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Thursday 24 September 2026

Yusin Malaysia plant to fully ramp up by 4Q26

Brake system parts maker Yusin said at an investor conference on September 23 that key equipment at its new Malaysia plant is expected...

Thursday 24 September 2026

Nscale's biggest customer: a Singapore unit with US$1,000 in capital, owned by ByteDance's AI brand holder

Nscale, the UK AI cloud company preparing a US listing at a reported US$35 billion valuation, got nearly three-quarters of its 2025 sales from a Singapore company. Singapore and US...

Thursday 24 September 2026

South Korea chip, panel lines stay on as AI, iPhone demand surges

South Korea's major semiconductor, display, and electronics parts factories are staying open through the Chuseok holiday as AI-driven...

Thursday 24 September 2026

Xi-Trump summit masks AI rift as Chinese AI leaders stay away

Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to make his first state visit to the US since 2015, with the Trump administration rolling out high-level welcoming ceremonies, a state dinner and...

Thursday 24 September 2026

Huawei founder Zhengfei Ren reappears in Shenzhen — Dongfeng smart vehicle alliance moves into focus

Huawei founder Zhengfei Ren made a public appearance in Shenzhen on September 22 for talks with Dongfeng Motor general manager Changjun...

Thursday 24 September 2026

Skoda's top earner CEO jumps to Volvo, rattling Volkswagen Group

Skoda CEO Klaus Zellmer, long seen as one of Volkswagen Group's top-performing brand executives, will leave the company and become president...

Thursday 24 September 2026

Anthropic joins OpenAI, Google DeepMind in Singapore

Anthropic will open its Singapore office in October, making it the company's fifth office in the Asia-Pacific region after Tokyo, Bengaluru,...

Thursday 24 September 2026

Taiwan's Yusin pivots China OE brake pad business from BYD to JV automakers

Taiwan-listed Yusin Holding Corp. said on September 23 that its Chinese subsidiary Fuzhou Assured Brake Systems is reducing its reliance on BYD and shifting its China original-equipment...

Thursday 24 September 2026

Anthropic brings in Accenture to audit AI safety

Anthropic has announced a third-party on-site evaluation program, bringing in staff from Faculty, the AI company owned by Accenture,...

Thursday 24 September 2026

Qualcomm adopts 'offset PoP' packaging to cool new flagship phone SoC

Qualcomm unveiled two flagship mobile platforms at the Snapdragon Summit 2026, including the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, which changes its packaging approach to improve heat...

Thursday 24 September 2026

Xi's US visit stirs alarm over a possible Chinese auto push into America

Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to the US is heightening anxiety across the global auto industry, where suppliers, dealers, and...

Thursday 24 September 2026

Supermicro begins shipping Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 AI racks

Supermicro has begun shipping Nvidia's next-generation Vera Rubin NVL72 systems, moving the rack-scale platform from product demonstrations into customer deployments as AI infrastructure...

Thursday 24 September 2026

Qualcomm's PickNik deal brings robotics software to its edge AI push

MoveIt's integration with Qualcomm's Dragonwing and Arduino platforms could give robot builders a more direct route from on-device AI to motion planning and control, while also testing...

Thursday 24 September 2026

Intel puts CPU-GPU coordination at center of agentic AI strategy

Intel is positioning closer coordination between CPUs, GPUs and other computing resources as a key requirement for the next phase of AI, as agentic AI shifts workloads from model inference...

Thursday 24 September 2026

Industrial software giants race to build industry world models

While generative AI has surged into mainstream consumer use thanks to ChatGPT, the adoption of AI across industrial sectors has progressed at a much slower pace. Industry analysts...

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