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Wednesday 29 April 2026

CATL and HyperStrong sign record sodium-ion battery deal as storage market scales up

On April 27, CATL and HyperStrong signed a strategic cooperation agreement for sodium-ion batteries, marking what multiple reports described as a major step toward large-scale commercialization...

Wednesday 29 April 2026

PCB industry urges four policy moves in Thailand expansion

Amid global supply chain restructuring, Asia's PCB industry is moving toward closer regional collaboration. Industry experts say that as southbound expansion in the PCB sector takes...

Tuesday 28 April 2026

Nvidia signs record Bengaluru office lease as India AI push accelerates

Nvidia has signed a 10-year lease for approximately 760,000 square feet of office space in Bengaluru, marking the largest single-tenant office commitment in India to date. The space,...

Tuesday 28 April 2026

Taiwan's 2026 exports set to top US$800 billion as AI fuels electronics surge

Taiwan's exports were forecast to surpass US$800 billion in 2026, driven by strong demand for electronic components and information and audiovisual products tied to artificial intelligence,...

Tuesday 28 April 2026

Commentary: Honor retools for humanoid robotics, rewrites AI device playbook

Honor's surprise win at this year's Beijing humanoid robot half-marathon has stirred industry debate, not only for its on-track performance...

Tuesday 28 April 2026

DeepSeek lifts capital by 50%, founder secures veto stake ahead of funding round

After upgrading its DeepSeek-V4 model, Hangzhou-based AI firm DeepSeek revealed a major ownership shift. Filings on the Chinese registry platform Qichacha show registered capital rising...

Tuesday 28 April 2026

Microsoft's cloud strategy tightens AI compute supply

Across the AI sector, start-ups are struggling to secure the graphics processing units (GPUs) needed to train and run their models. Supplies of Nvidia chips are increasingly being...

Tuesday 28 April 2026

Indian startup targets AI inference opportunity with full-stack compute platform

While global AI infrastructure investment remains concentrated around massive GPU clusters for training frontier models, Indian startup Turiyam.ai is betting on a different commercial...

Tuesday 28 April 2026

Agentic AI sparks CPU demand surge, boosting ASIC and niche chip makers

The rise of agentic AI has transformed computing chip requirements, igniting a fierce CPU supply scramble. Traditional x86 giants like Intel and AMD are seeing growing CPU demand in...

Tuesday 28 April 2026

Chinese automakers use supply chain shifts to bypass US trade barriers

Faced with escalating trade barriers from the US, Chinese automakers are adopting a "buffer route" strategy by using Canada and Mexico as transit points to enter the US market, while...

Tuesday 28 April 2026

US and China auto markets face diverging pressures

The world's two largest auto markets, the US and China, now resemble opposite ends of a scale, each confronting a distinct set of structural...

Tuesday 28 April 2026

Nvidia says GPU allocation follows first-come, first-served principle, not highest bidder

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang clarified in an April 2026 interview with Silicon Valley podcast host Dwarkesh Patel that the company allocates GPUs based on a first-come, first-served principle...

Tuesday 28 April 2026

Intel prioritizes Xeon; CPU shortage opens door for AMD and MediaTek

Generative AI has driven a surge in GPU demand and accelerated a structural reshaping of the semiconductor industry. At the same time, CPUs are re-emerging after years of being sidelined,...

Tuesday 28 April 2026

Chinese EVs undercut global rivals by half, siren alarm in South Korea and beyond

China's auto industry is expanding at a striking pace, powered by electric vehicles and a surge in exports that is reshaping the global market order. Analysts in South Korea warn that...

Tuesday 28 April 2026

OpenAI eyes agentic AI phone but faces challenges beyond chip design

OpenAI's agentic AI phone could reshape mobile markets and supply chains by forcing incumbents to respond. Still, success depends on delivering both interface breakthroughs and competitive...

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