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Tuesday 6 October 2026
South Korea keeps sovereign AI contest on track, adds KRW4.7T frontier program after hours of confusion
South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT said its Sovereign AI Foundation Model Project will run to completion as originally planned. The statement reversed, within hours, a vice...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
Taiwan bets on SiPh, CPO to tackle AI data center power bottlenecks
Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) has launched two research programs targeting silicon photonics (SiPh) and next-generation AI data center power systems, seeking...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
Taiwan's NSTC seeks AI data center power tech to reduce grid impact of load spikes
Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) has recently issued a call for proposals on "high-performance power conversion and system management technologies for next-generation...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
Drone share tops 10% as Calin Technology eyes LEO optics, auto growth
Optical lens maker Calin Technology is seeing its new business ventures bear fruit. Revenue from its drone camera module segment has surpassed 10% of total sales in 2026 and is targeting...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
China National Day EV charging surges 49% as highway grid faces peak-load test
China's National Day holidays have driven a massive surge in long-distance electric vehicle (EV) travel. According to data from China's National Energy Administration cited by The...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
How RobCo and the robotics unicorn wave are redefining industrial automation
Physical AI is shifting from a hardware niche into the next foundational computing platform, driving record investor capital into embodied intelligence systems.
Tuesday 6 October 2026
Jedec unveils new standard for silicon photonics reliability qualification and testing
Jedec released a new standard for silicon photonics (SiPh) testing and manufacturing controls to promote consistent reliability practices. The standard comes as SiPh experiences rapid...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
AM Intelligence expands India AI infrastructure push with 20,000 more Nvidia Rubin GPUs
AM Intelligence (AMI) is widening its AI infrastructure push in India and Malaysia, adding to a regional buildout that could matter well beyond Asia. The latest orders expand access...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
Notebook downturn splits supply chain: ODMs lean on servers, component makers seek new growth
Notebook shipments performed better than expected in the first half of 2026, but the market entered a sharp downturn beginning in September, in stark contrast to previous years, when...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
Electric scooter sales rise 33% in September but year-over-year slowdown persists
Taiwan's motorcycle market emerged from the seasonal lull in September 2026, with total registrations rising to 70,189, up 16.78% month-over-month. Electric scooter sales also rebounded,...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
September auto market beats expectations; Hotai sees stable Q4
Hotai Motor said Taiwan's auto market should remain stable in the fourth quarter, after September sales came in better than expected and the company kept its full-year 2026 forecast...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
TSMC expansion pushes Da Yi Cheng Technology's orders over NT$10 billion, visibility through 2028
Da Yi Cheng Technology (DYC) has rapidly expanded in recent years, benefiting from the global semiconductor capacity expansion wave, which has driven demand for second-phase electrical...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
Behind the US$4.2 trillion revenue gap in AI infrastructure
AI data center plans and computing demand are expanding far faster than physical infrastructure can be built, creating a widening gap between planned and actually deployed compute...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
Meta open-sources Muse Gadgets SDK for building AI devices
Meta has open-sourced the Muse Gadgets software development kit (SDK) and firmware code, allowing developers to build physical devices that interact with its AI assistant Muse and...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
Meta, Microsoft reportedly cut internal Claude use as AI costs rise
Meta and Microsoft are reducing employees' internal reliance on Anthropic's Claude as they push proprietary AI tools and seek greater control over rapidly rising AI costs, according...