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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

India approves two electronics manufacturing clusters in Tamil Nadu

Jul 24

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

Jul 24

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

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IT COMPONENTS, PERIPHERALSApple reportedly delays smart glasses launch to late 2027 due to privacy risks

Jul 27, 17:16

Apple plans to present its first smart glasses during its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June 2027 before opening them for sale later in the year. This timeline has reportedly been set back from an original introduction this year due to work being done to figure out how to balance users' privacy with the many AI functions the products are set to offer.

AISamsung converts AMD and OpenAI ties into HBM4 supply wins

Jul 27, 17:10

Samsung Electronics is showing renewed momentum in the AI memory race as it deepens ties with both OpenAI and AMD, two partnerships that could strengthen its position in the next-generation HBM4 ecosystem after ceding early ground in AI memory to rival SK hynix.

EDGE COMPUTINGSingapore startup Acrab claims 7.5x speed edge over Mac Mini M4 Pro with new AI chip

Jul 27, 16:05

A Singapore-based chip startup called Acrab on July 22 unveiled its first AI processor, claiming it can run large language models locally at speeds that outpace Apple's Mac Mini M4 Pro by a factor of 7.5 on certain benchmarks.

AICXMT tops A-share market cap on IPO debut

Jul 27, 15:48

Chinese DRAM maker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) listed on the STAR Market of the Shanghai Stock Exchange on July 27, with its market capitalization briefly topping CNY3.6 trillion (approx. US$533.1 billion) on the first day of trading, surpassing Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and becoming the largest listed company in the A-share market.

SERVER, IPC, CLOUD COMPUTING, IOTNvidia's Vera CPU targets go beyond Intel and AMD

Jul 27, 14:02

After Nvidia has grown into a global giant on GPUs, why is it suddenly delving into CPUs? At first glance, its Vera is entering the server CPU market, where its rivals are naturally Intel's Xeon and AMD's EPYC. But Nvidia's real target may be much broader, including cloud providers such as Amazon and Google that design their own CPUs.

AIH2U lists on Taiwan Innovation Board to tap digital health opportunities

Jul 27, 14:00

Taiwan's largest digital health technology platform H2U debuted on the Taiwan Stock Exchange's Taiwan Innovation Board on July 24 at an offering price of NT$49.13 (approx. US$1.52) per share, marking its official listing as it seeks to capture the growing digital health market.

SERVER, IPC, CLOUD COMPUTING, IOTPegatron unveils AMD EPYC server platform for AI and HPC

Jul 27, 13:59

Pegatron unveiled a new server platform powered by AMD's sixth-generation EPYC processors at AMD Advancing AI 2026, targeting enterprise AI, agentic AI, high-performance computing (HPC), cloud computing, and data-intensive workloads.

AIChinese AI startup Moonshot dispute puts US-China AI cooperation at risk

Jul 27, 13:59

Tensions between the US and China are escalating following allegations that Moonshot AI improperly extracted capabilities from advanced US-developed AI models and accessed export-controlled Nvidia hardware while developing Kimi K3. The model has drawn industry attention for approaching the performance of leading US systems despite Moonshot's comparatively limited computing resources.

ICT MANUFACTURINGTaiwan manufacturers raise prices as procurement costs climb, survey finds

Jul 27, 13:38

Taiwan manufacturers are facing sharply higher procurement costs, and more than half have already passed those increases to customers, according to a survey presented at a Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research seminar on July 24. The findings showed rising pressure on margins as AI-related shortages, energy costs and delivery uncertainty weighed on the sector.

SERVER, IPC, CLOUD COMPUTING, IOTNvidia weighs US$250B backstop for OpenAI's Ohio data center

Jul 27, 12:14

Nvidia is in talks to provide a financial backstop of roughly US$250 billion that would help OpenAI lease and finance a massive AI data center campus in southern Ohio, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

ICT MANUFACTURINGIBM agrees to acquire HRL Laboratories to expand quantum computing capabilities

Jul 27, 12:01

IBM has signed a definitive agreement to acquire HRL Laboratories, a US research and development company known for its work in quantum technologies, to strengthen its long-term quantum computing roadmap.

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