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Thursday 15 October 2026
AI agents in suspected Tencent Cloud sandbox target Alibaba’s Amap mapping service
An international AI research team has detected a fleet of more than a dozen AI agents operating in a suspected Tencent Cloud infrastructure sandbox and repeatedly attempting to penetrate...
Thursday 15 October 2026
TSMC CEO says profitability has no ceiling, plans High-NA EUV adoption in 2030
TSMC chairman and CEO C.C. Wei said on October 15 that the chipmaker sees no ceiling on its profitability as demand for AI accelerators continues to outpace supply. Wei also said AI-related...
Thursday 15 October 2026
Applied Materials CEO says agentic AI drives wafer demand
Applied Materials CEO Gary Dickerson said customer demand to produce more good dies per wafer and rapidly expand wafer output has reached levels unprecedented in his career, driven...
Thursday 15 October 2026
TSMC breaks silence on Musk's Terafab: Talks underway, but fab control non-negotiable
TSMC has confirmed that it is in discussions with Elon Musk's Terafab initiative over potential semiconductor manufacturing cooperation, marking the first public acknowledgment of...
Thursday 15 October 2026
Synopsys CEO says fully autonomous AI chip design remains out of reach
Synopsys CEO Sassine Ghazi said that fully autonomous chip development has not yet crossed the final hurdle to become reality, although the company has advanced from AI-assisted engineering...
Thursday 15 October 2026
US urges chipmakers to use domestic capacity as CHIPS Act strategy shifts from fab subsidies to securing orders
Bill Frauenhofer, executive director of semiconductor investment and innovation at the US Department of Commerce, joined Entegris CEO David Reeder for a fireside chat at SEMICON West...
Thursday 15 October 2026
Nvidia pledges US$250M in AI safety research to UK, CEO defends industry's approach
Nvidia will provide the UK with US$250 million worth of computing resources over five years to support AI safety research, as CEO Jensen Huang defended the industry's ability to manage...
Thursday 15 October 2026
Dell CEO urges AI growth without sacrificing safety
As AI investment continues to expand, concerns are mounting over whether capital spending can translate into real revenue and whether data center construction is becoming excessive...
Wednesday 14 October 2026
Cerebras CEO reveals the capacity shortfall behind OpenAI's turn to Nvidia GPUs
Cerebras Systems' shortage of data centre capacity was a key reason OpenAI turned to Nvidia GPUs to expand services for its next-generation models, co-founder and CEO Andrew Feldman...
Wednesday 14 October 2026
Elon Musk says Micron is 'reasonable' on memory prices while others are 'extortionate'
Elon Musk has criticized memory chip suppliers for charging what he called "extortionate" prices while praising Micron Technology's approach to future pricing, highlighting tensions...
Wednesday 14 October 2026
TSMC and MediaTek alumni lead Taiwan's new wave of deep tech startups
At Plug and Play Taiwan's Batch 4 Selection Day, 21 startups made the case that Taiwan's next wave of innovation is being built by chip-industry veterans who are tackling problems...
Wednesday 14 October 2026
Applied Materials CEO says AI race hinges on technology and capacity
The contest for leadership in AI computing is being fought on two fronts—technology and manufacturing capacity—and chipmakers must advance chips, memory, advanced packaging...
Wednesday 14 October 2026
Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger sees hardware renaissance in memory, optical interconnects
As AI reshapes the global computing landscape, former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said AI is making chip design easier, while physical bottlenecks in manufacturing, memory, and energy...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
Grab plays up Singapore roots, rules out Huawei maps in Taiwan as Foodpanda deal nears decision
Southeast Asian super-app Grab is trying to ease concerns in Taiwan about its ties to China as regulators near a decision on its proposed acquisition of Foodpanda's Taiwan business...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
Stellantis rejects brand split, urges EU to reward local carmaking
At the Paris Motor Show, Stellantis NV CEO Antonio Filosa rejected proposals to split the company's European and US brands and said the company would not sell Maserati. The automaker...