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Thursday 1 October 2026
Ascend now ahead of Nvidia in China, with domestic supply driving AI chip substitution, says Huawei chairman
Huawei rotating chairman Eric Xu said the company's Ascend AI accelerators have surpassed Nvidia in both sales and market share in China, highlighting how US export controls on advanced...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Synopsys and Amazon sign US$1 billion-plus deal to speed custom chip development
Synopsys announced a strategic agreement with Amazon on September 30, a multi-year deal valued at more than US$1 billion that is intended to speed up Amazon's custom silicon work and...
Thursday 1 October 2026
China OSAT share in cloud AI accelerators to hit 13% in 2026 as local ASIC volume ramps up
As China accelerates its push for homegrown AI computing chips, custom ASIC accelerators from domestic tech giants—including Huawei, Cambricon, and Alibaba—are entering...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Huawei makes Mate 90 showcase for its Tau chip strategy
Huawei unveiled its Mate 90 smartphone series on October 1, with Richard Yu, Huawei executive director and chairman of the Consumer BG, introducing the new devices alongside a new...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Google to test AI computing in space with first orbital TPU launch
Google is preparing to send its in-house AI accelerator, the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), into low Earth orbit for the first time as it explores whether AI computing can eventually...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Unimicron expands ABF substrate capacity with NT$10B Hukou land deal
Unimicron has moved again to ease tight ABF substrate supply, buying a Hukou site from Bridgestone Taiwan for more than NT$10 billion (US$313.65 million). The deal highlights how AI...
Thursday 1 October 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: AI scaling is moving from chip shrinkage to system integration
TSMC said the next phase of AI performance growth will depend less on shrinking a single chip and more on combining multiple chips, memory, and advanced packaging inside larger systems...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Trump-Xi talks leave chip policies unchanged; US guards AI advantage while China pursues self-reliance
Following the summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, market observers broadly agreed that the talks yielded few surprises. The meeting produced...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
ByteDance makes up a fifth of China's AI data center capacity amid growing buildout
ByteDance occupies around a fifth of data center capacity in China, according to a recent report. This makes the company the largest customer for rented compute in the country at a...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Googlebook, QwenBook bring agentic AI to the PC system layer, opening new chip opportunities

Qualcomm unveiled no new PC chips at Snapdragon Summit 2026, but its PC strategy remained firmly in focus.

Tuesday 29 September 2026
Amazon buys NT$1.59 billion stake in one of its Taiwanese AI server suppliers
Amazon will take an equity stake in Gold Circuit Electronics (GCE), a Taiwanese maker of printed circuit boards (PCBs) for AI servers and network switches. GCE's board approved the...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
US, China eye US$60 billion in tariff relief, but chips stay off the table
The US and China are moving toward tariff reductions on about US$60 billion of bilateral trade following last week's Trump-Xi summit, but semiconductors and other strategically sensitive...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
SK Hynix tests HBM5 with TSMC as HBM4 enters Nvidia's next platform

SK Hynix has validated its HBM5 memory with TSMC's CoWoS packaging, the company said in a September 28 post on its corporate newsroom...

Tuesday 29 September 2026
Samsung invests US$1 billion in ex-AWS chief's AI data center venture, joining Nvidia as a founding investor
Six Samsung companies will invest a combined US$1 billion in Helix Digital Infrastructure, a company set up by investment firm KKR to build data centers and the power supply they need...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
AMD pays US$8.2 billion for Fei-Fei Li's 3D world-modeling startup to shape future AI chips
AMD has agreed to acquire World Labs, the San Francisco AI research startup led by Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal valued at about US$8.2 billion. The chipmaker says it wants the...