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Friday 4 September 2026
Nvidia sets an October launch for RTX Spark PCs, gives local AI a router
Nvidia used IFA 2026 to argue that serious AI work can run locally as well as in the cloud, pairing an October launch date for its RTX Spark Windows PCs with free software that distributes...
Friday 4 September 2026
Analysts read Nvidia's Hugging Face deal as a hedge, not a software bet
Nvidia's agreement to buy Hugging Face for roughly US$13 billion is being framed by analysts less as a move into software than as insurance against three ways its core business could...
Friday 4 September 2026
Nvidia's Hugging Face terms pay out its chip rivals and reserve US$1 billion to keep the staff
The mechanics of Nvidia's US$12.93 billion purchase of Hugging Face say as much about the deal's purpose as the strategic case does: a tenth of the consideration is set aside to stop...
Friday 4 September 2026
Nvidia buys the front door to open AI with a US$12.93 billion Hugging Face deal
Nvidia's agreement to acquire Hugging Face for US$12.93 billion pushes the world's dominant AI chip supplier past silicon and into the layer where developers actually pick their models...
Friday 4 September 2026
D-Wave, quantum computing's oldest company, is now building a second kind of machine
D-Wave has spent 26 years building one type of quantum computer. This week it told a Taipei audience why it started building another.
Friday 4 September 2026
Taiwan's tech council allocates NT$3.76 billion for quantum host
Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) has budgeted NT$3.76 billion (US$116.58 million) for a quantum computer system project, while the Industrial Technology Research...
Thursday 3 September 2026
Infineon sees AI data centers, physical AI as growth drivers
Infineon said the rapid buildout of AI data centers and emerging Physical AI applications could reshape semiconductor demand worldwide. The shift signals higher infrastructure spending,...
Thursday 3 September 2026
KEPCO seeks US$18 billion from Samsung, SK Hynix to fund Korea's power grid
Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) has proposed that Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix prepay as much as KRW25 trillion (approx. US$18 billion) in electricity bills as South Korea looks...
Thursday 3 September 2026
Niching validates 500-ton press for large heat spreaders
Niching Industrial is expanding its heat-spreader capacity as AI and high-performance computing demand pushes up orders across the global semiconductor supply chain. The company said...
Thursday 3 September 2026
Huawei, Xiaomi to launch new foldable smartphones ahead of Apple
Samsung Electronics launched its new Galaxy Z series foldable smartphones, including its first wide-folding model, kicking off this year's foldable smartphone battle. With attention...
Thursday 3 September 2026
Google to expand Taipei AI infrastructure center as Taiwan ties deepen
Google will expand its AI infrastructure research and development center in Taipei's Shilin district, adding 60% more office space, as it deepens work with Taiwan's supply chain on...
Thursday 3 September 2026
HPE has already bought the supply behind its raised fiscal 2027 plan
The most consequential figures on HPE's fiscal third-quarter earnings call on September 2 were not the results but the commitments standing behind them. According to Bloomberg's transcript...
Thursday 3 September 2026
HPE's constraint has shifted from demand to memory
Hewlett Packard Enterprise's fiscal third-quarter results, reported on September 2, are the point at which the Juniper Networks deal and the enterprise AI cycle stopped being a cost...
Thursday 3 September 2026
Auras sees ASIC revenue reaching 50% in 2027, eyes microchannel cooling production in 2028
Cooling specialist Auras Technology is expanding from GPU platforms to ASIC-related products as its next growth driver, amid the ongoing shift toward liquid cooling in AI servers,...
Thursday 3 September 2026
Column: From automation to autonomy—what robotics still needs to make the leap
I visited Automation Taipei 2026 in mid-August, where the show looked lively and occupied a footprint 7% larger than in 2025. Physical AI and vision-language-action (VLA) models dominated...