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Tuesday 23 December 2025
Silicon Optronics eyes BSI and low-power products in face of memory supply concerns
Silicon Optronics (SOI) highlighted at its recent earnings call that ongoing price hikes and shortages in consumer memory remain unresolved, potentially tightening wafer foundry supply...
Tuesday 23 December 2025
ByteDance reportedly to increase 2026 capex with major focus on AI chips
ByteDance is preparing to raise its capex to CNY160 billion (approx. US$22.70 billion) in 2026, allocating over half of this amount, CNY85 billion, towards purchasing artificial intelligence...
Tuesday 23 December 2025
US probes top Southeast Asian Nvidia buyer over chip smuggling

US authorities are investigating Singapore-based cloud provider Megaspeed International Pte. amid concerns that Nvidia chips could have...

Tuesday 23 December 2025
China's space launch surge exposes Taiwan's tech gap
As privately owned rocket and satellite manufacturers in the United States continue to surge, China has been accelerating its own commercial space ambitions. Beyond its extensive...
Tuesday 23 December 2025
Aspeed opens Kaohsiung R&D center to boost chip development efforts
Aspeed Technology, a global leader in remote server management chips, officially launched its Kaohsiung research and development (R&D) center on December 22. Located at the Pier...
Tuesday 23 December 2025
Nvidia targets pre-holiday H200 shipments to China via inventory; production ramp remains uncertain
Nvidia is reportedly planning to resume shipments of its second-most powerful artificial intelligence chips to China before the Lunar New Year holiday in mid-February, underscoring...
Monday 22 December 2025
Samsung's HBM4 SiP tops Nvidia's performance tests, heating up memory race
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are reportedly intensifying their competition to supply Nvidia's sixth-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM), known as HBM4. The new HBM4 will be...
Monday 22 December 2025
South Korea examines challenges in building a strong AI semiconductor industry
The National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK) recently convened a seminar, gathering industry and academic experts to assess South Korea's position in the AI semiconductor sector...
Friday 19 December 2025
US scrutinizes Nvidia H200 chip exports to China as risks mount
The Trump administration has launched an interagency review to determine whether to authorize the first exports of Nvidia's H200 artificial intelligence chips to China, Reuters...
Friday 19 December 2025
TI begins shipping chips from new 300mm Sherman fab in Texas
TI has begun shipping chips from its newest 12-inch semiconductor fabrication plant in Sherman, Texas, marking a key milestone in the company's long-term manufacturing expansion in...
Friday 19 December 2025
SK Hynix accelerates US$15B M15X expansion as equipment move-in kicks off
SK Hynix is accelerating the build-out of its M15X memory chip plant in Cheongju, South Korea, as the company installs manufacturing tools and moves into the final engineering phase...
Thursday 18 December 2025
AMD CEO pledges greater investment in China amid efforts to boost US-China chip cooperation
AMD CEO Lisa Su has announced plans to increase investment in China during a recent visit aimed at strengthening collaboration in the semiconductor and artificial intelligence sectors...
Thursday 18 December 2025
China's EUV prototype forces a rethink of the AI chip order
China has quietly crossed a psychological and potentially strategic threshold in the global semiconductor race. In a tightly controlled laboratory in Shenzhen, Chinese scientists...
Thursday 18 December 2025
Why OpenAI is courting AWS chips—and what it signals about cracks in its AI expansion
OpenAI is reportedly in negotiations with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to secure funding and collaborate on AWS's in-house developed application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs)...
Thursday 18 December 2025
Apple reportedly explores chip assembly in India, signaling supply chain diversification
Apple is reportedly in preliminary talks with Indian chip manufacturers to assemble and package components for the iPhone, potentially marking a first step in shifting part of its...