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Wednesday 5 August 2026

Foldable smartphone shipments are set to rise 20% as Apple enters the market

Global foldable smartphone shipments are expected to increase 20% in 2026 from 2025, according to industry players cited in the source, even as the broader handset market faces tighter...

Wednesday 5 August 2026

Foldable phone demand shifts as wider models challenge flip designs

Foldable phone makers are facing a more segmented market as wider book-style devices gain ground and Samsung Electronics expands its lineup, with the next major demand test expected...

Wednesday 5 August 2026

Taiwan approves NT$27B plan to commercialize 6G, satellite, and all-optical AI networks

Taiwan is moving from early-stage research into commercialization of next-generation communications technologies after the Executive Yuan approved a NT$27 billion (US$833 million)...

Wednesday 5 August 2026

Naver taps Brookfield for up to US$9 billion in data center financing

Naver is considering an asset-light structure for a US$10 billion data center expansion under which a Brookfield-led investment vehicle...

Wednesday 5 August 2026

Analysis: Musk's empire closes in on China — from orbit to the factory floor

SpaceX's rapid growth in AI, satellite connectivity, and space infrastructure is widening the strategic challenge for China beyond...

Wednesday 5 August 2026

Anthropic's scramble for compute is reshaping how AI labs finance their chips

Anthropic's US$10 billion computing agreement with seven-month-old startup Volta Infra Holdings Ltd. is the latest sign that the Claude...

Wednesday 5 August 2026

AMD says server CPU market to hit US$220B by 2030

AMD expects the market for server central processing units (CPUs) to reach approximately US$220 billion by 2030, up from an estimate...

Wednesday 5 August 2026

Starlink prepares terrestrial mobile push as SpaceX targets US carrier market

Starlink is preparing to move beyond satellite broadband and direct-to-device coverage into a broader mobile communications business,...

Wednesday 5 August 2026

From rockets to data centers: SpaceX's US$15.8B AI bet reshapes its post-IPO investment story

SpaceX's first quarterly report as a public company revealed that its fastest-growing business is no longer confined to rockets or satellite broadband. Instead, artificial intelligence...

Wednesday 5 August 2026

Memory crunch deepens PC slump as Apple, Nvidia emerge as rare bright spots

After a brief recovery in 2025, the PC supply chain had hoped the market would return to sustained growth. Instead, AI server demand has squeezed memory production capacity, driving...

Wednesday 5 August 2026

AMD says US$30 billion estimate for 2027 Instinct revenue may be too low

AMD CEO Lisa Su indicated during the company's second-quarter 2026 earnings call that an estimate of roughly US$30 billion in 2027 Instinct...

Wednesday 5 August 2026

Analysis: AMD and Nvidia take opposite paths to capture next wave of AI infrastructure spending

Two earnings calls three months apart show AMD and Nvidia converging on the same AI infrastructure boom from opposite directions. AMD is building a single rack-scale platform, Helios,...

Wednesday 5 August 2026

Smartphone makers brace for lower volumes, higher prices, and deeper market split

Apple, Qualcomm, and MediaTek delivered similar warnings last week: the global smartphone market is entering a more expensive, more polarized phase. For users, this means fewer affordable...

Wednesday 5 August 2026

Wistron sees AI demand widening as Taiwan ODMs gain pricing power

AI demand is giving Taiwan's contract manufacturers a rare opening, and Wistron expects the opportunity to broaden in the second half...

Wednesday 5 August 2026

SpaceX's first earnings as a public company show an AI bet outrunning its cash generation

SpaceX's debut quarterly report as a listed company laid out the scale of the wager it is making on artificial intelligence compute, a business now large enough to reshape the group's...

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