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Thursday 26 February 2026

Nvidia constrained in China as local AI players strengthen market position

Nvidia's ability to sell high-performance AI chips in China has been sharply limited by US export licensing rules, which have restricted shipments of its H20 and H200 products. The...

Thursday 26 February 2026

Chinese automakers surge in Europe as plug-in hybrids outpace diesel

Europe's auto market stumbled at the start of 2026. Overall vehicle sales fell 3.9% in January from a year earlier, as most major manufacturers reported declines and consumer demand...

Thursday 26 February 2026

Amazon's potential US$50 billion OpenAI investment highlights escalating AI arms race and financial pressure

OpenAI is reportedly negotiating one of the largest private financing rounds in tech history, with Amazon considering a US$50 billion investment. The potential deal underscores the...

Thursday 26 February 2026

CyberLink hits 12-year revenue high on AI creation boom, defying 'SaaS apocalypse' concerns

Taiwan-based multimedia software developer CyberLink reported its strongest revenue performance in nearly 12 years for 2025, driven by robust demand across its consumer creation and...

Thursday 26 February 2026

Yageo posts 82% profit jump in 4Q25 on AI-driven product mix

Taiwanese passive component giant Yageo reported a strong operational rebound in the fourth quarter of 2025, driven by continued growth in demand related to artificial intelligence...

Thursday 26 February 2026

Japan's EV market faces a reckoning as Mazda embraces NACS

As the global EV industry consolidates around a handful of charging standards, Mazda has made its choice.

Thursday 26 February 2026

Cloud AI's ripple effect: A comeback for 8-inch wafers

The boom in cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) is reverberating far beyond the most advanced chipmaking nodes.

Thursday 26 February 2026

DeepSeek shuts out Nvidia, AMD in V4 move tied to US chip tensions

DeepSeek, the Chinese AI lab that unsettled global markets with its low-cost models last year, has withheld early access to its upcoming V4 flagship from US chipmakers, breaking with...

Thursday 26 February 2026

SK Hynix and Sandisk move to standardize HBF, shaking up AI memory ecosystem

SK Hynix and Sandisk have launched a consortium to standardize High Bandwidth Flash (HBF), positioning the technology as a next-generation memory layer for AI inference and heightening...

Thursday 26 February 2026

Nvidia GTC 2026 to spotlight mystery chip, silicon photonics, and power limits

Nvidia's GTC 2026 will be held in mid-March. CEO Jensen Huang is expected to address concerns about an AI bubble while reaffirming that the Vera Rubin platform has entered mass production...

Thursday 26 February 2026

Gogoro's Vietnam push could reshape regional electric scooter market and supply chains

Scooters remain a vital mode of daily transport in Vietnam, and buoyed by policy support and demographic trends, the country is becoming a central battleground for the global electric...

Thursday 26 February 2026

As US-China trade frays, Taiwan emerges at the center of America's AI supply chain

Amid a deepening structural decoupling between the US and China and the full-scale launch of the artificial intelligence (AI) investment...

Thursday 26 February 2026

Gogoro scales energy network, plans battery retirements and US$32M expansion

Gogoro said it will expand its battery swap network in 2026, retire first-generation batteries, and invest NT$1 billion (approx. US$31.98 million) to add more than 100 swap stations...

Thursday 26 February 2026

Nvidia says space data centers are feasible but uneconomic for now

At the latest earnings call on February 25, Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said deploying data centers in space is technically feasible but currently uneconomic. However, he expects...

Thursday 26 February 2026

Nvidia ships first Vera Rubin samples, positions Vera CPU as core to next-generation AI architecture

At the earnings call on February 25, Nvidia detailed its next-generation Rubin platform and Vera CPU roadmap as Blackwell systems continue to ramp, with management signaling sustained...

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