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Tuesday 15 September 2026
Inside CIOE: takeaways from China's biggest optoelectronics show
Last week, from September 9 to 11, thousands of vendors gathered for an enormous trade show in the Chinese tech hub of Shenzhen. At the China International Optoelectronic Expo (CIOE),...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
South Korean firms hold 80% of the automotive OLED market
South Korean panel makers command about 80% of the automotive OLED market, according to Sigmaintell, as electrification and smarter vehicles keep demand for car displays stable and...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
XPeng's Turing chip expands beyond cars
XPeng Motors is extending its self-developed Turing AI chip from intelligent electric vehicles (EVs) into humanoid robots, broadening the processor's role in the company's Physical...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
OpenAI reportedly acquires AI camera startup Glass Imaging for more than US$300M

OpenAI has acquired Glass Imaging, a startup developing artificial-intelligence (AI) technology designed to improve smartphone camera performance,...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
Trump tells Nvidia's Jensen Huang that AI is 'bigger than the internet' and robot fears are a 'hoax'
US President Donald Trump joined Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang by phone on stage, using the call to place data center construction at the center of his economic agenda and to dismiss warnings...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
China sets first AI-brain-computer interface medical device standard

China has introduced what it says is the world's first medical-device standard for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that use AI to process...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
Hyundai Motor Group bets on data, Nvidia, and in-house AI to speed autonomous driving rollout
Hyundai Motor Group is moving to standardize its autonomous driving hardware, deepen its data pipeline, and accelerate in-house AI development as it prepares a staggered rollout of...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
2nm capacity crunch may keep smartphone SoC makers on split-node strategy through 2027

In 2026, major smartphone system-on-chip (SoC) vendors began moving selected flagship processors to 2nm technology, seeking not only...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
Trump calls AI slowdown a conspiracy that helps China, closing off Washington support
Calls from leading US AI developers to slow frontier model development are colliding with the rivalry they were partly meant to manage. Within days of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
Wuliangye skips carmaking, turns liquor waste into silicon-carbon anodes

Chinese baijiu (white liquor) producer Wuliangye, or "Five Grain Liquid," is moving into battery materials by turning distillers' grains,...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
China reshapes cockpit display race, set to produce 84% of global AR-HUDs by 2031

S&P Global Mobility senior research analyst for connected cars and user experience in Asia-Pacific Quan Zhang shared the latest...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
Robot supply strategies split between US in-house tech and Chinese local ecosystem
As humanoid robots gradually move from laboratory proofs-of-concept and enter industrial manufacturing and commercial service, their underlying motion control and environmental perception...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
Edimax, Comtrend 1H26 operations under pressure from weaker India orders, rising component costs
Network equipment maker Edimax Technology and its subsidiary Comtrend were affected by changes in customers' shipping cycles in the first half of 2026. Coupled with rising costs for...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
Global data center capex could reach US$31.6 trillion by 2050 as AI demand surges
PwC and Oxford Economics jointly released their Global Data Centre Outlook 2026–50 in early September, projecting cumulative global...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
Sigmaintell: Memory shortage to ease in 2027 before chip growth hits 2029 wall

After months of tight supply and sharp price increases in 2026, the global memory market is expected to see its supply-demand gap narrow...