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Tuesday 21 July 2026
China's AI supernode race seeks systems edge through optics, packaging, and cloud scale

China's AI hardware race is shifting from individual accelerators to supernodes, optical interconnects, advanced packaging and cloud-scale...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
Microsoft expands Azure partnership with AMD ahead of Helios AI system launch

Microsoft has expanded its strategic partnership with AMD, announcing plans to deploy the company's upcoming Helios rack-scale AI system...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
TaiSol expects server revenue to top 50% in 2H26, liquid cooling to exceed 25% for full year
As power consumption of artificial intelligence (AI) servers continues to rise, liquid cooling is rapidly evolving from an auxiliary solution into a standard feature at the rack and...
Tuesday 21 July 2026
Elite Material, TUC race ahead in AI CCL push

As AI server products accelerate their generational shift and demand higher-frequency, higher-speed transmission, the upgrade cycle...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
Alibaba and Huawei muscle into Singapore's AI market: SEA-LION swaps Llama for Qwen

Singapore is Southeast Asia's AI frontrunner. It has also become a proving ground for competing Eastern and Western AI business models...

Monday 20 July 2026
China's AI smartphone race pits ZTE, StepFun, and Honor against limits of agentic computing

China's smartphone industry is turning agentic AI into its next growth narrative, with ZTE's Nubia, StepFun and Honor presenting sharply...

Monday 20 July 2026
Alibaba open-sources AI chip software, launches Zhenwu cloud supernode service
Alibaba Group's chip design unit, T-Head, has open-sourced the software stack behind its Zhenwu AI processors while extending the platform from individual accelerators into rack-scale...
Monday 20 July 2026
Oracle's New Mexico data center reportedly hits cost overruns

Oracle's US$165 billion data center project in New Mexico is running into higher-than-expected costs due to local concerns about its...

Monday 20 July 2026
Samsung to cut over 800 US jobs amid market headwinds

Samsung Electronics is cutting over 800 jobs in the US from its smartphone, display, and consumer electronics business units. The division,...

Monday 20 July 2026
Musk brands US$52 billion SpaceX-Foxconn Nvidia server order 'fake news'
Elon Musk has publicly rejected reports that SpaceX placed a roughly US$52 billion order with Foxconn for Nvidia GB300 AI servers, calling the widely circulated claim "fake news" in...
Monday 20 July 2026
3GPP sets 6G Release 21 timeline as industry begins preparing for next-gen networks

The global race toward 6G has entered a new phase after the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) finalized the development timeline...

Monday 20 July 2026
Meta, Anthropic in talks over potential US$10 billion compute deal

Meta Platforms is in early talks to lease computing power to Anthropic in a potential deal worth up to US$10 billion over two years,...

Monday 20 July 2026
Beyond Taipower: AI, semiconductors, and overseas grids reshape Taiwan's electromechanical supply chain
Taiwan's heavy-electrical and electromechanical industry is entering a new growth phase as demand expands beyond its long-standing reliance on Taiwan Power (Taipower). While Taipower's...
Monday 20 July 2026
Nvidia shrugs off HBM shortage, bets on AI infrastructure to sustain explosive growth
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has delivered a clear message ahead of his trip to Japan: the chipmaker's growth is still accelerating, even with quarterly revenue approaching US$100 billi...
Monday 20 July 2026
MiTAC packs 96 AMD GPUs into 52U liquid-cooled rack
MiTAC Computing Technology, a subsidiary of MiTAC Holdings, showcased its server lineup and high-density liquid-cooled rack solutions at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference...