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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...

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