Systex reported consolidated revenue of NT$5.9 billion (approximately US$187 million) in August 2026, up 61.91% from NT$3.64 billion a year earlier. Revenue for the first eight months reached NT$38.01 billion, rising 39.65% from NT$27.22 billion in the same period of 2025. Both monthly and cumulative revenue hit record highs for their respective periods.

Acer subsidiary Weblink International reported record August consolidated revenue of NT$3.246 billion in 2026, up 41.52% from a year earlier, as demand for mid- to high-end computing and graphics products strengthened. The distributor also said revenue for the first eight months climbed 36.44% year-over-year to NT$25.604 billion, with both periods setting records for their respective periods.

Cambricon has joined the PyTorch Foundation as a Platinum member, taking one seat on its Governing Board and one on its Technical Advisory Council. The Linux Foundation announced the membership on September 8 at the combined KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + OpenInfra Summit + PyTorch Conference China 2026 in Shanghai, where Alibaba Cloud also joined at the Platinum tier and Ant Group at Gold.

Arm is stepping up its role in AI infrastructure as cloud providers, original equipment makers, and software partners build systems for agentic AI, a shift that could affect data centers worldwide. The company said its latest Neoverse Compute Subsystems N4 and Arm AGI CPU aim to give customers more choice across performance, efficiency, and silicon design.

Accenture and Google Cloud launched a new global business group to help companies scale agentic AI, a move that could speed enterprise adoption of AI tools worldwide. The effort targets faster deployment, clearer returns, and broader access to AI talent, engineering, and industry expertise across sectors.

Uber Eats on September 8 named Samuel Li as its Taiwan general manager, as the delivery platform continues to deepen its local market presence and partner relationships, and drive business growth in Taiwan.

Taiwan Mobile kicked off its fourth annual Tech Day, "D.E.E.P. Tech Day 2026," on September 8. This year's event centered on Agentic AI, exploring enterprise strategy, platform technologies, Japanese corporate case studies, deployment, and governance and security.

This year's SEMICON Taiwan saw companies worldwide flock to Taipei to learn new industry developments and score potential business opportunities. Many came from elsewhere in Asia, but some came from as far as California, where business leaders highlighted the complementary relationship between the state's research and start-up ecosystem and Taiwan's manufacturing capabilities.

STMicroelectronics said humanoid robots are still most likely to enter manufacturing first, as the industry works through key hurdles in hand dexterity, edge AI decision-making, and total system cost. The chipmaker made the remarks at a recent press event in Taiwan focused on sustainability, AI data centers, and robotics.

By the final afternoon of K-Safety Expo 2026, after three days of threading my way through BEXCO's sprawling exhibition halls in Busan, one impression had become difficult to ignore: AI was no longer sitting beside the safety industry as an adjacent technology. It was increasingly becoming part of safety's definition.

AI-driven automation is reshaping the cybersecurity requirements of semiconductor manufacturing, with zero-trust architecture, trusted data, and interoperable standards becoming increasingly important as fabs move toward more autonomous operations.

Taiwanese IC design startup Jmem Tek showcased its in-house physical unclonable function (PUF) and post-quantum cryptography (PQC) hardware security technologies at SEMICON Taiwan 2026, as it pushes to build a hardware root of trust at the chip level for next-generation AI and smart devices facing quantum-era cybersecurity threats.

When Apple abandoned Project Titan, automotive supply chain insiders predicted the tech giant wouldn't bow out of the smart vehicle market entirely; it would simply approach the market from a different angle. Judging by its recent collaboration with Ford Motor, Apple is pivoting toward software-layer integration and vehicle systems, a move that may represent a preview of the playbook CEO John Ternus will execute.

Nvidia used IFA 2026 to argue that serious AI work can run locally as well as in the cloud, pairing an October launch date for its RTX Spark Windows PCs with free software that distributes independent inference requests across compatible machines already on a local network.

Adobe's leadership change signals a broader shift in how major software companies are positioning themselves for an AI-driven market. The move may affect customers, partners, and investors worldwide as the company deepens its focus on agentic software, customer experience tools, and productivity products.

The rise of physical AI is creating a new wave of demand for advanced sensors as robots move from controlled demonstrations toward practical deployment. Industry experts at SEMICON Taiwan 2026 said robots will need increasingly diverse sensing capabilities to perceive, interpret, and respond to complex real-world environments in real time.

A senior Lam Research executive told an industry audience this week that the next major leap in semiconductor manufacturing will not come from removing humans entirely from fabs, but from pairing collaborative robots with AI-driven predictive maintenance to close a long-standing gap in fab operations.

Chip design company Agentrys announced last week that it raised US$24.5 million in funding from backers including MediaTek. It is one among an emerging crop of startups using agentic tools to power the design of semiconductors, a step in the chip process that still involves considerable amounts of time and labor.

OpenAI announced that it will end its contract allowing its models to be used on Cursor due to the latter's acquisition by SpaceX. The development indicates the tense personal relationship between AI leaders Sam Altman and Elon Musk months after an acrimonious lawsuit between the two and as both companies pursue the lucrative enterprise market.

Huawei rotating chairman Eric Xu said at the HarmonyOS Ecosystem Conference 2026 in Shenzhen on August 28 that the HarmonyOS ecosystem now has more than 100,000 native applications, while HarmonyOS smartphones can access more than 400,000 apps. As of August 20, the number of devices running HarmonyOS 6 had exceeded 80 million and is expected to surpass 100 million in the fourth quarter of 2026.

KKCompany Technologies, parent of KKBOX, will officially list on the Taipei Exchange's Emerging Stock Board on August 31, with chairman and CEO Steve Wang detailing, for the first time, the group's integration of PressPlay during a pre-listing investor briefing. The transaction, completed in the second quarter of 2026, is designed to expand KKCompany beyond music and AI multimedia into knowledge learning and the creator economy.

Taiwan Mobile's acquisition of Systex has moved forward, with Systex's tender offer review committee completing its review on August 27, concluding that the terms of the tender offer are fair and the funding source is reasonable.

With the recent surge of generative AI in enterprise and consumer applications, AI has begun taking on new roles, moving from simply answering questions to autonomously planning tasks and deploying external tools to execute these tasks. Agentic AI was thus a prominent topic at the recent 2026 Hacks in Taiwan Conference (HITCON) organized by the Association of Hackers in Taiwan, with sessions focusing on cybersecurity risks resulting from AI agents' greater system privileges, data access, and use of external tools.

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on August 26 declaring a national emergency over the security of America's electrical grid. It restricts the purchase, import, and installation of certain foreign-made "bulk-power system" equipment on cybersecurity and national-security grounds.