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Sunday 12 July 2026

Porsche warns China luxury car demand remains weak, product gap may extend to 2028

German luxury carmaker Porsche reported global deliveries of 122,300 vehicles in the first half of 2026, down 16% from a year earlier, with sales in the China market remaining weak...

Sunday 12 July 2026

South Korean startup CSO eyes global Earth observation market as optical payload heads for orbit

South Korean space optics startup CSO is preparing to launch its high-resolution optical payload aboard DaejeonSat, a domestically developed CubeSat scheduled to lift off on South...

Saturday 11 July 2026

Taiwan connector maker Bellwether turns high-current design into patent licensing moat

Bellwether Electronic has evolved from a connector and wire harness manufacturer into a technology developer shaping industry standards...

Saturday 11 July 2026

Samsung, SK Hynix margins seen near Micron's 80% level as memory prices surge

Global memory chipmakers are heading toward record revenue and profit in the second quarter of 2026, as AI infrastructure demand keeps...

Saturday 11 July 2026

Cisco says agentic AI will triple enterprise network traffic within three years

Agentic AI is putting new pressure on enterprise networks and cybersecurity infrastructure as companies accelerate internal deployment,...

Saturday 11 July 2026

Samsung's CXL 3.1 memory delay lays bare Intel, AMD server platform lag

Samsung Electronics has postponed mass production of its CXL 3.1 memory modules after delays to next-generation server processors from...

Saturday 11 July 2026

QuantumDiamonds sets up Asia HQ in Taiwan, installs first regional system at iST

Backed by support from the European Chips Act, German quantum startup QuantumDiamonds has completed a financing round totaling EUR91 million (approx. US$104.1 million), a move expected...

Saturday 11 July 2026

China's display makers raise billions to close the OLED gap — and South Korea is watching

Chinese display panel and materials companies are tapping capital markets to fund next-generation OLED, oxide and Mini LED technologies, drawing close attention from South Korea's...

Saturday 11 July 2026

Mobilint touts NPU for physical AI, with CEO urging South Korea to accelerate development

South Korean AI semiconductor startup Mobilint is gaining traction in physical AI with its neural processing units (NPU) for edge devices, as the AI boom spreads from cloud computing...

Friday 10 July 2026

SK Hynix breaks Alibaba's US listing record — but HBM customers will wait until 2028 for the capacity it funds

SK Hynix has priced a US$26.5 billion Nasdaq offering, giving the world's leading supplier of high-bandwidth memory fresh capital to expand DRAM wafer production, advanced packaging...

Friday 10 July 2026

Samsung plans new PC chip in push beyond smartphones

Samsung Electronics is developing a new chip for personal computers (PCs) as its System LSI business seeks growth beyond smartphone processors, according to ET News and the...

Friday 10 July 2026

SK AI Summit postponed as SK eyes closer alignment with Nvidia GTC

SK Group, which hosts the annual SK AI Summit as its flagship technology event to showcase its latest AI and semiconductor developments, is reportedly postponing the 2026 edition....

Friday 10 July 2026

Taiwan firms race ahead on AI agents, raising governance stakes

Taiwanese companies are adopting AI agents faster than expected, according to a new IDC survey that found 57% have already deployed them, well above the 36% Asia-Pacific average. For...

Friday 10 July 2026

Google Cloud says Taiwan's AI shift to production could shape global enterprise use

Taiwan's move from AI trials to production systems signals a broader shift that could affect how companies worldwide adopt automation, data governance, and digital security. As more...

Friday 10 July 2026

Analysis: Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron's diverging approach to HBM4 base dies

Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix and Micron Technology are taking different manufacturing paths for the logic base die in HBM4, opening...

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