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Velaura AI will den Strombedarf von KI-Beschleunigern durch ein spezielles Chipdesign deutlich senken. Dafür spendieren Investoren 110 Millionen US-Dollar....

AVer Global said second-half growth remains supported by education tenders, stable ODM orders, and planned price increases, even as rising material costs and sensor shortages strain supply. The shift highlights how earthquake-related disruptions, AI adoption, and post-pandemic hardware demand are reshaping technology markets across industries and regions....

Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft and other major technology companies have accumulated as much as US$3 trillion in off-balance-sheet commitments tied to AI infrastructure, according to an analysis cited by The Wall Street Journal. The figures illustrate how quickly the financial burden of the AI buildout is expanding beyond what is visible on standard balance sheets....

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China's humanoids have made their stock market debut. Unitree Robotics has just become China's first publicly traded humanoid robot maker, adding investor firepower to the country's AI ambitions. Winnie Hsu explains. (Source: Bloomberg)...

Ein KI-Modell von Open AI brach aus einer Testumgebung aus und knackte eigenständig das System einer anderen KI-Firma. Nun zieht das Unternehmen Konsequenzen aus dem ungeplanten Hackerangriff....

As AI infrastructure increasingly absorbs both capital and management attention across China's technology sector, even profitable businesses are finding themselves vulnerable when they sit outside the strategic core....

Baidu's second-quarter 2026 results confirm a business in the midst of a wrenching handover: an AI-powered core that is scaling faster than almost any other line item at the company, while the total revenue base is still shrinking. Group revenue fell 4% year-on-year to CNY31.3 billion (US$4.63 billion), the fifth straight quarter of annual decline, even as Baidu's AI-powered businesses grew 25% and accounted for half of Baidu General Business revenue for the second consecutive quarter, exceeding legacy-business revenue....

Elite Advanced Laser Corp. said persistent shortages in the AI optical supply chain are likely to continue for years, as demand for high-speed connections continues to outpace supply. The packaging maker said orders are booked years in advance, while its own factories are operating at full capacity....

China's K-shaped economic recovery is likely to keep investors betting on artificial-intelligence stocks, as the latest data indicates the tech sector remains a key driver for growth while consumption and property continue to act as drags, according to analysts. Manufacturing output for industrial robots, electric vehicles and semiconductors each grew at least 20 per cent year on year in July, defying a weakness in the broader economy, according to official statistics. China's key economic......

Anthropic sichert sich mit Macquarie Asset Management und dem Staatsfonds GIC neue Partner für den Aufbau eigener Rechenzentren....

Meta-Chef Mark Zuckerberg hat zuletzt einen 6.533 Wörter langen Essay mit dem Titel "The Future is for Everyone" veröffentlicht....

Temporal Technologies Inc. is in talks for a fresh funding round that would give the AI startup a valuation of at least $12 billion before the new money, according to people familiar with the efforts....

Amid a global shortage of AI semiconductor equipment, Hanmi Semiconductor announced on August 18 that it will acquire a factory owned by Mercury in the Juan National Industrial Complex in Incheon, South Korea. The site, covering 221,683 square feet, will become Hanmi Semiconductor's eighth and largest production base....

Niche printed circuit board (PCB) maker EISO Enterprise said that 2026 industry demand has returned to post-pandemic highs as AI applications spread across multiple segments, while chairman Jian Rong-kun said the chance of a market reversal or an AI bubble burst remains low. But since 2025, shortages and price increases in high-frequency, high-speed copper-clad laminate (CCL) have remained a shared operational challenge for PCB makers....

South Korea is looking beyond semiconductors and artificial intelligence for its next generation of strategic industries, naming seven technology fields it plans to cultivate over the next 10 to 20 years....

LED packaging maker Everlight Electronics said it will sell its Tongluo plant in Miaoli to Sinbon for NT$3.458 billion (US$108.5 million), a move expected to strengthen its capital allocation as it shifts investment toward higher-growth businesses. The company also said its new Thailand factory, built partly to reduce geopolitical risk, is scheduled to begin mass production in the second half of 2027....

Samsung Electronics and SK hynix have amassed a combined KRW278 trillion (approx. US$196.9 billion) in cash equivalents and short-term financial instruments by the end of the second quarter of 2026 as AI-driven memory demand lifted prices, revenue, and profit. The surge has shifted attention from earnings growth to how South Korea's two largest memory chipmakers will deploy their expanding financial firepower....

Pan-International, a Foxconn Group connector and component maker, held an investor conference on August 18, 2026, to report its operating results for the second quarter of 2026 and outline its plans for the second half of the year and 2027. General manager Ming-Feng Tsai said the company's AI server products had entered the pilot production stage and were expected to begin ramping up shipments in October. Along with the gradual rollout of its axial flux motor (AFM) technology, the two growth engines would keep full-year 2026 revenue on track for double-digit growth from 2025. Looking ahead to 2027, as the two new businesses fully launch and additional contributions come from key AI server components, revenue could see explosive growth....

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