Apple has filed a sharp antitrust-style complaint against OpenAI, turning a once-celebrated AI partnership into a legal clash over strategy, supply chains, and future hardware control. Behind the lawsuit lies a broader contest over who will shape the next wave of AI devices, and whether the Trump administration's "America First" agenda can help both sides find common ground.
China's AI hardware race is shifting from individual accelerators to supernodes, optical interconnects, advanced packaging and cloud-scale systems.
India's smartphone market was hit by a sharp second-quarter decline that may matter well beyond the country's borders, as higher component costs lifted prices and dampened demand. The drop underscores how global memory shortages, inflation, and weaker spending are reshaping handset sales, especially in value-driven markets across Asia and emerging economies.
Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has criticized Intel's past strategy in a recent interview, revisiting the company's history with Nvidia and Apple while also weighing in on Taiwan Strait tensions and the outlook for quantum computing. Speaking at the RAISE Summit AI conference in Paris, he said Intel dismissed Nvidia GPUs at the height of its CPU dominance as nothing more than graphics tools for gamers.
Microsoft has expanded its strategic partnership with AMD, announcing plans to deploy the company's upcoming Helios rack-scale AI system across Azure, a move that comes just days before AMD is expected to unveil its next-generation AI products at its Advancing AI 2026 event, which begins on July 22.
As AI server products accelerate their generational shift and demand higher-frequency, higher-speed transmission, the upgrade cycle for copper-clad laminate (CCL) materials in the PCB upstream supply chain has become firmly established. M7 and M8 specs are now mainstream, while M9 and M10 materials remain in the testing and validation stage, with mass production expected in 2027 or 2028.
Agentic AI is likely to reach commercial use sooner than physical AI, according to Beyondsoft, as the IT services provider deepens its push into robotics and enterprise automation. The Singapore-based company sees the region, especially Singapore, as a key proving ground where cloud partners, governments, and enterprises are shaping the next phase of AI adoption.
Power management IC (PMIC) maker Fortune Advanced Technology is set to list on the Emerging Stock Board on July 22, with an eye on growing demand for high-voltage power management in AI data centers driving the need for e-fuses and smart power management solutions. In addition, shipments of higher-margin products are also lifting revenue for the company, as it seeks opportunities in importing substitute protective components.
