Korea-based Rebellions unveiled its next-generation AI accelerator, REBEL-Quad, at the Hot Chips 2025 symposium in California, positioning itself as a direct rival to Nvidia’s Blackwell processors. The chip is the world’s first neural processing unit (NPU) to adopt the UCIe-Advanced standard for chiplet interconnect, a design that enables faster and more power-efficient data transfer.

At a pre-IPO briefing held on Monday, Techman Robot, a leading Taiwanese collaborative robot (cobot) manufacturer, laid out its vision for the future as it prepares to debut on the capital markets. The event was marked by a personal appearance from Barry Lam, chairman of Quanta Computer, Techman’s parent company, who praised the company’s achievements and symbolic significance.

Nvidia’s new advanced packaging technology, Chip-on-Wafer-on-Platform (CoWoP), has moved into testing with engineering samples of its base printed circuit boards (PCBs) under verification. Key suppliers involved in early development include Taiwan’s Zhen Ding Technology Holding, Unimicron Technology Corp., and Compeq Manufacturing Co., along with China’s WUS Printed Circuit (Kunshan) Co. and Victory Giant Technology (HuiZhou) Co.

Pegatron unveiled two new server platforms, AS205-2T1 and AS400-2A1, featuring Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. These servers target enhanced performance in AI inference, scientific computing, and multimedia workloads, with an aim to boost enterprise and manufacturing operations.