Acer marked its 50th anniversary on September 28, 2026, with the premiere of Smile for Half a Century, a commemorative musical that traces the company's journey from a small startup to a global technology brand while looking ahead to its next chapter.
GlobalFoundries (GF) is preparing a major global capacity expansion as TSMC is set to gradually exit gallium nitride (GaN) foundry services in 2027. GF said it was the first foundry to proactively approach TSMC and secure a GaN technology license, positioning itself to give existing customers a "seamless migration" path to its own platform.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, arrived at the White House on the evening of September 24 US time to attend a state dinner hosted by US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump.
Apple's first foldable iPhone has become a test of how far India has come as a manufacturing base, and the answer is sobering. As India-assembled iPhones reach record export levels, Apple kept development and assembly of its most complex phone, the iPhone Duo, in China. The decision points to a gap that Pune Times Mirror summed up this way: India has become indispensable to Apple's assembly operations, but not yet to its engineering.
Meta's AI assistant Muse is drawing strong market response, and the rise of agentic AI is drawing attention to AI infrastructure shortages beyond GPUs and high-bandwidth memory (HBM), including server CPUs. The trend is lifting order demand for AMD and Intel products, while also tightening the server CPU packaging supply chain.
The ongoing conflict in the Middle East, along with continued tensions between the US and Iran, has kept international energy prices elevated, while shipping volumes through the two major straits have fallen sharply. Against that backdrop, CPC Corporation, Taiwan (CPC), and Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) are shouldering the burden of "containing inflation" by stabilizing domestic prices and easing the burden on consumers, while also absorbing high fuel costs and dealing with increasing financial pressure.
Chinese macroeconomist Justin Lin, dean of Peking University's Institute of New Structural Economics, made a rare appearance at a tech industry event on September 22, speaking at the 2026 Intel Technology Innovation and Industry Ecosystem Conference about the AI revolution from an economic development perspective. Intel China used the event to showcase AI applications spanning edge AI, enterprise AI, and physical AI, underscoring its push to accelerate AI deployment in China.
Industrial PC maker IEI Integration said on September 23 that it remains upbeat on full-year 2026 revenue, expecting double-digit growth from 2025 as network security and high-end video systems ramp and visibility in medical and edge-computing orders extends to 2027-2028.
Starting in the second half of 2025, as AI agent programs such as OpenClaw, Hermes, Claude, and DeepSeek Harness were launched one after another, a wave of "keeping lobsters" began to emerge around on-device AI models paired with AI agents.
