platform that integrates AI coding assistants, deployment tools, and automated optimization capabilities to simplify AI application development and accelerate model deployment on AMD hardware.

SERVER, IPC, CLOUD COMPUTING, IOTAMD says AI shift to inference and agents will reshape data centers

Jul 24, 13:17

AMD said the artificial intelligence boom is entering a new phase that will force a major redesign of data centers, as demand shifts from model training toward inference, AI agents, and physical AI. At its Advancing AI 2026 event, the company introduced new server, accelerator, and rack-scale products to power the next generation of AI infrastructure.

ICT MANUFACTURINGNAN GreenMet to invest US$130M in India's first integrated rare earth magnet plant

Jul 24, 11:32

NAN GreenMet Pvt. Ltd. has launched NAN MagneTech Pvt. Ltd. to develop what it says will be India's first fully integrated manufacturing facility for high-performance Neodymium-Iron-Boron (NdFeB) rare earth magnets. The company plans to invest INR12.5 billion (US$130 million) in the project, which will be located at the Naidupeta Industrial Park in Andhra Pradesh, with commercial production targeted for the first quarter of 2028.

SERVER, IPC, CLOUD COMPUTING, IOTAMD redraws server chip strategy as AI workloads evolve

Jul 24, 11:07

AMD has launched its sixth-generation EPYC Venice server processor as the foundation of its next-generation AI data center platform, while CEO Lisa Su said the company is reshaping its roadmap for a world where AI workloads are spreading from training models to enterprise agents. The shift matters globally because it signals that data centers may need more balanced upgrades to CPU, GPUs, and networking.

ICT MANUFACTURINGStripe reportedly eyes OpenRouter in potential US$10B AI infrastructure deal

Jul 24, 10:20

Stripe is in talks to acquire AI model-routing startup OpenRouter in a deal that could value the company at around US$10 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal, which cited people familiar with the matter. The report said an agreement could be announced soon, although negotiations could still collapse or another bidder could emerge. The acquisition would significantly expand Stripe's ambitions beyond payments into AI infrastructure.

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