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Wednesday 26 August 2026
Taiwan listed firms report 1H26 pretax profit surge on AI server demand
Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission said on August 25 that strong global demand for Taiwan-made AI servers and high-performance computing lifted corporate earnings in the first...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
Nvidia unveils Jetson Orin Nano 2 for edge AI robots and drones
Nvidia has introduced Jetson Orin Nano 2, a compact robotics computer aimed at entry-level edge AI, with implications for developers building autonomous machines worldwide. The system...
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...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
Taiwan maps four AI-led strategies to expand its biotech sector
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs outlined four strategies to scale up the island's biotech industry at a strategy meeting under the Executive Yuan on August 24. The plan centered...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
Samsung, Intel widen AI chip battle into memory, packaging
Samsung Electronics and Intel are pushing into each other's core businesses as AI semiconductor competition shifts from individual chips to full-system integration. South Korean reports...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
Waymo's 320 million-km milestone exposes the next robotaxi challenge: scaling the silicon
As robotaxi services expand beyond individual cities into wider regions, the growing appeal of AI-assisted driving and the technological vision that AV developers are eager to realize...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
China's EV giants redraw their boundaries as physical AI becomes its own business
The surprising convergence at the intersection of two fundamental applications of embodied AI — EVs and robotics — has given rise to an intensifying trend across both sectors...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Tesla senior chip engineer joins DensityAI as in-house plans face more strain
Tesla's senior director of AI hardware design, Shishuang Sun, joined DensityAI in July 2026, taking charge of packaging and system hardware development. The move came as Tesla continued...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Taiwan's manufacturers and govt align on economic security push amid heightened trade risk
The Chinese National Federation of Industries (CNFI), an industrial association representing the majority of manufacturing businesses in Taiwan, has released its 2026 white paper,...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Anthropic bets on in-house chips, reshaping ASIC orders
Anthropic confirmed on August 5 that it is building an internal silicon team to design custom chips for its Claude models, signaling a sharper push into self-developed AI hardware...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
From podium to production line: China's robots ace the sprint, but stumble on the real test
The 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games put China's rapid advances in robotics on full display — but beyond the record-breaking sprints and human-robot sports demonstrations, the...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
GATE 2026 to spotlight Southeast Asia's pivot to EV supply chains
GATE 2026 is set to bring together automakers, suppliers, and technology firms in Kuala Lumpur as Southeast Asia deepens its focus on electric vehicles, smart manufacturing, and industrial...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Taiwan AI server supply chain expands China footprint
Taiwan's AI server supply chain is stepping up investment in China, but expansion is concentrated in components rather than full-system assembly. By contrast, Taiwan's notebook PC...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
AI boom drives Foxconn past 40% of Taiwan-listed firms' China returns, with FII leading the way
Global demand for AI and high-performance computing (HPC) has lifted investment returns for Taiwan-listed companies in China, with Foxconn continuing to lead the pack. According to...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Intel pitches Diamond Rapids at Hot Chips as server CPU competition heats up
Intel pitched its next-generation Diamond Rapids Xeon at Hot Chips 2026 as the company bets that agentic AI will increase the role of general-purpose processors in AI infrastructure,...