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Friday 2 October 2026
China turns to 3D packaging to push AI performance beyond front-end scaling limits
Chip-performance gains have long been driven by an industry-wide focus on shrinking transistor nodes and tightening integration. While major economies including the US and Taiwan have...
Friday 2 October 2026
California tech exec arrested in US$300M Nvidia AI server smuggling case
US federal prosecutors on October 1 arrested a 38-year-old California man accused of violating US export controls by smuggling computer servers containing US$300 million worth of Nvidia...
Friday 2 October 2026
Tesla cuts AI5, AI6 memory specs to protect Optimus
Facing a prolonged memory supply crunch, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced steep cuts to the memory specifications of the company's AI5 and AI6 chips to secure enough memory for Optimus...
Friday 2 October 2026
Huawei turns to LogicFolding to keep its flagship chip race alive
Huawei Technologies has unveiled its Mate 90 smartphone series, expanding the use of self-developed Kirin processors and HarmonyOS 7 as it looks to sustain flagship performance under...
Friday 2 October 2026
Google's first Suncatcher satellite reaches orbit to test AI chips in space
Google has moved its orbital AI data center ambitions from paper to hardware. A prototype satellite carrying the company's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) reached orbit on October 1,...
Friday 2 October 2026
China financing chain linked to Nvidia Blackwell chips, 32 Asus servers exposed
A China-backed leasing firm appears to have helped Chinese companies buy restricted Nvidia Blackwell platform chips through financial leasing, according to a recent report. The transactions...
Friday 2 October 2026
Wi-Fi 8 races ahead of the standard, putting networking chips on a faster 2027 growth track
Wi-Fi 8 adoption is accelerating well ahead of the standard's expected finalization in the first half of 2028, with device brands and chipmakers already moving into early commercial...
Friday 2 October 2026
A look at the startup winning Nvidia, Intel backing for AI scale-up optics
Silicon Valley data center optical interconnect startup CScale emerged from stealth on September 30 after raising US$145 million in a Series C funding round backed by Nvidia and Intel...
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...