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Sunday 3 May 2026

Silicon Motion posts record 1Q26 revenue driven by AI, new products to boost growth

Silicon Motion Technology reported a record quarterly revenue of US$342 million in the first quarter of 2026, up 23% from the previous quarter and soaring 105% year-over-year. The...

Saturday 2 May 2026

OpenAI reworks Stargate data center strategy as site plans change

OpenAI is reworking its US$500 billion Stargate initiative, shifting from a fixed data center joint venture toward a more flexible strategy...

Saturday 2 May 2026

Qualcomm says Samsung chip share remains above 70% despite Exynos push

Qualcomm said its relationship with Samsung Electronics remains stable and that its share of Samsung smartphone silicon has risen to more than 70%, even as Samsung expands the use...

Saturday 2 May 2026

Lite-On profit rises on surge in AI-driven cloud demand

Lite-On Technology reported first-quarter revenue of NT$43.4 billion (approx. US$1.35 billion), up 19% from a year earlier, as surging...

Saturday 2 May 2026

Foxconn Industrial Internet posts 102% net profit growth in 1Q26 on AI GPU, ASIC demand

Benefiting from the continued expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) computing power demand, Foxconn Industrial Internet (FII), a subsidiary of Hon Hai Precision Industry (Foxconn),...

Saturday 2 May 2026

MediaTek lifts 2026 ASIC target to $2 billion despite smartphone market deterioration

MediaTek held its earnings call on April 30, expressing a cautious outlook for the 2026 smartphone market. Despite this, growth in other applications is expected to effectively offset...

Friday 1 May 2026

OpenAI demand doubts cast shadow over AI server supply chain

OpenAI's aggressive push to secure AI computing capacity is facing growing scrutiny, with signs that its multibillion-dollar data center...

Friday 1 May 2026

China's $1M Nvidia AI servers expose global chip squeeze

Prices for high-end AI servers in China are diverging sharply from global benchmarks, with systems built around Nvidia's B300 chips now...

Friday 1 May 2026

China unveils CPU-only exascale supercomputer plan, targets 2 ExaFLOPS without GPUs

China's National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen has launched the LineShine supercomputer project, aiming to break into the exascale...

Friday 1 May 2026

Column: Designing safety for VLA robots in commercial deployment

The deployment density of service and mobile robots in commercial environments has surged over the past three years. What began as narrowly defined automation—inspection units...

Friday 1 May 2026

Hardware bottlenecks emerge as humanoid robotics race intensifies

Competition in humanoid robotics has intensified in recent years, with advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning often cited as the main drivers of progress. However,...

Friday 1 May 2026

Commentary: Honor's robot win highlights thermal edge in robotics

The Beijing Humanoid Robot Half Marathon has concluded, but its outcome has ignited a wider industry debate. Rather than a leading robotics specialist, smartphone maker Honor emerged...

Thursday 30 April 2026

Google's split TPU chips signal shift from universal to specialized AI accelerators

Google has unveiled its eighth-generation Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) by splitting them into two distinct chips: the training-focused TPU 8t and the inference-optimized TPU 8i....

Thursday 30 April 2026

Microsoft's capex plans draw scrutiny as Azure demand outstrips capacity

Microsoft executives defended the company's rising capital spending after reporting stronger-than-expected fiscal third-quarter results,...

Thursday 30 April 2026

Alphabet's AI surge, by the numbers: Cloud, search and subscriptions rewire growth

Alphabet's first-quarter 2026 results point to a company increasingly defined by AI-driven momentum across search, cloud, and subscriptions—with...

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