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Saturday 2 May 2026

NSTC forms task force to lead Taiwan's multimodal AI foundation model development

Amid the flourishing commercial generative AI landscape dominated by large-parameter language models, Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) has reversed earlier doubts...

Saturday 2 May 2026

Lite-On profit rises on surge in AI-driven cloud demand

Lite-On Technology reported first-quarter revenue of NT$43.4 billion (approx. US$1.35 billion), up 19% from a year earlier, as surging...

Saturday 2 May 2026

Foxconn Industrial Internet posts 102% net profit growth in 1Q26 on AI GPU, ASIC demand

Benefiting from the continued expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) computing power demand, Foxconn Industrial Internet (FII), a subsidiary of Hon Hai Precision Industry (Foxconn),...

Saturday 2 May 2026

Onsemi expands collaboration with NIO to support 900V EV platforms

Onsemi's expanded collaboration with NIO to support the automaker's move to 900V electric vehicle platforms could accelerate global EV adoption by improving range, charging speed,...

Saturday 2 May 2026

MediaTek lifts 2026 ASIC target to $2 billion despite smartphone market deterioration

MediaTek held its earnings call on April 30, expressing a cautious outlook for the 2026 smartphone market. Despite this, growth in other applications is expected to effectively offset...

Friday 1 May 2026

Samsung Electro-Mechanics weighs MLCC price hike of 5–10% as supply tightens

Samsung Electro-Mechanics is considering raising prices for multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) by about 5% to 10% as demand from artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure tightens...

Friday 1 May 2026

Column: Designing safety for VLA robots in commercial deployment

The deployment density of service and mobile robots in commercial environments has surged over the past three years. What began as narrowly defined automation—inspection units...

Friday 1 May 2026

Hardware bottlenecks emerge as humanoid robotics race intensifies

Competition in humanoid robotics has intensified in recent years, with advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning often cited as the main drivers of progress. However,...

Friday 1 May 2026

Commentary: Honor's robot win highlights thermal edge in robotics

The Beijing Humanoid Robot Half Marathon has concluded, but its outcome has ignited a wider industry debate. Rather than a leading robotics specialist, smartphone maker Honor emerged...

Thursday 30 April 2026

AGI, Inc. advances on-device agentic AI strategy as it targets cross-platform automation

AGI, Inc., also known as The AGI Company, is a San Francisco–based applied AI startup developing what it describes as "on-device superintelligence" for smartphones, computers...

Thursday 30 April 2026

Google's split TPU chips signal shift from universal to specialized AI accelerators

Google has unveiled its eighth-generation Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) by splitting them into two distinct chips: the training-focused TPU 8t and the inference-optimized TPU 8i....

Thursday 30 April 2026

Korea's 'father of HBM' sees 1,000x AI memory surge as Google's TurboQuant faces real-world tests

Alphabet's Google has unveiled its KV cache quantization compression technology, TurboQuant, promising dramatic reductions in memory usage for AI inference. While the innovation has...

Thursday 30 April 2026

MetaX GPU revenue jumps 75%, losses narrow on AI demand

China-based GPU developer MetaX reported a solid start to 2026, underscoring how domestic high-performance GPUs are beginning to translate technical progress into tangible commercial...

Thursday 30 April 2026

Meta's 1Q26 earnings redraw the AI hardware map

Meta Platforms' first-quarter 2026 earnings delivered one of the most consequential procurement signals in recent memory for Asia's technology supply chain.

Thursday 30 April 2026

Microsoft's capex plans draw scrutiny as Azure demand outstrips capacity

Microsoft executives defended the company's rising capital spending after reporting stronger-than-expected fiscal third-quarter results,...

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