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Thursday 16 July 2026
AWS showcases Trainium, Inferentia and Graviton in Taiwan, home to over 90% of advanced chip production

Amazon Web Services opened its 2026 AWS Summit Taipei on July 15, placing AI agents, custom chips and enterprise AI adoption at the center...

Thursday 16 July 2026
Nvidia expands Japan AI partnerships with Kawasaki, Toyota, and industrial leaders

Nvidia unveiled a series of new partnerships in Japan on July 16, 2026, highlighting the growing adoption of AI across manufacturing, robotics,...

Thursday 16 July 2026
Gotion High-Tech expects 1H26 profit to more than triple on market gains and expansion

Gotion High-Tech said its first-half earnings are set to rise sharply, a result that could matter for battery investors and electric-vehicle...

Thursday 16 July 2026
Jensen refutes Vera Rubin's delay, continuing Nvidia's running rebuttal of the rumor mill

Nvidia co-founder and chief executive Jensen Huang used a developer event in Tokyo on July 15 to reject reports that manufacturing...

Thursday 16 July 2026
Apple reportedly explores AI chip acquisitions as it races to strengthen its infrastructure
Apple is exploring acquisitions of semiconductor companies to accelerate development of AI server chips, reflecting mounting pressure to improve the computing infrastructure behind...
Thursday 16 July 2026
Nvidia doubles down on the land of the rising GPU, wiring Blackwell into Japan's science, banks, factories and cars

Nvidia has laid out a sweeping expansion of its Japanese footprint. The company is moving beyond one-off supercomputer wins to embed...

Thursday 16 July 2026
Japan's enterprises and startups adopt Nvidia open models for specialized AI

Japan's companies and research institutions are turning to Nvidia's Nemotron open models to build AI tailored to local language, industry,...

Thursday 16 July 2026
Nvidia's Huang says AI agents are tools, not humanlike beings
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said AI agents should be treated as tools, not as humanlike beings, in a recent conversation with LangChain founder Harrison Chase. He said the latest...
Thursday 16 July 2026
Acer Gadget posts record second-quarter revenue on AI PC and e-commerce demand
Acer Gadget, the Acer Group subsidiary, reported record second-quarter self-reported revenue and said its two core businesses kept shipments moving in June and the first half of 2026...
Thursday 16 July 2026
Foxconn shows Model A and Model B EVs in Japan through CDMS push
Foxconn recently displayed its Model A and Model B electric vehicles in Tokyo, as the Taiwanese manufacturer stepped further into Japan's EV market. The vehicles were shown for the...
Thursday 16 July 2026
Anthropic eyes autumn IPO to beat OpenAI and DeepSeek to public markets
Anthropic PBC is lining up investor meetings ahead of a potential mega-IPO that could value the Claude maker at US$1 trillion or more, a move that would let it beat both OpenAI and...
Thursday 16 July 2026
Taiwan power device makers gain from automotive inventory buildup and order shifting
Semiconductor supply chains remain tight, and Taiwan power device suppliers say the automotive market, after two years of inventory digestion, is now building up extra stock to avoid...
Thursday 16 July 2026
China's top seller of AI compute has emerged without owning the GPUs

Beijing Approach AI Technology Co., or Approaching.AI, raised more than CNY1 billion within six months by selling AI tokens generated...

Thursday 16 July 2026
AI, ICT projects, and 5G upgrades power Taiwan telecom trio's strong June results
Taiwan's three major telecom operators delivered stronger June 2026 results than a year earlier, supported by robust demand for ICT services, continued 5G migration and expanding digital-service...
Thursday 16 July 2026
Column: From K-Semiconductor to AI superpower —How South Korea is taking its next chip leap

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung unveiled the country's Three Mega Projects for AI and Semiconductors in late June 2026, an ambitious...