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Tuesday 6 October 2026
Meta open-sources Muse Gadgets SDK for building AI devices
Meta has open-sourced the Muse Gadgets software development kit (SDK) and firmware code, allowing developers to build physical devices that interact with its AI assistant Muse and...
Monday 5 October 2026
AI hardware is propping up world trade, and pulling it toward East Asia and North America
The resilience of global goods trade amid tariff escalation and an energy shock is real, but it rests on a narrow base. A breakdown of ITC Trade Map export data shows that a handful...
Monday 5 October 2026
Lite-On invests NT$8.85 billion in Kaohsiung expansion; subsidiary Leotek to acquire AmpUp
Lite-On Technology is stepping up its strategic investment in server hardware manufacturing and electric vehicle (EV) charging software integration to support overall revenue growth...
Monday 5 October 2026
AI system integration eclipses chip specs
As AI develops rapidly across both cloud and edge environments, major chipmakers are devoting less attention to chip specifications and more to system-level design and ecosystems....
Saturday 3 October 2026
Interview: AI PCs reach 65% of Europe's notebook channel, but what brings buyers to the market?
The rapid iteration of AI-capable hardware, following an industry-wide push toward integrating AI-processing capabilities into PCs, is bringing renewed attention to what AI could offer...
Friday 2 October 2026
Apple's Ternus pushes management cuts, faster hardware
After succeeding Tim Cook as Apple's chief executive, John Ternus is considering a broad organizational overhaul aimed at strengthening an engineering-centered R&D system, according...
Friday 2 October 2026
Inside Volantis's photonic bid to break AI's memory wall after US$88 million raise
Semiconductor startup Volantis has raised US$88 million in Series A funding to develop an AI inference architecture that uses photonic interconnect technology to address memory bottlenecks...
Friday 2 October 2026
Amazon weighs US$8B chip sale-leaseback to support credit rating
Amazon is considering moving about US$8 billion worth of high-end Nvidia chips off its balance sheet through a sale-leaseback structure, according to the Financial Times and...
Friday 2 October 2026
Google's first Suncatcher satellite reaches orbit to test AI chips in space
Google has moved its orbital AI data center ambitions from paper to hardware. A prototype satellite carrying the company's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) reached orbit on October 1,...
Friday 2 October 2026
A look at the startup winning Nvidia, Intel backing for AI scale-up optics
Silicon Valley data center optical interconnect startup CScale emerged from stealth on September 30 after raising US$145 million in a Series C funding round backed by Nvidia and Intel...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Huawei makes Mate 90 showcase for its Tau chip strategy
Huawei unveiled its Mate 90 smartphone series on October 1, with Richard Yu, Huawei executive director and chairman of the Consumer BG, introducing the new devices alongside a new...
Thursday 1 October 2026
5 issues to watch as Nvidia bets on hardware for AI agent security
Nvidia's new AI agent security platform puts hardware at the centre of agent control, but it also forces enterprises to weigh stronger protection against higher infrastructure costs...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Nvidia ties AI agent security to BlueField-4, Vera CPU
Over the past year, Nvidia has repeatedly observed AI agents drifting beyond approved workflows. In some cases, agents quietly escalated read permissions to write access, sent requests...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Jabil targets 24% growth in FY27 as AI hardware ramp reshapes business
Jabil's fourth quarter of fiscal 2026 marked the point at which AI data-center hardware became the clear center of gravity for the US contract manufacturer. Revenue for the three months...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Trump-Xi talks leave chip policies unchanged; US guards AI advantage while China pursues self-reliance
Following the summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, market observers broadly agreed that the talks yielded few surprises. The meeting produced...