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Wednesday 5 August 2026
Memory crunch deepens PC slump as Apple, Nvidia emerge as rare bright spots
After a brief recovery in 2025, the PC supply chain had hoped the market would return to sustained growth. Instead, AI server demand has squeezed memory production capacity, driving...
Wednesday 5 August 2026
Apple seeks injunction against OpenAI as trade secrets battle over AI hardware intensifies

Apple has asked a US federal judge to issue a preliminary injunction preventing OpenAI and two former Apple employees from accessing, using,...

Wednesday 5 August 2026
SpaceX revenue surges 92% as Starlink and AI offset widening rocket investments
SpaceX posted stronger-than-expected second-quarter results this year as rapid growth in Starlink connectivity and AI infrastructure revenue helped narrow losses, even as heavy investment...
Wednesday 5 August 2026
Vanguard International Semiconductor sees AI demand lift mature-node prices through 2027
Demand for power management ICs (PMICs) driven by artificial intelligence (AI) servers continues to grow, accelerating the recovery of mature-node processes. Vanguard International...
Wednesday 5 August 2026
Analysis: AMD and Nvidia take opposite paths to capture next wave of AI infrastructure spending
Two earnings calls three months apart show AMD and Nvidia converging on the same AI infrastructure boom from opposite directions. AMD is building a single rack-scale platform, Helios,...
Wednesday 5 August 2026
US reportedly expands AI infrastructure security push with planned restrictions on Chinese optical transceivers

The Trump administration is preparing new restrictions on Chinese-made optical transceivers used in AI data centers, broadening Washington's...

Wednesday 5 August 2026
Smartphone makers brace for lower volumes, higher prices, and deeper market split
Apple, Qualcomm, and MediaTek delivered similar warnings last week: the global smartphone market is entering a more expensive, more polarized phase. For users, this means fewer affordable...
Wednesday 5 August 2026
Taiwan launches NT$10B fund to back biotech commercialization

Taiwan's National Development Fund Management Committee on the 4th approved a new NT$10 billion (US$308 million) investment program...

Wednesday 5 August 2026
Apple's India breakthrough highlights a market betting on premium over volume
Apple's India business crossing US$10 billion in annual sales for the first time is less a story about smartphone growth than about where growth is still possible in a market that,...
Wednesday 5 August 2026
Wistron sees AI demand widening as Taiwan ODMs gain pricing power

AI demand is giving Taiwan's contract manufacturers a rare opening, and Wistron expects the opportunity to broaden in the second half...

Wednesday 5 August 2026
SpaceX's first earnings as a public company show an AI bet outrunning its cash generation
SpaceX's debut quarterly report as a listed company laid out the scale of the wager it is making on artificial intelligence compute, a business now large enough to reshape the group's...
Wednesday 5 August 2026
AMD leans on Helios and hyperscaler deals to press its case against Nvidia in AI chips
AMD used its second-quarter 2026 results to reinforce a broader argument: that it can replicate in AI accelerators the market-share gains it has already made in server central processing...
Wednesday 5 August 2026
Cloud AI chipmakers race to secure capacity with long-term deals
Cloud AI chip demand remains exceptionally hot, forcing chipmakers to put advanced-node capacity at the top of their agenda. IC design firms say technical strength and cost are no...
Wednesday 5 August 2026
US dominates world's largest AI data centers as China places three in global top 60
The global race to build AI data centers is accelerating. According to Epoch AI's latest AI Data Centers report, more than 60 hyperscale AI data centers have either entered operation...
Wednesday 5 August 2026
Roborock breaks free from Xiaomi to lead robot vacuums

Roborock Technology, which started out in Xiaomi's ecosystem, has staged a comeback to become the global leader in robot vacuums. After...