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Thursday 13 August 2026
Column: Forecasting the planet, one foundation model at a time

Typhoons and extreme heat have dominated headlines since the summer of 2026, while heavy rain and drought have alternated with increasing...

Thursday 13 August 2026
AI inference surge lifts NAND market to record revenue: Counterpoint
The global NAND market tightened sharply in the second quarter of 2026 as AI workloads shifted from training to inference, driving demand for enterprise SSDs and squeezing consumer...
Thursday 13 August 2026
Seetel tops NT$8.2B in first seven months amid US and Australia expansion

Seetel reported strong momentum in 2026 as large-scale energy storage projects and battery module shipments lifted revenue, while the...

Thursday 13 August 2026
ITTS reports first-half growth as ERP and AI projects gain traction
Information Technology Total Services (ITTS) said its business recovered in the first half of 2026 as enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation work advanced and data governance...
Thursday 13 August 2026
PC 2H26 pull-forward correction hits peripheral chip makers
As 2026 enters its second half, the PC market is facing pressure from both demand and supply. Rising memory and CPU prices are pushing up system prices and weighing on end-market demand,...
Thursday 13 August 2026
OCP APAC 2026: Ayar Labs CEO says copper is holding back open compute, sees optical interconnects as way forward
Speaking at the OCP APAC Summit 2026, Ayar Labs CEO Mark Wade argued that copper interconnects have become one of the biggest obstacles to realizing the vision of open computing.
Thursday 13 August 2026
Univacco reports record 2Q profit and revenue as 3Q demand builds

Univacco Technology posted record second-quarter and first-half 2026 revenue and profit, driven by its expanding global distribution...

Thursday 13 August 2026
Lightmatter white paper targets fragmented supply chain, barriers to photonic interconnect deployment
Bijan Nowroozi, Head of Ecosystem Development at Lightmatter, announced at the OCP APAC Summit 2026 that the company has released an infrastructure white paper aimed at building a...
Thursday 13 August 2026
Siemens EDA unveils AI-Native Design strategy in South Korea
Siemens EDA has introduced an AI-Native Design strategy in Seoul, aiming to help chipmakers and system designers manage rising complexity while reducing the risk of AI errors. The...
Thursday 13 August 2026
Commentary: Shut out of Nvidia and AMD, Compal charts a different path to AI servers

Compal chairman Ray Chen said the company was still a newcomer to AI servers two years ago but has now moved into the middle tier and...

Thursday 13 August 2026
Nvidia seeks to ease credit risk concerns over US$500B AI financing plan

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has sought to reassure investors over the chipmaker's exposure to a newly announced initiative designed to...

Thursday 13 August 2026
Sodium batteries get 28-month tax window in China

Chinese authorities have announced that sodium-ion batteries will be exempt from consumption tax from September 2026 through the end...

Thursday 13 August 2026
Samsung to expand 2026 TV LCD buys from BOE as TCL orders drop

Samsung Electronics is set to increase its TV LCD panel purchases in 2026, even as global shipments of TV LCDs are forecast to decline...

Thursday 13 August 2026
TSMC-Sony image sensor venture pushes Japan chip investment to JPY6 trillion

TSMC said on August 11 that it will invest in CMOS image sensor development and mass production with Sony Group in Kumamoto Prefecture,...

Thursday 13 August 2026
Can diamond rewrite the rules of AI chip cooling? Wiwynn is putting it to the test
As AI processors become more powerful, one of the industry's most stubborn constraints is becoming increasingly physical: there is only so much heat conventional materials can move...