As physical AI and robotics draw unprecedented market attention, a key bottleneck is clogging the deployment pipeline: quality, real-world physical data. To move applications from the lab to real-world deployment, companies are getting creative in overcoming this obstacle while balancing affordability, stability, and data volumes.

Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree Robotics has drawn significant market attention with its IPO. Based on DIGITIMES' review of the company's three-hour IPO roadshow and Q&A session on August 7, chairman Xingxing Wang and the management team provided further details on humanoid robot commercialization, embodied intelligence, and its supply chain strategy.

Ken Phua, former Arm China co-CEO, spent 25 years abroad building someone else's business model. He came home to Singapore to build his own.

The speed of AI data center deployment is raising the bar for power and cooling suppliers. Chipmakers such as Nvidia and AMD are refreshing platforms annually, with each generation bringing sharp increases in power density and thermal requirements. Suppliers that cannot match that pace in R&D or capacity deployment risk missing the next design cycle.

Taiwan Mobile announced on August 13 that it will acquire additional common shares of Systex through its wholly owned subsidiary Taiwan Cellular, raising its total stake to more than 50% and securing majority control of the IT services provider.

Google's Pixel 11 launch signals a broader shift in mobile hardware, with implications that extend beyond the company's own sales. As AI features, ecosystem control, and supply-chain choices reshape the smartphone market, Google must balance its ambitions with partner relations across Android's global network and consumer markets.

Amid escalating geopolitical tensions, defense awareness is rising rapidly worldwide, with drone and counter-drone technologies becoming key areas of development for governments and defense industries. Taiwan is also continuing to upgrade technologies for radar detection, missile defense, and other military systems.

Compal chairman Ray Chen said the company was still a newcomer to AI servers two years ago but has now moved into the middle tier and wants to keep closing the gap with the leaders. However, opportunities to break into Nvidia and AMD's supply chains remain difficult to win, whereas enterprise OEM business offers a more promising opening for Compal to catch up with front-runners.

In July, an OpenAI AI agent model successfully bypassed safety restrictions during internal testing and even launched an automated cyberattack against Hugging Face, the world's largest open-source AI community platform, drawing intense attention. The incident, seen as the first publicly disclosed case of "AI attacking the AI ecosystem/platform," underscores how AI's rapid evolution is shifting cyber risk from "humans attacking systems" to "AI attacking AI."

When people talk about responding to supply chain shocks, the instinct is often to stockpile inventory or build backup production lines. However, after visiting Inner Mongolia Shuangjie Saidu Electric with a delegation in June 2026, I came away with a different understanding: true "supply chain resilience" is not created through last-minute crisis fixes. It is embedded in factory layout, product design, business diversification, and service models.

Global AI computing is rapidly moving beyond single-GPU systems toward AI Factory architectures, where agentic AI and inference workloads are pushing data centers to rely on networking, optics, packaging, cooling, power delivery and software co-design rather than raw accelerator counts. In a DIGITIMES interview, Nvidia Senior Vice President of Networking Gilad Shainer said the real unit of computing is now the entire data center, not an individual server.

Google has carried out its biggest artificial intelligence (AI) reorganization since merging Google Brain and DeepMind in 2023, putting Sundar Pichai and Koray Kavukcuoglu at the center of its AI strategy. The move ends the company's three-year scientist-led model and creates a clearer chain of command across research, models, products, and business. The implications extend beyond personnel, suggesting Google is prioritizing execution, accountability, and commercial returns over academic prestige.

DeepSeek's participation in Unitree's Shanghai STAR Market IPO was made at the corporate level, not personally by founder Liang Wenfeng or a fund associated with him.

Taiwan's role in the global AI supply chain is shifting from manufacturing toward engineering, Nvidia networking senior vice president Gilad Shainer told DIGITIMES in an interview. The island, he said, is increasingly serving as an engineering partner for next-generation AI factories rather than simply an assembler.

Driven by global net-zero commitments and China's "dual carbon" goals of peaking carbon emissions before achieving carbon neutrality, Inner Mongolia is rapidly transforming from a traditional resource-based economy into a strategic hub for renewable energy and AI computing infrastructure.