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Thursday 13 August 2026
Foxconn broadens beyond AI servers with EVs, robotics and Japan chip fab above 90% utilisation
Foxconn used its second-quarter 2026 earnings conference on August 12 to detail progress beyond its fast-growing AI server business, spanning cloud and data centre solutions, electric...
Thursday 13 August 2026
Pegatron sees 2026 server growth beat expectations
Pegatron said its server business had posted significant growth in shipments and revenue so far this year, giving it strong confidence that it will meet—and likely exceed—its...
Thursday 13 August 2026
Tencent starts paying for AI in cash, core business is covering the bill
Tencent Holdings used its second quarter to show what an AI build-out costs a company that can afford one. Capex reached CNY52.8 billion (US$7.81 billion), up 176% from a year earlier,...
Thursday 13 August 2026
Cisco's falling margin shows hyperscaler AI is now big enough to reshape the business
Cisco Systems closed fiscal 2026 with results that would normally have looked decisively positive. Revenue rose 18% to US$17.3 billion, networking orders posted double-digit growth...
Thursday 13 August 2026
Tencent steps up AI infrastructure spending as compute costs cut into near-term profit
Tencent Holdings reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of CNY204.8 billion (US$30.30 billion), up 11% year-on-year, as it sharply increased artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure...
Thursday 13 August 2026
Cisco leans further into AI networking as hyperscaler orders near US$9.3 billion for the year
Cisco Systems closed fiscal 2026 with record results and told investors that the AI-driven "networking supercycle" it has described is still in its early stages. The company backed...
Thursday 13 August 2026
Honor's Robot Phone launch signals a bigger bet: turning smartphones into AI hardware
Honor unveiled the Robot Phone on August 12, 2026, calling it the world's first "robot phone" and positioning it as the clearest hardware expression yet of the company's push to become...
Thursday 13 August 2026
Column: Forecasting the planet, one foundation model at a time

Typhoons and extreme heat have dominated headlines since the summer of 2026, while heavy rain and drought have alternated with increasing...

Thursday 13 August 2026
Alphabet's DeepMind shake-up caps months of AI stumbles
Alphabet's decision to shift day-to-day control of Google DeepMind from Demis Hassabis to his deputy, Koray Kavukcuoglu, was not sudden—it capped a difficult year in which Google...
Thursday 13 August 2026
PC 2H26 pull-forward correction hits peripheral chip makers
As 2026 enters its second half, the PC market is facing pressure from both demand and supply. Rising memory and CPU prices are pushing up system prices and weighing on end-market demand,...
Thursday 13 August 2026
ITTS reports first-half growth as ERP and AI projects gain traction
Information Technology Total Services (ITTS) said its business recovered in the first half of 2026 as enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation work advanced and data governance...
Thursday 13 August 2026
Foxconn signals sharper push into AI as Sharp partnership enters new phase

Foxconn said its decade-long partnership with Sharp has entered a new growth phase, as the Taiwanese electronics group expands into...

Thursday 13 August 2026
OCP APAC 2026: Ayar Labs CEO says copper is holding back open compute, sees optical interconnects as way forward
Speaking at the OCP APAC Summit 2026, Ayar Labs CEO Mark Wade argued that copper interconnects have become one of the biggest obstacles to realizing the vision of open computing.
Thursday 13 August 2026
Univacco reports record 2Q profit and revenue as 3Q demand builds

Univacco Technology posted record second-quarter and first-half 2026 revenue and profit, driven by its expanding global distribution...

Thursday 13 August 2026
Lightmatter white paper targets fragmented supply chain, barriers to photonic interconnect deployment
Bijan Nowroozi, Head of Ecosystem Development at Lightmatter, announced at the OCP APAC Summit 2026 that the company has released an infrastructure white paper aimed at building a...