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Thursday 1 October 2026
OpenAI claims to thwart model distillation attack tied to Moonshot
OpenAI said it detected and blocked an organized adversarial distillation attack, with some activity linked to Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI. The company said it first spotted the...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Honor joins Taiwan foldable phone race with Magic V6
Honor launched its first foldable smartphone in Taiwan, the Magic V6, on September 30, about six months after formally entering the local smartphone market in April 2026. The company...
Thursday 1 October 2026
China Rare Earth Group moves downstream, linking rare-earth magnets to robot direct-drive systems
China Rare Earth Innovation Technology and Beijing-based Direct Drive Tech signed a strategic cooperation agreement on September 29 to jointly develop high-performance magnetic materials...
Thursday 1 October 2026
China's humanoid robot lead widens, with domestic vendors supplying over 95% of global shipments
China's humanoid robot market continued to expand rapidly in the first half of 2026, with shipments exceeding 19,000 units and accounting for about 77.9% of the global total. Chinese...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Nio, Geely turn battery swapping into shared infrastructure as China's EV rivalry changes course
For years, China's EV makers pursued aggressive energy infrastructure expansion, racing to offer faster charging and denser networks.
Thursday 1 October 2026
GPS-free indoor drones target high-rack inspection as smart warehouses expand
The drone market is expanding beyond military applications as commercial demand gains momentum. Following the rollout of drone logistics services for Taiwan's outlying islands, industry...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Memory shortages deepen as AI demand keeps server prices climbing
The memory market is entering the fourth quarter of 2026 with a widening split between weak consumer demand and intense server buying, underscoring how artificial intelligence workloads...
Thursday 1 October 2026
SG Semiconductor builds brand and talent for Singapore chip industry
Singapore has launched the SG Semiconductor brand to strengthen its semiconductor profile and attract talent, aiming to create a globally recognizable industry identity beyond its...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Apple Pay arrives in India with a limited card rollout
Apple's entry into India's payments market gives its device users a new way to pay by card, but its initial reach will depend on bank and merchant integrations in a country where a...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Lip-Bu Tan calls TSMC a partner rather than a rival
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan stated that Intel's relationship with TSMC is built on partnership rather than rivalry. He noted that a collaborative mindset guides key industry leaders, including...
Thursday 1 October 2026
How a TSMC veteran is steering Singapore's lab-to-fab chip strategy
Yee-Chia Yeo, vice president for innovation and enterprise at A*STAR, returned to Singapore in 2022 and has since turned years of industry experience into a strategy for advancing...
Thursday 1 October 2026
ASIC shipments top GPUs in 2027 as ABF substrate bottlenecks shift
The high-end cloud AI accelerator market will see a structural shift in 2027, with total ASIC shipments surpassing GPU shipments for the first time, driven by rising output from Google,...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Trump-Xi talks leave chip policies unchanged; US guards AI advantage while China pursues self-reliance
Following the summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, market observers broadly agreed that the talks yielded few surprises. The meeting produced...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
'I tell myself every day it'll ease': Phison CEO sees years of memory shortage
Phison Electronics CEO Pua Khein-Seng says he tells himself every day that the memory shortage will ease tomorrow. In reality, he says, AI-driven demand has opened a gap between memory...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
China auto market cools as Taiwan suppliers brace for 2H26 inventory cuts
China's auto market is under pressure from high oil prices and shrinking subsidies, weakening domestic sales even as exports keep growing. Taiwanese supply-chain companies are responding...