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Thursday 10 September 2026
Wistron, Wiwynn hit record August revenue as board approves US$200 Million for US, Vietnam expansion
Wistron and Wiwynn both posted record-high monthly revenue in August 2026 as shipments of artificial intelligence (AI) servers continue to expand. Both companies remain highly confident...
Thursday 10 September 2026
DeepSeek's next AI test is not the model; it's everything around it

DeepSeek has opened roughly 150 positions in a new hiring round focused almost entirely on engineering and infrastructure, pointing to...

Thursday 10 September 2026
Phison pushes in-house AI solutions as August revenue surges to record high
Phison Electronics continues to benefit from the rapid growth in demand for artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, AI inference, and enterprise storage, with its Phison AI Data...
Thursday 10 September 2026
Firmus, OpenAI strike compute deal for Malaysia AI factories
Firmus and OpenAI have announced a multi-year strategic partnership that will add dedicated AI compute capacity in Malaysia, underscoring how Asia-Pacific is becoming central to global...
Thursday 10 September 2026
Naver pitches a Europe-facing AI factory to France as Brookfield deal moves ahead
Naver is trying to export the AI factory model it is building at home, telling French companies and institutions this week that it wants to combine France's energy base with its own...
Thursday 10 September 2026
Samsung SDS broadens AI push from software to factory robots
Samsung SDS is using its enterprise AI strategy to move beyond office automation and into factory robotics, betting that its systems-integration experience can turn fragmented robot...
Thursday 10 September 2026
JD Cloud plans 100,000-GPU cluster built on Moore Threads chips
JD Cloud said on September 9 that it plans to build a 100,000-card cluster of full-function GPUs supplied by Moore Threads, a deployment the company describes as the first time domestic...
Thursday 10 September 2026
Korea puts KRW250 billion behind free national AI service as frontier-model fund takes shape
South Korea's science ministry has budgeted KRW250 billion (US$184.6 million) for 2027 to run "AI for all," a state-funded program that aims to give every citizen free access to chatbots...
Thursday 10 September 2026
Beyond the stage, can XPeng's EV playbook scale humanoid robots?
As humanoid robotics glides — in its own distinctive glamour — toward becoming one of the most visible manifestations of physical AI, the once-unimaginable idea of where...
Thursday 10 September 2026
Cheap, energy-dense, difficult to tame: LG Energy Solution pushes LMR closer to EVs
The appeal of lithium-manganese-rich (LMR) batteries has long rested on a difficult proposition: delivering relatively high energy density without carrying the same material costs...
Thursday 10 September 2026
Wiwynn sees AI server shipments to overtake general-purpose servers in 3Q26
Wiwynn Corporation said AI server shipments will overtake general-purpose server shipments in the third quarter of 2026, with the two expected to account for roughly half each, while...
Thursday 10 September 2026
Loongson raises funds to expand CPU and GPU development as AI inference boosts domestic chip plans
Chinese CPU maker Loongson recently announced a CNY2.3 billion (approx. US$342.7 million) capital increase, with the funds mainly going into information technology chips and core CPU...
Thursday 10 September 2026
Apple's John Ternus puts iPhone at AI center stage

Apple CEO John Ternus used his first major event as chief executive to signal where the company is headed after officially succeeding...

Thursday 10 September 2026
Panasonic Energy unveils high-temperature solid-state battery, targets industrial uses, robotics

Panasonic Energy has developed a new solid-state battery capable of operating at temperatures up to 150 degrees Celsius (302 degrees...

Thursday 10 September 2026
Sumitomo, Sakana AI reportedly team up to expand Japan-made AI
Sumitomo and its IT subsidiary SCSK are partnering with Japanese AI startup Sakana AI to expand the use of domestically developed AI among Japanese companies, leveraging Sumitomo's...