Apple's MacBook Neo is selling briskly, lifting the company's notebook brand shipments by more than 10% year on year in the second quarter of 2026, but supply shortages are emerging as a major risk. Supply-chain sources had expected MacBook Neo shipments to reach 10 million units in 2026, but a key component bottleneck could weigh on sales.
DeepSeek is preparing a new fundraising round and a possible Shanghai listing as surging computing costs force one of China's best-known artificial intelligence startups to rethink its long-standing resistance to outside capital.
A European industry group, the Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE), has joined four other trade organizations in calling for the European Commission to impose interim measures while it processes an antitrust case against Broadcom. The case concerns recent licensing changes made by the chip designer on the virtualization platform VMware.
The 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) opens in Shanghai on July 17, with Chinese President Xi Jinping set to attend and deliver a keynote speech.
AI technologies and applications have matured rapidly in recent years. That has driven trends such as edge AI and physical AI. The shift has also affected industrial computer (IPC) makers, which have long focused on end-point applications on the factory floor and at other field sites.
Amazon Web Services opened its 2026 AWS Summit Taipei on July 15, placing AI agents, custom chips and enterprise AI adoption at the center of its annual cloud and AI conference.
Nvidia unveiled a series of new partnerships in Japan on July 16, 2026, highlighting the growing adoption of AI across manufacturing, robotics, automotive, healthcare and data center infrastructure. The announcements coincided with CEO Jensen Huang's visit to Japan, where the company showcased its latest physical AI technologies and deepened collaborations with several of the country's leading industrial groups.
OnePlus, an Android brand that once cultivated a devoted following among enthusiasts, is reportedly preparing to cease operations in the US and Europe as early as this week, a withdrawal that reads less like an isolated stumble than a symptom of a smartphone market where soaring component costs are pricing value-focused vendors out.
Nvidia co-founder and chief executive Jensen Huang used a developer event in Tokyo on July 15 to reject reports that manufacturing problems could delay its next-generation AI accelerator systems, telling reporters the claims were "not true" and that "Vera Rubin is already in production. Giant amounts of production incoming."
As the world enters an AI-centric era, the global race for technological leadership is no longer defined only by who can build the most advanced models. It is increasingly shaped by who can secure compute, deploy infrastructure at scale, reduce energy constraints, and turn research into commercial capability.
