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Friday 4 September 2026
Analysts read Nvidia's Hugging Face deal as a hedge, not a software bet
Nvidia's agreement to buy Hugging Face for roughly US$13 billion is being framed by analysts less as a move into software than as insurance against three ways its core business could...
Friday 4 September 2026
Taiwan's tech council allocates NT$3.76 billion for quantum host
Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) has budgeted NT$3.76 billion (US$116.58 million) for a quantum computer system project, while the Industrial Technology Research...
Thursday 3 September 2026
CHPT spans wafer to system-level testing
Chunghwa Precision Test Tech showcased a range of test interface solutions for AI chips and high-performance computing (HPC) at SEMICON Taiwan 2026, including AI probe cards, memory...
Thursday 3 September 2026
Niching validates 500-ton press for large heat spreaders
Niching Industrial is expanding its heat-spreader capacity as AI and high-performance computing demand pushes up orders across the global semiconductor supply chain. The company said...
Thursday 3 September 2026
Zeiss deepens Taiwan bet as advanced chip packaging raises the stakes for inspection tools
Zeiss is expanding its Taiwan presence as artificial intelligence (AI) accelerates demand for smaller chips, vertical stacking, and 2.5D and 3D heterogeneous integration. The shift...
Thursday 3 September 2026
Apple, Xiaomi and Nvidia chase terabyte-class bandwidth for AI chips
For decades, semiconductor performance gains largely came from shrinking process nodes, from 22nm and 14nm to 7nm and 3nm. AI is changing the constraint: processors are getting faster,...
Thursday 3 September 2026
China packaging specialist SJSemi reaches 3.3-reticle 2.5D scale for AI, HBM integration
Chinese advanced packaging provider SJ Semiconductor (SJSemi) has expanded its silicon-interposer-based 2.5D packaging platform to 3.3 times the standard reticle size, enabling denser...
Thursday 3 September 2026
TRUMPF targets advanced packaging as AI chip makers chase higher density and better cooling
As AI chips grow more powerful, the race is shifting beyond transistor scaling to packaging, glass substrates, and thermal control. For global readers, that means the next gains in...
Thursday 3 September 2026
CPO material race widens as Taiwan eyes key role
At the Semicon Network Summit 2026, speakers from Marvell, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research's Holst Centre, the UK Semiconductor Centre, and the Taiwan...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
TCL CSOT bets on InP laser chips as supply tightens
Indium phosphide (InP) is emerging as one of the tightest supply constraints in AI data-center optical interconnects. Lumentum CEO Michael Hurlston has said publicly that the supply-demand...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
AI demand push expands wafer industry's growth outlook
AI is reshaping demand well beyond chips, and GlobalWafers chair Doris Hsu said this shift is lifting the strategic importance of silicon wafers across the semiconductor supply chain...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
Innovative Solutions for Fabricating High-Performance AI Multichip Packaging Using Glass Substrates

Interested in knowing how to solve the microcrack problem in through-glass via (TGV) fabrication? Interested in knowing how to supply 1,000 Watts, 1 Volt and 1,000 Amperes...

Wednesday 2 September 2026
Manz Asia Broadens ECD Platform for Mass Panel-Level Packaging

Rapid evolution of High-Performance Computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence chips for Hyperscalers and tech giants continue pushing large sized silicon demands. As...

Tuesday 1 September 2026
Research insights: AI Fabric optical interconnects move into racks as 400G/lane and CPO maturity emerge as key variables
DIGITIMES observed that as AI systems continued to scale, interconnect requirements inside AI data centers had expanded from chips, packages, and boards to racks, clusters, and eventually...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Z.ai runs GLM inference on 100,000 Chinese AI chips, eyes overseas CSPs
Chinese large-model developer Z.ai says it can now support large-scale inference using roughly 100,000 domestically produced AI chips, while its GLM models are also moving closer to...