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Friday 28 August 2026
Renesas opens physical AI and robotics lab in Beijing
Renesas Electronics has opened a physical AI and robotics lab in Beijing, a move that could speed the development of safer, smarter machines for factories, logistics, and homes worldwide...
Friday 28 August 2026
Honor Robot Phone enters mass production, making robotics central to its premium AI strategy
More than a year after Honor first debated the idea internally, its Robot Phone has moved from a contentious concept to a mass-produced commercial product. But the significance of...
Friday 28 August 2026
Samsung absorbs memory costs to chase smartphone crown
Global smartphone shipments are set to shrink sharply in 2026 as soaring memory and core component prices hit the market, but Samsung Electronics is moving in the opposite direction...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Trump declares emergency over foreign grid equipment, likely eyeing Chinese power hardware
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on August 26 declaring a national emergency over the security of America's electrical grid. It restricts the purchase, import, and...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Nvidia Vera Rubin drives 800VDC, lifts BBU demand
Nvidia's GPU roadmap is pushing 800VDC into the spotlight as a key next-generation breakthrough, with battery backup modules (BBUs) set to gain in both quality and volume as high-density...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Chart: Hyperscale capex dollar is buying less Nvidia than it did one year ago
The five largest cloud operators spent US$181.5 billion on property and equipment in the June quarter, 87% more than a year earlier. Nvidia's hyperscale revenue was US$48.7 billion...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Foxconn reportedly weighs major India expansion as global manufacturing footprint grows
Hon Hai Technology Group, better known as Foxconn, is expanding its global manufacturing footprint through new land acquisitions, factory development, and capacity upgrades as demand...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Nvidia's inventory build shifts upstream as memory costs bite
Nvidia closed its second fiscal quarter with US$31.6 billion of inventory, but the more consequential change is what that inventory now consists of. Work in process and raw materials...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Chart: Nvidia's segment split tells only half the AI demand story
Nvidia's data center business now splits almost evenly between hyperscalers and everyone else — US$48.7 billion against US$40.3 billion in the July quarter. The obvious reading...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Tri-fold, rollable foldables intensify materials supply chain battle
Samsung Electronics' first tri-fold handset of 2025, the Galaxy Z TriFold, has repeatedly sold out, but with global shipments of only about 30,000 units, it functioned more as a technology...
Thursday 27 August 2026
CXMT lands early LPDDR6 opportunity with Xiaomi Xring O3, eyes China flagship phones
China's smartphone and memory supply chains are moving closer together, with Xiaomi's new Xring O3 processor potentially providing CXMT with an early commercial entry into the LPDDR6...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Analysis: From Starlink to Starmind, Nvidia deal reveals SpaceX's blueprint for an orbital AI economy
The recent disclosure of SpaceX's partnership with Nvidia to deploy Vera CPUs as part of the architecture behind SpaceXAI's Starmind AI satellite was an outright showcase of where...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Ablecom takes control of Jochu to expand AI server rack, liquid cooling business
Ablecom Technology said it had joined a private placement for Jochu Technology and become the listed company's largest shareholder, giving the Taiwan-based chassis and thermal solutions...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Commentary: Nvidia bets on open models to lift GPU usage
Nvidia is aggressively expanding into open-source models and positioning itself as the world's largest open AI contributor, as CEO Jensen Huang reshapes the company from a supporter...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Indian states begins to tighten screws on data centers even as the build-out accelerates
India's data center story has split in two. The pipeline forecasts keep getting bigger, but the money actually landing has thinned sharply since June — and the reason is no longer...