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Thursday 28 May 2026
China's LLM price war puts DeepSeek, Xiaomi on a collision course with OpenAI
China's large language model (LLM) market is coming under mounting pricing pressure, as domestic AI model developers cut fees closer to cost, while the gap with international model...
Thursday 28 May 2026
UMC readies price hikes, kicks off 2027 customer talks
UMC held its shareholders' meeting on May 27, with CEO Jason Wang saying that as AI applications expand rapidly, long-term semiconductor demand still has room for growth. In addition...
Wednesday 27 May 2026
Facing Chinese rivals, Hyundai accelerates robotaxi plans and cost cuts
As Chinese automakers intensify a global price war, South Korea's Hyundai Motor Group is responding on two fronts at once: accelerating its push into autonomous mobility while pressing...
Wednesday 27 May 2026
Xiaomi saw nearly 60% profit drop amid memory cost 'super cycle'
On May 26, Xiaomi Corporation reported first-quarter 2026 revenue of CNY99.1 billion (approx. US$14.6 billion) as it confronts a "super cycle" of rising memory costs. Management characterized...
Monday 25 May 2026
Nvidia's reporting pivot and AMD's US$10B Taiwan bet signal a new frontier in AI chip war
Nvidia's structural pivot to isolate its ACIE market and AMD's US$10 billion investment in Taiwan infrastructure signal a profound realignment in the AI chip war. Both developments...
Monday 25 May 2026
Anthropic-Microsoft deal could broaden ASIC demand across cloud supply chains
Anthropic has reportedly approached Microsoft about renting AI computing power running on Microsoft's in-house chips to expand support for its Claude model business. The move is a...
Monday 25 May 2026
Global PMX shifts into AI server cooling as demand for AI compute soars
Global PMX reported full-year consolidated revenue of NT$7.823 billion (US$249.3 million) for 2025, up 1.71% year-over-year, and after cost and product-mix improvements posted net...
Monday 25 May 2026
DeepSeek makes 75% API discount permanent, intensifying global AI price war

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has permanently reduced the API pricing of its flagship DeepSeek-V4-Pro model to one-quarter of its original...

Sunday 24 May 2026
China smartphone sales plunge 16% around May Day holidays as memory price hikes squeeze demand
China's smartphone sales fell 16% year‑over‑year during the two weeks surrounding the 2026 May Day holiday, a drop that signals wider implications for global supply chains...
Saturday 23 May 2026
Interview: XCaliber challenges million-dollar missile defenses with cheap drone interceptors
The Ukraine War and ongoing tensions in the Middle East have exposed a technological revolution reshaping modern warfare: the rise of cheap drones. These developments, along with AI-powered...
Friday 22 May 2026
Emerging Display Technologies pivots to UMI, targets 2026 growth
Emerging Display Technologies is repositioning around integrated user-machine interface solutions, with plans to expand outside China and ramp up R&D investment as it navigates...
Thursday 21 May 2026
Anthropic surpasses OpenAI in enterprise adoption amid rising compute and cost pressures
Anthropic overtook OpenAI in enterprise AI adoption in April 2026, according to spending data from Ramp, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and VentureBeat,...
Wednesday 20 May 2026
ASML to deliver first High-NA chips within months despite cost concerns
ASML expects its first advanced semiconductors made using next-generation High-Numerical Aperture (High-NA) extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography equipment to ship within months.
Wednesday 20 May 2026
Taiwan suppliers look past Tesla as China's robot makers scale up

Tesla remains a bellwether for humanoid robots, but its delayed production timeline is prompting Taiwanese suppliers to reassess where...

Wednesday 20 May 2026
Google I/O 2026: AI market competition and enterprise pricing strategy
Google's Gemini 3.5 model announcements mark a strategic shift toward enterprise cost competitiveness, directly challenging OpenAI and Anthropic's positioning in the frontier AI se...