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Friday 8 May 2026
Analysis: Anthropic's xAI deal puts Musk's GPU efficiency problem in focus

Elon Musk's latest move to team up with Anthropic in a major computing-capacity agreement captures the logic of "the enemy of my enemy...

Friday 8 May 2026
Analysis: AMD overtakes Intel in data center revenue as agentic AI revives x86 CPUs
AMD data center revenue surpassed Intel's for the first time in the first quarter of 2026, highlighting how the rise of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping demand across...
Friday 8 May 2026
Analysis: Samsung's China appliance exit signals Chinese brands' upmarket march
Samsung Electronics remains one of the global capital market's major beneficiaries of the AI memory boom, with its market value briefly surpassing US$1 trillion in May. Yet another...
Wednesday 6 May 2026
Explainer: Why Supermicro's margins bounced back — one customer pulled back
Supermicro's third-quarter of fiscal 2026 gross margins snapped back to 10.1% non-GAAP, up from 6.4% in the second quarter of fiscal 2026. CEO Charles Liang attributed the recovery...
Tuesday 5 May 2026
Analysis: Big Tech's AI tab tops US$700 billion with Google Cloud pulling ahead — but investors are picking sides
The AI spending arms race just got more expensive — and more consequential.
Tuesday 5 May 2026
Analysis: How China’s HJT curb accelerates domestic consolidation and redefines solar competition
China is reportedly planning targeted export rules for heterojunction (HJT) solar equipment. The move has sparked broad industry debate in 2026, as energy transition and aerospace...
Tuesday 5 May 2026
Analysis: CoWoS crunch and MediaTek's hire raise a bigger question — can Intel deliver?
The AI chip race is increasingly running into a different kind of limit — not compute, but packaging, as supply constraints around advanced technologies such as CoWoS begin to...
Thursday 30 April 2026
Analysis: Chinese smart home brands outpace Western rivals with relentless innovation
Chinese smart home appliance brands have swept across global consumer markets on the strength of youthful, innovative brand images. Analysts point to one defining trait: product iteration...
Wednesday 29 April 2026
Analysis: Taiwan's two major panel makers enter semiconductor packaging; CPO and FOPLP become key
Optical communication technology is shifting from traditional pluggable optics toward co-packaged optics (CPO) architectures. Advanced packaging technologies are extending from wafer-level...
Tuesday 28 April 2026
Analysis: Why Tokyo Electron's China problem goes deeper than a data breach
Amid growing geopolitical tensions over the global semiconductor supply chain, what initially appeared to be an internal personnel matter is evolving into a broader case study of the...
Monday 27 April 2026
Analysis: Beijing Auto Show signals new phase in China's EV race
The 2026 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition opened on April 24 with a scale that stands in sharp contrast to the contraction of many global auto shows. Spanning roughly 380,000...
Wednesday 22 April 2026
Analysis: Apple's new CEO has a secret robot team — and big plans for your home
Apple has officially announced that John Ternus will succeed Tim Cook as CEO. Given Ternus's deep hardware background, product innovation at the hardware level is widely expected to...
Wednesday 22 April 2026
Analysis: Tesla's chip ambitions drive a wedge between Samsung and Intel
Tesla's Terafab project is accelerating, with the company targeting substantial in-house chip production to support autonomous driving, robotaxis, humanoid robots, and AI infrastructure...
Tuesday 21 April 2026
Analysis: Amazon's 11-year chip journey crowns Anthropic and OpenAI as top Trainium customers
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy declared in his latest shareholder letter that the company's self-developed chip business is booming, surpassing US$15 billion in annualized AI revenue through...
Monday 20 April 2026
Analysis: How TSMC avoids memory's boom-and-bust cycle
Ahead of TSMC's earnings call, DIGITIMES senior analyst Luke Lin explained that TSMC typically does not revise its full-year revenue forecast or capital expenditure during...