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AMD Advancing AI 2026: Gorgon Halo brings 300-billion-parameter models to local AI with Cisco governance

Agentic AI is spreading rapidly across personal computers and enterprise endpoints, prompting AMD to expand its local AI strategy with a new platform capable of running significantly larger models on-device.

US moves to curb Chinese humanoid robots, opening a new front in the AI rivalry

Jul 24

India approves two electronics manufacturing clusters in Tamil Nadu

Jul 24

Commentary: Wistron's Texas AI factory shows why US manufacturing still needs Taiwan

Jul 24

Kimi K3 under fire, part 3: China's AI industry questions success story

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AIH2U lists on Taiwan Innovation Board to tap digital health opportunities

Jul 27, 14:00

Taiwan's largest digital health technology platform H2U debuted on the Taiwan Stock Exchange's Taiwan Innovation Board on July 24 at an offering price of NT$49.13 (approx. US$1.52) per share, marking its official listing as it seeks to capture the growing digital health market.

SERVER, IPC, CLOUD COMPUTING, IOTPegatron unveils AMD EPYC server platform for AI and HPC

Jul 27, 13:59

Pegatron unveiled a new server platform powered by AMD's sixth-generation EPYC processors at AMD Advancing AI 2026, targeting enterprise AI, agentic AI, high-performance computing (HPC), cloud computing, and data-intensive workloads.

ICT MANUFACTURINGTaiwan manufacturers raise prices as procurement costs climb, survey finds

Jul 27, 13:38

Taiwan manufacturers are facing sharply higher procurement costs, and more than half have already passed those increases to customers, according to a survey presented at a Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research seminar on July 24. The findings showed rising pressure on margins as AI-related shortages, energy costs and delivery uncertainty weighed on the sector.

SERVER, IPC, CLOUD COMPUTING, IOTNvidia weighs US$250B backstop for OpenAI's Ohio data center

Jul 27, 12:14

Nvidia is in talks to provide a financial backstop of roughly US$250 billion that would help OpenAI lease and finance a massive AI data center campus in southern Ohio, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

ICT MANUFACTURINGIBM agrees to acquire HRL Laboratories to expand quantum computing capabilities

Jul 27, 12:01

IBM has signed a definitive agreement to acquire HRL Laboratories, a US research and development company known for its work in quantum technologies, to strengthen its long-term quantum computing roadmap.

ICT MANUFACTURINGHitachi selected for Japan quantum computing project with Intel collaboration

Jul 27, 12:00

Hitachi has been selected as the prospective implementation organization for a Japanese government-backed project to advance next-generation quantum computers, with Intel contributing semiconductor manufacturing expertise.

AISamsung, Hyundai expand AI push from chips to robotics

Jul 27, 11:26

Samsung Electronics and Hyundai Motor Group used the San Francisco AI Summit to outline separate artificial intelligence (AI) expansion plans spanning semiconductors, autonomous driving and robotics.

AIWeekly news roundup: Samsung and SK Hynix favor DDR5, Intel accelerates 18A, Alibaba deepens CXMT ties

Jul 27, 11:14

AI infrastructure, memory and advanced chipmaking led this week's tech agenda, with Intel, Samsung, SK Hynix, CXMT, Alibaba and Foxconn reshaping capacity and supply chains. Below are the most-read DIGITIMES stories from the week of July 20-26, 2026.

AIJensen Huang backs open-weight AI as report says OpenAI, Anthropic lobby for tighter controls

Jul 27, 10:02

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has backed open-weight artificial intelligence (AI) models in his first post on X, adding weight to a widening industry dispute over whether advanced AI should remain tightly controlled or be more broadly shared as competition with China accelerates.

SERVER, IPC, CLOUD COMPUTING, IOTIndia's HCLTech plans US$4.4B AI data center

Jul 27, 09:26

HCLTech said it plans to establish its first AI data center at the upcoming Odisha Sovereign AI Park, marking a further step in its expansion into the full-stack artificial intelligence market through a partnership with AI startup Sarvam and the Government of Odisha.

AIDeepSeek reportedly pauses second funding round amid market and geopolitical scrutiny

Jul 27, 09:23

Chinese artificial intelligence pioneer DeepSeek has verbally informed prospective investors that it is suspending its second fundraising round, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg. The unexpected halt comes just days after leaked transcripts attributed to founder Liang Wenfeng sparked widespread online discussion about China's reliance on US hardware and its technological lag relative to American rivals.

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