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Tuesday 21 July 2026
China's Z.ai reportedly powers up 1GW data center built entirely on domestic chips

Chinese AI developer Z.ai has completed a giant data center running exclusively on domestically made chips, a milestone in Beijing's...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
Phone prices to surge in 2H26 as low-end models fade

As the AI boom keeps memory shortages running hot, steep price hikes for smartphones in the second half of 2026 are coming into view...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
Taiwan launches AI- and IoT-powered smart heat protection network, starting with Tainan pilot
As climate change fuels increasingly severe heat waves, Taiwan is stepping up efforts to combat heat-related illness by integrating artificial intelligence (AI), IoT sensors and social...
Tuesday 21 July 2026
WAIC 2026 elevates the 'token factory' — why is China chasing cheap tokens over bigger models?

At the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, held July 17-20 across "three districts and four venues" with...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
TSMC weighs margin hit against long-term AI payoff in US push

TSMC has announced an additional US$100 billion investment in the US on top of its existing US$165 billion commitment, expanding its...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
Samsung consolidates robot teams and weighs standalone HX division
Samsung Electronics has started a broad reorganization of its robot operations, bringing scattered teams under one structure as humanoid robot competition shifts toward artificial...
Tuesday 21 July 2026
China's AI supernode race seeks systems edge through optics, packaging, and cloud scale

China's AI hardware race is shifting from individual accelerators to supernodes, optical interconnects, advanced packaging and cloud-scale...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
Microsoft expands Azure partnership with AMD ahead of Helios AI system launch

Microsoft has expanded its strategic partnership with AMD, announcing plans to deploy the company's upcoming Helios rack-scale AI system...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
TaiSol expects server revenue to top 50% in 2H26, liquid cooling to exceed 25% for full year
As power consumption of artificial intelligence (AI) servers continues to rise, liquid cooling is rapidly evolving from an auxiliary solution into a standard feature at the rack and...
Tuesday 21 July 2026
Microsoft promotes AI sovereignty through local data, while Stanford warns on US jurisdiction
Microsoft has been positioning AI sovereignty as a way to prioritize local languages, culture and values in AI systems rather than build isolated national alternatives, according to...
Tuesday 21 July 2026
Elite Material, TUC race ahead in AI CCL push

As AI server products accelerate their generational shift and demand higher-frequency, higher-speed transmission, the upgrade cycle...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
Advanced Echem Materials to invest NT$4.52 billion in Longtan plant
Advanced Echem Materials (AEMC), a semiconductor specialty chemicals materials maker, plans to invest roughly NT$4.52 billion (approx. US$139.66 million) in Taiwan's Longtan Science...
Tuesday 21 July 2026
Alibaba and Huawei muscle into Singapore's AI market: SEA-LION swaps Llama for Qwen

Singapore is Southeast Asia's AI frontrunner. It has also become a proving ground for competing Eastern and Western AI business models...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
VSMC warns AI-ready MES is becoming essential for wafer fabs, with China accelerating adoption

TSMC's sustained capital spending highlights the two foundations of its competitive strength: technology leadership and manufacturing excellence...

Monday 20 July 2026
China's AI smartphone race pits ZTE, StepFun, and Honor against limits of agentic computing

China's smartphone industry is turning agentic AI into its next growth narrative, with ZTE's Nubia, StepFun and Honor presenting sharply...