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Tuesday 10 February 2026
Renesas turns to China and India for recovery after first net loss in six years
Renesas Electronics recorded its first net loss in six years in fiscal 2025, reflecting weak demand for automotive semiconductors and a limited contribution from AI-related products...
Tuesday 10 February 2026
US plans chip tariff breaks for tech giants tied to TSMC's US expansion
The Trump administration is preparing to spare major US technology companies from a new round of semiconductor tariffs as they expand data center capacity to support the artificial...
Tuesday 10 February 2026
Sony may influence TCL's SQD mini LED strategy as RGB mini LEDs rise
Global TV brands are competing in the high-end market with multiple technologies such as OLED, QLED, RGB Mini LED, and Micro LED, with RGB Mini LED backlighting becoming the focus...
Tuesday 10 February 2026
Anthropic's rumored data center push signals a new phase in the AI infrastructure race
Anthropic's quiet move to secure massive computing capacity marks a strategic escalation that could reshape competition among leading AI labs, intensifying pressure on rivals such...
Tuesday 10 February 2026
Japanese election landslide puts Korean spotlight on chips, Rapidus and TSMC
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi secured a decisive victory in the February 8, 2026, lower house election after her Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) won 316 seats, surpassing the...
Monday 9 February 2026
Samsung boosts HBM4 DRAM investment to secure market leadership
Samsung Electronics is set to begin mass production of the world's first sixth-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM4) chips later in February 2026, marking a major milestone in the...
Monday 9 February 2026
LG CNS partners with FuriosaAI, bringing South Korea's NPU to enterprise AI services
To promote the formal deployment of South Korea's domestic NPU and reduce reliance on Nvidia, LG Consulting & Solutions (CNS), the IT services arm of South Korea's LG Group, has...
Monday 9 February 2026
Musk predicts space computing shift in 36 months as terrestrial power limits bite
Elon Musk said artificial intelligence computing could become more cost-effective to deploy in space than on Earth within the next 30 to 36 months, arguing that power generation and...
Monday 9 February 2026
India advances semiconductor ambitions as TSMC fabricates DLI-backed startup chips
India marked a milestone in its semiconductor push as seven chip designs from startups under the design-linked incentive (DLI) scheme were successfully fabricated, including advanced...
Sunday 8 February 2026
Shanghai's AI chip boom powers China's homegrown computing future
In 2025, Shanghai's domestic AI chip sector surged alongside capital market activity. MetaX reported CNY740 million (US$106 million) in revenue in 2024, rising to CNY915 million in...
Saturday 7 February 2026
A close reading of the book behind TSMC's Japan bet
TSMC's decision to bring 3nm manufacturing to Japan is often explained in terms of subsidies and diversification. A better explanation sits in a book written five years ago by Prime...
Saturday 7 February 2026
Silicon Labs acquisition enables TI to build AIoT tech advantage
Texas Instruments (TI) recently announced that it will acquire IoT wireless connectivity specialist Silicon Labs for US$7.5 billion, with the deal expected to be completed in the first...
Saturday 7 February 2026
Microsoft's Maia 200 chip targets AI inference cost advantage, not Nvidia rivalry
Microsoft recently unveiled its second-generation custom AI chip, Maia 200, more than two years after its previous generation. The Maia chip's update cycle lags behind the rapid iterations...
Saturday 7 February 2026
Commentary: SpaceX's orbital data center plan signals a new arena for AI power
As the rest of the world struggles with shortages of computing power, electricity and advanced chips, SpaceX has moved the chessboard decisively beyond Earth.
Friday 6 February 2026
MetaOptics drives heat-resistant metalenses into CPUs

At the Asia Photonics Expo (APE 2026) in Singapore, DIGITIMES interviewed MetaOptics, the first planar lens company listed on...