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Monday 11 May 2026

Transcend chair sees AI memory supercycle

AI will bring an epochal technology revolution, as did the invention of steam power and electricity, according to Transcend Information chairman Chung-Won Shu. He argued that DRAM...

Monday 11 May 2026

Taiwan ranks among top 20 markets as AI adoption surges, Microsoft says

Microsoft's AI Economy Institute released a global update showing rapid growth in generative AI use since mid-2025 and identifying Asia as the primary engine of recent AI diffusion...

Monday 11 May 2026

Advantech April revenue hits record as edge AI surges

Advantech posted a fresh monthly revenue record in April 2026 as rising demand for edge AI applications and synchronized growth across major global markets lifted the industrial PC...

Monday 11 May 2026

AI data center spending frenzy ignites Sunon's next cooling windfall

Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industry (Sunon) said surging global investment in AI infrastructure is driving strong demand for industrial...

Monday 11 May 2026

Delta Electronics rides AI power, liquid cooling boom to another strong month

Continuing the strong growth trajectory seen in the first quarter of 2026, Delta Electronics maintained robust year-over-year revenue...

Monday 11 May 2026

China's cybersecurity AI charges ahead despite US model lockout

AI is upending the world of cybersecurity, as more capable models and agentic capabilities bring about new ways to exploit vulnerabilities, along with new ways to discover and patch...

Monday 11 May 2026

DeepSeek's US$7bn funding bid puts China's AI race on notice

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is seeking to raise as much as CNY50 billion (US$7.35 billion) in its first external funding round. The deal could value the company at more than CNY350...

Monday 11 May 2026

Taiwan backs military-civilian cyber tech to counter AI attacks

AI smartphones from Chinese brands are widely available in Taiwan, yet AI text summarization involving audio content deemed politically sensitive is often interrupted, as such services...

Monday 11 May 2026

Memory bottlenecks threaten data-center GPU efficiency as AI inference scales, says Micron SVP

Micron's senior vice president, Jeremy Werner, told The Circuit Podcast that memory has become a strategic bottleneck for data-center inference, warning that insufficient memory can...

Monday 11 May 2026

Trans-Sun Materials rides AI server wave with profit surge

Trans-Sun Materials Technology posted broad-based gains in the first quarter of 2026, with consolidated revenue rising 28.66% year on year to NT$379 million (US$12.07 million) and...

Monday 11 May 2026

Dayuan 1Q26 rebounds on North America broadband and defense orders

Dayuan Optoelectronics' consolidated revenue for the first quarter of 2026 reached NT$443 million (US$14.11 million), a 42.7% increase year on year, driven by North American broadband...

Monday 11 May 2026

Analysis: Forget the hardware race — Unitree wants to own the robot platform

When Unitree Robotics added "Mantis Boxing", Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do and even "Kamehameha" moves to its humanoid robot application store, the immediate reaction from many observers...

Monday 11 May 2026

Alibaba's Qwen could push AI agents into the heart of e-commerce

Alibaba Group is preparing to more deeply integrate its artificial intelligence platform, Qwen, into its vast online shopping ecosystem, a move that could fundamentally reshape how...

Monday 11 May 2026

OpenAI and chipmakers roll out MRC to prevent AI training slowdowns

OpenAI said it has partnered with chipmakers and cloud providers — including AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft, and Nvidia — to develop a new networking protocol aimed at...

Monday 11 May 2026

ASE, Wus to jointly build Kaohsiung advanced packaging plant by 2029

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and PCB manufacturer Wus Printed Circuit are teaming up to build a new packaging facility in southern Taiwan, as the world's largest chip assembler...

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