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Friday 4 September 2026
Lite-On makes US$170 million strategic investment in DCX for AI cooling push
Lite-On Technology announced a strategic investment in Polish liquid cooling solutions provider DCX Polska, also known as DCX Liquid Cooling Systems. The deal will give Lite-On approximately...
Friday 4 September 2026
Taiwan to expand AI compute capacity as supercomputer at research institute hits full load
Taiwan is racing to expand its AI compute capacity as demand for AI chips, GPUs and AI servers surges, with compute infrastructure now central to national competitiveness. According...
Friday 4 September 2026
China Motor unit Greentrans launches Taiwan-made quadruped robots
China Motor Corp. subsidiary Greentrans unveiled its next-generation quadruped robots, GT5X and GT3X, at SEMICON Taiwan 2026 amid growing demand for AI applications, smart semiconductor...
Friday 4 September 2026
Analysis: Physical AI upgrades autonomous driving and lifts Taiwan supply chains
As end-to-end (E2E) autonomous driving architectures gradually become mainstream, the inference demands of physical AI are driving radical transformations in automotive system-on-chip...
Friday 4 September 2026
Xiaomi Auto maps 2027 Europe entry with German dealer network and four-country vehicle testing
Xiaomi Auto has formally begun laying the groundwork for its overseas expansion. Xiaomi Group partner and CEO William Lu said on September 4 that the automaker had signed agreements...
Friday 4 September 2026
Moonshot AI reportedly files for Hong Kong IPO, targets US$3B
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI has reportedly filed confidentially for an initial public offering in Hong Kong, potentially setting up one of the city's most closely watched technology...
Friday 4 September 2026
Acer broadens lineup with e-paper displays and scooters, ahead of PC industry headwinds
Acer used its next@acer global press conference at IFA 2026 in Berlin, Germany, to unveil non-PC products as part of its strategy to enhance resilience. At the event, the company introduced...
Friday 4 September 2026
Nvidia sets an October launch for RTX Spark PCs, gives local AI a router
Nvidia used IFA 2026 to argue that serious AI work can run locally as well as in the cloud, pairing an October launch date for its RTX Spark Windows PCs with free software that distributes...
Friday 4 September 2026
OpenAI says Astra crosses critical cybersecurity threshold, adding tighter safeguards
OpenAI said its Astra model has reached a critical level of cybersecurity capability, warning that advanced tools could help users find and exploit unknown flaws in hardened systems...
Friday 4 September 2026
Analysts read Nvidia's Hugging Face deal as a hedge, not a software bet
Nvidia's agreement to buy Hugging Face for roughly US$13 billion is being framed by analysts less as a move into software than as insurance against three ways its core business could...
Friday 4 September 2026
Nvidia's Hugging Face terms pay out its chip rivals and reserve US$1 billion to keep the staff
The mechanics of Nvidia's US$12.93 billion purchase of Hugging Face say as much about the deal's purpose as the strategic case does: a tenth of the consideration is set aside to stop...
Friday 4 September 2026
Nvidia buys the front door to open AI with a US$12.93 billion Hugging Face deal
Nvidia's agreement to acquire Hugging Face for US$12.93 billion pushes the world's dominant AI chip supplier past silicon and into the layer where developers actually pick their models...
Friday 4 September 2026
D-Wave, quantum computing's oldest company, is now building a second kind of machine
D-Wave has spent 26 years building one type of quantum computer. This week it told a Taipei audience why it started building another.
Friday 4 September 2026
K-Safety Expo 2026: South Korea's safety AI moves from watching danger to acting on it
At first glance, many of the technologies spread across the K-Safety Expo 2026 show floor in Busan looked familiar: CCTV cameras, industrial sensors, warning lights and control panels...
Friday 4 September 2026
K-Safety Expo 2026: Inside Korea's push to make safety smarter, faster, more predictive
K-Safety Expo 2026 opened at BEXCO Exhibition Center 1 in Busan on September 2. An hour-long opening ceremony beginning at 11 a.m. brought together South Korean government officials,...