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Thursday 27 August 2026
KKCompany returns to Taiwan capital market
KKCompany, the parent company of KKBox, said it will list on Taiwan's emerging stock market on August 31, with Fubon Securities serving as lead underwriter and advisor, returning to...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Nvidia Vera Rubin drives 800VDC, lifts BBU demand
Nvidia's GPU roadmap is pushing 800VDC into the spotlight as a key next-generation breakthrough, with battery backup modules (BBUs) set to gain in both quality and volume as high-density...
Thursday 27 August 2026
TI's multiaxial sensor exposes the next EV inverter race: precision catches up with power density
As EV traction inverters increasingly migrate toward 800V architectures, demand for further technological upgrades designed to improve current-sensing performance has pushed the automotive...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Ford adopts Apple Maps data for next-gen smart driving
Ford Motor Company has announced that it will be adopting Apple's MapKit for Automotive software development kit (SDK) for its own universal EV platform, and feed Apple Maps data to...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Chart: Hyperscale capex dollar is buying less Nvidia than it did one year ago
The five largest cloud operators spent US$181.5 billion on property and equipment in the June quarter, 87% more than a year earlier. Nvidia's hyperscale revenue was US$48.7 billion...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Washington's silicon-anode bet tests whether battery innovation can break China's graphite grip
The years-long tug-of-war between the US and China has witnessed a head-on showdown over technological might, as stringent export controls and tightening restrictions continue to push...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Nvidia H200 China sales stall, with US$400M inventory charge
Nvidia said in its fiscal 2027 second-quarter results on the 27th that it sold a small number of H200 artificial intelligence (AI) processors to Chinese customers last quarter, marking...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Nvidia's inventory build shifts upstream as memory costs bite
Nvidia closed its second fiscal quarter with US$31.6 billion of inventory, but the more consequential change is what that inventory now consists of. Work in process and raw materials...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Chart: Nvidia's segment split tells only half the AI demand story
Nvidia's data center business now splits almost evenly between hyperscalers and everyone else — US$48.7 billion against US$40.3 billion in the July quarter. The obvious reading...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Nvidia reportedly acquires Hugging Face for US$12.9 billion, tying open-source AI to chip dominance
Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for US$12.9 billion, giving the AI chipmaker control of one of the most widely used platforms for open-source models, datasets, and AI deployment...
Thursday 27 August 2026
China shifts autonomous driving liability to automakers in draft traffic law
China is moving to address one of autonomous driving's most contentious and long-unresolved questions: when a Level 3 advanced automated driving system is engaged and a traffic violation...
Thursday 27 August 2026
China's AI software strategy gains scale as OpenHarmony ecosystem tops 1.35 billion devices
China is placing artificial intelligence, industrial software and open-source ecosystems at the centre of its next phase of manufacturing digitalisation, seeking to strengthen domestic...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Tri-fold, rollable foldables intensify materials supply chain battle
Samsung Electronics' first tri-fold handset of 2025, the Galaxy Z TriFold, has repeatedly sold out, but with global shipments of only about 30,000 units, it functioned more as a technology...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Tesla goes local in China, swapping Grok for ByteDance's Doubao LLM in smart cockpits
Tesla once tried to license its electrification and automated driving technologies to mainstream automakers through tech-transfer agreements, but none of those deals materialized....
Thursday 27 August 2026
Analysis: From Starlink to Starmind, Nvidia deal reveals SpaceX's blueprint for an orbital AI economy
The recent disclosure of SpaceX's partnership with Nvidia to deploy Vera CPUs as part of the architecture behind SpaceXAI's Starmind AI satellite was an outright showcase of where...