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Tuesday 15 September 2026

Trump calls AI slowdown a conspiracy that helps China, closing off Washington support

Calls from leading US AI developers to slow frontier model development are colliding with the rivalry they were partly meant to manage. Within days of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's...

Tuesday 15 September 2026

Wuliangye skips carmaking, turns liquor waste into silicon-carbon anodes

Chinese baijiu (white liquor) producer Wuliangye, or "Five Grain Liquid," is moving into battery materials by turning distillers' grains,...

Tuesday 15 September 2026

China reshapes cockpit display race, set to produce 84% of global AR-HUDs by 2031

S&P Global Mobility senior research analyst for connected cars and user experience in Asia-Pacific Quan Zhang shared the latest...

Tuesday 15 September 2026

Robot supply strategies split between US in-house tech and Chinese local ecosystem

As humanoid robots gradually move from laboratory proofs-of-concept and enter industrial manufacturing and commercial service, their underlying motion control and environmental perception...

Tuesday 15 September 2026

Edimax, Comtrend 1H26 operations under pressure from weaker India orders, rising component costs

Network equipment maker Edimax Technology and its subsidiary Comtrend were affected by changes in customers' shipping cycles in the first half of 2026. Coupled with rising costs for...

Tuesday 15 September 2026

Global data center capex could reach US$31.6 trillion by 2050 as AI demand surges

PwC and Oxford Economics jointly released their Global Data Centre Outlook 2026–50 in early September, projecting cumulative global...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
Sigmaintell: Memory shortage to ease in 2027 before chip growth hits 2029 wall
After months of tight supply and sharp price increases in 2026, the global memory market is expected to see its supply-demand gap narrow...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
eCloudvalley expands enterprise AI Agent portfolio
eCloudvalley Digital Technology said enterprise adoption of generative AI is accelerating, with use cases expanding from single departments...

Monday 14 September 2026
UAE commits EUR40B to expand Germany ties in AI, energy and defense
The United Arab Emirates said it plans to invest EUR40 billion in Germany, or about US$46 billion, across artificial intelligence, energy and defense as it deepens economic and strategic...

Monday 14 September 2026
AI power demand pushes Taiwan to overhaul energy rules
Electricity demand from AI data centers and other high-tech industries is pushing governments and large cloud service providers to focus more on grid stability and backup supply. In...

Monday 14 September 2026
STMicro lead times top 1 year, boosting Taiwan chip makers
AI crowd-out effects are rippling through the supply chain, with lead times for microcontroller units (MCUs) from STMicroelectronics reportedly stretching beyond 1 year and triggering...

Monday 14 September 2026
Taiwan eases investment rules for AI center infrastructure projects
Taiwan's government has limited budgets to build the AI computing infrastructure the country needs, and infrastructure that a government runs itself cannot easily turn a profit. To...

Monday 14 September 2026
China optical firms target photonics with mixed high-end, lower-cost push
The 2026 China International Optoelectronic Exposition (CIOE) closed on September 11. While near-eye display applications such as AR/VR and smart glasses drew attention, vendors' latest...

Monday 14 September 2026
Gogoro sees turnaround ahead of schedule as Vietnam rollout gathers pace
Gogoro said its financial recovery is tracking ahead of plan, while its Vietnam venture is preparing to enter consumer sales in 2026. The moves matter beyond Taiwan, since they signal...

Monday 14 September 2026
LG Display's AI transformation turns employees into AI builders, yielding 450+ in-house projects
LG Display announced on September 13 that it is expanding its company-wide artificial intelligence transformation (AX) initiative by scaling up its "AX SQUAD" program. Designed to...

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