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Monday 31 August 2026
Cook made sustainability an Apple feature; the ledger he leaves John Ternus is mixed
Tim Cook's most durable non-financial decision was to treat environmental and social performance as product attributes rather than corporate disclosure. It worked well enough that...
Monday 31 August 2026
The architect of Apple's China machine also built its hardest problem
What Tim Cook leaves John Ternus on September 1 is best measured not by margin but by geography. Cook spent twenty-eight years concentrating Apple's manufacturing in one country, then...
Monday 31 August 2026
MetaX posts first-half profit while China's AI GPU rivals split
MetaX posted its first half-year profit since listing, with rising GPU shipments and the mass production of its C600 accelerator strengthening its commercial position while China's...
Monday 31 August 2026
OpenAI to pull its models from Cursor, highlighting tension with SpaceX's Elon Musk
OpenAI announced that it will end its contract allowing its models to be used on Cursor due to the latter's acquisition by SpaceX. The development indicates the tense personal relationship...
Monday 31 August 2026
Asus launches physical AI business group, shifting from EMS to humanoid robots
Asustek Computer (Asus) is accelerating its artificial intelligence (AI) transformation plan, announcing the rebranding of its AIoT Business Group into the Physical AI Solutions Business...
Monday 31 August 2026
Taiwan manufacturing know-how is key physical AI asset
As artificial intelligence (AI) technology rapidly evolves, physical AI for industrial applications is drawing growing attention because repeatable and scalable tasks play to AI's...
Monday 31 August 2026
SiFive BigSky brings RISC-V into data centers with CUDA, Nvidia links and enterprise Linux
SiFive has introduced its BigSky SF-2U870 development server, positioning the 2U rack system as a platform for hyperscalers, software vendors and SoC developers to port server workloads...
Monday 31 August 2026
Interview: Taiwan's National Atomic Research Institute eyes SMRs for AI power shift
As global net-zero efforts intensify, governments and major technology companies are investing in emerging nuclear technologies to meet the huge electricity demand from AI data centers...
Monday 31 August 2026
Musk tackles key AI power bottleneck with in-house turbine foundry
A move by SpaceX to manufacture turbine blades in-house could ease a global bottleneck in AI infrastructure, where power equipment is now as constrained as chips. If successful, the...
Monday 31 August 2026
AI smart glasses race heats up as MEMS enable wearability
Once mocked as "computers on the nose bridge," AI smart glasses have long suffered from a trade-off between advanced AI capabilities and lightweight comfort. However, this race is...
Monday 31 August 2026
India roundup: India broadens semiconductor and AI ambitions across manufacturing, design, materials and data centers
India's semiconductor ambitions are expanding from packaging and testing to chip design, materials, mobile devices and data centers. New investments by CG Power, Infineon, Foxconn,...
Monday 31 August 2026
USI advances optical interconnect push with ELSFP laser module
Universal Scientific Industrial (USI), part of ASE Technology Holding, is expanding its optical interconnect footprint for AI data centers. EugenLight Technologies, in which USI holds...
Monday 31 August 2026
Repon to ship Vera Rubin rails in August, ramp ASIC in September
Server rail maker Repon began shipping Nvidia's Vera Rubin rack products in August 2026, with ASIC server rack rails set for mass production in September. The higher average selling...
Monday 31 August 2026
Tex Year's specialty chemicals push could reshape its growth mix as AI and optics expand
Tex Year is widening its specialty chemicals business beyond LCDs and electronics into AI servers, in-vehicle electronics, Mini LED, and optical lenses, while also targeting optical...
Sunday 30 August 2026
China writes its first national liquid-cooling standard as AI racks approach 1MW
AI infrastructure is entering a phase in which GPUs are no longer the only constraint. Nvidia's Vera Rubin generation is pushing rack power high enough to force parallel changes in...