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Tuesday 12 August 2025

Could US chip export tariffs be new tool against China?

US President Donald Trump confirmed that Nvidia and AMD will pay 15% of their AI chip sales revenue in China to the US government under a rare deal tied to export licenses. This move...

Tuesday 12 August 2025

Trump floats weakened Blackwell export to China in return for US revenue share

US President Donald Trump signaled on Monday that he'd be open to allowing Nvidia Corp. to sell a scaled-back version of its most advanced AI chip to China.

Tuesday 12 August 2025

EV slowdown pushes US LFP batteries toward grid storage and hyperscalers

The US lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery industry is transforming due to policy changes, such as vehicle and parts tariffs, proposed cuts to electric vehicle subsidies under the...

Monday 11 August 2025

Advantech eyes retail and imaging acquisitions to capitalize on Edge AI growth

Advantech is evaluating potential acquisitions in retail, imaging, and software modules as part of a broader strategy to strengthen its...

Monday 11 August 2025

KPMG: AI, aerospace, defense sectors attract over 70% of global VC funding

Palmer Luckey, founder of AI defense technology startup Anduril Industries, recently visited Taiwan to personally deliver the company's first batch of Altius-600M attack drones for...

Monday 11 August 2025

Taiwan Chelic unveils biomimetic robotic hand as 2Q revenue climbs 11%

As smart manufacturing demands higher precision and flexibility, Taiwan Chelic Co. is pivoting from traditional pneumatic grippers to electric grippers and biomimetic robotic hands...

Monday 11 August 2025

WT Microelectronics AI data centers fuel massive growth into 2026

IC distribution giant WT Microelectronics' chairman Eric Cheng stated at the August 6, 2025, investor conference that strong AI demand will become the core growth driver for WT in...

Monday 11 August 2025

CATL's permit lapse halts key lithium mine, jolts global supply chain

Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited (CATL), the world's largest EV battery manufacturer, confirmed it has halted output at its Jianxiawo lithium mine in Jiangxi after its...

Monday 11 August 2025

China's EV strategy: build local, sell smart, win global

As Western automakers wrestle with supply chain bottlenecks and regulatory shifts, China's electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers are rapidly...

Monday 11 August 2025

AI boom spurs shift to rack-scale, open-standard servers as cooling demands soar

The accelerating demands of artificial intelligence are redrawing the blueprint of data center infrastructure, driving server design into an era defined by rack-scale integration,...

Monday 11 August 2025

Asia Optical profit soars on strong camera and drone lens sales

Asia Optical held an online investor conference on August 6, 2025, where chairman Yi-Jen Lai praised its second quarter performance. He shared that digital cameras and action cameras...

Monday 11 August 2025

Against the odds, Toyota and Nissan find footing in China’s EV market

After years of defense, Japanese electric vehicles are mounting a quiet yet striking comeback in China—a market now dominated almost...

Monday 11 August 2025

South Korea accelerates AI data center expansion amid global compute race

With the rapid development of the global AI industry, demand for high-performance computing and GPU resources continues to rise, and the global AI data center market is expanding...

Monday 11 August 2025

China's Qihoo 360 retools cybersecurity with AI agent swarms to meet 'machine vs. machine' threat

The 13th Internet Security Conference (ISC.AI 2025) kicked off on August 6 at the China National Convention Center in Beijing. Co-hosted...

Monday 11 August 2025

UCIe 3.0 doubles bandwidth, expands chiplet ecosystem — Intel's Das Sharma on AI and compatibility

The Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) standard has taken a decisive step forward with the release of version 3.0, delivering up to 64 GT/s throughput and doubling bandwidth...

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