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Tuesday 16 June 2026

EU industrial bill forces Chinese automakers to race for European factories

The European Commission proposed an Industrial Acceleration Act to curb foreign direct investment that it says could threaten domestic industry and jobs, and the draft rule prompted...

Tuesday 16 June 2026

Foxconn and Schneider Electric strike strategic partnership to build next-generation data center reference architecture

Foxconn and Schneider Electric announced a strategic partnership to jointly develop a next-generation data center reference architecture, combining Foxconn's capabilities in advanced...

Tuesday 16 June 2026

Yaskawa eyes physical AI boom with JPY25 billion capex

Yaskawa Electric is betting heavily on physical AI, the field that enables robots to operate autonomously, as it positions itself for a boom in AI robots. Since starting work with...

Tuesday 16 June 2026

Apple leans on Google Cloud and Nvidia GPUs in a pragmatic AI reset

After Apple's WWDC 2026 keynote, online rumors claimed that only premium devices with 12GB of memory could run on-device AI, but DIGITIMES analyst Luke Lin said on a podcast that that...

Tuesday 16 June 2026

Interview: From language to motion— Japanese startup APTO builds the data backbone for physical AI

Physical AI is emerging as a new frontier of model development. Any model, however, is only as good as the data used to train it. Because...

Monday 15 June 2026

SAP says human-in-the-loop review is key to moving enterprise AI agents from POC to production

SAP reported that enterprise AI agents are shifting from proof of concept to real-world deployment as companies aim to embed generative AI into operational workflows such as finance...

Monday 15 June 2026

Samsung foundry chief sees 2028 profit path as bonus costs mount

Samsung Electronics' foundry division chief told employees on June 12 that a return to profitability in the contract chipmaking business...

Monday 15 June 2026

Micron CEO turns visa rejection into US$1 trillion milestone

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's recent trip to South Korea put the spotlight on the rivalry between Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, while memory giant Micron crossed the US$1 trillion...

Monday 15 June 2026

BESS boom supply chain reshuffle: Automakers pivot to stationary battery systems

US automakers are shifting major battery investment away from electric vehicle traction packs and into stationary battery energy storage...

Monday 15 June 2026

Apple resists 'AI-for-AI' hype as Silicon Valley's token bill comes due

Amid widespread anxiety sparked by foreign media reports about an impending "Tokenpocalypse," Apple software engineering chief Craig...

Monday 15 June 2026

China's new EV rules push European luxury PHEVs to the exit

European luxury automakers are pulling back from China's plug-in hybrid vehicle (PHEV) market after Beijing tightened eligibility requirements...

Monday 15 June 2026

Taiwan firms ramped AI investment but must fix architecture to realize ROI

Taiwanese companies sharply increased enterprise AI investment and adoption in 2026, yet critical gaps in technology architecture and...

Monday 15 June 2026

SK Hynix to test ChatGPT and Copilot as Samsung widens enterprise AI use

SK Hynix said it is evaluating external generative AI models, including ChatGPT Enterprise and Microsoft Copilot, as it pilots broader AI use across the company, following Samsung...

Monday 15 June 2026

Google's TPU diversification challenges MediaTek and other ASIC partners

Google's push to diversify its Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) supply chain is increasingly reaching into the foundry side, adding pressure on ASIC makers such as MediaTek. Recent reports...

Monday 15 June 2026

Samsung's Exynos 2600 doubles on-device AI performance in MLPerf benchmarks

Samsung Electronics announced that its Exynos 2600 mobile application processor delivered more than double the on-device AI performance of the Exynos 2500, according to benchmark results...

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