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Tuesday 1 September 2026
OpenAI compresses Jalapeno design to 9 months
OpenAI unveiled performance results for its in-house AI chip Jalapeno at Hot Chips 2026 ahead of Nvidia's latest earnings report, underscoring not whether it can beat GB200 or GB300,...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Luxnet eyes orders through 2028, DCI revenue set to double in 2027
AI-driven demand for optical transceiver modules is rising rapidly, and LuxNet said its business in the second half of 2026 will grow sharply from the first half. With capacity coming...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Kaimei sees 2H26 momentum strengthen as AI demand lifts orders and resistor price hikes take effect
Kaimei Electronics, a Yageo Group company, said order visibility remains strong for the second half of 2026 as AI server demand continues to ramp and automotive and industrial-control...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Silergy data center business surges as new products scale up
Silergy said at a recent earnings call that most of its applications, excluding its computing product line, posted quarter-over-quarter growth of more than 20% in the second quarter...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
AI Macs, Part 2: Mac mini, Mac Studio gain enterprise AI ground; Apple still lacks the platform
Apple's AI hardware momentum is forcing an enterprise question it did not plan for. Mac mini and Mac Studio are increasingly being used as local AI infrastructure, but Apple's business...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
John Ternus takes over an Apple with one growth engine, no obvious second
John Ternus becomes Apple's chief executive on September 1 with comfortable near-term numbers and an uncomfortable medium-term question. Apple's June quarter was a record. Its largest...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Analysis: Tim Cook hands Ternus a slower-growing but far richer Apple than the one Steve Jobs left him
When John Ternus becomes chief executive on September 1, the company he inherits will be measured on a scorecard Tim Cook wrote, not the one Steve Jobs left behind. Fifteen years of...
Monday 31 August 2026
China urges pragmatism over hype in rapidly expanding humanoid robotics market
According to OFweek Robotics, China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has issued a clear warning to the country's booming robotics sector: focus on practical...
Monday 31 August 2026
Smart manufacturing, robotics drive renewed growth in industrial PCs
The industrial PC (IPC) industry is entering a new AI-driven recovery cycle as artificial intelligence moves into a broader range of real-world applications. Market research estimates...
Monday 31 August 2026
U-Best races to launch PFAS-free coatings by 1Q27
U-Best Innovative Technology, a unit of Sun Yad Group, is accelerating development of fluorine-free coatings to capture replacement demand driven by EU and US state-level regulations...
Monday 31 August 2026
AI Macs, Part 1: OpenAI reportedly buys tens of thousands of Macs for reinforcement learning
Apple's Mac mini and Mac Studio are becoming unlikely fixtures in AI infrastructure. OpenAI has reportedly bought tens of thousands of the desktops for reinforcement learning and is...
Monday 31 August 2026
Unimicron search puts spotlight on cross-border manufacturing for Taiwan's electronics sector
Unimicron, a major Taiwanese IC substrate maker, came under intense supply chain scrutiny last week after reports that prosecutors and investigators searched the company over a suspected...
Monday 31 August 2026
Agentrys, agentic chip design startup backed by MediaTek, raises US$24.5M in funding
Chip design company Agentrys announced last week that it raised US$24.5 million in funding from backers including MediaTek. It is one among an emerging crop of startups using agentic...
Monday 31 August 2026
ASE: CPO scale-out demands deeper supply-chain coordination for mass production
SEMICON Taiwan 2026 kicked off its pre-show program with the Silicon Photonics Global Summit.
Monday 31 August 2026
US weighs limits on China's access to chips in overseas data centers
US restrictions on China's access to advanced computing could expand beyond physical chip shipments to the remote use of computing resources, potentially increasing compliance requirements...