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Tuesday 1 September 2026
Research insights: AI Fabric optical interconnects move into racks as 400G/lane and CPO maturity emerge as key variables
DIGITIMES observed that as AI systems continued to scale, interconnect requirements inside AI data centers had expanded from chips, packages, and boards to racks, clusters, and eventually...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Z.ai runs GLM inference on 100,000 Chinese AI chips, eyes overseas CSPs
Chinese large-model developer Z.ai says it can now support large-scale inference using roughly 100,000 domestically produced AI chips, while its GLM models are also moving closer to...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
LG Energy Solution secures long-term US lithium supply
LG Energy Solution has signed a long-term supply agreement with Smackover Lithium for battery-grade lithium carbonate, a move that could strengthen supply chains for energy storage...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Anthropic's rumored US$35 billion Lambda deal shows how far Nvidia will go to bankroll its own customers
Anthropic has reportedly signed a cloud-computing contract worth US$35 billion with Lambda, an Nvidia-backed cloud provider, under which Nvidia itself holds the data center lease,...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Cisco: CPO is ready for mass deployment amid surging AI data-center demand
For global cloud operators and network vendors, Cisco said co-packaged optics (CPO) is moving from lab promise to commercial necessity as AI data centers strain power budgets and bandwidth...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Huawei's revenue climbs 9.6%, but AI, chips and HarmonyOS exact heavier R&D toll
Huawei Technologies increased first-half revenue in 2026 while profit fell sharply, highlighting the growing cost of its effort to build a self-sufficient technology stack spanning...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
China's humanoid robot cost cuts run into three bottlenecks
Humanoid robot scaling is still constrained by price, and Chinese humanoid robots — which command the largest global market share — show a sharp gap between consumer and...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Taiwan's G2C+ Alliance members target global markets
Artificial intelligence (AI) chips are driving a new wave of integration competition among Taiwan semiconductor equipment makers. Taiwan's G2C+ strategic alliance, comprised of C Sun,...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Nvidia's MediaTek investment signals a broader push to shape AI infrastructure
Nvidia's US$3.5 billion investment in MediaTek's overseas convertible bonds marks more than a financial bet. It underscores how the chip leader is trying to anchor its AI infrastructure...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Nvidia and MediaTek link AI technologies in bid to accelerate custom data center chip adoption
Nvidia and MediaTek are widening a global AI partnership that could reshape data center, edge, and PC hardware markets. MediaTek's US$3.9 billion overseas convertible bond sale, largely...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
China's Xenomi LLM brings quantum computing into AI agent decision-making
China is testing a new route for combining quantum computing with generative AI, moving beyond model training toward the decision layer used by AI agents. Beijing Guoguang Liangchao...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Commentary: Why America fell behind on Open models — and how Nvidia plans to close the gap
When DeepSeek burst onto the scene in early 2025, it wiped nearly US$600 billion from Nvidia's market value in a single day. By the summer of 2026, Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 had triggered...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Taiwan workplace AI use reaches 96% as employers push skills upgrades
Ninety-six percent of professionals in Taiwan use AI in the workplace, topping the Asia-wide average of 93%, according to a new survey released by Robert Walters. The report, which...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Humanoid robots gain a sense of touch, lifting tactile sensor adoption above 60%
If vision serves as a robot's eyes, tactile sensors function as its skin and peripheral nerves. In China, leading dexterous-hand makers have increasingly begun treating tactile sensing...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
OpenAI compresses Jalapeno design to 9 months
OpenAI unveiled performance results for its in-house AI chip Jalapeno at Hot Chips 2026 ahead of Nvidia's latest earnings report, underscoring not whether it can beat GB200 or GB300,...