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Thursday 2 July 2026

Meta's alleged turn from AI buyer to seller raises new questions about AI spending, returns, and competition

Meta Platforms' reported interest in selling excess AI computing capacity has stirred debate over whether the company is seeking a new way to monetize heavy infrastructure spending...

Thursday 2 July 2026

LG Electronics creates robot business center to scale physical AI and robotics supply chain

LG Electronics announced the creation of a robot business center to accelerate its physical AI and robotics efforts, the company said. The new organization will consolidate development,...

Thursday 2 July 2026

Hotai Motor trims Taiwan auto market outlook but keeps 2026 sales target

Hotai Motor has cut its 2026 Taiwan auto market forecast, signaling softer demand may linger after tariff-related weakness in the first half. The move matters beyond Taiwan because...

Thursday 2 July 2026

Tesla jumps to second as Taiwan auto sales rebound in June

Taiwan's auto market posted a strong rebound in June 2026, signaling firmer demand in a key Asian economy watched by global carmakers. Registrations rose sharply in the month and year,...

Thursday 2 July 2026

GaAs and InP price hikes hit Taiwan supply chain

Compound semiconductor epitaxy makers are raising prices again for gallium arsenide (GaAs) and indium phosphide (InP) epi wafers, as persistent raw material cost increases, supply...

Thursday 2 July 2026

AI server demand drives MiTAC to expand in Taiwan, Vietnam, and California

MiTAC Holdings' subsidiary, MiTAC Computing Technology, has won strong demand from US cloud customers, driving a sharp rise in orders and a global expansion plan from Asia to North...

Thursday 2 July 2026

General-purpose server shipments surge, boosting Taiwanese connector makers

Agentic AI demand is driving major US cloud providers such as Google and Amazon to expand data centers, lifting global server shipments and triggering a new wave of orders for Taiwan...

Thursday 2 July 2026

IBM's 0.7nm chip claim revives debate over semiconductor node naming

As semiconductor manufacturing enters the 2nm era, conventional transistor scaling is approaching its physical limits. On June 25,...

Wednesday 1 July 2026

Nvidia GPU-network ecosystem tops data center Ethernet switches

According to IDC's latest data, Nvidia's networking business has surged to the top, with the company becoming the revenue leader in the global data center Ethernet switch market for...

Wednesday 1 July 2026

Surging oil prices drive demand spike in Europe's used EV market

Rising oil prices as a result of the war in Iran have caused the originally sluggish used electric vehicle (EV) market in Europe to flip, with demand now outpacing supply. Three-year-old...

Wednesday 1 July 2026

OpenAI engineers claim to discover way to cut inference costs in half

OpenAI engineers claim to have figured out a way to halve the costs of inference using its models, according to The Information. The development comes as AI model developers...

Wednesday 1 July 2026

Tenstorrent's Jim Keller says startup will outpace Cerebras as AI chip competition intensifies

AI chip competition is widening beyond raw performance, a shift that matters for global cloud providers, device makers, and investors...

Wednesday 1 July 2026

China's humanoid robot boom turns physical AI from prototype to production

China's humanoid robot sector is moving faster than expected, with new unicorns, policy support and maturing supply chains pushing physical...

Wednesday 1 July 2026

Gus Technology names Hota Group president as chairman

Gus Technology has named Hota Group president Kuo-jung Shen as chairman after a June 30 shareholders' meeting, underscoring a deeper push into batteries, electric mobility, and energy...

Wednesday 1 July 2026

Volkswagen, Bosch reportedly reassess autonomous driving alliance as market shifts

Volkswagen Group and Bosch are reportedly reviewing their four-year autonomous driving partnership as Europe's Level 3 (L3) rollout falls short and China's supply chain gains influence...

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