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Wednesday 2 September 2026
TCL CSOT bets on InP laser chips as supply tightens
Indium phosphide (InP) is emerging as one of the tightest supply constraints in AI data-center optical interconnects. Lumentum CEO Michael Hurlston has said publicly that the supply-demand...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
Gemtek deepens partnership with India's Dixon Technologies to expand optical transceiver, connectivity footprint
Gemtek Technology announced that it is deepening its strategic cooperation with India's Dixon Technologies through their joint venture in India, expanding the manufacturing and market...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
Dell says enterprise AI customers accelerated even faster than its record orders suggest
Dell Technologies' quarterly results showed record AI server orders and backlog, but executives used the earnings call's question-and-answer session on September 1 to disclose a more...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
Dell's AI server boom lifts profitability across its whole business
Dell Technologies closed its fiscal second quarter with revenue of US$47.0 billion, up 58% year over year, but the more telling number is what happened below the top line: operating...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
Apple's M6 and M5 Ultra break rule tying process to chip strength
Apple has unveiled new Mac mini and Mac Studio models, equipped respectively with its first 2-nanometer chip, the M6, and the four-die M5 Ultra. Most notably, the latest 2-nanometer...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Chinese smartphone brands raise prices as component costs climb
Several Chinese smartphone brands raised prices across entry-level and premium models on September 1, citing IT Home, Antutu, MyDrivers and Sina. The increases coincided with the start...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Tim Cook concludes 15-year Apple tenure, John Ternus takes over
Tim Cook's tenure as Apple CEO has officially drawn to a close after nearly 15 years. Cook stepped down as CEO and became Executive Chairman, while Senior Vice President of Hardware...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Research insights: AI Fabric optical interconnects move into racks as 400G/lane and CPO maturity emerge as key variables
DIGITIMES observed that as AI systems continued to scale, interconnect requirements inside AI data centers had expanded from chips, packages, and boards to racks, clusters, and eventually...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Apple reshuffles leadership, shifts Schiller out of App Store
Apple has made another major management shake-up. After Tim Cook stepped down as CEO and was succeeded by John Ternus, formerly head of hardware engineering, veteran Phil Schiller...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Anthropic's rumored US$35 billion Lambda deal shows how far Nvidia will go to bankroll its own customers
Anthropic has reportedly signed a cloud-computing contract worth US$35 billion with Lambda, an Nvidia-backed cloud provider, under which Nvidia itself holds the data center lease,...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Cisco: CPO is ready for mass deployment amid surging AI data-center demand
For global cloud operators and network vendors, Cisco said co-packaged optics (CPO) is moving from lab promise to commercial necessity as AI data centers strain power budgets and bandwidth...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
China's humanoid robot cost cuts run into three bottlenecks
Humanoid robot scaling is still constrained by price, and Chinese humanoid robots — which command the largest global market share — show a sharp gap between consumer and...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Nvidia's MediaTek investment signals broader push to shape AI infrastructure
Nvidia's US$3.5 billion investment in MediaTek's overseas convertible bonds marks more than a financial bet. It underscores how the chip leader is trying to anchor its AI infrastructure...
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
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...