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Friday 28 August 2026
Exemption that shields US$143 billion of US server imports is now on the table
For all the noise Donald Trump has made about taxing semiconductors, the measure that actually took effect in January 2026 barely touched the machines the AI build-out runs on. A 25%...
Friday 28 August 2026
Long-term contracts tie up InP capacity due to data center optics demand
Compound semiconductor supply-chain players say China has recently eased some substrate export controls, but the upgrade of high-frequency transmission in AI data centers toward 200G...
Friday 28 August 2026
Workday says Taiwan, Hong Kong firms lag in AI workflow integration
Enterprise AI tools are spreading quickly across Taiwan and Hong Kong, but a new Workday study found that many employees are still losing time to disconnected systems, repeated data...
Friday 28 August 2026
Taiwan's next biotech prescription: AI drug discovery, smart devices, biomedical chips
Taiwan is charting a new direction for its biomedical industry, drawing on its strengths in semiconductors, AI hardware, precision manufacturing and healthcare. AI-powered drug discovery,...
Friday 28 August 2026
Wah Lee targets 2Q27 ODM phase as robotics push moves beyond components
Wah Lee Industrial is targeting the second quarter of 2027 to move its Physical AI push into an ODM development phase, signaling an effort to capture more value beyond supplying materials,...
Friday 28 August 2026
HITCON expands Taiwan's cybersecurity focus from agentic AI to post-quantum cryptography
With the recent surge of generative AI in enterprise and consumer applications, AI has begun taking on new roles, moving from simply answering questions to autonomously planning tasks...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Trump declares emergency over foreign grid equipment, likely eyeing Chinese power hardware
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on August 26 declaring a national emergency over the security of America's electrical grid. It restricts the purchase, import, and...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Ford adopts Apple Maps data for next-gen smart driving
Ford Motor Company has announced that it will be adopting Apple's MapKit for Automotive software development kit (SDK) for its own universal EV platform, and feed Apple Maps data to...
Thursday 27 August 2026
SK Hynix questions PIM as thermal, packaging limits constrain HBM
South Korean memory rivals Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are taking fundamentally different routes to solve HBM performance bottlenecks. While Samsung frames processing-in-memory...
Thursday 27 August 2026
China's AI software strategy gains scale as OpenHarmony ecosystem tops 1.35 billion devices
China is placing artificial intelligence, industrial software and open-source ecosystems at the centre of its next phase of manufacturing digitalisation, seeking to strengthen domestic...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Tesla goes local in China, swapping Grok for ByteDance's Doubao LLM in smart cockpits
Tesla once tried to license its electrification and automated driving technologies to mainstream automakers through tech-transfer agreements, but none of those deals materialized....
Thursday 27 August 2026
Yttek's ground equipment supports FORMOSAT-8 first satellite
Taiwan aerospace communications equipment maker Yttek said its HyperSDR satellite ground-station modem, developed at the request of the Taiwan Space Agency (TASA), successfully received...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Indian states begins to tighten screws on data centers even as the build-out accelerates
India's data center story has split in two. The pipeline forecasts keep getting bigger, but the money actually landing has thinned sharply since June — and the reason is no longer...
Thursday 27 August 2026
China open-source AI usage hits record high as DeepSeek leads
China's open-weight AI models have surged in usage and have now overtaken proprietary models for the first time. South China Morning Post (SCMP), citing data from US web development...
Thursday 27 August 2026
AWS, Nvidia expand AI partnership with plan for 2 million more GPUs
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Nvidia are expanding their collaboration to add millions of GPUs and new infrastructure for agentic and physical AI. The move signals rising global demand...