Asia Tech News Digest - July 28, 2026

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1 TechAsia Replacing fashion photoshoots with AI With 20 enterprise pilots underway, Swapify is helping fast-fashion brands replace expensive photoshoots with an AI-generation pipeline. AI
2 TechAsia Alibaba Cloud adds Kimi K3 to its AI platform The company said tests showed that joint optimization across chips, the inference platform, and the model cut first-token latency. AISemiconductor
3 DigiTimes Squeezed by China, Taiwan ODMs pivot to AI for new growth China's notebook manufacturing industry is rising rapidly just as Taiwan's ODMs retreat from notebook assembly, but Wistron chairman Simon Lin said the shift also reflects new opportunities as companies pivot toward AI. Lin said each era has its own mission, and many companies would rather move notebook resources into AI
4 DigiTimes Nvidia invests in Ilya Sutskever's SSI, providing access to Vera Rubin compute platform Nvidia has made a strategic investment in Safe Superintelligence Inc. and announced a long-term partnership with the secretive AI lab founded by OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, giving SSI access to Nvidia's next-generation Vera Rubin systems and expanding its computing capacity by an order of magnitude. AI
5 DigiTimes Qualcomm chip price hike to squeeze China's Android makers on two fronts China's smartphone brands are bracing for a new round of cost pressure after Qualcomm reportedly notified customers of double-digit percentage price increases on products shipped from September 1—a move that compounds already rising memory and materials costs hitting the Android supply chain. SemiconductorLogistics
6 TechAsia HSBC plans Singapore AI hub, 100+ AI roles HSBC plans to develop AI talent by collaborating with Singapore's educational institutions and government. AI
7 NikkeiAsia South Korea's KOSPI plunges 11% on China chip competition fears South Korea's KOSPI plunges 11% on China chip competition fears Semiconductor

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