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Monday 24 August 2026
Taiwan speeds chip materials push with consumables, ITRI says

Taiwan is accelerating its drive for semiconductor materials self-reliance by starting with consumables and building toward higher-value...

Monday 24 August 2026
Shanghai accepts YMTC's STAR Market listing application
China's largest NAND flash maker is moving toward a major Shanghai listing, but global investors will be watching more than the size of the deal. YMTC's IPO comes as chip demand rises,...
Monday 24 August 2026
ASE's Huang urges AI profits to fund R&D for CPO, PLP

As chip processes move to 2nm and advanced packaging accelerates heterogeneous integration, semiconductor materials are shifting from...

Monday 24 August 2026
Taiwan semiconductor materials team up to build local supply chain

Taiwan's semiconductor materials industry is entering a new window of opportunity as advanced semiconductor process and packaging technologies...

Monday 24 August 2026
Alibaba plans HKD80 billion share placement to fund AI expansion
Alibaba Group Holding said it plans to raise HKD80 billion (US$10.2 billion) through the placement of newly issued shares to non-US investors outside the US, a move that could bolster...
Monday 24 August 2026
AMRA expands robot testing standard to cover legged systems
The Autonomous Mobile Robot Alliance (AMRA), formed by Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute and industry, academia, and research partners, has released a new standard...
Monday 24 August 2026
AI chip boom lifts South Korean semiconductor materials makers' profits in 2Q26
The AI semiconductor investment boom is increasingly spilling over into the materials supply chain. South Korea's major semiconductor materials suppliers broadly improved profitability...
Monday 24 August 2026
Xiaomi unveils second-generation humanoid robot at Beijing conference

Xiaomi unveiled its second-generation humanoid robot at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing, where the machine made its first...

Monday 24 August 2026
Taiwan lifts 2027 tech budget, studies new TTA site in BSTP
Taiwan's Executive Yuan approved a larger 2027 technology budget of NT$229.2 billion (approx. US$7.2 billion), an increase of NT$25.9 billion from 2026, as the government also raised...
Monday 24 August 2026
Galbot's fast rise marks new wave in China's humanoid robot race
Beyond established players such as Unitree Robotics, AgiBot and UBTech Robotics, a new wave of challengers is emerging quickly in China's humanoid robot sector. Among them is Galbot,...
Saturday 22 August 2026
Automation Taipei 2026: If AI is advancing so fast, why is the factory floor still so hard to automate?
For all the extraordinary progress made by artificial intelligence, the physical world remains stubbornly difficult to automate.
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
China chip equipment maker Piotech posts 1,324% profit surge, advanced deposition scales up
Piotech Inc. reported a sharp rise in first-half 2026 earnings, helped by stronger demand for semiconductor deposition equipment, wider adoption of new process tools and improving...
Friday 21 August 2026
Ubtech expands humanoid push as Nvidia executives quietly visit WRC booth

As the first publicly listed humanoid robot company, Ubtech Robotics is often referred to in China as the sector's "first humanoid robot...

Friday 21 August 2026
Cambricon advances sixth-gen AI silicon, broadens support for DeepSeek, Qwen and GLM
Cambricon Technologies chairman and president Chen Tian-shi said the company's sixth-generation AI processor and instruction set remain under development, with the next-generation...