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Monday 31 August 2026
Commentary: Malaysia's China dilemma sits at the heart of GATE 2026
The 2026 Global Automotive and Technology Expo (GATE 2026) closed on August 28 at the Malaysia International Trade and Exhibition Centre (MITEC) in Kuala Lumpur. It highlighted Malaysia's...
Monday 31 August 2026
Chinese robotaxis head for Seoul as Pony.ai and FutureLink plan a 200-vehicle fleet
A Chinese autonomous driving vendor is set to take a commercial position in a market whose own robotaxi industry has yet to clear the hurdle to commercialization. Pony.ai and South...
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
China's silicon wafer makers report profit gains of varying quality
Seven Chinese silicon wafer producers reported first-half 2026 results in the second half of August, indicating an uneven sector recovery. Several semiconductor-grade wafer makers...
Monday 31 August 2026
NewPower Worldwide expands credit facility to $750M for growth

NewPower Worldwide, one of the electronics industry's fastest-growing distributors, today announced it has expanded its committed credit facility to $750 million, further...

Monday 31 August 2026
AI pushes autonomous driving toward a more pragmatic commercial model
AI is reshaping the autonomous driving competition by shifting automakers away from an all-or-nothing race toward higher levels of self-driving. Instead, the industry is focusing on...
Sunday 30 August 2026
Innodisk says AI demand is lifting margins while memory supply remains tight
Innodisk said its AI-focused product mix is driving stronger revenue and profitability, a sign that global demand for memory and infrastructure hardware remains robust. The company...
Sunday 30 August 2026
Humanoid robot shipments top 22,000 in 1H26 as industrial use gains ground
As embodied intelligence takes physical form amid widespread production-capacity expansion in the humanoid robot sector, it is becoming increasingly possible to envision a society...
Saturday 29 August 2026
Samsung bets on JWMT: can glass substrates flip the script for South Korea in advanced packaging?
As artificial intelligence (AI) chips continue to scale up in physical size, semiconductor competition is rapidly extending beyond front-end node scaling into advanced packaging. The...
Saturday 29 August 2026
Commentary: China's robot games offer Taiwan a reality check
China's second humanoid robot games, held in Beijing from August 22 to August 26, 2026, sent videos and clips racing across social media and underscored how fast humanoid robotics...
Saturday 29 August 2026
China's dexterous-hand makers take center stage as three technology paths vie for humanoid robotics
China's humanoid robot industry is flourishing, and the recently concluded World Robot Conference (WRC) 2026 in Beijing revealed a notable shift in focus. Unlike previous years, when...
Saturday 29 August 2026
A smuggled motorcycle exposes what Taiwan's makers stopped building
The seizure of a Zhang Xue 820RR, a Chinese heavyweight motorcycle smuggled into Taiwan as parts and hand-assembled locally, has expanded far beyond a customs enforcement case. Following...
Friday 28 August 2026
Humanoid robot demand boosts planetary gear reducers
Apex Dynamics is optimistic about its business outlook for the second half of 2026, with planetary gear reducers emerging as a key growth driver. The company said its results for the...
Friday 28 August 2026
Huawei targets 100 million HarmonyOS 6 devices, paving way for global expansion next
Huawei rotating chairman Eric Xu said at the HarmonyOS Ecosystem Conference 2026 in Shenzhen on August 28 that the HarmonyOS ecosystem now has more than 100,000 native applications,...
Friday 28 August 2026
China chip profits jump 18.5-fold on AI demand; advanced-node self-sufficiency seen at 66% by 2035
China's AI investment boom is translating into sharply higher semiconductor profits while accelerating a longer-term expansion of domestic advanced-node capacity, memory production...