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Thursday 2 July 2026

South Korea plans CIA-style fund to build its own Palantir

South Korea plans to set up a government-backed venture fund modeled on the CIA's In-Q-Tel, betting that direct state investment can...

Thursday 2 July 2026

Techman Robot upgrades automotive production lines at Quanta Computer Germany plant with AI cobots

Techman Robot announced its artificial intelligence (AI) collaborative robots (cobots) have been successfully deployed at parent company Quanta Computer's automotive computer and automotive...

Thursday 2 July 2026

USMCA review and post-Brexit rules cloud auto supply chain

The global auto industry is facing a sharper supply chain shock from trade policy, as the US, Canada, and Mexico begin a mandatory review of the USMCA, and post-Brexit sourcing rules...

Thursday 2 July 2026

SoftBank leads Japan's sovereign AI push, with Foxconn eyeing the compute backbone

Japan's sovereign AI push is moving from policy ambition to industrial buildout, with SoftBank-backed Noetra at the center, and Foxconn...

Thursday 2 July 2026

Meta's alleged turn from AI buyer to seller raises new questions about AI spending, returns, and competition

Meta Platforms' reported interest in selling excess AI computing capacity has stirred debate over whether the company is seeking a new way to monetize heavy infrastructure spending...

Thursday 2 July 2026

LG Electronics creates robot business center to scale physical AI and robotics supply chain

LG Electronics announced the creation of a robot business center to accelerate its physical AI and robotics efforts, the company said. The new organization will consolidate development,...

Thursday 2 July 2026

Hotai Motor trims Taiwan auto market outlook but keeps 2026 sales target

Hotai Motor has cut its 2026 Taiwan auto market forecast, signaling softer demand may linger after tariff-related weakness in the first half. The move matters beyond Taiwan because...

Thursday 2 July 2026

Tesla jumps to second as Taiwan auto sales rebound in June

Taiwan's auto market posted a strong rebound in June 2026, signaling firmer demand in a key Asian economy watched by global carmakers. Registrations rose sharply in the month and year,...

Thursday 2 July 2026

GaAs and InP price hikes hit Taiwan supply chain

Compound semiconductor epitaxy makers are raising prices again for gallium arsenide (GaAs) and indium phosphide (InP) epi wafers, as persistent raw material cost increases, supply...

Thursday 2 July 2026

AI server demand drives MiTAC to expand in Taiwan, Vietnam, and California

MiTAC Holdings' subsidiary, MiTAC Computing Technology, has won strong demand from US cloud customers, driving a sharp rise in orders and a global expansion plan from Asia to North...

Thursday 2 July 2026

General-purpose server shipments surge, boosting Taiwanese connector makers

Agentic AI demand is driving major US cloud providers such as Google and Amazon to expand data centers, lifting global server shipments and triggering a new wave of orders for Taiwan...

Thursday 2 July 2026

IBM's 0.7nm chip claim revives debate over semiconductor node naming

As semiconductor manufacturing enters the 2nm era, conventional transistor scaling is approaching its physical limits. On June 25,...

Wednesday 1 July 2026

Nvidia GPU-network ecosystem tops data center Ethernet switches

According to IDC's latest data, Nvidia's networking business has surged to the top, with the company becoming the revenue leader in the global data center Ethernet switch market for...

Wednesday 1 July 2026

Surging oil prices drive demand spike in Europe's used EV market

Rising oil prices as a result of the war in Iran have caused the originally sluggish used electric vehicle (EV) market in Europe to flip, with demand now outpacing supply. Three-year-old...

Wednesday 1 July 2026

OpenAI engineers claim to discover way to cut inference costs in half

OpenAI engineers claim to have figured out a way to halve the costs of inference using its models, according to The Information. The development comes as AI model developers...

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