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Tuesday 6 October 2026
Column: How semiconductors' evolution foretells the rise of AI data centers
Semiconductors and AI data centers share a striking number of similarities.
Friday 2 October 2026
Column: AI benchmarks remain lucrative business
New AI models arrive every few weeks, and the question of which is better often comes down to the leaderboard. Behind those rankings, evaluation can look like an academic exercise...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Column: Memory and logic collide as AI shifts the balance
As HBM approaches half the cost of a GPU-HBM CoWoS package, can memory still be viewed as merely a passive component of AI computing? The answer goes back to the "memory wall," a challenge...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Column: Why Micron's US$250M venture fund is about more than HBM margins—Taiwan has a stake in it
Micron unveiled the Micron Ventures Paradigm Fund, a US$250 million venture vehicle, in mid-August 2026, as the memory maker pairs more than US$25 billion in fiscal 2026 capex with...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Column: Beyond Zero Trust – why AI supply chain resilience needs a plan B
Artificial intelligence is rapidly entering enterprise operations, blurring the lines between cybersecurity and supply chain management. In the AI era, Zero Trust is no longer only...
Monday 28 September 2026
Column: For physical AI, maps are turning into memory
A robot that can map a factory floor still cannot necessarily find the box it has been asked to move, or remember what it saw on its last visit. For autonomous robots, building the...
Monday 21 September 2026
Column: AI usage patterns may be shifting the case for self-hosted servers

A new Anthropic threat intelligence report offers an unusual glimpse into how advanced AI systems are being used under heavy, real-world...

Thursday 17 September 2026
Column: China tightens rare earth controls, exposing hidden vulnerabilities in Taiwan's supply chain
China's rare earth export controls are changing the rules governing global critical mineral supply chains. For Taiwan, the real concern is not that China could suddenly halt all exports...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
Column: When digital trust breaks — quantum risk rewrites supply chain resilience
Supply chain resilience was once centred on raw materials, components, factories and logistics. AI, cloud services and the digital economy have expanded the risk perimeter. Companies...
Sunday 13 September 2026
Column: What is SLAM? The first step in Physical AI
We previously discussed how automation removes environmental uncertainty, while autonomy requires systems to operate in complex settings. The biggest difference is that autonomous...
Thursday 3 September 2026
Column: From automation to autonomy—what robotics still needs to make the leap
I visited Automation Taipei 2026 in mid-August, where the show looked lively and occupied a footprint 7% larger than in 2025. Physical AI and vision-language-action (VLA) models dominated...
Saturday 22 August 2026
Column: Lessons in supply chain resilience from China Huadian's power-compute coordination model
As AI develops rapidly, data centers are driving equally rapid growth in electricity demand. The stability of future energy supplies will directly determine whether AI computing capacity...
Friday 21 August 2026
Column: Is 800V really 'high voltage'? —AI data centers revive an old power debate
High-voltage direct current (HVDC) is currently one of the hottest areas of technology and product development for AI data centers. It is not only the first layer of what Nvidia CEO...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
Column: Why model training needs distillation
Around 2019, a friend working at a large cloud services provider excitedly shared that his team had trained a CNN model for document text recognition with good results, but the computing...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
Column: Strategic resilience in precious metal refining: insights from Qiankun Gold, Silver

Amid global supply chain restructuring and geopolitical rivalry, precious metals are no longer merely financial hedging tools but have...