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Friday 24 July 2026

AI-driven DRAM surge hits EV costs, forcing Chinese automakers to rethink pricing

Surging AI server demand is reshaping supply and demand across the global memory market. With DRAM prices rising sharply over the past year,...

Friday 24 July 2026

AMD redraws server chip strategy as AI workloads evolve

AMD has launched its sixth-generation EPYC Venice server processor as the foundation of its next-generation AI data center platform, while CEO Lisa Su said the company is reshaping...

Friday 24 July 2026

Mobileye founder Amnon Shashua to step down as CEO after nearly three decades

Amnon Shashua will step down as CEO of autonomous driving technology supplier Mobileye once the company appoints a successor, marking the...

Friday 24 July 2026

Stripe reportedly eyes OpenRouter in potential US$10B AI infrastructure deal

Stripe is in talks to acquire AI model-routing startup OpenRouter in a deal that could value the company at around US$10 billion, according...

Friday 24 July 2026

AMD's latest 2nm-EPYC rollout signals broader role for CPUs in the AI data center

AMD unveiled its sixth-generation EPYC 9006 server processors, widening its push into AI data centers with chips designed for agentic AI, cloud computing, enterprise workloads, and...

Friday 24 July 2026

AMD sees AI demand broadening beyond chips, as Helios ramps toward shipment

AMD CEO Lisa Su said demand from cloud service providers and enterprise customers continued to climb rapidly, reinforcing AMD's view that the artificial intelligence (AI) market still...

Friday 24 July 2026

AMD unveils Helios rack-scale AI platform to target hyperscale buildouts

AMD has formally introduced Helios, a next-generation rack-scale AI infrastructure platform designed for the fast-growing market of global AI factories and hyperscale data centers...

Friday 24 July 2026

AMD splits next-generation data center GPUs for specialized AI demand

AMD unveiled its Instinct MI400 series at its Advancing AI 2026 conference, broadening its push into data center chips with products aimed at different users. For global readers, the...

Friday 24 July 2026

Taiwan turns to AI and robotics to build senior-tech industry for super-aged era

Taiwan is turning to artificial intelligence, robotics and connected-care systems to manage one of the world's fastest demographic transitions, while seeking to turn the challenge...

Friday 24 July 2026

Wistron says growth is strong, but transformation remains incomplete

Wistron said its revenue and profit continue to rise, and its global manufacturing platform is opening new growth avenues for readers watching the electronics, AI, and industrial supply...

Friday 24 July 2026

Chinese AI labs close gap with Anthropic after Claude Code leak

A springtime source-code exposure reframed the AI race around "harness" and memory engineering rather than raw model scale — and a wave of Chinese models built around exactly...

Friday 24 July 2026

Kimi K3 under fire, part 3: China's AI industry questions success story

Chinese officials have embraced Kimi K3 as evidence of indigenous innovation and a maturing open-model ecosystem. Some Chinese developers and technology commentators are far less c...

Friday 24 July 2026

OpenAI compute spending to reportedly rise from US$600B to US$750B

OpenAI has increased its projected spending on compute from US$600 billion to US$750 billion by 2030. The 25% increase is meant to give its models an edge during a time of intense...

Friday 24 July 2026

Apple prepares sweeping Mac refresh, betting on AI-driven demand

Apple is gearing up for a broad update to its entire Mac lineup, aiming to ride the wave of demand for high-performance computers driven by AI. New versions of nearly every Mac model...

Friday 24 July 2026

DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng says China trails US AI by up to 18 months, with compute the decisive gap

DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng says China's AI industry trails the US by six to 18 months mainly because of limited computing power, not talent.

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