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Tuesday 20 October 2026
South Korea's US$1.66 billion humanoid robot push puts auto suppliers in focus
South Korean automotive and machinery component makers are among 12 companies identified in a KRW2.2 trillion (approx. US$1.66 billion) private investment plan to develop a domestic...
Tuesday 20 October 2026
Alibaba's XuanTie tops 6 billion RISC-V chip shipments, expands into AI servers with C950
Cumulative shipments of chips incorporating Alibaba DAMO Academy's RISC-V processor intellectual property (IP), branded XuanTie, have surpassed 6 billion, marking a milestone for the...
Tuesday 20 October 2026
South Korean govt, SK Hynix launch KRW2 trillion loan guarantee program for chip suppliers
SK Hynix, South Korea's industry ministry, the state-run Korea Trade Insurance Corp. (K-SURE), and four major commercial banks launched a KRW2 trillion (US$1.5 billion) loan guarantee...
Monday 19 October 2026
Malaysia unveils six locally designed chips, but commercial adoption is the real test
Malaysia's push to move from assembling chips to owning the designs behind them has reached the point where it must find buyers. On October 16, the government unveiled six semiconductor...
Friday 16 October 2026
Bolt Graphics seeks US$100 million to challenge Nvidia, AMD beyond AI with Zeus GPU
US chip startup Bolt Graphics is seeking approximately US$100 million at a valuation of about US$700 million to develop graphics processors targeting scientific computing and professional...
Friday 16 October 2026
DIGITIMES Insights: China's automakers pursue three humanoid robot strategies as EV supply chains offer 60% overlap
Chinese automakers are accelerating their expansion into humanoid robotics, leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, electric drive systems, and supply chain resources...
Friday 16 October 2026
Linde LienHwa tackles hydrogen transport dilemma with HaaS
As hydrogen development and applications take center stage at Energy Taiwan 2026, industrial gas giant Linde LienHwa Group is introducing an end-to-end "Hydrogen-as-a-Service" (HaaS)...
Friday 16 October 2026
China's 90%-localized EUV light source debuts at 15W, exposing the gap to commercial chipmaking
Chinese semiconductor technology start-up Langdao Silex (Shanghai) Technology has publicly unveiled an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light source prototype with a claimed 90% localization...
Friday 16 October 2026
China's YMTC targets 9,600 MT/s with 4F² DRAM design
China's Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) is developing a next-generation 4F² DRAM design targeting data transfer speeds of 9,600 megatransfers per second (MT/s), expanding beyond...
Friday 16 October 2026
LG Innotek eyes 2027 chip substrate growth as Big Tech supply talks continue
South Korea's LG Innotek expects its semiconductor substrate business to improve in 2027 as it pursues long-term supply agreements (LTAs) with major technology companies and prepares...
Thursday 15 October 2026
Trump says Taiwan will buy 30% of LNG output from Alaska project; Taipei confirms plans but not final terms
US President Donald Trump said at a Republican rally in Alaska on Tuesday that Taiwan had agreed to buy 30% of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from a planned Alaska pipeline project over...
Thursday 15 October 2026
Samsung, Applied Materials back startup targeting chip packaging warpage
Samsung Ventures and Applied Ventures, the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, have invested in US-based Flexcompute, backing simulation technology designed to predict semiconductor...
Thursday 15 October 2026
Vietnam's FPT courts Toyota Tsusho unit to sell its power chips in Southeast Asia, India
Vietnamese technology group FPT is lining up a second Japanese distribution channel for its in-house power chips, a move that would carry Vietnamese-designed semiconductors beyond...
Wednesday 14 October 2026
China's AI chipmakers target 3D packaging, optical interconnects and software ecosystems
China's domestic AI chipmakers are shifting their competitive focus from individual GPU performance to system-level integration as AI models grow increasingly complex. Three priorities—3D...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
Samsung sends yield engineers to Texas ahead of 2nm production ramp
Samsung Electronics has begun dispatching advanced-process yield engineers from South Korea to its Taylor, Texas, foundry ahead of planned 2nm chip volume production in 2027, South...