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Thursday 18 June 2026
AI chip boom strains probe card supply, Taiwan test interface maker weighs prepayment deals
MPI Corporation, a major probe card supplier, said AI demand is tightening supply across the probe card market and extending order visibility, with the company considering a prepayment...
Thursday 18 June 2026
Unitree IPO tests China's bet on low-cost humanoid robots

Unitree Robotics is heading toward a Shanghai listing with a pitch drawing attention well beyond China: humanoid robots can be built...

Thursday 18 June 2026
SpaceX acquires Cursor to bolster xAI and court AI developers

SpaceX has agreed to acquire AI coding tool developer Cursor for US$60 billion, in a deal that underscores how competition in the AI...

Thursday 18 June 2026
G7 AI talks reveal trust gap behind US model power
The world's most powerful AI companies entered the G7 summit in France this week with a message for democratic governments: frontier AI needs global rules, but those rules are increasingly...
Thursday 18 June 2026
Acer founder outlines New WangDao leadership white paper at Tokyo AI forum

The founder of Acer Group traveled to Tokyo to present a Taiwan-origin leadership framework and release a multilingual white paper on...

Thursday 18 June 2026
Samsung said to open fab data to suppliers in AI factory push

Samsung Electronics is developing and operating a data-sharing platform with semiconductor materials, components and equipment suppliers,...

Thursday 18 June 2026
Meta puts brakes on AI use as token costs hit tech giants
Meta's internal AI costs have spiraled, and a broader pullback in spending by major tech companies is bringing a long-ignored contradiction into focus: the business logic of AI is...
Thursday 18 June 2026
Taiwan 2026 GDP could top 10%, says Minister of Economic Affairs
Taiwan's 2026 GDP growth is on track to exceed 10% as AI demand powers the island's economy, Minister of Economic Affairs Ming-hsin Kung said, adding that this level of growth may...
Thursday 18 June 2026
SK Hynix scraps degree rules to court AI chip talent

SK Hynix has eliminated degree requirements from its regular recruitment process for new employees, as the memory chip giant seeks...

Thursday 18 June 2026
WUS and its subsidiary keep complementary AI partnership
A recent open letter from the UK-based fund Palliser Capital called Taiwanese printed circuit board (PCB) maker WUS Printed Circuit one of the most undervalued AI PCB companies in...
Thursday 18 June 2026
Research Insight: Fukuta deepens EV moat with hub motors and thin silicon steel

As the global electric vehicle (EV) market enters a correction phase, automakers are demanding more from both cost and efficiency....

Thursday 18 June 2026
UC San Diego researchers turn retired Pixel phones into low-cost computing cluster

Backed by Google, researchers at the University of California, San Diego, are repurposing retired Pixel phones into a computing cluster...

Wednesday 17 June 2026
Commentary: US delays DeepSeek blacklist, exposing AI export-control dilemma
The US has held back from adding Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, memory chipmaker CXMT, and more than 100 other entities to a key trade blacklist, underscoring Washington's struggle to...
Wednesday 17 June 2026
US AI export crackdown on Anthropic sparks global push for sovereign AI
A letter dated June 12 from US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei marked the most aggressive federal regulatory intervention targeting a leading generative...
Wednesday 17 June 2026
Snap unveils Specs AR glasses as AI wearables market expands

Snap unveiled its new Specs augmented reality (AR) glasses at the Augmented World Expo on June 16. Its offering comes at a time when...