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Friday 21 August 2026
Huawei, China power giant Huaneng explore AI compute-power coordination
China Huaneng Group said on August 20 that chairman Wen Shugang and president Zhong Guodong recently visited Huawei in Shenzhen, where they met Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei to discuss...
Friday 21 August 2026
SK Chairman warns of 2027 memory shortage, ties expansion to long-term orders
SK Group Chairman Tae-Won Chey said in a recent interview with CNBC that memory demand is surging explosively and that the most severe "memory shortage" will hit in 2027. He also apologized...
Friday 21 August 2026
Taiwan automation shifts from hardware specs to AI platforms and open robot architectures
Taiwan's automation industry is moving beyond the traditional race over robot-arm payload, servo precision, and sensor resolution. At the 2026 Automation Taipei and Taiwan Automation...
Friday 21 August 2026
Google, Marvell long-term deal keeps Broadcom at bay, limits MediaTek impact

Marvell filed a Form 8-K with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on August 19, 2026, revealing that it signed a commercial agreement...

Friday 21 August 2026
Power supply lags behind AI compute growth: chips, optical interconnects battle for energy efficiency

At the "AI on Chips: Semiconductor Industry Trends Forum" hosted by DIGITIMES in Taipei on August 20, semiconductor, investment, and...

Friday 21 August 2026
Xiaomi's Xring O3 nears launch on TSMC N3P, testing its in-house chip strategy
Xiaomi is preparing to take its in-house smartphone silicon further upmarket, with founder and chairman Lei Jun confirming that a new generation of its Xring chip is on the...
Friday 21 August 2026
Apple's VR retreat deepens with rumored layoffs in its Vision team
Apple's spatial computing ambitions are narrowing rather than disappearing, but the direction is increasingly clear: fewer people are building VR headsets, and more are building AI-driven...
Friday 21 August 2026
Research Insight: 2028 key year for optical interconnects in AI racks
Optical communications will likely enter AI server racks in 2028, DIGITIMES analyst Joyce Chen said on August 20 at a semiconductor industry forum in Taipei, as rising AI cluster scale...
Friday 21 August 2026
HP Korea localizes AI strategy with Upstage in healthcare, finance
HP Korea is sharpening its localized AI strategy through a partnership with large language model (LLM) startup Upstage, and has already moved into AI transformation (AX), eyeing demand...
Friday 21 August 2026
Goertek reports higher revenue and profit in 1H26
Chinese electronics manufacturer Goertek reported higher revenue and profit for the first half of 2026, supported by growth in its smart acoustic products and continued investment...
Friday 21 August 2026
Chinese robots pivot to AI models as Unitree, UBTECH shift hardware focus to 'brains'

The battlefield for Chinese humanoid robotics is shifting from motors, joints, and mechanical structures toward AI large models. As embodied...

Friday 21 August 2026
Anthropic venture acquires Casper Studios to expand enterprise AI services
Ode with Anthropic, an Anthropic venture arm, said it has acquired Casper Studios, a move that expands its enterprise artificial intelligence services as companies worldwide look for...
Friday 21 August 2026
800VDC adoption in AI data centers is set to reshape power chip demand
A shift to 800VDC power architectures in next-generation AI data centers is gathering pace, with implications for GPU planning, power semiconductor demand, and rack design. Many vendors...
Friday 21 August 2026
Taiwan export orders near US$98 billion in July, with US as top buyer
Taiwan's export orders climbed by US$207.3 billion, or 52.5%, in the first seven months of 2026 compared with the same period in 2025, according to data released on August 20 by the...
Friday 21 August 2026
Stripe weighs US$7 billion OpenRouter deal to expand AI model routing
Stripe is in acquisition talks to buy AI startup OpenRouter for more than US$7 billion, according to reporting by Bloomberg and Axios. The price would be more than...