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Thursday 16 July 2026
Apple lawsuit targets OpenAI's AI hardware ambitions
Apple has sued OpenAI for allegedly stealing trade secrets, but the real fight is over who controls the entry points of AI. As LLM technology converges, the case shows that competition...
Thursday 16 July 2026
Commentary: Ennoconn-Kontron deal highlights physical AI supply chain reshuffle

AI technologies and applications have matured rapidly in recent years. That has driven trends such as edge AI and physical AI. The...

Thursday 16 July 2026
Nvidia expands Japan AI partnerships with Kawasaki, Toyota, and industrial leaders

Nvidia unveiled a series of new partnerships in Japan on July 16, 2026, highlighting the growing adoption of AI across manufacturing, robotics,...

Thursday 16 July 2026
OnePlus's rumored Western exit signals deeper strain from the memory crisis for phone brands

OnePlus, an Android brand that once cultivated a devoted following among enthusiasts, is reportedly preparing to cease operations in...

Thursday 16 July 2026
Samsung may scale back foldable storage upgrades as memory costs rise
Samsung Electronics is reportedly preparing to reduce a long-running preorder perk for its next Galaxy foldables as memory prices climb. According to ChosunBiz, the South...
Thursday 16 July 2026
Taiwan power device makers gain from automotive inventory buildup and order shifting
Semiconductor supply chains remain tight, and Taiwan power device suppliers say the automotive market, after two years of inventory digestion, is now building up extra stock to avoid...
Thursday 16 July 2026
Silan Microelectronics forecasts stronger first-half 2026 profit on sales growth and investment gains
Hangzhou Silan Microelectronics said its first-half 2026 profit is set to rise sharply, driven by revenue growth, product upgrades, and fair-value gains on financial assets. The outlook...
Wednesday 15 July 2026
Lenovo says US ThinkBook models do not use YMTC SSDs
Lenovo, responding to recent reporting that its ThinkBook 14 G9 IPL business notebook uses solid-state drives (SSDs) from Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC), stressed that the unit...
Wednesday 15 July 2026
MacBook Neo drives Apple notebook shipments up 10% but A18 Pro shortages cap growth

Apple's MacBook Neo is selling briskly, lifting the company's notebook brand shipments by more than 10% year on year in the second...

Wednesday 15 July 2026
OpenAI's rumored screenless speaker takes on Apple, Amazon, and Google in the living room— and in courts

OpenAI's first consumer device is shaping up as a direct bid for the center of the home, a move that would pit the ChatGPT maker against...

Wednesday 15 July 2026
EU carves out smart glasses and wearables from battery-removal rules, easing a barrier for Meta

The European Commission has exempted a swathe of connected consumer and industrial products from its rule requiring that portable batteries...

Wednesday 15 July 2026
China's EV upgrade race leaves automakers selling more, earning less

China's electric vehicle market is entering a harsher phase. Consumers are replacing cars at an unusually rapid pace, yet automakers are...

Wednesday 15 July 2026
Memory-cost squeeze is reshaping China's smartphone market, and only Huawei and Apple are winning from it
China's smartphone market is being reordered by the cost of the parts inside the phone rather than by any loss of appetite for the devices, and the second quarter of 2026 showed that...
Wednesday 15 July 2026
India fines HP India US$1.25 million over toner-cartridge cartel, part of a wider INR142 crore penalty
India's antitrust regulator has penalized HP India and 16 of its resellers for rigging bids in the sale of printer consumables, in one of two orders that together impose the country's...