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Thursday 23 July 2026

ASEAN AI data center power demand seen at 6-7GW

ASEAN countries have become a battleground for global cloud service providers and infrastructure developers. After visiting the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone (JS-SEZ) in mid-2025,...

Thursday 23 July 2026

Jensen Huang says Nvidia and Wistron are mass-producing AI servers like phones

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company is working with Wistron to mass-produce GB300 AI servers like phones as AI spreads across industries and demand surges. He made the remarks...

Thursday 23 July 2026

AVer Information targets commercial drone market with AI vision engine

AVer Information is expanding into the commercial drone market, focusing its research and development on the highest-value segment of the value chain: the artificial intelligence (AI)...

Thursday 23 July 2026

OpenAI faces backlash over Kimi K3 open source criticism

OpenAI's new strategy chief Dean Ball has drawn sharp criticism from Trump administration officials and advisers after posting a lengthy commentary on Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model....

Thursday 23 July 2026

IQE lifts 2026 outlook as AI data centers accelerate indium phosphide demand

IQE has raised its 2026 revenue outlook as demand for artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and data centers continues to strengthen,...

Thursday 23 July 2026

ITRI, tech execs tackle AI power and thermal bottlenecks at forum as chip demand soars

As AI computing drives surging electricity demand and heat generation, Taiwan's government-funded Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) brought together government officials...

Thursday 23 July 2026

With competitiveness hitting record levels, Taiwan should learn from US in talent retention, urges president

With Taiwan's competitiveness setting a new high, President Ching-te Lai on July 21 called on local companies to learn from the US and work together to retain talent. The remarks came...

Wednesday 22 July 2026

Sumitomo Chemical eyes 2028 production of lower-cost solid-state battery electrolyte

Sumitomo Chemical plans to begin mass production of a halide-based solid electrolyte in Japan as early as fiscal 2028, positioning the...

Wednesday 22 July 2026

China ends decade-old battery tax break, signaling a coordinated squeeze on clean-energy overcapacity

China is dismantling the tax shelter that helped build the world's largest battery industry, and the move looks less like a one-off...

Wednesday 22 July 2026

Commentary: Gulf state's Sovereign Wealth Fund pours into ASEAN, eyeing stake in AI infrastructure supply chains

ASEAN's AI boom is taking on a dual role as both a "no-man's land" and an international hub from Singapore's perspective, while investors...

Wednesday 22 July 2026

US-China AI rivalry, part 2: Beijing weighs controls on model weights, training data, chip designs

The forthcoming AI dialogue between Washington and Beijing is less a sign of easing tensions than of a changing rivalry. Both governments...

Wednesday 22 July 2026

US-China AI rivalry, part 1: September talks to confront frontier models, IP theft, open-source risks

The US and China are preparing to hold their first official artificial intelligence (AI) dialogue under President Donald Trump, a notable...

Wednesday 22 July 2026

Nvidia's Huang to meet Samsung, SK and Naver chiefs in Silicon Valley, reports say

Samsung Electronics executive chairman Lee Jae-yong, SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won and Naver founder and board chairman Lee Hae-jin are reportedly preparing to meet Nvidia CEO Jensen...

Wednesday 22 July 2026

Foxconn's Jun Seki says L4 adoption will be in 80% of new cars by 2040

Foxconn group's EV strategy chief Jun Seki said on July 21 in Tokyo that Level 4 (L4) and above autonomous driving will likely be installed in 80% of new cars by 2040, and that the...

Wednesday 22 July 2026

Nvidia details Vera CPU for agentic AI workloads

Nvidia has outlined the design of its Vera CPU, positioning the chip for agentic AI systems that rely heavily on the processor for code execution, tool calls, retrieval, and data handling...

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