China's Fiberhome Telecommunication Technologies has unveiled what it claims is the world's largest optical fiber preform, highlighting China's accelerating push to strengthen its position in AI-driven optical networking and high-speed data infrastructure.
Against a backdrop of persistently high tensions between the US and China, the upcoming Trump-Xi summit is being closely watched not only for its implications for trade, technology controls, and geopolitics, but also as a key signal of how both sides are reassessing the remaining areas where cooperation may still be possible.
The courtroom battle between Sam Altman and Elon Musk intensified this week as Altman rejected Musk's accusations that OpenAI abandoned its original mission to benefit humanity in favor of profit.
The global race for AI computing power continues to intensify, beyond ongoing GPU shortages. CPUs, long viewed as secondary components in servers, are once again becoming critical parts of data center infrastructure due to the rapid rise of AI inference and AI agent applications.
French silicon-based quantum computing pioneer Quobly and Hon Hai Research Institute (HHRI) on Tuesday announced the release of a jointly developed open-source numerical toolbox designed for Quantum Phase Estimation (QPE), a foundational algorithm for fault-tolerant quantum computing with critical applications in quantum chemistry and materials science.
Moore Threads has entered a strategic partnership with Lightwheel Intelligent (Beijing) Technology (Lightwheel.ai) to jointly develop a domestic simulation and synthetic data infrastructure platform for embodied AI, highlighting China's broader push to reduce reliance on foreign AI computing and robotics software ecosystems.
Taiwan's ASIC and design services sector is showing sharply diverging fortunes in 2026, with new monthly revenue data highlighting strong momentum for GUC while rivals Faraday and Alchip face a slower start to the year.
China's generative AI sector is seeing another wave of aggressive fundraising, with leading large language model (LLM) developers rapidly securing capital while expanding ties with consumer electronics and device ecosystems.
OpenAI is expanding beyond AI model development and into enterprise implementation with the launch of the OpenAI Deployment Company, a new business unit backed by more than US$4 billion in initial funding that will help organizations integrate AI into core operations and workflows.
AI infrastructure demand is reshaping the electronics manufacturing sector, pushing component makers to move up the value chain into module production and system integration. Delta Electronics has emerged as a prominent example, with its aggressive global expansion plans also accelerating capacity investments by suppliers, including rack maker JPP Holding and battery module supplier Dynapack International Technology in Thailand.
