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Wednesday 13 August 2025

STSP welcomes three new companies spanning aerospace, PSCs, and water treatment equipment

The National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP) Bureau has recently approved investment applications from three companies: Yalixin, Mega Sunergy,...

Wednesday 13 August 2025

Altman backs Merge Labs to take on Musk's Neuralink in US$850 million brain-computer drive

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is helping launch a brain-computer interface startup called Merge Labs, aiming to take on Elon Musk's Neuralink. The venture is targeting a valuation of about...

Wednesday 13 August 2025

Taiwan, US eye closer trade ties in ongoing tariff negotiations

Taiwan's lead negotiator and vice premier of the Executive Yuan Li-chiun Cheng held a press conference on August 11, 2025, during which she stated that since the US aims to become...

Wednesday 13 August 2025

China orders Alibaba, ByteDance to stop buying Nvidia H20 chips as tech tensions escalate

China's growing mistrust of Nvidia's H20 GPU is spilling into open confrontation, with regulators ordering leading internet firms, including Alibaba and ByteDance, to suspend orders...

Wednesday 13 August 2025

Auto tariff break offers lifeline to Japan, EU, and South Korean carmakers

President Donald Trump has reached a new tariff agreement with key US trade partners, including the European Union, Japan, and South Korea, setting a unified reciprocal tariff rate...

Wednesday 13 August 2025

Zhen Ding bullish on CoWoP despite long road to mass production

Nvidia is reportedly collaborating with its supply chain to develop an advanced packaging architecture called Chip-on-Wafer-on-PCB (CoWoP) for its Rubin GPU platform. This new design...

Wednesday 13 August 2025

Trump halts Biden-era EV charging program, US plans in disarray

The global electric vehicle market is increasingly dominated by three major regions: China, Europe, and the United States. While China's EV ecosystem—including vehicle sales...

Wednesday 13 August 2025

China to start mass production of domestic HBM3 chips, paving way for Huawei AI integration

China's domestic high-bandwidth memory (HBM) technology has reportedly reached a major milestone, with one of the nation's top DRAM manufacturers...

Wednesday 13 August 2025

Wistron Chair pledges 1 million GPU hours to power Taiwan's AI startups

Simon Lin, Chairman of Wistron Corporation, offered a candid look at the tech giant's bumpy journey into venture capital during a keynote speech at Taiwan's Venture Capital Summit...

Wednesday 13 August 2025

India's first AI unicorn files for IPO amid the country's booming AI sector

Fractal Analytics, an India-based artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics services provider, has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) in Mumbai that could value the company...

Wednesday 13 August 2025

Humanoid robots gain momentum, but hardware costs hold back mass adoption, says DIGITIMES

When Nvidia framed the next wave of AI as "physical AI," it helped ignite a surge of interest in humanoid robots, accelerating development efforts worldwide. Yet, according to DIGITIMES'...

Wednesday 13 August 2025

Huawei unveils AI software to boost inference and curb China’s reliance on foreign memory chips

Huawei has launched its Unified Cache Manager (UCM), a software framework designed to speed up inference in large AI models. The company...

Wednesday 13 August 2025

Tariff cut eases tensions for Korean auto exports, but risks remain

In a significant outcome of the ongoing US-South Korea trade deal, tariffs on automobiles and auto parts have been reduced from 25% to 15% as of April 2025. The two nations also agreed...

Wednesday 13 August 2025

US export levy targeting Nvidia and AMD may expand to other semiconductor firms

The White House confirmed on August 12, 2025, that the Trump administration is still finalizing details around a 15% "export levy" applied to Nvidia and AMD's AI chip sales to China,...

Wednesday 13 August 2025

AI startup Perplexity makes $34.5 Billion bid for Google's chrome browser

AI startup Perplexity made a formal offer to acquire Google's Chrome browser for US$34.5 billion, an audacious bid to get ahead of a potential requirement for the search giant to...

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