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Tuesday 1 September 2026
Nvidia and MediaTek link AI technologies in bid to accelerate custom data center chip adoption
Nvidia and MediaTek are widening a global AI partnership that could reshape data center, edge, and PC hardware markets. MediaTek's US$3.9 billion overseas convertible bond sale, largely...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
China's Xenomi LLM brings quantum computing into AI agent decision-making
China is testing a new route for combining quantum computing with generative AI, moving beyond model training toward the decision layer used by AI agents. Beijing Guoguang Liangchao...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Commentary: Why America fell behind on Open models — and how Nvidia plans to close the gap
When DeepSeek burst onto the scene in early 2025, it wiped nearly US$600 billion from Nvidia's market value in a single day. By the summer of 2026, Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 had triggered...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Taiwan workplace AI use reaches 96% as employers push skills upgrades
Ninety-six percent of professionals in Taiwan use AI in the workplace, topping the Asia-wide average of 93%, according to a new survey released by Robert Walters. The report, which...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
AI server cooling specialist Nidec expands Vietnam capacity, forms liquid-cooling team
Nidec Chaun-Choung Technology plans to establish a dedicated liquid-cooling team and deepen cooperation with major cloud service providers, citing rising thermal-management demand...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Humanoid robots gain a sense of touch, lifting tactile sensor adoption above 60%
If vision serves as a robot's eyes, tactile sensors function as its skin and peripheral nerves. In China, leading dexterous-hand makers have increasingly begun treating tactile sensing...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Taiwan manufacturing moves into the prosperity zone as US export growth slows
Taiwan’s manufacturing business-climate indicator moved into the index’s red “prosperity” category in July, with the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research (TIER)...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
OpenAI compresses Jalapeno design to 9 months
OpenAI unveiled performance results for its in-house AI chip Jalapeno at Hot Chips 2026 ahead of Nvidia's latest earnings report, underscoring not whether it can beat GB200 or GB300,...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Luxnet eyes orders through 2028, DCI revenue set to double in 2027
AI-driven demand for optical transceiver modules is rising rapidly, and LuxNet said its business in the second half of 2026 will grow sharply from the first half. With capacity coming...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Kaimei sees 2H26 momentum strengthen as AI demand lifts orders and resistor price hikes take effect
Kaimei Electronics, a Yageo Group company, said order visibility remains strong for the second half of 2026 as AI server demand continues to ramp and automotive and industrial-control...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Silergy data center business surges as new products scale up
Silergy said at a recent earnings call that most of its applications, excluding its computing product line, posted quarter-over-quarter growth of more than 20% in the second quarter...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
AI Macs, Part 2: Mac mini, Mac Studio gain enterprise AI ground; Apple still lacks the platform
Apple's AI hardware momentum is forcing an enterprise question it did not plan for. Mac mini and Mac Studio are increasingly being used as local AI infrastructure, but Apple's business...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
John Ternus takes over an Apple with one growth engine, no obvious second
John Ternus becomes Apple's chief executive on September 1 with comfortable near-term numbers and an uncomfortable medium-term question. Apple's June quarter was a record. Its largest...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Analysis: Tim Cook hands Ternus a slower-growing but far richer Apple than the one Steve Jobs left him
When John Ternus becomes chief executive on September 1, the company he inherits will be measured on a scorecard Tim Cook wrote, not the one Steve Jobs left behind. Fifteen years of...
Monday 31 August 2026
China urges pragmatism over hype in rapidly expanding humanoid robotics market
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...