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Wednesday 21 October 2026
CATL's profit growth slows, sharpening focus on 50% energy-storage revenue target
CATL's third-quarter revenue rose 58.58% year-over-year to CNY165.22 billion (approx. US$24.73 billion), but net profit attributable to shareholders increased just 14.54% to CNY21.25...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
AMD: Physical AI demands more than TOPS
Physical AI that can sense, reason, control machines and interact with people, Salil Raje, senior vice president of AMD's Embedded Computing Group, said TOPS (trillions of operations...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
Analysis: From rockets to fabs, SpaceX's TerraFab bet pushes vertical integration into the semiconductor era
SpaceX has spent two decades proving that hardware once considered too complex, too capital-intensive, or too dependent on entrenched suppliers could sometimes be pulled in-house....
Wednesday 21 October 2026
SpaceX pushes AI scaling into industrial realm as power equipment becomes limiting factor
The AI infrastructure race is increasingly becoming a contest over who can turn electrical capacity, cooling systems, and hardware into usable compute the fastest.
Wednesday 21 October 2026
How ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent are testing the boundaries of US AI chip restrictions
Chinese tech giants ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent have collectively ordered more than 3 million units of Nvidia's new RTX PRO 5500 graphics cards, representing a total value exceeding...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
Toppan, Keio University validate quantum AI image generation
Toppan Holdings and Japan's Keio University have completed a proof of concept for technology that combines quantum computers with generative AI to support manga and anime production,...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
Foxconn and Mitsubishi Electric target SDV with L4 autonomy and EV drive systems
Foxconn's planned JPY115 billion (US$726.83 million) investment in Mitsubishi Electric Mobility will create a joint venture to expand their electric-vehicle and autonomous-driving...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
LX Semicon uses AI agents to cut display chip design time by 80%
South Korean IC design firm LX Semicon has deployed AI agents in the development of display driver ICs (DDIs), reducing the design time for a benchmark image-processing engine from...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
AI customers seek 3-year partnerships as Unimicron calls for Taiwan PCB supply chain collab
TPCA Show Taipei 2026, organized by the Taiwan Printed Circuit Association (TPCA), opened on October 20. Unimicron Technology chairman S.C. Chien delivered a keynote at the opening...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
Taiwan's September export orders jump 62.4% on AI demand
Taiwan's export orders totaled US$114.21 billion in September 2026, up US$11.25 billion, or 10.9%, from the previous month, according to data released by Taiwan's Ministry of Economic...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
Nvidia's Vera CPU signals a broader shift in AI infrastructure
Nvidia is positioning its Vera CPU as a central component of data-center infrastructure for agentic artificial intelligence, as multistep reasoning and tool calls increase demand for...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
Robot hands get cheaper, but factories still want proof
Competition among Chinese suppliers is driving down prices for dexterous robotic hands, but cheaper hardware has yet to resolve a bigger challenge for humanoid developers: proving...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
Huawei-linked Yinwang gives CATL battery swapping a wider route into smart vehicles
Chinese battery giant CATL is giving its battery-service business a distinctive boost through a three-party battery-swapping agreement linking Huawei-affiliated Yinwang Intelligent...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
Amazon open-sources TorchNeuron to bridge PyTorch, AWS Trainium
To lower AI hardware adoption barriers and offer alternative compute choices, Amazon has announced TorchNeuron—a native backend allowing existing PyTorch code to run directly...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
Musk and Anthropic test rival models for sharing AI wealth with the public
The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) is best understood as revolutionary in modern society, transforming industries and reshaping daily life as successive rounds of rapid growth...