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Monday 20 July 2026

Moonshot reportedly eyes IPO after Kimi K3 success forces cap on new users

Moonshot AI's latest model launch is rapidly reshaping perceptions of China's artificial intelligence (AI) industry, with overwhelming demand forcing the company to suspend new consumer...

Monday 20 July 2026

BYD targets Japan's Kei-car stronghold with low-cost EV challenge

BYD is pressing ahead with plans to enter Japan's all-electric kei-car market, stepping up promotional activity and appointing a brand ambassador in a sign of growing confidence about...

Monday 20 July 2026

Beyond Taipower: AI, semiconductors, and overseas grids reshape Taiwan's electromechanical supply chain

Taiwan's heavy-electrical and electromechanical industry is entering a new growth phase as demand expands beyond its long-standing reliance on Taiwan Power (Taipower). While Taipower's...

Monday 20 July 2026

Hotai Leasing plans August listing as mobility business expands

Hotai Leasing Co., Ltd. plans to list its shares in early August 2026 as the Taiwan-based vehicle leasing provider expands its mobility and used-car businesses.

Monday 20 July 2026

MiTAC packs 96 AMD GPUs into 52U liquid-cooled rack

MiTAC Computing Technology, a subsidiary of MiTAC Holdings, showcased its server lineup and high-density liquid-cooled rack solutions at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference...

Sunday 19 July 2026

Three-tier humanoid robot architecture shift opens edge AI opportunities

The humanoid robot industry is converging on a "big brain, small brain" architecture, with AI compute shifting from the cloud to the edge, and even to hands, feet, and other endpoints...

Sunday 19 July 2026

Memory must adopt foundry model to fix AI inference bottleneck, says Korean scholar

AI development is driving larger data transfers and higher GPU efficiency demands, pushing memory toward customization and prompting...

Sunday 19 July 2026

The AI investment race is building its own bust, BIS paper warns

The competitive race to dominate artificial intelligence is driving technology giants to over-build computing capacity by roughly half again more than is economically efficient —...

Saturday 18 July 2026

China positions AI weather-warning system MAZU as a public good for the Global South, targeting 30 countries in five years

China used the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai to reframe its AI-driven weather early-warning system, MAZU, from a domestic meteorological tool into...

Saturday 18 July 2026

As AI expands nanotech, Samsung fortifies ecosystem and LG pivots to chip equipment

Nanotechnology is increasingly seen as a key enabler in the AI era, with competition broadening from semiconductors, manufacturing to home appliances. At Nano Korea 2026 held in Goyang,...

Saturday 18 July 2026

JNTC-TOPPAN glass substrate push signals AI packaging supply-chain shift

As AI accelerators and high-bandwidth memory (HBM) packages grow larger and more complex, substrate technology is becoming a new constraint in advanced packaging. Organic substrates...

Saturday 18 July 2026

Anthropic: AI's edge now lies in delivery, not just model strength

AI development is moving so quickly that companies and regulators worldwide have far less time to adapt, Anthropic said at the 2026...

Saturday 18 July 2026

China's AI sector pivots to system-level "super-nodes" as chip curbs bite at WAIC 2026

The largest World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) to date opened in Shanghai on July 17, and its dominant signal was strategic: China's answer to US limits on advanced chips...

Friday 17 July 2026

Exclusive: SiPearl turns to Taiwan ODMs to bring Rhea-based servers to market

SiPearl has powered on and begun validating Rhea1, its first-generation server CPU designed in Europe. Its next challenge is convincing...

Friday 17 July 2026

Foxlink opens first US AI demonstration factory in Texas

Foxlink Texas (FTI), a subsidiary of Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink), officially opened its first artificial intelligence (AI)...

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