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Wednesday 9 September 2026

Realtek expands Wi-Fi 8, optical communications, ASICs, keeps Nvidia partnership low-profile

ITRI held its 15th Laureate Ceremony on September 7, honoring three new laureates in 2026: TSMC executive vice president and co-COO Y.P. Chyn, Realtek chairman Sun-Chien Chiu, and...

Wednesday 9 September 2026

OpenAI taps Firmus for Malaysia data center capacity

OpenAI has signed a multi-year agreement with Australian AI infrastructure developer Firmus for dedicated computing capacity at two data center sites in Malaysia, becoming an anchor...

Wednesday 9 September 2026

Lotte Energy Materials pivots from EV weakness to AI, ESS copper foil

Cooling electric vehicle demand is forcing South Korean copper foil makers to rethink capital and capacity. Lotte Energy Materials has sold a 90% stake in its architectural exterior...

Wednesday 9 September 2026

Analysis: When 72% of the world's EV batteries are Chinese, one defect travels

A battery quality controversy involving GAC Aion has put supplier CALB, the world's fourth-largest EV battery maker, under scrutiny and highlighted a less comfortable side of China's...

Wednesday 9 September 2026

Indonesia bets on a full EV supply chain as BYD opens its Subang plant

Indonesia's industry minister said the country has the resources to build a complete domestic electric vehicle chain, speaking in Subang,...

Wednesday 9 September 2026

Tesla's Cybercab hits the road, but regulation may become autonomy's next scaling bottleneck

Tesla has finally put its purpose-built Cybercab onto public streets, marking a critical step in Elon Musk's years-long ambition to transform the EV maker into an autonomous mobility...

Tuesday 8 September 2026

Kian Shen eyes stronger 3Q26 on chassis, lightweight frames, Lean3

Taiwan's Kian Shen is counting on chassis, lightweight panel frames, and the Lean3 electric vehicle to drive growth, with third-quarter 2026 performance expected to improve from the...

Tuesday 8 September 2026

Ma-tek August revenue hits record, eyes U.S. FA, MA service in 2027

MA-tek, a semiconductor testing and analysis company, reported August revenue of NT$565 million, up 17.78% from a year earlier and marking a record high for the sixth straight month...

Tuesday 8 September 2026

LG's robot actuator push turns appliance know-how into a physical AI supply-chain bet

As humanoid robots increasingly move from demonstrations toward factories and commercial deployments, competition is expanding beyond finished robots into the components that determine...

Tuesday 8 September 2026

What to expect at CIOE, Shenzhen's optoelectronics mega-expo

This week, DIGITIMES heads to Shenzhen to cover an expo showcasing the world of optoelectronics, a class of technologies that serves as the link between electricity and light. In today's...

Tuesday 8 September 2026

Huawei shifts AI battle to HarmonyOS 7, turning Celia into system-level agent

Huawei's September 7 product launch was more than a Mate XT 2 and Kirin 9050 Pro refresh. HarmonyOS 7 and an upgraded Celia reveal a broader...

Tuesday 8 September 2026

CIOE 2026 opens in Shenzhen: 5,000 exhibitors chase the AI-driven optics boom

The 27th China International Optoelectronic Exposition (CIOE 2026) will run September 9-11 in Shenzhen, bringing together more than 5,000 exhibitors from over 30 countries and regions...

Tuesday 8 September 2026

Malaysia weighs Huawei Ascend 910C for MYR2 billion sovereign AI cloud

Malaysia is evaluating Huawei Technologies' Ascend 910C accelerators as the compute backbone of its MYR2 billion (US$494 million) sovereign AI initiative, which is designed to keep...

Tuesday 8 September 2026

Nvidia underwrites its own demand; that may be harder to copy than its chips

Venture capital firm a16z recently hosted investor Gavin Baker and a16z partner David George for a discussion on Nvidia's competitive position. Baker argued that CEO Jensen Huang has...

Tuesday 8 September 2026

South Korea's UBATT targets 500 Wh/kg lithium-metal batteries for drone and defense markets

South Korean battery startup UBATT is targeting aerospace and defense applications such as drones and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with high-energy-density lithium-metal batteries,...

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