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Friday 2 October 2026
Nidec impairment loss far exceeds estimates as auditor withholds opinion
Japanese motor and electronic components maker Nidec said on September 30 that its long-delayed consolidated financial report for fiscal year 2025 (from April 2025 to March 2026) showed...
Friday 2 October 2026
LG Electronics, LS Electric target AI data center bottlenecks with US cooling capacity, 345kV power deals
South Korea's LG Electronics and LS Electric are expanding deeper into AI data center infrastructure, targeting two of the fastest-growing bottlenecks around high-density computing:...
Friday 2 October 2026
California tech exec arrested in US$300M Nvidia AI server smuggling case
US federal prosecutors on October 1 arrested a 38-year-old California man accused of violating US export controls by smuggling computer servers containing US$300 million worth of Nvidia...
Friday 2 October 2026
AMD bets on AI demand by buying World Labs
Under Lisa Su's 12-year tenure at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), the company has gradually moved beyond its role as Intel's challenger in the CPU market. But in the accelerator market...
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
China AI infrastructure spreads to mid-sized firms
China's AI investment is increasingly turning into server purchases and data center construction, and the wave that began with large tech companies is now spreading to mid-sized firms...
Friday 2 October 2026
Commentary: Broadcom's US$42 billion Anthropic loan exposes AI's emerging chip-financing loop
When the underlying economics of infrastructure commitments meet the financing muscle of the companies supplying foundational compute, the traditional boundary between supplier and...
Friday 2 October 2026
Column: AI benchmarks remain lucrative business
New AI models arrive every few weeks, and the question of which is better often comes down to the leaderboard. Behind those rankings, evaluation can look like an academic exercise...
Friday 2 October 2026
SK Hynix says Solidigm IPO remains undecided as AI storage demand drives investment
SK Hynix has reiterated that no decision has been made on a potential US initial public offering (IPO) or other external financing for its Solidigm subsidiary, as the company weighs...
Friday 2 October 2026
Toshiba reportedly to double HDD production as AI drives storage demand
Toshiba plans to double production capacity for hard disk drives (HDDs) used in AI data centers by fiscal 2027, investing about JPY60 billion (US$379.4 million) to expand its Philippine...
Friday 2 October 2026
Meta hires MongoDB CEO to lead AI enterprise platform
Meta has launched a new business unit, "Meta Enterprise Platform," to package its artificial intelligence (AI) models, agent tools, and infrastructure for enterprise customers, and...
Friday 2 October 2026
Climax Technology sets up AI center, targets 3Q27 sampling
Wireless communications company Climax Technology is accelerating its AI push by launching an "AI and Advanced Technology Center," with its first project a next-generation AI sensing...
Friday 2 October 2026
GMI Cloud secures NT$14.05 billion loan for AI factory
CTBC Bank and GMI Cloud on October 1 announced the closing of an NT$14.05 billion (about US$445 million) syndicated credit facility to fund Taiwan's first AI factory. The deal is the...
Friday 2 October 2026
Samsung SDI's new LFP battery shows how AI is reshaping battery markets beyond EVs
The aggressive rollout of large-scale infrastructure projects has brought increasingly visible changes across global economies and major technology supply chains, with much of that...
Friday 2 October 2026
Huawei leads global smartwatch market, but earbuds reveal different competitive picture
Huawei has regained momentum across its consumer device business, but its position in the global wearables market is becoming increasingly uneven: the Chinese technology giant has...