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NEWS TAGGED IT + CE

Thursday 2 July 2026

South Korea plans CIA-style fund to build its own Palantir

South Korea plans to set up a government-backed venture fund modeled on the CIA's In-Q-Tel, betting that direct state investment can...

Thursday 2 July 2026

Techman Robot upgrades automotive production lines at Quanta Computer Germany plant with AI cobots

Techman Robot announced its artificial intelligence (AI) collaborative robots (cobots) have been successfully deployed at parent company Quanta Computer's automotive computer and automotive...

Thursday 2 July 2026

Apple's reported pursuit of Chinese memory chips revives supply chain and geopolitical tensions

Apple is once again exploring Chinese memory suppliers as a prolonged shortage driven by artificial intelligence (AI) demand reshapes the semiconductor supply chain, according to a...

Thursday 2 July 2026

SoftBank leads Japan's sovereign AI push, with Foxconn eyeing the compute backbone

Japan's sovereign AI push is moving from policy ambition to industrial buildout, with SoftBank-backed Noetra at the center, and Foxconn...

Thursday 2 July 2026

Meta's alleged turn from AI buyer to seller raises new questions about AI spending, returns, and competition

Meta Platforms' reported interest in selling excess AI computing capacity has stirred debate over whether the company is seeking a new way to monetize heavy infrastructure spending...

Thursday 2 July 2026

Europe's heatwave turns air conditioners into power chip growth story

Europe's intensifying heatwave is reshaping the region's air conditioner market, driving a surge in China's air conditioner exports and...

Thursday 2 July 2026

PlayStation to end physical game discs for new releases from 2028

In a blog post on July 1, Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) said it will stop producing physical discs for all new games released on PlayStation consoles beginning in January 2028,...

Thursday 2 July 2026

Alltop projects cautious 2H26 growth led by AI servers and recovering EV demand

Connector and cable maker Alltop is signaling that global demand trends may increasingly favor AI infrastructure and a later recovery in electric vehicles, with its latest outlook...

Thursday 2 July 2026

LG Electronics creates robot business center to scale physical AI and robotics supply chain

LG Electronics announced the creation of a robot business center to accelerate its physical AI and robotics efforts, the company said. The new organization will consolidate development,...

Thursday 2 July 2026

GaAs and InP price hikes hit Taiwan supply chain

Compound semiconductor epitaxy makers are raising prices again for gallium arsenide (GaAs) and indium phosphide (InP) epi wafers, as persistent raw material cost increases, supply...

Thursday 2 July 2026

AI server demand drives MiTAC to expand in Taiwan, Vietnam, and California

MiTAC Holdings' subsidiary, MiTAC Computing Technology, has won strong demand from US cloud customers, driving a sharp rise in orders and a global expansion plan from Asia to North...

Thursday 2 July 2026

General-purpose server shipments surge, boosting Taiwanese connector makers

Agentic AI demand is driving major US cloud providers such as Google and Amazon to expand data centers, lifting global server shipments and triggering a new wave of orders for Taiwan...

Thursday 2 July 2026

Cloud AI squeezes 2nm capacity, pressuring mobile SoCs

Mobile system-on-chip (SoC) vendors are collectively upgrading flagship platforms to 2nm in 2026. Beyond the need for better specifications,...

Thursday 2 July 2026

Taiwan eyes 2028 carbon trading market launch, but experts warn of risks and timing

Taiwan plans to launch an emissions trading system (ETS) in 2028 as the next phase of its carbon pricing framework — a cap-and-trade...

Thursday 2 July 2026

IBM's 0.7nm chip claim revives debate over semiconductor node naming

As semiconductor manufacturing enters the 2nm era, conventional transistor scaling is approaching its physical limits. On June 25,...

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