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Monday 24 August 2026
AMRA expands robot testing standard to cover legged systems
The Autonomous Mobile Robot Alliance (AMRA), formed by Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute and industry, academia, and research partners, has released a new standard...
Monday 24 August 2026
AI chip boom lifts South Korean semiconductor materials makers' profits in 2Q26
The AI semiconductor investment boom is increasingly spilling over into the materials supply chain. South Korea's major semiconductor materials suppliers broadly improved profitability...
Monday 24 August 2026
Xiaomi unveils second-generation humanoid robot at Beijing conference

Xiaomi unveiled its second-generation humanoid robot at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing, where the machine made its first...

Monday 24 August 2026
Taiwan lifts 2027 tech budget, studies new TTA site in BSTP
Taiwan's Executive Yuan approved a larger 2027 technology budget of NT$229.2 billion (approx. US$7.2 billion), an increase of NT$25.9 billion from 2026, as the government also raised...
Monday 24 August 2026
Galbot's fast rise marks new wave in China's humanoid robot race
Beyond established players such as Unitree Robotics, AgiBot and UBTech Robotics, a new wave of challengers is emerging quickly in China's humanoid robot sector. Among them is Galbot,...
Saturday 22 August 2026
Automation Taipei 2026: If AI is advancing so fast, why is the factory floor still so hard to automate?
For all the extraordinary progress made by artificial intelligence, the physical world remains stubbornly difficult to automate.
Saturday 22 August 2026
Column: Lessons in supply chain resilience from China Huadian's power-compute coordination model
As AI develops rapidly, data centers are driving equally rapid growth in electricity demand. The stability of future energy supplies will directly determine whether AI computing capacity...
Friday 21 August 2026
China chip equipment maker Piotech posts 1,324% profit surge, advanced deposition scales up
Piotech Inc. reported a sharp rise in first-half 2026 earnings, helped by stronger demand for semiconductor deposition equipment, wider adoption of new process tools and improving...
Friday 21 August 2026
Ubtech expands humanoid push as Nvidia executives quietly visit WRC booth

As the first publicly listed humanoid robot company, Ubtech Robotics is often referred to in China as the sector's "first humanoid robot...

Friday 21 August 2026
Cambricon advances sixth-gen AI silicon, broadens support for DeepSeek, Qwen and GLM
Cambricon Technologies chairman and president Chen Tian-shi said the company's sixth-generation AI processor and instruction set remain under development, with the next-generation...
Friday 21 August 2026
Huawei, China power giant Huaneng explore AI compute-power coordination
China Huaneng Group said on August 20 that chairman Wen Shugang and president Zhong Guodong recently visited Huawei in Shenzhen, where they met Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei to discuss...
Friday 21 August 2026
Lee Jae-myung meets SK chief Chey Tae-won with US chip investment pressure in focus
South Korean President Lee Jae-myung has begun a fresh round of talks with the country's leading business figures, starting with a private dinner with SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won,...
Friday 21 August 2026
Xiaomi's Xring O3 nears launch on TSMC N3P, testing its in-house chip strategy
Xiaomi is preparing to take its in-house smartphone silicon further upmarket, with founder and chairman Lei Jun confirming that a new generation of its Xring chip is on the...
Friday 21 August 2026
JCET profit surges 79% on AI demand, with advanced packaging and CPO gaining scale

JCET Group reported record first-half revenue for 2026, with demand from artificial intelligence infrastructure and high-performance...

Friday 21 August 2026
SK Hynix weighs Japan memory fab in Miyagi, but says no investment is final
SK hynix is considering a large-scale memory semiconductor investment in Japan, with Miyagi Prefecture emerging as a potential site, although the company has stressed that no decision...