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Wednesday 17 June 2026
China cuts AI compute prices, revealing pressure to fill supercomputing capacity
China's state-backed National Supercomputing Internet has launched a 618 computing-power promotion, offering low-priced token packages, free tokens, and discounts on optical character recognition (OCR) services in an effort to draw more enterprises and developers to its AI services.
Friday 12 June 2026
SuperAI Singapore: Physical AI accelerates as cheaper hardware and AI models drive robot data demand

Robotics has progressed rapidly in the past few years, but major obstacles — including data collection and trust infrastructure — remain barriers to widespread deployment. This was the takeaway from a recent panel of robotics experts at SuperAI Singapore, where they discussed the present and future of the industry.

Thursday 11 June 2026
Taiwan optical suppliers target drones, robots as smart-camera demand grows
Taiwan's optical suppliers are entering the smart-camera market along two main paths: some are pushing deeper into system integration and software, while others are concentrating on high-end lenses and sensing components for drones, robots, smart glasses, and autonomous vehicles.
Thursday 11 June 2026
Apacer targets industrial memory demand as DDR4 shortages drive profits through 2027
Memory supply remains tight, and higher prices have made end markets cautious. Despite that, Apacer Technology CEO Chia-Kun Chang said that foundry shifts by the three major makers are irreversible, meaning DRAM and flash will stay in short supply, and the memory industry will continue to profit at least throughout the first half of 2027.
Wednesday 10 June 2026
A COMPUTEX beyond PCs: Taiwanese suppliers target robot data and parts
COMPUTEX 2026 has made clearer a shift already underway in Taiwan's robotics supply chain, with suppliers looking beyond humanoid showcases toward less visible technologies — including motion data, vision, sensing, embedded control, actuators, and system integration — that could determine which robots reach commercial deployment first.
Wednesday 10 June 2026
Column: Computex 2026 shows Taiwan rewriting its role — from building AI to designing it
Computex Taipei 2026, held from June 2 to 5 under the theme "AI Together," drew more than 1,500 exhibitors from 33 countries and set a new record in scale. The show underscored a new AI industry reality: competition has moved far beyond standalone chip compute and into a systems-level battle spanning compute, connectivity, power, and cooling.
Tuesday 9 June 2026
Taiwan suppliers target physical AI platforms as robotics race moves beyond hardware
Computex 2026 closed last week with physical AI among its central themes, and robots emerging as one of the clearest ways to demonstrate it. Yet, unlike CES, where robot makers competed to showcase their hardware, Computex presented a different picture: AI computing platforms, edge inference, physical AI architectures, and the ecosystems behind robots took center stage.
Monday 8 June 2026
Hitachi and Intel strike collaboration on physical AI and industrial infrastructure
Hitachi and Intel have agreed to work together on physical AI, advanced computing, and digital infrastructure, a move that could shape manufacturing, energy, and mobility systems used worldwide. The partnership targets efficiency, resilience, and faster industrial innovation, with potential implications for factories, power networks, and other critical operations globally.
Monday 8 June 2026
Blaize, Winmate target drones and defense with rugged computing platform
Blaize and Taiwan's Winmate are deepening a partnership in rugged edge computing, pairing Blaize's power-efficient AI chips with Winmate's industrial hardware platforms to target defense, industrial automation, and low-altitude drone applications.
Friday 5 June 2026
Infineon sees early quantum computing gains as finance leads adoption
Infineon Technologies said its long-running work in quantum computing is beginning to pay off, with early demand strongest in finance, chemistry, and life sciences. For global readers, the company's comments signal that quantum systems are moving closer to commercial relevance, even as the market remains early, crowded, and dependent on wider industry cooperation.
Friday 5 June 2026
COMPUTEX 2026: Taiwan optics leaders pivot from smartphone bottlenecks to edge AI supply chain
Taiwan's optics makers, traditionally absent from PC-focused trade shows, made a landmark appearance at COMPUTEX 2026. Industry leaders including Largan Precision, Ability Opto-Electronics Technology, Altek Corporation, and Ability Enterprise used the event to showcase their latest research and development breakthroughs. Their presence signals a strategic pivot from behind-the-scenes smartphone component suppliers to frontline architects of the rapidly expanding edge AI ecosystem.
Friday 5 June 2026
Hiwin targets logistics automation with Dexterity dual-arm robot
Motion control component maker Hiwin made its first cross-sector appearance at COMPUTEX 2026, showcasing a full technology stack spanning precision transmission, actuator modules, and system integration. The company also unveiled a dual-arm logistics robot developed in partnership with US logistics firm Dexterity for the first time.
Thursday 4 June 2026
Adlink ramps robotics and edge AI expansion as US market drives growth
Adlink Technologies said it pushed into a growth phase for robotics, edge AI, and vertical markets in 2026 as the US became its largest revenue engine, accounting for more than 30% of sales. The industrial PC maker reported broad-based demand across healthcare, transportation, defense, energy, and industrial automation and said design-in projects will start contributing shipments from 2026 into 2027.
Thursday 4 June 2026
Nvidia's Jensen Huang courts Korean giants in robotics expansion

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is visiting South Korea this week as the company seeks to expand its partnerships with major Korean conglomerates beyond semiconductors and into robotics, autonomous driving, and industrial automation, ETNews reported.

Thursday 4 June 2026
The 'Wintel' of robotics? Nvidia allies with Unitree to standardize AI humanoid development
In a move set to reshape the global robotics landscape, Nvidia announced at GTC Taipei that it will partner with Chinese humanoid robot pioneer Unitree Robotics to launch the world's first open humanoid robot reference design. By deeply integrating advanced AI with physical hardware, the collaboration aims to drastically lower development barriers across the industry.
Thursday 4 June 2026
xMEMS tackles data center heat with chip-level cooling tech
Surging demand for artificial intelligence computing has accelerated the buildout of data centers, pushing system cooling closer to its limits. As power consumption rises, heat-related slowdowns are becoming a growing bottleneck for both computing performance and data-transfer efficiency.
Wednesday 3 June 2026
Physical AI must act before it thinks, NXP CEO argues at Computex
As robots and autonomous systems move from factory floors into hospitals, warehouses, and public spaces, NXP Semiconductors CEO Rafael Sotomayor used his Computex 2026 keynote to argue that the defining challenge of physical AI is not raw intelligence, but the ability to act in milliseconds without waiting for instructions from the cloud.
Tuesday 2 June 2026
Agentic AI triggers widespread computing crunch across global supply chain
In 2026, a global compute shortage spanning chips, cloud services, servers, and data-center components is sweeping across the industry. The scarcity of compute and broad price hikes are running through the entire AI sector, pushing Nvidia's market value higher, lifting cloud revenue and profits at Amazon, Microsoft, and Google to record levels, and driving the valuations of AI startups OpenAI and Anthropic to nearly US$1 trillion.
Monday 1 June 2026
MediaTek touts One MediaTek strategy, upbeat on ASIC ASPs
MediaTek held a media event ahead of Computex, with several top executives taking part as the company highlighted progress in AI data centers and its broader "One MediaTek" strategy. The event opened with Rahul Sandil, newly appointed general manager of global marketing and communications, followed by speeches from president and COO Joe Chen, corporate vice president of the data center and compute business group Vince Hu, and vice president and general manager of the auto business Mike Chang.
Monday 1 June 2026
Advantech approves dividends, board election as it expands edge AI strategy
Advantech approved its 2025 financial statements and a new board at its annual shareholders' meeting in Taipei, while outlining a broader push into edge AI platforms. The industrial computer (IPC) maker also raised dividends and set out succession and logistics upgrades that could shape its global operations.
Sunday 31 May 2026
Nvidia, Microsoft and Arm hint at 'new era of PC' ahead of Computex
Nvidia, Microsoft and Arm posted identical messages on X on Friday, each displaying the words "A New Era of PC" alongside the geographic coordinates of Taipei — a coordinated tease that has sent the market speculating about what the three companies plan to announce at Computex 2026, which opens next week.
Friday 29 May 2026
Airoha deepens focus on networking and wireless edge AI
Airoha Technology is sharpening its strategy around global networking and edge AI chips, aiming to expand its customer base and strengthen its competitive moat. The MediaTek subsidiary is targeting infrastructure, audio, and positioning markets with products already shipping, in production, or advancing through development milestones that could matter to users and operators worldwide.
Friday 29 May 2026
From cloud to factory floor: KETI outlines four directions shaping next-gen physical AI chips
As AI moves from cloud environments into factories and physical systems, semiconductor design is being reshaped by new demands in speed, energy efficiency, and on-site learning. At a recent system-semiconductor seminar in South Korea, Seong-jun Jang, a research center director at the Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI), outlined four key architectural directions for future AI chips aimed at supporting industrial "physical AI."
Friday 22 May 2026
AUO ditches panel era with three new business lines for next decade
Looking ahead to 2026, AUO said the global economy is stabilizing and returning to growth, but that international trade disputes and regional conflicts still pose risks. It added that the consumer electronics market is also being weighed down by AI-driven inflation and weak demand, creating more uncertainty for an industry recovery.
Friday 22 May 2026
BenQ Qisda Group to spotlight AI deployments at COMPUTEX 2026
BenQ Qisda Group will participate in COMPUTEX 2026 under the theme "AI In Action," showcasing how artificial intelligence (AI) is being applied in real-world deployments. BenQ Qisda will bring together group companies to showcase a comprehensive AI portfolio ranging from computing infrastructure to industry solutions.