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Tuesday 15 September 2026
Global semiconductor revenue hits record US$425B in 2Q26
Global semiconductor revenue reached a record US$425 billion in the second quarter of 2026, surging 31.4% quarter-over-quarter, as AI demand and strong memory pricing continued to...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
Chinese chip tools reach 35% of equipment installed at local fabs
Chinese-made semiconductor equipment accounted for roughly 35% of tools installed at fabs in China in 2025, up from about 25% a year earlier, as domestic suppliers gain ground in key...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
XPeng's Turing chip expands beyond cars
XPeng Motors is extending its self-developed Turing AI chip from intelligent electric vehicles (EVs) into humanoid robots, broadening the processor's role in the company's Physical...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
OpenAI reportedly acquires AI camera startup Glass Imaging for more than US$300M

OpenAI has acquired Glass Imaging, a startup developing artificial-intelligence (AI) technology designed to improve smartphone camera performance,...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
SiPh shifts optical module bottleneck upstream: from device manufacturing to laser-grade substrate supply

The market value of optical modules used in data centers is projected to grow from US$12.6 billion in 2025 to US$45.4 billion by 2030...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
Wuliangye skips carmaking, turns liquor waste into silicon-carbon anodes

Chinese baijiu (white liquor) producer Wuliangye, or "Five Grain Liquid," is moving into battery materials by turning distillers' grains,...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
Edimax, Comtrend 1H26 operations under pressure from weaker India orders, rising component costs
Network equipment maker Edimax Technology and its subsidiary Comtrend were affected by changes in customers' shipping cycles in the first half of 2026. Coupled with rising costs for...
Monday 14 September 2026
AI demand lifts UMC, VIS, PSMC revenue

After mature-node price competition from 2023 to 2025, AI demand has spread from GPUs and HBM to power management ICs (PMICs), power...

Monday 14 September 2026
Behind the BRICS handshake: How far can the China-India reset go?
China and India are again trying to stabilise one of Asia's most consequential bilateral relationships, with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi using...
Monday 14 September 2026
Notebook shipment update, July 2026

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Monday 14 September 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: China's GaN challengers are no longer playing catch-up
Chinese GaN power semiconductor maker Innoscience gained direct access to capital markets after listing in Hong Kong at the end of 2024, giving it fresh funding to expand GaN capacity...
Monday 14 September 2026
Foldable smartphone panel shipments to grow 23% in 2026
Following the launch of Apple's first foldable iPhone, the iPhone Duo, combined sales momentum from Samsung Electronics, Huawei Technologies, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, and Motorola is expected...
Monday 14 September 2026
India semiconductor deals hit a multi-year high ahead of SEMICON India 2026
India's semiconductor companies have raised nearly half of their all-time equity funding since the start of 2025, and deal activity this year is already at a multi-year high. The figures...
Monday 14 September 2026
India's chip show nearly doubles in two years, with suppliers leading the build-out
The exhibitor list for Semicon India 2026 suggests the country's semiconductor push has moved past announcements and into procurement. The show has drawn 535 exhibiting companies,...