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Friday 26 September 2025
Commentary: Huawei's EV blitz tests Xiaomi's viability
On September 24, Xiaomi founder Lei Jun confessed on Weibo that launching both cars and chips at once was like "supporting two children through college." The pressure, he said, was...
Friday 26 September 2025
CoreWeave expands OpenAI partnership to US$22.4 billion with latest US$6.5 billion deal
CoreWeave announced on September 25, 2025, that it has signed an expanded agreement with OpenAI valued at up to US$6.5 billion. The deal will provide infrastructure to support the...
Friday 26 September 2025
SAP and OpenAI launch partnership to bring AI to Germany's public sector
SAP and OpenAI have announced a partnership to introduce "OpenAI for Germany," an initiative aimed at integrating artificial intelligence into the country's public sector. The program,...
Friday 26 September 2025
Asus and Apple see shipment gains in sluggish PC market; Dell faces sharp decline
Hopes for a strong PC market recovery in 2025 are fading fast. While the market had predicted a surge in sales driven by the end of Windows 10 support and the arrival of new AI-enabled...
Friday 26 September 2025
China exceeds EV goals ahead of schedule amid looming market shakeout
As China nears the conclusion of its 14th Five-Year Plan in 2025, one of its standout industrial success stories — electric vehicles — now faces a turning point. After...
Thursday 25 September 2025
US blocks Taiwan-made Giant bicycles over forced labor concerns
The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a Withhold Release Order (WRO) against Giant Manufacturing, Taiwan's leading bicycle maker and parent company of the Giant brand,...
Thursday 25 September 2025
Alibaba Cloud rolls out Qwen3 series, eyes AI OS future
Alibaba Cloud opened the 2025 Apsara (Yunqi) Conference in Hangzhou with a broad rollout of large models and AI products, underscoring its ambition to reshape the global AI landscape...
Thursday 25 September 2025
TSMC and EDA partners use AI to boost chip design energy efficiency tenfold
TSMC and its partners have leveraged artificial intelligence (AI) software to enhance the energy efficiency of AI computing chips by roughly ten times. The company presented its latest...
Thursday 25 September 2025
Foxconn set to gain from US$400b data center expansion in US by big names
Tech giants OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank on September 23 have announced a US$400 billion plan to build five new artificial intelligence data centers across the US, a massive infrastructure...
Thursday 25 September 2025
Qualcomm CEO outlines six key points on realizing the edge AI ecosystem beyond chips
At Qualcomm's 2025 Snapdragon Summit marking its tenth anniversary, CEO Cristiano Amon highlighted in his opening keynote that this is a pivotal moment for Snapdragon to enter a new...
Thursday 25 September 2025
Alibaba eyes artificial superintelligence as ultimate goal, says CEO
At the 2025 Apsara Conference, Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu argued that artificial general intelligence (AGI) is merely the starting line. The company's true destination, he said, is artificial...
Thursday 25 September 2025
Alibaba Cloud, Nvidia join forces to speed physical AI applications

Alibaba Group kicked off its three-day Apsara Conference in Hangzhou by announcing a partnership between Alibaba Cloud and Nvidia in Physical...

Thursday 25 September 2025
Foxconn pulls ahead of Quanta and Wistron in Nvidia AI server race
Foxconn has jumped out to a significant early lead over rivals Quanta Computer and Wistron in the high-stakes race to build Nvidia's next-generation AI servers, according to industry...
Thursday 25 September 2025
Acer Medical readies AI tool to help hospitals cope with staff shortages
AI penetration rates at hospitals have surged in the past three years, and generative AI in particular has profoundly impacted the way that the healthcare system works, according...
Thursday 25 September 2025
Luxury on hold: Porsche’s pivot highlights the EV struggles of premium brands

Porsche, the German luxury sports carmaker long known for its precision engineering and speed, has abruptly reversed course on its electric...