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Friday 28 August 2026
Taiwan's next biotech prescription: AI drug discovery, smart devices and 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
China's industrial reboot: AI, chips, robotics and 6G define next five years
China is setting out a five-year industrial strategy centred on artificial intelligence (AI), semiconductors, 6G, robotics and advanced manufacturing, seeking to strengthen the country's...
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,...
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
Doosan thins memory-package CCL insulation to 13µm
Doosan Corporation's Electro-Materials BG has developed copper-clad laminate (CCL) technology that reduces the prepreg (PPG) insulating layer used in memory semiconductor package substrates...
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
Taiwan plans higher power growth to meet AI demand, officials say
Taiwan's government said it will raise electricity supply capacity as it responds to rising demand from AI and industry. The comments came on August 26 at the opening of the 2026 New...
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
Tesla doubles down on custom AI chips as Musk claims AI5 can beat NVIDIA on efficiency and cost
Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently said the company's upcoming AI5 inference chip could deliver two to three times the performance per watt of Nvidia products when deployed in autonomous...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Beijing's AI4Chip plan puts AI to work on EDA, fabs, advanced packaging
Beijing is extending artificial intelligence deeper into semiconductor production, targeting chip design, wafer fabrication, packaging, testing, equipment, and materials under what...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
Malaysia mobility sector embraces Chinese firms as investment catalyst

Malaysia's mobility industry is welcoming a larger role for Chinese automakers, with investment, technology exchange and supplier development emerging as key themes at...

Wednesday 26 August 2026
China fusion consortium targets 25T superconducting magnet prototype by 2030
China's nuclear fusion supply chain is stepping up work on high-temperature superconducting magnet technology. At the 2026 Fusion Energy Conference on August 25, China Fusion Energy...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
Taiwan Photon Source boosts domestic accelerator supply chain, challenges cutting-edge technology limits
The Taiwan-based National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC), supported by top scientists including Nobel chemistry laureate Yuan-tseh Lee, held a celebration event on August...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
BOE, 3M expand materials partnership as foldable OLED competition intensifies
BOE Technology Group and 3M have opened a joint research laboratory in Beijing that covers optical films, optically clear adhesives, structural adhesives and advanced materials development...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
OpenAI says Jalapeño cuts latency up to 3.6x, targeting the bottleneck that slows agents
OpenAI said its first custom inference chip, Jalapeño, delivered faster responses and better power efficiency than competing systems in tests across several large language models...