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Friday 28 August 2026
Nvidia forms PAC to expand Washington lobbying
According to Bloomberg, Nvidia has formed a federal political action committee (PAC), expanding its Washington presence as governments debate artificial intelligence rules...
Friday 28 August 2026
Nvidia's upbeat outlook points to tighter AI supply chains ahead
Nvidia's latest earnings and forecast suggest AI demand remains far ahead of available supply, with implications for memory, power, cooling, and networking worldwide. The chipmaker's...
Friday 28 August 2026
Insight: China's next AI frontier is silicon, not smarter models
For the past two years, China's AI companies have competed on a single axis: whose model performs best. That contest is starting to give way to a harder one — whether those models...
Friday 28 August 2026
Long-term contracts tie up InP capacity due to data center optics demand
Compound semiconductor supply-chain players say China has recently eased some substrate export controls, but the upgrade of high-frequency transmission in AI data centers toward 200G...
Friday 28 August 2026
Analysis: Nvidia beats, Taiwan wins — and hyperscalers race to make AI pay
Nvidia reported revenue of US$96.221 billion in the second quarter of fiscal 2027, more than doubling from a year earlier and underscoring the global rush to build AI infrastructure...
Friday 28 August 2026
Anthropic opens research preview of hardware standard for AI agents
A new hardware standard could make it easier for AI agents to operate laboratory and factory equipment across borders and industries. Anthropic says its Model Hardware Standard aims...
Friday 28 August 2026
Google moves AI safety team into global affairs in DeepMind overhaul
Google is shifting a roughly 90-person artificial intelligence responsibility team out of DeepMind and into its global affairs organization as part of a wider reorganization in early...
Friday 28 August 2026
Workday says Taiwan, Hong Kong firms lag in AI workflow integration
Enterprise AI tools are spreading quickly across Taiwan and Hong Kong, but a new Workday study found that many employees are still losing time to disconnected systems, repeated data...
Friday 28 August 2026
Marvell raises its outlook twice in two quarters as custom silicon, scale-up optics broaden
Marvell Technology used its second-quarter fiscal 2027 earnings call on August 27 to lift its revenue outlook for a second consecutive quarter, and the composition of the raise says...
Friday 28 August 2026
Marvell revenue climbs 37% to a record US$2.74 billion on data center demand
Marvell Technology's second quarter of fiscal 2027 was the point at which its data center business stopped being the growth engine attached to a diversified infrastructure chipmaker...
Friday 28 August 2026
Honor Robot Phone enters mass production, making robotics central to its premium AI strategy
More than a year after Honor first debated the idea internally, its Robot Phone has moved from a contentious concept to a mass-produced commercial product. But the significance of...
Friday 28 August 2026
LG Innotek wins Zoox camera module order for robotaxi production
LG Innotek said it will mass produce and supply automotive camera modules for Zoox, Amazon's autonomous vehicle unit. The deal marks the Korean component maker's first mass production...
Friday 28 August 2026
Taiwan's next biotech prescription: AI drug discovery, smart devices, biomedical chips
Taiwan is charting a new direction for its biomedical industry, drawing on its strengths in semiconductors, AI hardware, precision manufacturing and healthcare. AI-powered drug discovery,...
Friday 28 August 2026
China's humanoid boom hits its next bottleneck: making robots measurable, interoperable, safe
Capital interest in China has become unusually concentrated on robotics following a state-backed commitment to redirect sizable portions of tech-related incentives from a perfectly...
Friday 28 August 2026
China's industrial reboot: AI, chips, robotics, 6G define next five years
China is setting out a five-year industrial strategy centred on artificial intelligence (AI), semiconductors, 6G, robotics and advanced manufacturing, seeking to strengthen the country's...