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Power, utilities, and datacenter energy constraints that gate AI scale.
With the expansion of AI, every bit of available computing power is being utilized, and even NVIDIA's six-year-old A100 "Ampere" accelerator is being fully utilized at CoreWeave.
Apple gains China AI approval with Alibaba; SMIC Q2 revenue hits $3B with 25.3% gross margin; DeepSeek open-sources agent runtime; JD.com returns to profit; Pony.ai deploys 2,000 European robotaxis.
China's largest contract chipmaker has spent most of the past two years increasing volume without much to show for it in terms of margins.
SMIC Q2 2026 revenue hit $3.006B (+36.1% YoY), net profit surged ~4x; gross margin beat guidance at 25.3%. Q3 guided at 26-28% GM. Full analysis.
Century Communities leverages AI in land acquisition to help its lean land teams vet sites faster, before contracting or engineering begins.
Taoyuan is moving to develop Guanyin into an AI computing park as demand for AI servers drives heavier power requirements and a new round of factory expansion.
With more than 20 years of thermal engineering experience, CPS PCCOOLER is expanding into professional computing with new cooling, chassis, and power solutions for AI workstations and servers.
Google used its keynote at the OCP APAC Summit in Taipei on August 11 to argue that the 48V power architecture widely used in data centers is running out of headroom as AI racks move toward megawatt-scale designs, with converters and busbars taking up an increasing share of rack space as current rises.
Speaking at the OCP APAC Summit in Taipei, Subi Kengeri, Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Systems to Materials at Applied Materials, delivered a keynote warning that the artificial intelligence boom faces a critical bottleneck: energy efficiency.
Power system design is one of the biggest challenges for engineers as manufacturers start to use AI on machines, production lines and industrial assets located in the field. To help […] The post Mouser Highlights Power Management as a Key Enabler for Industrial Edge AI appeared first on India Automation Hub.