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Monday 7 September 2026
AI racks move toward MW scale as power, cooling converge
As AI computing power surges, the energy consumption of AI servers has become a major bottleneck that must be solved. The issue is spreading from chips into power delivery systems...
Monday 7 September 2026
China NEV imports sink as local brands crowd out foreign cars
China’s new energy vehicle import market continued to shrink in July, hitting its lowest level since 2026, as foreign automakers localize production and Chinese brands keep expanding...
Sunday 6 September 2026
TWM, SYSTEX debut at smart building expo
Taiwan Mobile announced that it is participating for the first time with Systex in the "2026 Build for NextGen – International Sustainable Intelligent Building & Intelligent...
Sunday 6 September 2026
Tongtai doubles semiconductor orders on AI data-center demand
Facing rapid demand expansion across the semiconductor and AI industries, Tongtai Group (TT Group) has aggressively promoted an import-substitution and localization strategy in recent...
Sunday 6 September 2026
G20 AI agenda: US champions light-touch regulation while data center backlash, China rivalry intensify
The G20 Innovation Ministerial was held in North Carolina, US, from September 1 to 2, with artificial intelligence (AI) taking center stage. The US urged governments to pursue a light-touch...
Sunday 6 September 2026
Trumpf CTO says advanced packaging reshapes semiconductor equipment race
AI and high-performance computing (HPC) demand is changing the semiconductor industry's technology and investment priorities. As chip power consumption, computing density, and data...
Sunday 6 September 2026
K-Safety Expo 2026: Beyond AI, Korea re-engineers the human layer of industrial safety
Not every safety breakthrough spotted across the K-Safety Expo 2026 floor in Busan came with an AI camera attached.
Sunday 6 September 2026
Google's quantum boss says five years; his engineer says not so fast
Quantum computing has a trust problem. When a quantum machine produces an answer no ordinary computer can feasibly produce, there is no obvious way to tell whether the answer is ri...
Saturday 5 September 2026
Exclusive: South Korea's safety AI boom is being built from the top down, BEXCO says
South Korea's safety-tech sector may be increasingly filled with AI cameras, robots, drones, and predictive systems, but BEXCO general manager Tom Choi argues that the force pushing...
Saturday 5 September 2026
Topco targets optical comms, cooling as copper gives way
System integration remains a key hurdle as the AI chip industry pushes for higher power efficiency and faster transmission speeds, drawing intense attention to when short-reach optical...
Saturday 5 September 2026
Interview: China Tier 1 supplier Jingwei Hirain shares lessons from EV race
"Demo is not a product," Jingwei Hirain president Chengjian Fan told DIGITIMES in an interview, arguing that China's new-energy vehicle industry has learned hard lessons as fast-moving...
Saturday 5 September 2026
Google TPU splits training, inference as CPU becomes next focus
As AI model training, inference, and AI agent workloads continue to grow, AI accelerators are increasingly being optimized for different tasks. Amin Vahdat, Google's senior vice president...
Saturday 5 September 2026
Taiwan auto parts makers face exit-or-overseas dilemma
Taiwan's auto market remains under pressure in 2026, and even as recent months have shown signs of bottoming out, auto parts makers remain cautious or outright pessimistic about the...
Saturday 5 September 2026
Adata expands AI business with TRUSTA, Industrial brands
ADATA Technology said it will integrate the products, technologies and solutions of its TRUSTA and ADATA Industrial brands to target enterprise servers, edge computing, system integration,...
Friday 4 September 2026
Cisco targets zero engineers writing code by end-October
AI is forcing companies to rethink not only how software is built but how quickly ageing systems must be replaced, with Cisco warning that increasingly capable frontier models are...