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Tuesday 21 July 2026

Samsung consolidates robot teams and weighs standalone HX division

Samsung Electronics has started a broad reorganization of its robot operations, bringing scattered teams under one structure as humanoid robot competition shifts toward artificial...

Tuesday 21 July 2026

China's AI supernode race seeks systems edge through optics, packaging, and cloud scale

China's AI hardware race is shifting from individual accelerators to supernodes, optical interconnects, advanced packaging and cloud-scale...

Tuesday 21 July 2026

China's solar slump deepens, raising warning signs for energy storage and electric vehicles

China's solar industry is still trapped in a painful shakeout after three straight years of losses across much of the supply chain, according to first-half reports from leading companies...

Tuesday 21 July 2026

Microsoft expands Azure partnership with AMD ahead of Helios AI system launch

Microsoft has expanded its strategic partnership with AMD, announcing plans to deploy the company's upcoming Helios rack-scale AI system...

Tuesday 21 July 2026

TaiSol expects server revenue to top 50% in 2H26, liquid cooling to exceed 25% for full year

As power consumption of artificial intelligence (AI) servers continues to rise, liquid cooling is rapidly evolving from an auxiliary solution into a standard feature at the rack and...

Tuesday 21 July 2026

Microsoft promotes AI sovereignty through local data, while Stanford warns on US jurisdiction

Microsoft has been positioning AI sovereignty as a way to prioritize local languages, culture and values in AI systems rather than build isolated national alternatives, according to...

Tuesday 21 July 2026

LGES accelerates sodium-ion battery plans while CATL secures early ESS lead

LG Energy Solution plans to establish a sodium-ion battery mother line at its Ochang Energy Plant in South Korea in 2026, seeking to narrow CATL's early commercial lead in energy storage...

Tuesday 21 July 2026

Elite Material, TUC race ahead in AI CCL push

As AI server products accelerate their generational shift and demand higher-frequency, higher-speed transmission, the upgrade cycle...

Tuesday 21 July 2026

Advanced Echem Materials to invest NT$4.52 billion in Longtan plant

Advanced Echem Materials (AEMC), a semiconductor specialty chemicals materials maker, plans to invest roughly NT$4.52 billion (approx. US$139.66 million) in Taiwan's Longtan Science...

Tuesday 21 July 2026

Hyundai labor unrest ripples through Kia, GM Korea supply chains

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Tuesday 21 July 2026

Alibaba and Huawei muscle into Singapore's AI market: SEA-LION swaps Llama for Qwen

Singapore is Southeast Asia's AI frontrunner. It has also become a proving ground for competing Eastern and Western AI business models...

Tuesday 21 July 2026

VSMC warns AI-ready MES is becoming essential for wafer fabs, with China accelerating adoption

TSMC's sustained capital spending highlights the two foundations of its competitive strength: technology leadership and manufacturing excellence...

Monday 20 July 2026

China's AI smartphone race pits ZTE, StepFun, and Honor against limits of agentic computing

China's smartphone industry is turning agentic AI into its next growth narrative, with ZTE's Nubia, StepFun and Honor presenting sharply...

Monday 20 July 2026

Alibaba open-sources AI chip software, launches Zhenwu cloud supernode service

Alibaba Group's chip design unit, T-Head, has open-sourced the software stack behind its Zhenwu AI processors while extending the platform from individual accelerators into rack-scale...

Monday 20 July 2026

Oracle's New Mexico data center reportedly hits cost overruns

Oracle's US$165 billion data center project in New Mexico is running into higher-than-expected costs due to local concerns about its...

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