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Wednesday 22 July 2026

Nvidia's Huang to meet Samsung, SK and Naver chiefs in Silicon Valley, reports say

Samsung Electronics executive chairman Lee Jae-yong, SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won and Naver founder and board chairman Lee Hae-jin are reportedly preparing to meet Nvidia CEO Jensen...

Wednesday 22 July 2026

Foxconn's Jun Seki says L4 adoption will be in 80% of new cars by 2040

Foxconn group's EV strategy chief Jun Seki said on July 21 in Tokyo that Level 4 (L4) and above autonomous driving will likely be installed in 80% of new cars by 2040, and that the...

Wednesday 22 July 2026

Nvidia details Vera CPU for agentic AI workloads

Nvidia has outlined the design of its Vera CPU, positioning the chip for agentic AI systems that rely heavily on the processor for code execution, tool calls, retrieval, and data handling...

Wednesday 22 July 2026

'Don't panic about Kimi K3': Jensen Huang claims everyone got the logic backwards

The AI industry may be riding a wave of momentum, but two clouds have recently unsettled the outlook: growing public opposition to...

Wednesday 22 July 2026

Nvidia details AI rack strategy with Vera Rubin NVL72 and custom Vera CPU

Nvidia's newly detailed Vera Rubin NVL72 is being pitched less as a faster chip and more as a cheaper unit of AI output. This shift...

Wednesday 22 July 2026

Microsoft's multibillion-dollar Mistral deal gives regulated industries European alternative to US-controlled AI

Microsoft's decision to pour billions of dollars into Mistral's European compute base is less about adding another model to Azure than about answering a question that has grown loud...

Wednesday 22 July 2026

WAIC 2026: Enflame debuts China's first glass-based CoPoS AI chip sample

Chinese AI chip developer Enflame said at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) 2026 that it had jointly showcased an AI chip...

Wednesday 22 July 2026

Moonshot AI reportedly eyes Hong Kong listing as Kimi K3 narrows China's AI gap

A funding-and-listing push by Beijing-based Moonshot AI signals that China's frontier-model race is spilling over into the capital...

Wednesday 22 July 2026

WAIC 2026: Biren's 1,024-GPU NPO super node sharpens China's AI infrastructure race

Chinese GPU developer Biren Technology unveiled a next-generation near-packaged optics (NPO) super node at the World Artificial Intelligence...

Wednesday 22 July 2026

Kimi K3 sparks new 'DeepSeek moment,' reshaping AI's winners and losers

Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup Moonshot AI launched its next-generation Kimi K3 model on July 17, delivering performance comparable with leading models from OpenAI and...

Wednesday 22 July 2026

Taiwan tariff uncertainty slows US car sales and opens a window for local brands

Rumors of a possible zero-tariff deal for US-made cars in Taiwan have kept buyers and dealers in wait-and-see mode for months, with pricing and sales plans for imported vehicles still...

Wednesday 22 July 2026

Taiwan auto market sees 2H26 recovery as sales and promotions improve

Taiwan's new-car market showed signs of recovery in the first half of 2026, with June sales rising more than 20% year on year and monthly volume returning to the level seen in the...

Wednesday 22 July 2026

Supermicro's record US$60 billion orders, tied to SpaceX, overshadow soft revenue

Supermicro's preliminary fourth-quarter results suggest the server maker's bet on rack-scale AI infrastructure is beginning to pay off in profitability, not just volume — and...

Wednesday 22 July 2026

Memory shortage to worsen in 2027 as AI inference strains supply, Silicon Motion CEO says

The global memory shortage will worsen in 2027 and may not begin to ease until the second half of 2028, with prices likely to remain elevated for the next two to three years, according...

Wednesday 22 July 2026

Moonshot AI welcomes Musk challenge as enterprise API revenue hits 70%

Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI said it welcomes competition from the world's top model developers after Tesla CEO Elon Musk suggested...

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