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Friday 28 November 2025
China's new TPU contender aims for Nvidia's AI chip dominance
China's AI chip startup Zhonghao Xinying has introduced its own tensor processing unit (TPU), a major step in the country's "de-Americanisation" drive as US export curbs continue...
Friday 28 November 2025
US pushes 50-50 chip split, but Taiwan's 10x capacity lead says otherwise
US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick previously proposed the idea of a 50–50 chip split between Taiwan and the US, but it is unclear whether this reflects Lutnick's personal...
Thursday 27 November 2025
China-EU urge an internal resolution of Nexperia dispute
China's Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao and European Commission Trade and Economic Security Commissioner Maros Sefcovic held a video conference on November 26, 2025, to address the...
Thursday 27 November 2025
Beijing reportedly bans ByteDance from using Nvidia GPUs in new data centers
Beijing authorities have reportedly imposed strict restrictions on high-end semiconductor imports, prohibiting ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, from deploying Nvidia GPUs...
Thursday 27 November 2025
Inventec gains from Google TPU drive as cloud firms seek Nvidia alternatives
Google's renewed focus on custom Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) for artificial intelligence is driving up demand for its server hardware, giving Taiwan's Inventec new momentum and...
Thursday 27 November 2025
Google pushes TPU-OCS architecture as Gemini 3 aims at ChatGPT

Google's release of its Gemini 3 large language model (LLM) in November—trained primarily on the company's in-house TPU chips and...

Thursday 27 November 2025
Anpec experiences spillover effects from memory price increases
Power management IC (PMIC) supplier Anpec Electronics held its investor conference on November 24, 2025, stating that multiple product lines for 2026 have already passed the design-in...
Wednesday 26 November 2025
US pulling far ahead in advanced chips as Europe shifts to supply-chain defense, says McKinsey
A new McKinsey report says the global semiconductor landscape is undergoing a dramatic divergence, with the US emerging as the center of leading-edge computation while Europe pivots...
Wednesday 26 November 2025
DDR4 supply crunch pressures margins for industrial and consumer electronics
The ongoing shortage of memory chips is sending ripples through the industrial-computer, networking, and consumer-electronics sectors, raising costs and straining profit margins....
Wednesday 26 November 2025
0.18-micron tech makes a comeback in IC design research
While TSMC is actively building and expanding 2nm fabs and MediaTek's chips are advancing to the 3nm process node, the long-overlooked 0.18-micron technology is unexpectedly making...
Wednesday 26 November 2025
Kneron unveils KL1140 chip with 3x efficiency and 10x lower costs
Kneron has launched its next-generation KL1140 edge AI chip, introducing a processor that the company claims can reduce inference costs by tenfold and deliver three times higher energy...
Wednesday 26 November 2025
Rapidus plans to build second fab for 1.4nm chips in fiscal 2027
Japanese semiconductor firm Rapidus, which aims to mass-produce 2nm chips by 2027, has initiated plans for advanced technological developments, including the construction of a second...
Wednesday 26 November 2025
Global data center AI chip packaging market forecast, 2024-2030
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Wednesday 26 November 2025
Exclusive: China's new 3D hybrid-bonded AI chip rivals Nvidia's 4nm class
China has applied disruptive innovation and a fully controllable domestic solution to break through compute bottlenecks, with chip performance now capable of surpassing constraints...
Wednesday 26 November 2025
Google steps up in ASIC war, but brings mixed implications for MediaTek and Broadcom
Google has been on a streak of breakthroughs in AI. Gemini 3 has been outperforming major AI models, while it has also received strong engineering feedback on Antigravity. Its already...