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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...

Monday 20 July 2026

Samsung to cut over 800 US jobs amid market headwinds

Samsung Electronics is cutting over 800 jobs in the US from its smartphone, display, and consumer electronics business units. The division,...

Monday 20 July 2026

Musk brands US$52 billion SpaceX-Foxconn Nvidia server order 'fake news'

Elon Musk has publicly rejected reports that SpaceX placed a roughly US$52 billion order with Foxconn for Nvidia GB300 AI servers, calling the widely circulated claim "fake news" in...

Monday 20 July 2026

US and Chinese AI labs are quietly building on each other's models, even as distillation fight rages

The distillation dispute between US and Chinese AI labs has been framed as a one-way street: American firms accuse Chinese rivals of copying their models. However, a run of recent...

Monday 20 July 2026

Smart glasses race enters new phase as AI ecosystems eclipse hardware specs

The global smart glasses market is entering a decisive new stage in the second half of 2026, with competition expanding well beyond Meta's early dominance. Industry attention is rapidly...

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