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Thursday 21 May 2026

xFusion drives CNY58.2 billion revenue as China backs domestic AI supply chain

Chinese server maker xFusion reached a revenue of CNY58.2 billion (approx. US$8.6 billion) for the year 2025. The figure indicates the company's rising profits as it benefits from China's push for a domestic AI supply chain and the benefits for companies breaking into the country's high-end server market.

Thursday 21 May 2026

Anthropic estimates show US$559 million operating profit on US$10.9 billion quarter

Anthropic has unlocked an era of explosive commercial growth, hitting a milestone with its first-ever profitable quarter. According to The Wall Street Journal, Anthropic expects its revenue to surge by 130% to hit US$10.9 billion for the quarter ending in June, up from the US$4.8 billion in revenue generated during the first quarter of 2026. This trajectory is projected to yield an inaugural quarterly operating profit of approximately US$559 million.

Thursday 21 May 2026

Nvidia's China hopes dim as Beijing doubles down on domestic AI chips

Nvidia's H200 was a major focus after the Trump-Xi meeting, but hopes for sales into China have faded after US President Donald Trump's latest remarks. Trump said Chinese President Xi Jinping is firmly committed to developing domestic AI chips, leaving little room for common ground on the issue.

Thursday 21 May 2026

AMD commits over US$10 billion to Taiwan ecosystem to expand AI packaging and infrastructure capacity

AMD said on May 21 that it plans to invest more than US$10 billion across Taiwan's semiconductor ecosystem to deepen strategic partnerships and expand advanced packaging capacity for next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. The initiative aims to strengthen manufacturing capabilities, accelerate the deployment of AI systems, and support the growing demand for high-performance computing hardware.

Thursday 21 May 2026

How Nvidia plans to sell Vera CPUs: Four deployment models explained

Nvidia has unveiled a strategic expansion of its silicon portfolio, detailing a four-pronged commercial approach for its new Vera central processing unit. The chipmaker expects the processor to generate US$20 billion in standalone revenue, signaling a significant evolution in its hardware distribution strategy and a broader play for infrastructure dominance in the emerging agentic artificial intelligence market.

Thursday 21 May 2026

Nvidia targets long-term ACIE dominance as enterprise AI eclipses hyperscalers

Nvidia has detailed a significant structural shift in its data center revenue reporting, introducing a new market segmentation that separates traditional hyperscale cloud providers from a rapidly expanding sector named ACIE, which stands for artificial intelligence clouds, industrial, and enterprise. While hyperscale platforms currently lead initial deployment, management projects that the ACIE segment will eventually outgrow them, owing to the massive scale of the global corporate economy.

Thursday 21 May 2026

OpenAI moves up IPO timeline to get ahead of Anthropic

OpenAI is preparing to file for an initial public offering (IPO) in the coming weeks, a move that could sharpen its competitive edge in the AI race. While company executives had previously targeted a listing in the fourth quarter of this year or later, the accelerated filing is expected to substantially advance the offering's schedule. According to The Wall Street Journal, the initial paperwork could be submitted to regulators as early as Friday.

Thursday 21 May 2026

Tech Forum 2026: Taiwan suppliers could win a critical role in humanoid robot supply chains as commercialization accelerates

AI-driven humanoid robots are entering a visible phase of commercialization. At the same time, software lags hardware, creating an opening for Taiwan component suppliers to target the joint module market through alliances, according to remarks at a DIGITIMES forum ahead of Computex 2026.

Thursday 21 May 2026

Auras Technology raises 2026 revenue outlook as AI-driven liquid cooling demand grows

Auras Technology said strong AI server demand will sustain growth in thermal management through 2028, driving the company to raise its full-year revenue growth forecast for 2026. Executives disclosed the supplier expects quarterly growth throughout 2026, lifted its revenue-growth target from 50% to 70%, and sees potential for higher gross margins as shipments expand.

Thursday 21 May 2026

OpenAI offers 1-3 year reserved AI capacity with discounts to attract enterprise contracts

OpenAI launched a Guaranteed Capacity program that lets enterprise customers reserve one to three years of AI computing resources in advance, aiming to provide a stable supply for products, AI agents, and workflows while giving both buyers and suppliers time to plan. The program opened with tiered discounts tied to commitment length and will remain available until the current allocation is sold out, with additional rounds planned in the future, a spokesperson announced.

Thursday 21 May 2026

Anthropic surpasses OpenAI in enterprise adoption amid rising compute and cost pressures

Anthropic overtook OpenAI in enterprise AI adoption in April 2026, according to spending data from Ramp, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and VentureBeat, as growing demand collided with compute bottlenecks and mounting cost pressures. Ramp's tracking of more than 50,000 US companies found that 34.4% of enterprise customers used Anthropic products in April 2026, versus OpenAI's 32.3%.

Thursday 21 May 2026

Vietnam issues AI regulations, requires OpenAI and Anthropic to appoint local government liaisons

Vietnam has issued artificial intelligence (AI) regulations requiring companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic to appoint representatives to communicate with the government, with affected firms needing to comply by March 2027.

Thursday 21 May 2026

Grab's Taiwan push goes beyond food delivery

As Grab Holdings pushes ahead with its proposed acquisition of foodpanda's Taiwan business, the Southeast Asian technology giant is betting that the future of delivery is no longer just about who can move food the fastest.

Thursday 21 May 2026

From anti-jamming drones to tumor-on-a-chip: Taiwan deep-tech courts Silicon Valley capital

Four Taiwanese deep-tech startups took the stage on the second day of the Plug and Play Silicon Valley May Summit, pitching to international investors and corporations in a session organized by Plug and Play Taiwan.

Thursday 21 May 2026

TSMC's cautious capex is averting an AI bubble, says investor

TSMC's restrained expansion strategy is helping the global market avoid an AI bubble, according to veteran semiconductor investor Gavin Baker, the chief investment officer at Atreides Management. Speaking at the 2026 Sohn Investment Conference, Baker's view runs counter to market consensus at a time when tech giants are pouring money into AI chips and global chip manufacturing is under unprecedented strain.

Thursday 21 May 2026

White House plans voluntary frontier-model review, in bid to close gap with China and EU

The White House Office of the National Cyber Director briefed leading AI developers on Tuesday on a planned executive order that would establish a voluntary framework for pre-release government review of frontier models, with US President Donald Trump potentially signing the order as early as May 21, according to The Information.

Thursday 21 May 2026

SpaceX IPO reveals Musk's US$4 billion AI gamble

SpaceX's long-awaited initial public offering filing landed on Wednesday with all the spectacle investors expected from Elon Musk — and all the contradictions that have come to define his empire. The document revealed a company burning billions on artificial intelligence (AI), wagering its future on technologies that do not yet exist, and asking public shareholders to trust almost entirely in Musk's vision of humanity's future in space.

Thursday 21 May 2026

Nvidia introduces ACIE sub-segment, adds Anthropic as partner, and breaks out Physical AI

Nvidia introduced a new segment reporting framework on its first quarter of fiscal 2027 call, splitting data center revenue into Hyperscale and ACIE (AI Clouds, Industrial, Enterprise) and breaking out Edge Computing as a separate platform.

Thursday 21 May 2026

From US$10m to US$2.2bn in 17 months: Starcloud bets on orbital fix for AI's energy crisis

Philip Johnston, co-founder and CEO of Starcloud, opened the second day of the Plug and Play Silicon Valley May Summit in Sunnyvale with a proposition that would have sounded implausible three years ago: the most economical place to build AI data centers may soon be in orbit.

Thursday 21 May 2026

How South Korea is pitching itself to Silicon Valley's startup elite

South Korea made its case to Silicon Valley investors and startups on the first day of the Plug and Play May Summit in Sunnyvale, positioning Seoul not as an emerging market but as a fully operational launch pad for global technology products.

Thursday 21 May 2026

Nvidia prices rivals out of AI factory race with Blackwell, Vera CPU, and Rubin

Nvidia used its first quarter of fiscal year 2027 earnings call on May 20, 2026 to lay out a three-tier silicon cadence that should make any rival roadmap look thin: a Blackwell ramp the company calls the fastest in its history, the first production silicon of Vera Rubin in the second half of this year, and a brand-new Arm CPU, Vera, that opens a US$200 billion TAM Nvidia has never touched.

Thursday 21 May 2026

Nvidia excludes China from its outlook while citing analyst estimates of US$1 trillion in hyperscaler capex by 2027

Nvidia continues to exclude Chinese data center compute revenue from its outlook, with CFO Colette Kress citing uncertainty around whether H200 imports will be allowed into the country despite recent US export license approvals.

Thursday 21 May 2026

OpenAI picks Singapore for first overseas applied AI lab

OpenAI will commit more than S$300 million (approx. US$235 million) to expand Singapore's artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem, choosing the city-state for its first applied AI lab outside the US as Singapore pushes to strengthen its position as a regional AI hub.

Thursday 21 May 2026

South Korea bets on KIST, LG to catch up in humanoid robots

South Korea has launched a five-year public-private project to build a domestic AI humanoid robot platform, bringing together KIST, LG affiliates, universities, and a hospital as the country looks to narrow the gap with the US and China in next-generation robotics.

Thursday 21 May 2026

Moonshot AI abandons offshore structure to pursue landmark Hong Kong IPO

Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based generative AI unicorn behind the widely popular Kimi chatbot, has informed its shareholders that it intends to dismantle its offshore corporate framework to clear a regulatory path for an initial public offering (IPO), likely in Hong Kong.

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