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Thursday 13 August 2026

Sodium batteries get 28-month tax window in China

Chinese authorities have announced that sodium-ion batteries will be exempt from consumption tax from September 2026 through the end...

Thursday 13 August 2026

Taiwan manufacturers call for faster nuclear restart to keep pace with AI, chip growth

The Chinese National Federation of Industries (CNFI), a major industrial and manufacturing association in Taiwan, called for the government...

Thursday 13 August 2026

OCP APAC 2026: Intel sees agentic AI shifting bottlenecks toward CPUs, memory

Intel sees agentic AI changing the balance of AI servers, as CPU orchestration, memory capacity and data movement emerge as performance constraints even when more GPU capacity is a...

Thursday 13 August 2026

Exclusive: US makers accelerate sodium battery plans as shared lithium-ion lines draw investment

US battery makers are moving more quickly into sodium-ion technology to gain production flexibility, fresh capital, and reduced exposure to lithium supply shocks. Industry sources...

Thursday 13 August 2026

Can diamond rewrite the rules of AI chip cooling? Wiwynn is putting it to the test

As AI processors become more powerful, one of the industry's most stubborn constraints is becoming increasingly physical: there is only so much heat conventional materials can move...

Thursday 13 August 2026

Naver backs Anthropic in broader AI push

Naver has reportedly invested in US artificial intelligence developer Anthropic, adding another global AI company to a widening network...

Thursday 13 August 2026

India's L&T transfers data center and cloud business to Vyoma.AI for INR14 billion

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has agreed to transfer its data center and cloud services business to Vyoma.AI, a wholly owned subsidiary, for INR14 billion (approx. US$146.7 million)...

Thursday 13 August 2026

From lab bench to IPO: How Taiwan's top university aims to turn professors into founders, campus into a unicorn factory

National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), one of Taiwan's leading research universities, has spent more than a decade cultivating a campus...

Thursday 13 August 2026

AgiBot overtakes Unitree as China expands its lead in humanoid robots

Global humanoid robot shipments nearly quadrupled in the first half of 2026, with Chinese suppliers accounting for more than 97% of the market and AgiBot moving ahead of Unitree Robotics,...

Thursday 13 August 2026

Taoyuan plans AI manufacturing park in Guanyin to support server supply chain

Taoyuan is moving to develop Guanyin into an AI computing park as demand for AI servers drives heavier power requirements and a new round of factory expansion. The city said it had...

Thursday 13 August 2026

Anli-KY lifts July revenue on AI server and drone product shipments

Anli International reported its first-half results on August 11 after announcing the previous day that increased shipments of AI server and drone-related products had pushed July consolidated...

Wednesday 12 August 2026

Column: AI jailbreak incident highlights fresh demand for supply-chain resilience

In July, an OpenAI AI agent model successfully bypassed safety restrictions during internal testing and even launched an automated cyberattack against Hugging Face, the world's largest...

Wednesday 12 August 2026

OCP APAC 2026: Google says 48V hits wall as AI racks head toward megawatt scale

Google used its keynote at the OCP APAC Summit in Taipei on August 11 to argue that the 48V power architecture widely used in data centers is running out of headroom as AI racks move...

Wednesday 12 August 2026

Manus breaks from Meta, returns to independence after China blocks US$2B AI deal

Chinese AI agent startup Manus is returning to independent operations, marking a concrete break from Meta months after Chinese regulators...

Wednesday 12 August 2026

Aleees wins Tesla supply deal as new LFP plant eyes Tainan

Taiwanese lithium battery materials maker Aleees said it secured a 20-year supply contract with Tesla Inc. and plans to deliver at least...

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