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Monday 17 August 2026
Record orders, yet profits squeezed: Asia-Pacific electronics supply chain caught in cost crunch

Global Electronics Association survey data show that demand across the global electronics manufacturing industry maintained steady...

Monday 17 August 2026
LG-Nvidia physical AI partnership speeds up as robotics chief reportedly heads to South Korea

Less than a week after LG Group and Nvidia signed a strategic memorandum of understanding (MOU), Madison Huang, Nvidia's senior director...

Monday 17 August 2026
Nvidia closing in on US$100B credit guarantee deal for OpenAI's Ohio data center
Nvidia is approaching an agreement to provide credit guarantees of around US$100 billion for OpenAI's 10GW data center in Ohio, among the largest AI infrastructure projects ever, according...
Monday 17 August 2026
LG, Nvidia step up humanoid push with robot data factory

Nvidia's Madison Huang is set to visit LG Electronics' Yangjae R&D campus in Seoul on August 18 to inspect the company's robot data...

Monday 17 August 2026
Taiwan extends graduate stays to 2 years to ease talent shortages
Taiwan has begun allowing overseas Chinese and foreign graduates with associate degrees or higher to extend their residence for up to two years, a change that has already driven a...
Monday 17 August 2026
India draws 20 bids for rare earth magnet manufacturing scheme
India's Ministry of Heavy Industries (MHI) has received 20 bids from domestic and global companies under its scheme to promote manufacturing of sintered rare earth permanent magnets...
Monday 17 August 2026
Anthropic, OpenAI's looming mega-IPOs heat up AI revenue race

Anthropic and OpenAI are turning their AI rivalry into a revenue race, with both companies posting sharp growth, gaining enterprise...

Monday 17 August 2026
Tata succession clouds outlook for chips, clean energy, data centers

Tata's leadership transition may shape the pace of one of India's biggest industrial bets. The group's planned spending on chips, clean...

Monday 17 August 2026
Apple reportedly builds China-specific AI model with Alibaba as Qwen partnership deepens
Apple has trained a large language model (LLM) specifically for the Chinese market with support from Alibaba, according to Reuters, marking a shift from its previous reliance...
Monday 17 August 2026
Apple faces US pressure over potential Chinese memory chip sourcing
The Trump administration is pressing Apple to find alternatives to Chinese memory suppliers as the company weighs ways to navigate a global memory shortage that has sharply increased...
Monday 17 August 2026
OCP APAC 2026: When AI starts running the hardware that runs it
The tech industry has long been fixated on one persistent bottleneck: the physical limitations of high compute in the AI era. But what if the industry's focus, rather than pouring...
Monday 17 August 2026
AI server growth is lifting Taiwan ODM revenue, but margins now face the harder test
Taiwan's top six original design manufacturers are seeing AI servers become the main revenue engine in 2026, but the boom is also bringing heavier exposure to expensive GPUs, CPUs,...
Monday 17 August 2026
Weekly news roundup: AI expansion fuels supernodes, post-HBM memory, liquid cooling and supply-chain shifts
This week's most-read stories traced the AI boom across the stack, from supernodes and next-generation memory to liquid cooling, solar power, telecom services and PCB demand. Below...
Monday 17 August 2026
Stripe reportedly agrees to buy AI routing startup OpenRouter for more than US$7 billion
Stripe has reportedly finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter, a startup that helps businesses switch between artificial intelligence (AI) models, for more than US$7 billion,...
Monday 17 August 2026
Modi pledges more chip plants, mass AI training, and an export push in Independence Day address
Prime Minister Narendra Modi used India's 80th Independence Day address from the Red Fort on August 15 to tie semiconductor manufacturing, artificial intelligence training, and trade...