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Tuesday 18 August 2026
Rockchip profit jumps 62% as edge AI chips scale across devices

China AIoT chip designer Rockchip posted record first-half 2026 results, with revenue rising 40.6% year on year to CNY2.88 billion (US$427...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
Xintec readies 12-inch IVR backside copper for TSMC's next-gen AI chips

TSMC is expanding cooperation with packaging and testing affiliate Xintec as it develops next-generation power delivery and advanced packaging...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
Huawei Hubble builds China's InP optical chip stack for the AI interconnect era
Huawei's semiconductor investment arm is seeing an earlier optical-chip strategy line up with the AI infrastructure boom. Since 2019, Hubble Technology Investment Co. has backed a...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
Analysis: China's AI chip ambitions collide with Ajinomoto's 95% grip on ABF film

China's semiconductor self-reliance campaign is moving beyond lithography machines and advanced processors into less visible materials...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
Nvidia swaps credit support for exclusive chip sales in OpenAI's Ohio data center campus

Nvidia has reached a deal with OpenAI to provide up to US$105 billion in credit guarantees for the AI startup's upcoming 8GW data center...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
Nvidia vs Broadcom: Dueling AI financing bets, Contrasting risks

Nvidia has unveiled a US$500 billion artificial intelligence (AI) compute financing plan with six Wall Street giants—Goldman...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
Commentary: AMD's Taalas acquisition echoing Jensen Huang's Groq strategy

On February 20, 2026, Canadian AI chip startup Taalas unveiled its HC1 inference chip. Taalas said the chip ran the Llama 3.1 8B model...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
Why AMD still owns US$565M of SpaceX shares after Musk chose Nvidia
Elon Musk has made SpaceX's AI hardware strategy unusually clear: future infrastructure will rely exclusively on Nvidia chips and technology. Yet AMD, Nvidia's largest rival in AI...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
Humanoid robots expose the limits of chasing higher TOPS

Humanoid robots are moving from demonstrations toward mass production, changing the priorities of chip design. Instead of simply chasing...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
ITH OLED, T-Con ramps position 3Q26 revenue to defy market headwinds
Driven by a recovery across smartphone, notebook, industrial control, and automotive applications, ITH Corporation, the parent company of Ili Technology (Ilitek), posted solid revenue...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
Tech blocs of the new Cold War: US pushes allies to pick a side

The intensifying US-China technology rivalry is moving beyond export controls and semiconductor restrictions. What comes next could...

Monday 17 August 2026
China's Vertilite commits US$741M to InP laser chips for AI optical interconnects
Chinese optical chipmaker Jiangsu Vertilite Semiconductor Technology is investing CNY5 billion (approx. US$741 million) in a new communications chip and device R&D and manufacturing...
Monday 17 August 2026
Nvidia closing in on US$100B credit guarantee deal for OpenAI's Ohio data center
Nvidia is approaching an agreement to provide credit guarantees of around US$100 billion for OpenAI's 10GW data center in Ohio, among the largest AI infrastructure projects ever, according...
Monday 17 August 2026
Tata succession clouds outlook for chips, clean energy, data centers

Tata's leadership transition may shape the pace of one of India's biggest industrial bets. The group's planned spending on chips, clean...

Monday 17 August 2026
WaveSplitter returns to profit as AI optics demand lifts 1H revenue

WaveSplitter posted NT$477 million (US$14.95 million) in consolidated revenue in the first half of 2026, up 47% from a year earlier,...