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Thursday 24 September 2026
GMI AI compute leasing business sells out in US as big users lock in long contracts

GMI Technology, a Taiwan-based electronics component distributor and application solutions provider, said its AI computing rental business...

Thursday 24 September 2026
Trump-Xi pre-summit watch: China charts a sovereignty-first path for frontier AI
When Donald Trump and Xi Jinping discuss artificial intelligence, the deeper divide may not be over whether AI needs rules, but over what those rules are designed to protect.
Thursday 24 September 2026
LSTC links with Rapidus to revive Japan's advanced chipmaking

Japan's Leading-edge Semiconductor Technology Center (LSTC) is building a public-private-academic framework around Rapidus, which plans...

Wednesday 23 September 2026
US, China diverge on AI guardrails ahead of Trump-Xi summit

The US and China are moving toward different models for governing increasingly capable artificial intelligence, even as the US proposes...

Wednesday 23 September 2026
SKC raises Absolics stake to 82% as glass substrates remain in testing
SKC is increasing its investment in its US glass substrate subsidiary Absolics, raising its stake to more than 82%, as the South Korean materials group commits more capital to a business...
Wednesday 23 September 2026
With Xi's Washington visit incoming, trade data show how the tariff war has reshaped US-China tech flows

When Chinese President Xi Jinping meets US President Donald Trump at the White House on September 24, trade will be the most measurable...

Wednesday 23 September 2026
YMTC wins German injunctions against Micron in latest round of NAND patent battle
Micron is facing fresh pressure on multiple fronts after Germany's Munich I Regional Court sided with Chinese memory maker YMTC and issued two injunctions over alleged infringement...
Wednesday 23 September 2026
Biwin Storage commits US$672M to double down on 2.5D packaging, compute-memory integration

Biwin Storage Technology plans to invest CNY4.5 billion (approx. US$672 million) in the third phase of its wafer-level advanced packaging...

Wednesday 23 September 2026
China's BeiDou eyes US$150 billion industry scale with AI, services at the core

China's BeiDou satellite navigation industry continues to expand rapidly, with applications spreading from chips and modules to end...

Wednesday 23 September 2026
DeepSeek, Moonshot, the hidden cost of routing China's AI through Claude

China's internet regulator is reportedly investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot AI over allegations that the two companies routed millions...

Wednesday 23 September 2026
Hygon takes China's CPU ambitions beyond servers, into physical AI

China's Hygon Information Technology is extending its processor ambitions beyond servers and data centers with the launch of its first...

Wednesday 23 September 2026
Gigabyte's Giga Computing sets up AI factory in Taiwan to accelerate rack validation

Gigabyte's AI server shipments continue to accelerate, lifting revenue and profit while prompting capacity expansion. For the first...

Wednesday 23 September 2026
GLT pivots into life sciences with US-patented precast gels

Taiwan-based light guide plate maker Global Lighting Technologies (GLT) is deepening its pivot into life sciences through its investment...

Wednesday 23 September 2026
China, Japan dominate over 90% of OLEDoS market, threatening South Korea's panel leadership in the AI era

South Korean display makers, long dominant in the global smartphone OLED market, remain hesitant to commit to mass production of OLED-on-silicon...

Wednesday 23 September 2026
China Steel expands recycled steel into EV motor market amid growing low-carbon demand

Taiwan's largest steelmaker China Steel (CSC) is actively expanding its high-recycled-content steel products, as the global automotive...