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Wednesday 2 September 2026
Indium CEO: packaging, cooling and power are next AI bottlenecks
As AI and high-performance computing (HPC) continue to drive semiconductor advances, industry competition is shifting beyond chip performance toward packaging, cooling, assembly, and...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
Certain Micro targets AI test-interface demand with three Semicon products
As Semicon Taiwan 2026 gets underway, semiconductor test-interface structural parts maker Certain Micro Application Technology (CMAT) announced three core product lines aimed at rising...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
Energy and water: How to tackle the fab resource crunch
As artificial intelligence demand drives astronomical growth in advanced chip manufacturing, the semiconductor industry is hitting critical resource bottlenecks. Speaking at SEMICON...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
Operations shake-up: how SpaceX is reengineering its AI data center strategy
Elon Musk has restructured the SpaceX leadership team tasked with constructing the company's AI data centers, replacing several leaders with executives drawn from SpaceX's rocket and...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
Manus resumes independent operations after Meta deal collapses
Manus has resumed independent operations under its founding team, closing a turbulent chapter that began with Meta Platforms' multibillion-dollar acquisition of the AI agent startup...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
China moves to curb overseas price wars as automakers accelerate global expansion

China has introduced new guidelines aimed at steering its automotive industry toward more orderly competition overseas as domestic automakers...

Wednesday 2 September 2026
GoPro to merge with Starman Optical in US$285 million deal, pivoting deeper into AI and defense markets
GoPro's planned US$285 million merger with Starman Optical could give the struggling action-camera maker a path to recapitalize its balance sheet and expand into optical transceivers,...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, cuts agentic-task costs by up to 45%
Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, betting that cheaper agentic-AI economics and early scientific-research results will differentiate its latest models...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
Dell says enterprise AI customers accelerated even faster than its record orders suggest
Dell Technologies' quarterly results showed record AI server orders and backlog, but executives used the earnings call's question-and-answer session on September 1 to disclose a more...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
Dell's AI server boom lifts profitability across its whole business
Dell Technologies closed its fiscal second quarter with revenue of US$47.0 billion, up 58% year over year, but the more telling number is what happened below the top line: operating...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
Apple's M6 and M5 Ultra break rule tying process to chip strength
Apple has unveiled new Mac mini and Mac Studio models, equipped respectively with its first 2-nanometer chip, the M6, and the four-die M5 Ultra. Most notably, the latest 2-nanometer...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
Commentary: Malaysia wants foreign automotive investment to leave more behind
The 2026 Global Automotive and Technology Expo (GATE 2026), held August 26-28 at the Malaysia International Trade and Exhibition Centre (MITEC) in Kuala Lumpur, was ostensibly about...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
Qisda builds physical AI ecosystem from land to space
Qisda has been expanding its display, commercial, and industrial businesses beyond traditional desktop monitors into medical, rugged, automotive, unmanned vehicle, drone, and low-Earth-orbit...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
Gudeng pursues 'Taiwan Plus One' overseas strategy, says cost is not sole consideration
Gudeng Precision Industrial chairman Bill Chiu said on August 31 that the company has begun building out its global manufacturing footprint. Its Japan plant is expected to complete...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Taoyuan eyes northern AIDC hub, touts Tatan and LNG cooling edge
Taiwan's limited land and heavy dependence on imported energy have made power a scarce and strategic resource in the compute era, putting AI data center (AIDC) site selection on the...