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Friday 24 July 2026
US moves to curb Chinese humanoid robots, opening a new front in the AI rivalry

Washington is opening a new front in its technology contest with China, moving beyond chips and artificial intelligence models to target...

Friday 24 July 2026
China's Xi'an Eswin tops 1 million monthly 12-inch wafer sales and output, targets 1.8 million capacity

China's 12-inch silicon wafer maker Xi'an Eswin Material Technology said monthly output and sales of its 12-inch electronic-grade silicon...

Friday 24 July 2026
AMD's latest 2nm-EPYC rollout signals broader role for CPUs in the AI data center
AMD unveiled its sixth-generation EPYC 9006 server processors, widening its push into AI data centers with chips designed for agentic AI, cloud computing, enterprise workloads, and...
Friday 24 July 2026
AMD splits next-generation data center GPUs for specialized AI demand
AMD unveiled its Instinct MI400 series at its Advancing AI 2026 conference, broadening its push into data center chips with products aimed at different users. For global readers, the...
Friday 24 July 2026
China's AI chip share tops 50%, but Nvidia still rules frontier training

China's AI infrastructure build-out is rapidly lifting demand for domestic accelerators, giving Huawei, Alibaba's T-Head Semiconductor,...

Friday 24 July 2026
Apple prepares sweeping Mac refresh, betting on AI-driven demand
Apple is gearing up for a broad update to its entire Mac lineup, aiming to ride the wave of demand for high-performance computers driven by AI. New versions of nearly every Mac model...
Friday 24 July 2026
DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng says China trails US AI by up to 18 months, with compute the decisive gap
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng says China's AI industry trails the US by six to 18 months mainly because of limited computing power, not talent.
Thursday 23 July 2026
Kimi K3 under fire, part 1: Inside Washington's case against Moonshot AI

The US government is investigating Chinese artificial intelligence developer Moonshot AI over allegations that its Kimi K3 model improperly...

Thursday 23 July 2026
WAIC 2026: Lightelligence maps AI's optical future with CPO, NPO, photonic computing

Lightelligence is positioning optical interconnects, optical switching, and optical computing as the next foundation of AI infrastructure,...

Thursday 23 July 2026
In-depth: Alibaba builds three-layer AI empire across chips, memory and models
Competition in China's AI industry is moving beyond large language models into chips, memory and computing infrastructure. CXMT's planned IPO on Shanghai's STAR Market has put renewed...
Thursday 23 July 2026
AMD lands Anthropic as its third marquee AI customer, chipping at Nvidia's grip on training silicon
Advanced Micro Devices has signed Anthropic to a multi-year supply-and-investment pact worth tens of billions of US dollars, a deal that hands the chipmaker its third top-tier artificial-intelligence...
Thursday 23 July 2026
ASEAN AI data center power demand seen at 6-7GW
ASEAN countries have become a battleground for global cloud service providers and infrastructure developers. After visiting the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone (JS-SEZ) in mid-2025,...
Wednesday 22 July 2026
HKC invests US$590M in advanced chip packaging to escape the LCD cycle

HKC, the world's third-largest LCD panel supplier, plans to invest CNY4 billion (approx. US$590 million) in a 12-inch chip packaging and...

Wednesday 22 July 2026
Samsung's next Galaxy phones may deepen Qualcomm reliance, underscoring the limits of Exynos revival
Samsung Electronics is expected to rely heavily on Qualcomm chips in its next Galaxy phones, according to market reports, a sign that the company is still prioritizing flagship performance...