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Friday 2 October 2026
Huawei leads global smartwatch market, but earbuds reveal different competitive picture
Huawei has regained momentum across its consumer device business, but its position in the global wearables market is becoming increasingly uneven: the Chinese technology giant has...
Friday 2 October 2026
China car exports to Europe severely underestimated, warns UBS
According to UBS, nearly twice as many China-made automobiles are being shipped to Europe as are being registered there, partly because trucking shortages delay deliveries from ports...
Friday 2 October 2026
Commentary: AMD challenges Nvidia in embodied AI as Lisa Su acquires Fei-Fei Li's World Labs
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has agreed to acquire World Labs in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately US$8.2 billion. Following the closing, World Labs will operate as...
Friday 2 October 2026
A look at the startup winning Nvidia, Intel backing for AI scale-up optics
Silicon Valley data center optical interconnect startup CScale emerged from stealth on September 30 after raising US$145 million in a Series C funding round backed by Nvidia and Intel...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Infineon opens new backend chip plant in Thailand, eyes growth to up to five modules
Infineon Technologies officially inaugurated a new backend manufacturing site in Samut Prakan, south of Bangkok, on October 1, expanding the German chipmaker's production network in...
Thursday 1 October 2026
ASE expands smart OSAT push with six university research partnerships
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) held its 11th Automation Industry-Academia Project Results Presentation on September 30, unveiling 12 technology projects developed with six...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Synopsys and Amazon sign US$1 billion-plus deal to speed custom chip development
Synopsys announced a strategic agreement with Amazon on September 30, a multi-year deal valued at more than US$1 billion that is intended to speed up Amazon's custom silicon work and...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Neweb Information targets late-October listing on Taipei Exchange
Neweb Information, a Taiwan-based IT systems integrator, is targeting a late-October listing on the Taipei Exchange. Long focused on enterprise core systems, the company has expanded...
Thursday 1 October 2026
MG Taiwan details recall after MG ZS scores zero stars in TNCAP test
The Taiwan New Car Assessment Program (TNCAP) on September 30 released its third-quarter ratings, publishing the MG ZS assessment under its second-edition protocol, which gave the...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Focus: The hidden price of Nvidia's AI agent security play
Nvidia's new AI agent security platform puts hardware at the centre of agent control, but it also forces enterprises to weigh stronger protection against higher infrastructure costs...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Volvo Taiwan sees AI wealth lift economy, but not yet car demand
Volvo Car Taiwan acting president Eric Lin said on Sept. 30 that Taiwan's economy is improving on the back of the AI boom, but that the wealth gains are unlikely to translate into...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Google skips Gemini 3.5 Pro, launches Gemini 4 Argon at US$2/$10 per million tokens
Google has unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, its new top-tier AI model, after months of delays and the cancellation of Gemini 3.5 Pro, launching it at introductory prices of US$2 per million...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Samsung AI Forum 2026 puts agentic AI at center of transformation across devices, robotics, and chipmaking
Samsung Electronics brought global AI experts and researchers together in Seoul on September 30 for the Samsung AI Forum 2026, exploring how agentic AI and physical AI can deliver...
Thursday 1 October 2026
OpenAI claims to thwart model distillation attack tied to Moonshot
OpenAI said it detected and blocked an organized adversarial distillation attack, with some activity linked to Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI. The company said it first spotted the...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Nvidia ties AI agent security to BlueField-4, Vera CPU
Over the past year, Nvidia has repeatedly observed AI agents drifting beyond approved workflows. In some cases, agents quietly escalated read permissions to write access, sent requests...