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Tuesday 15 September 2026
Global semiconductor revenue hits record US$425B in 2Q26
Global semiconductor revenue reached a record US$425 billion in the second quarter of 2026, surging 31.4% quarter-over-quarter, as AI demand and strong memory pricing continued to...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
China's space-computing race moves beyond single satellites: Shanghai's gigawatt-scale AI ambition lands in orbit
While the US showcases its strength as one of the world's established space powers — reinforced by SpaceX's growing dominance in satellite connectivity — a quieter but...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
OEM/EMS AI servers: August revenue trends, operational outlook

Taiwan's original equipment manufacturer/electronics manufacturing services (OEM/EMS) sector is witnessing a structural split between...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
AI's next bottleneck may be profitability, not compute, SK chair warns
For years, as the heat surrounding AI continued to build, competitiveness across the industry was largely measured by brute-force computing power. The broader infrastructure race was...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
Inside CIOE: takeaways from China's biggest optoelectronics show
Last week, from September 9 to 11, thousands of vendors gathered for an enormous trade show in the Chinese tech hub of Shenzhen. At the China International Optoelectronic Expo (CIOE),...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
Global data center capex could reach US$31.6 trillion by 2050 as AI demand surges
PwC and Oxford Economics jointly released their Global Data Centre Outlook 2026–50 in early September, projecting cumulative global...
Monday 14 September 2026
Kokusai Electric gains from Hitachi split as AI memory demand surges
Kokusai Electric, the semiconductor equipment maker spun off from Hitachi and later acquired by KKR, has emerged as one of the clearest winners from Hitachi's restructuring. According...
Monday 14 September 2026
Taiwan drone maker Twoway breaks into US defense supply chain with Oklahoma procurement deal
Twoway has signed an agency procurement contract with a purchasing delegation from Oklahoma, marking a breakthrough in its defense strategy as it expands North American deployment...
Monday 14 September 2026
Samsung, SK Hynix reject US$19 billion power prepayment as Korea speeds chip expansion

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix have rejected a proposal to prepay KRW25 trillion (approx. US$18.7 billion) in electricity bills, highlighting...

Monday 14 September 2026
Taiwan eases investment rules for AI center infrastructure projects
Taiwan's government has limited budgets to build the AI computing infrastructure the country needs, and infrastructure that a government runs itself cannot easily turn a profit. To...
Monday 14 September 2026
Z.ai reloads with US$5 billion for China's AI race

Chinese artificial intelligence developer Z.ai (formerly Zhipu AI) plans to raise about US$5 billion through a Hong Kong share placement...

Monday 14 September 2026
AI infrastructure race shifts to Grid-to-Chip as Foxconn, Delta, Flex converge on the same track

As computing power and per-rack power density for AI servers continue to climb, industry competition is expanding beyond GPUs, servers,...

Monday 14 September 2026
Weekly news roundup: HBM4 strain, Intel price hikes and the next AI infrastructure buildout
AI demand remained the dominant force across semiconductors, memory, foundry and data-center infrastructure this week. Intel raised CPU prices while Qualcomm and MediaTek targeted...
Sunday 13 September 2026
AI server tracker: Taiwan optics race beyond 1.6T

Taiwan's optical communications supply chain is entering a more consequential phase of the AI infrastructure cycle. Demand is broadening...

Sunday 13 September 2026
Taiwan's BTL builds new plant for high-power AI server testing, eyeing 4Q27 launch
Electronic testing and certification provider BTL Inc. has kicked off construction plans for Guishan Plant 3. The expansion targets high-power testing capacity for AI server systems,...