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Thursday 20 August 2026

WRC 2026: Unitree GD01 mecha, Ubtech bionic U1 headline China's humanoid robot showcase

The 2026 World Robot Conference (WRC) recently opened in Beijing, with humanoid robots remaining the event's biggest focus. With China...

Thursday 20 August 2026

Analysis: Marvell's US$120bn Google deal is the AI chip industry's new playbook — equity for orders, not cash

Marvell Technology is set to deepen its role in Google's AI infrastructure through an expanded agreement to develop custom chips, in a deal that could generate roughly US$120 billion...

Thursday 20 August 2026

Nvidia and AMD chase US open model lead as China shifts race

Hugging Face's latest summer 2026 open model report says Chinese labs have continued to lead in frontier open-model parameter scale since 2026, while the US center of competition has...

Thursday 20 August 2026

Robotics leaders present future of physical AI, but also deployment challenges

Tech leaders converged at the 2026 International Robotic Forum on August 19, where they laid out their visions for the evolution and next stages of physical AI. They noted that a robot's...

Thursday 20 August 2026

Beyond Starlink: the LEO satellite market enters a multi-constellation race

For years, SpaceX's Starlink has defined the commercial low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite market, transforming satellite connectivity from a niche communications technology into a global...

Thursday 20 August 2026

Solomon unveils AI vision tools for smart manufacturing at Automation Taipei 2026

AI vision company Solomon is presenting new factory automation tools at Automation Taipei 2026, including an agentic physical AI platform,...

Thursday 20 August 2026

China dominates global robot shipments as World Robot Conference opens in Beijing

While robotics companies worldwide vie for business opportunities, Chinese vendors currently account for more than 90% of global humanoid...

Thursday 20 August 2026

Samsung repays 20 trillion won SDC loan early as memory demand surges

Samsung Electronics fully repaid a KRW20 trillion unsecured loan from Samsung Display ahead of schedule in the second quarter of 2026,...

Thursday 20 August 2026

AI server market CAGR nears 40%; rack power density surging 100-fold poses grid strain

Speaking at the 2026 Taiwan AI Academy Annual Conference held on August 18 at Academia Sinica's Social Sciences building, Neo Yao, CEO of Foxconn's Visionbay.ai, and Huang-Jen Chiu,...

Thursday 20 August 2026

Sunplus expects automotive orders to rise in 3Q26 as memory costs threaten demand

Taiwanese IC design house Sunplus Technology expects its automotive orders to strengthen further in the third quarter of 2026, but warned...

Thursday 20 August 2026

Xiaomi's AI-EV Pivot gains momentum as memory costs pressure Q226 smartphone business

Xiaomi is accelerating its transition from a smartphone-focused electronics manufacturer toward a broader technology ecosystem company, as artificial intelligence (AI), electric vehicles...

Thursday 20 August 2026

AI chip strategies echo StarCraft factions as memory bottleneck reshapes the race

The global semiconductor ecosystem is facing an unprecedented shortage of memory chips, with hardware growth increasingly constrained...

Thursday 20 August 2026

AI models show softer responses on authoritarian leaders, report finds

U.S.-based AI models were found to avoid direct criticism of authoritarian leaders more often than democratic ones, according to a July report from the Meta-funded Oversight Board...

Wednesday 19 August 2026

TAITRA Chair: Taiwan's economy relies on AI capex; warns of weak ROI risk

Speaking at the opening of the 2026 Taiwan Artificial Intelligence Conference on August 18, Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) Chairman James C.F. Huang urged engineering...

Wednesday 19 August 2026

Taiwan seeks shift from drone supplier to strategic partner in entering US market

Industry figures and analysts from Taiwan and the United States gathered on August 19 at an international unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) forum to discuss how Taiwan can move beyond...

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