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Saturday 31 January 2026
Nvidia CEO calls ASIC rivalry "illogical" as R&D spending heads toward $45 billion

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang issued a sharp rebuke to market speculation regarding the rise of custom silicon (ASIC) during an interview in Taipei on January 31, 2026.

Saturday 31 January 2026
"Complete Nonsense": Jensen Huang shuts down rumors of OpenAI rift, confirms Nvidia's "largest investment" ever

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivered a fiery defense of his company's alliance with OpenAI on Saturday night, January 31, 2026, dismissing reports of a "cooling" relationship as "complete nonsense."

Saturday 31 January 2026
Taiwan's capital markets reach new highs, signaling broader global role

At a Lunar New Year press conference, the Financial Supervisory Commission said that combined revenues of Taiwan's listed companies surpassed NT$50 trillion (approx. US$1.59 trillion) in 2025, while total market capitalization reached NT$101 trillion. By market value, Taiwan now ranks as the world's seventh-largest securities market.

Friday 30 January 2026
China approves DeepSeek's Nvidia H200 chip purchase, but conditions still pending
China has given its leading AI startup DeepSeek approval to buy Nvidia's H200 artificial intelligence chips, with regulatory conditions still being finalized, according to Reuters.
Friday 30 January 2026
MediaTek and Arm-backed Arbor drives layered growth with AI strategy
As generative AI gradually extends from the cloud to enterprise and edge environments, industry competition is shifting from a single high-performance computing platform toward multi-layered application scenarios. With expanding demand across use cases, market competition is evolving from a single technology path to a layered market structure that clearly segments large cloud data centers, enterprise data centers, and Small Office, Home Office (SOHO) personal applications. This segmentation is also reshaping supply chain roles and collaboration.
Friday 30 January 2026
Nexcom eyes robot market growth, targets ramp-up in 2027
Physical AI has emerged as an important direction for AI applications in smart manufacturing and automated services, addressing labor shortages, with humanoid robots taking the spotlight as key embodiments of physical AI.
Friday 30 January 2026
Aspeed profits rise for second year on server upgrade demand

As artificial intelligence (AI) applications expand, the rising scale and density of server computing have placed a premium on system stability. AI servers, characterized by high costs, extreme power consumption and significant heat generation, face the risk of substantial losses from system outages. This has heightened the importance of baseboard management controllers (BMCs), which provide real-time monitoring of voltage, temperature and system status, driving steady growth in Aspeed Technology's operating performance.

Friday 30 January 2026
Altos taps Acer's regional footprint to ride enterprise AI boom, eyes double-digit growth in 2026
Altos Computing, Acer's AI server solutions subsidiary, is optimistic about its 2026 outlook as enterprise AI adoption gains momentum across Asia-Pacific. With a growing project pipeline and rising demand for practical AI deployments, the company expects a significant portion of its opportunities to convert into orders, supporting its double-digit growth goal for the year.
Friday 30 January 2026
Exclusive: Why SpaceX still bets on solar—and what it means for suppliers
While Tesla's core electric-vehicle business is undergoing a structural recalibration, its longer-term bets—autonomous driving, artificial intelligence, and humanoid robots—remain firmly in the investment and incubation phase. The clearest source of momentum, however, came from an area that has drawn far less public attention: energy generation and storage. That business posted revenue growth of roughly 25% year over year, emerging as one of the report's brightest spots.
Friday 30 January 2026
Apple buys Israeli audio startup Q.ai
Apple said on January 29, 2026, that it has acquired Q.ai, an Israeli startup working on artificial intelligence technology for audio.
Friday 30 January 2026
South Korea NAND flash gains strategic role in next-gen AI infrastructure

With artificial intelligence (AI) technology advancing at a breakneck pace—particularly as applications move from the training phase to inference—demand for high-capacity, high-performance storage in data centers and embedded devices is surging. Once considered a low-margin segment prone to market volatility, NAND flash has taken on a new strategic role in Nvidia's blueprint for next-generation AI infrastructure, becoming an indispensable component for AI inference workloads.

Friday 30 January 2026
Taiwan pledges equal incentives for US investors under new MOU, with no cap on subsidies
Taiwan is stepping up efforts to anchor global investment at home, offering equal incentives to US and foreign firms even as cross-border commitments under the Taiwan–US Investment Cooperation MOU remain asymmetric.
Friday 30 January 2026
Huawei scales cloud ecosystem in Asia-Pacific; Volcengine surges in AI cloud
Huawei is expanding its public cloud business across overseas markets, refining its partner strategy, and advancing its "platform plus ecosystem" model in Asia-Pacific. The company said that by the end of 2025, Huawei Cloud had more than 40 master distributors and over 50 cloud service provider partners outside China, serving over 4,000 customers globally. In the Asia-Pacific region, the company has become the region's fastest-growing public cloud provider, supported by service teams in more than 10 locations.
Friday 30 January 2026
With Techman Robot, JPP brings AI automation to the factory floor
Techman Robot, a global leader in collaborative robotics, has helped Jinpao Precision (JPP), a high-tech manufacturer of precision metal components, complete a large-scale automation overhaul—an uncommon achievement in the aerospace industry, where production is often defined by low volumes and high variability.
Friday 30 January 2026
Record Taipower profit masks rising pressure from AI data centers on Taiwan's power system
Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) announced a net profit of NT$72.9 billion (approx. US$2.32 billion) for 2025, setting a new single-year earnings record and surpassing its previous high of NT$61.7 billion in 2015. The results, released at a recent board meeting, were driven by electricity tariff increases and lower international fuel costs amid ongoing financial challenges.
Thursday 29 January 2026
Taiwan, US expand AI, drone cooperation under Pax Silica framework
Taiwan's Minister of Economic Affairs, Ming-hsin Kung, joined senior US State Department officials on January 27, 2026, in the US to conclude the sixth US-Taiwan Economic Prosperity Partnership Dialogue (EPPD). The two sides signed a joint statement on the Pax Silica Declaration and US-Taiwan Cooperation on Economic Security.
Thursday 29 January 2026
Moltbot cracks the CUDA barrier, pushing Apple's Mac mini back into AI development
Apple has long built its brand around a tightly integrated hardware and services ecosystem. In AI and high-performance computing (HPC), however, the platform has been limited by the absence of support for Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem. The open-source AI agent Moltbot, formerly known as Clawdbot, is now breaking that barrier, driving renewed developer interest in the Mac mini.
Thursday 29 January 2026
Foxconn Industrial Internet drives growth in high-end computing market through cloud and AI server focus
Foxconn's subsidiary, Foxconn Industrial Internet (FII), is accelerating its operational shift toward the high-performance computing market, driven by dual engines of cloud and AI businesses. FII highlighted that in 2025, cloud service provider (CSP) related operations will become the main growth driver, especially as AI servers and high-performance general-purpose servers ramp up. This expansion in cloud product lines not only fuels rapid revenue growth but also significantly enhances FII's product mix and profitability structure.
Thursday 29 January 2026
Tech giants' US$100bn bet on OpenAI: Nvidia, Microsoft lead US$730bn power play
OpenAI is pursuing a landmark funding round, potentially reaching US$100 billion to fuel its escalating AI infrastructure needs amid intense competition. Major tech giants and existing backers are advancing discussions, aiming to bolster the company's position against rivals.
Thursday 29 January 2026
A year of transformation: Tesla pivots to Robotaxis and domestic chip production
Tesla is entering what executives describe as a "turning point" year. As the company pushes forward with robotaxi deployment and Full Self-Driving (FSD) technology, it must also navigate potential bottlenecks in global semiconductor supply that could define its medium-term growth.
Thursday 29 January 2026
In-depth: DeepSeek's one-year breakthrough shows how China builds AI without cutting-edge chips
In January 2025, while the global AI and semiconductor industries remained focused on advanced process nodes and high-performance GPUs, China's large-scale model DeepSeek-R1 emerged unexpectedly.
Thursday 29 January 2026
Earnings call summary: Meta maps AI monetization roadmap beyond ads with subscriptions and commerce
Meta is outlining an AI monetization roadmap that extends beyond advertising, signaling plans to layer subscriptions, business tools, and commerce features on top of its core platforms as new models are deployed, while maintaining ads as the primary growth engine in the near term.
Thursday 29 January 2026
Earnings call summary: Meta accelerates AI glasses push as wearables emerge as next major consumer platform
Meta is sharpening its AI device strategy, redirecting investment toward smart glasses and wearables as management signals urgency in shaping the next consumer computing platform, with implications for hardware ecosystems, AI deployment, and the long-term role of virtual and augmented reality.
Thursday 29 January 2026
Musk moves Tesla past Model S and X, betting on robots and AI

Tesla reported fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday that topped Wall Street's profit expectations despite the fact that its revenue had slipped and vehicle deliveries continued to decline.

Thursday 29 January 2026
AI boom threatens global chip supply, automakers warned

The Covid-19 pandemic once sparked a wave of upgrades for personal computers and smartphones, fueling strong demand for semiconductors. However, it also exposed vulnerabilities in supply chains, leaving companies like TSMC entangled in the global automotive chip crunch and prompting the US and Europe to invite TSMC to build factories on their soil.