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Tuesday 15 September 2026
China optical transceivers avoid US FCC curbs as NPO, CPO battle for high-speed interconnect supremacy

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently updated its equipment authorization rules, prohibiting authorization of devices...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
Minebea Mitsumi pauses M&A to chase AI hardware demand
Minebea Mitsumi has halted its push for new acquisitions and is shifting resources toward producing ball bearings, motors and actuators for AI hardware, as demand tied to data centers,...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
OpenAI reportedly acquires AI camera startup Glass Imaging for more than US$300M

OpenAI has acquired Glass Imaging, a startup developing artificial-intelligence (AI) technology designed to improve smartphone camera performance,...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
Hyundai Motor Group bets on data, Nvidia, and in-house AI to speed autonomous driving rollout
Hyundai Motor Group is moving to standardize its autonomous driving hardware, deepen its data pipeline, and accelerate in-house AI development as it prepares a staggered rollout of...
Saturday 12 September 2026
Exclusive: ASUS xHIS aims to become digital backbone for AI-ready healthcare

Asustek Computer (Asus) has been accelerating the integration of AI, hardware, software, and cloud technologies into healthcare as it...

Saturday 12 September 2026
Commentary: Apple sends off Cook with a foldable flourish, but Ternus's trial is still ahead
Apple has finally unveiled the long-anticipated foldable iPhone Duo, with former CEO Tim Cook making a brief appearance at the start of the launch video. The moment suggested the device...
Friday 11 September 2026
Nvidia's US$13 billion Hugging Face deal bets physical AI can start at US$400, not US$40,000
Humanoid robotics has become one of the most visible fronts of the physical-AI race, but the industry's path to scale may depend as much on lowering the cost of experimentation as...
Friday 11 September 2026
d-Matrix brings Raptor chips to Nvidia racks as falling token prices pressure GPU economics
AI chip startup d-Matrix is adopting Nvidia's NVLink Fusion technology to bring its next-generation Raptor inference processors into Nvidia MGX racks, giving the company a path into...
Friday 11 September 2026
Quantum computer development is more about national security than profits, says expert

Japanese electronics giant NEC stopped development of gate-based superconducting quantum computer hardware at the end of March 2026...

Friday 11 September 2026
More memory won't fix AI's bottleneck, says Microsoft's Azure hardware chief
Microsoft's AI accelerator was never designed to compete with Nvidia. It was designed to run Microsoft's own inference workloads across its own fleet, and that scoping decision —...
Thursday 10 September 2026
Taiwan hardware strength meets open-source gap
Taiwan's hardware strength gives it a firm place in the global technology supply chain, but industry leaders say its next opportunity lies in open source. Jonathan Bryce, executive...
Thursday 10 September 2026
Apple bets on new sensors and S11 chip to differentiate its 2026 watches
Behind the foldable, Apple used the same event to rebuild the sensing hardware in its wearables and to push active noise cancellation down to US$129. Apple announced the Apple Watch...
Wednesday 9 September 2026
Enterprise AI spending gives Taiwan's Systex a new growth wing
Systex reported consolidated revenue of NT$5.9 billion (approximately US$187 million) in August 2026, up 61.91% from NT$3.64 billion a year earlier. Revenue for the first eight months...
Wednesday 9 September 2026
Huaqin signs Nanchang projects as robotics push widens
Huaqin Technology has signed two new projects in Nanchang High-tech Zone, expanding the smart-hardware ODM group's local manufacturing base into embodied-AI robotics and data collection,...
Wednesday 9 September 2026
Cambricon wins PyTorch Foundation board seat in bid to strengthen China AI chip software ecosystem
Chinese AI chip developer Cambricon said on September 8 that it has formally joined the PyTorch Foundation as a platinum member, the organisation's highest membership tier, securing...