Acer has landed a nearly US$200 million tablet order from the state of Uttar Pradesh in India, underscoring the company’s growing public-sector business in one of its fastest-expanding markets. Acer Pan-Asia Pacific operations president Andrew Hou said India revenue exceeded US$700 million in 2025 and could top US$800 million in 2026 as the company moves closer to a US$1 billion revenue target.

Aspeed chairman Chris Lin said the company’s order visibility has now extended into 2027, with 2027 backlog already exceeding expected full-year 2026 revenue for the first time. He added that easing supply-chain bottlenecks should support sequential growth in the second half of 2026 and stronger pricing from the fourth quarter onward.

As the global race for artificial intelligence (AI) consumes vast oceans of electricity and pushes modern utility grids to the brink, a team of California researchers is looking to biological neuroscience to build an entirely new class of energy-efficient microelectronics. Their objective is straightforward but radical: reverse-engineer the human brain to solve the semiconductor industry’s looming power and thermal bottlenecks.