Meta utilized the CES 2026 stage to unveil significant enterprise-grade updates to its wearable ecosystem, though the presentation was tempered by a major logistical pivot.
Benefiting from strong demand for artificial intelligence (AI) smartphones and AI servers, IC testing giant Sigurd Microelectronics announced that its December 2025 revenue surpassed NT$1.8 billion (approx. US$57.21 million). The figure not only marked a record high for a single month, but also propelled the company's fourth-quarter 2025 and full-year revenues to new all-time highs.
Jerry Tworek, a vice president of research at OpenAI and a key figure in the company's work on AI reasoning models, is leaving the company after nearly seven years. Tworek announced his departure in a memo to colleagues and a subsequent post on X, saying he plans to pursue research directions that are difficult to explore within OpenAI. His exit follows other senior departures at the company, as OpenAI continues to expand its commercial operations and product roadmap.
On the eve of CES 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the company's Alpamayo series of open AI models, simulation tools, and datasets, signaling what he called a new era in autonomous vehicle development.
AMD CEO Lisa Su stated at CES 2026 that the industry has officially entered the "YottaScale" era, marking a shift toward new performance benchmarks. In an interview with CNBC, Su also explained that AI has not slowed the company's hiring pace, that AMD is actively recruiting and prioritizing candidates who are "AI forward."
US AI device startup Plaud unveiled its latest wearable recorder, the NotePin S, alongside a new desktop application at CES 2026. The products aim to enhance real-time recording, transcription, and key-point highlighting for knowledge workers managing meeting content.
The Indonesian Nickel Mining and Smelting Association (FINI) expects the country's smelters to require 340 million to 350 million tons of ore in 2026, an increase of about 40 million to 50 million tons. According to Reuters, Indonesia holds the world's largest nickel reserves but recently announced plans to reduce its 2026 production quota to bolster prices and increase government revenue.
Facing the memory shortage, PC companies are aggressively promoting new models at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), hoping to regain momentum. Acer rolled out multiple new series, including Aspire, Predator, and Swift AI. Dell introduced the return of its classic thin-and-light XPS lineup and revealed that its gaming brand Alienware will launch new products.
Ahead of the official opening of CES 2026, keynote speeches by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and AMD CEO Lisa Su focused attention on Physical AI and its application in real-world systems, with both companies using robotics demonstrations to illustrate their strategies.
South Korea's leading internet company, Naver, secured a dominant position in the search engine market in 2025, capturing 62.86% of the South Korean market share, more than twice Google's share. According to data from research firm Internet Trend, cited by Seoul Economic Daily and Yonhap News, Naver's share rose by 4.72pp from 58.14% in 2024.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang used his CES 2026 keynote to focus on agentic AI and Physical AI, outlining how the company is extending AI into systems that operate in the physical world. Supply-chain sources said that humanoid robots are viewed as one development direction for Physical AI, with implications for high-performance microcontrollers; however, training remains constrained by scarce and fragmented data.
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