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Friday 11 September 2026
GPU economics face pressure as token prices fall, d-Matrix says
Falling token prices are putting pressure on the economics of GPU-based AI inference, potentially prompting data center operators to rethink how workloads are divided across compute...
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...
Wednesday 9 September 2026
Update: US finalizes US$775 million in CHIPS quantum awards, with equity attached
Washington has converted the largest federal bet yet on quantum computing from a promise into a contract, and it is taking ownership in return. On Sept. 8, the US Department of Commerce...
Wednesday 9 September 2026
Weblink posts record August revenue on AI, premium computing demand
Acer subsidiary Weblink International reported record August consolidated revenue of NT$3.246 billion in 2026, up 41.52% from a year earlier, as demand for mid- to high-end computing...
Wednesday 9 September 2026
Cambricon takes a PyTorch Foundation board seat as China's chip challengers turn to software
Cambricon has joined the PyTorch Foundation as a Platinum member, taking one seat on its Governing Board and one on its Technical Advisory Council. The Linux Foundation announced the...
Tuesday 8 September 2026
Xiaomi debuts 18 fold to challenge Huawei and Samsung in wide-screen foldable race
The flagship foldable market has reached a pivotal turning point as tech giants abandon tall, narrow cover screens in favor of wider aspect ratios and custom processing hardware. Xiaomi's...
Tuesday 8 September 2026
What to expect at CIOE, Shenzhen's optoelectronics mega-expo
This week, DIGITIMES heads to Shenzhen to cover an expo showcasing the world of optoelectronics, a class of technologies that serves as the link between electricity and light. In today's...
Tuesday 8 September 2026
Shining a Light on the Precision Behind AI and Data Infrastructure

Discussion around advances in AI will often focus on model performance, chip launches, and compute scale. In practice, however, progress increasingly depends on something...

Monday 7 September 2026
How UC Santa Cruz's Silicon Valley lab is reverse-engineering the human brain to solve AI's chip power crisis
As the global race for artificial intelligence (AI) consumes vast oceans of electricity and pushes modern utility grids to the brink, a team of California researchers is looking to...