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Friday 2 January 2026
Baidu's AI chip unit Kunlunxin confidentially files for Hong Kong IPO
Baidu is moving forward with plans to spin off its AI chip unit, Kunlunxin, and list it in Hong Kong, highlighting the company's push for semiconductor self-sufficiency. On January...
Friday 2 January 2026
Meta finalizes Butterfly Effect acquisition, eyes Manus as monetization model
Meta announced on December 30, 2025, that it had acquired Butterfly Effect, the company behind the AI application, Manus. Compared to nearly two years ago, when ByteDance attempted...
Friday 2 January 2026
Walsin Lihwa and Taya see copper price gains extend to 2026 on AI, EV, grid demand
Copper prices are expected to continue rising through 2026, driven by strong demand from AI data center construction, growth in the electric vehicle (EV) industry, and power grid modernization...
Friday 2 January 2026
Taiwan networking firms expect 2026 growth as AI drives switch upgrades and Wi‑Fi 7 adoption
Taiwanese networking companies are broadly optimistic about returning to growth in 2026 as an AI-driven expansion moves beyond chips and servers into network transmission layers, and...
Friday 2 January 2026
DeepMind argues AGI may emerge as network of AI agents rather than single superintelligence
As AI moves from labs to everyday applications, 2025 is emerging as the year AI Agents begin transforming human interaction with technology, shifting from simple assistants to autonomous...
Friday 2 January 2026
Budget impasse halts Taiwan's first quantum-classical hybrid platform, undermining computing sovereignty
Taiwan's push to build strategic AI, robotics, and quantum computing infrastructure is facing delays after the National Science and Technology Council's (NSTC) NT$10.85 billion (approx...
Friday 2 January 2026
Taiwan's AI and robotics agenda stalls as legislative deadlock over 2026 budget continues
Taiwan's drive to scale artificial intelligence and robotics faces a critical setback as political deadlock in the Legislative Yuan blocks passage of the 2026 central government budget,...
Friday 2 January 2026
Power supply chain weighs price hikes, long-term contracts as copper price increases
In the midst of the global energy transition, expanding AI infrastructure, and rising electricity demand, international copper prices have recently remained at high levels, bringing...
Friday 2 January 2026
Foxconn partners with Pace CCS to advance carbon capture tech in Taiwan
Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision) has teamed up with UK-based carbon capture and storage (CCS) design firm Pace CCS to establish a joint laboratory in Taiwan, focusing on developing corrosion-prevention...
Friday 2 January 2026
Smartphones and notebook prices could increase as memory lead times extend
Demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) is crowding out production capacity for consumer memory. Despite capacity expansions by major memory makers, including Micron, Samsung, and SK...
Friday 2 January 2026
South Korea's quantum equipment makers anticipate major orders as data centers adopt QPU
As quantum technology, one of South Korea's national strategic technologies, gradually shifts from government-led R&D to the private sector, growing AI computing workloads have...
Friday 2 January 2026
Budget delays risk sidelining Taiwan in 2026 silicon photonics and CPO takeoff, NSTC warns
Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) has raised concerns that prolonged delays in budget approvals could cause Taiwan to miss the critical 2026 global takeoff for...
Friday 2 January 2026
Foxconn-backed Foxtron outlines 2026 growth plans amid 2025 revenue challenges
Foxtron, backed by Foxconn, held an investor briefing on December 31, 2025, to review recent performance and forecast its strategy amid a cautious market outlook for 2026. Despite...
Friday 2 January 2026
Edge AI poised for commercial breakthrough in 2026, driving industrial PC market shifts
As artificial intelligence (AI) moves beyond its infrastructure build-out phase, the industrial PC (IPC) sector anticipates 2026 as a key year for scaling AI from centralized cloud...
Friday 2 January 2026
CES 2026 to spotlight AI as central theme with hardware and everyday life integration
The upcoming CES 2026 is set to elevate artificial intelligence (AI) from a prominent topic to the exclusive central theme, reflecting the technology's maturation toward everyday application...