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Wednesday 1 July 2026
Yageo to raise capacitor prices, extending AI cost pressure to EMS and OEM customers
Leading passive components supplier Yageo is reportedly set to raise capacitor prices across the board from July 1, according to supply chain sources. The price hikes will cover tantalum...
Wednesday 1 July 2026
OpenAI engineers claim to discover way to cut inference costs in half
OpenAI engineers claim to have figured out a way to halve the costs of inference using its models, according to The Information. The development comes as AI model developers...
Wednesday 1 July 2026
Tenstorrent's Jim Keller says startup will outpace Cerebras as AI chip competition intensifies

AI chip competition is widening beyond raw performance, a shift that matters for global cloud providers, device makers, and investors...

Wednesday 1 July 2026
China's price war cuts humanoid robot hand costs in half — but precision parts resist

Competition in China's humanoid robot market is driving down prices for dexterous hands and other key parts, with implications for...

Wednesday 1 July 2026
Anthropic's Sonnet 5 delivers near-Opus performance at 60% lower cost as export ban lifts
The US Commerce Department on June 30 removed export restrictions on two of Anthropic's most advanced AI models, ending a roughly three-week freeze that had disrupted enterprise and...
Wednesday 1 July 2026
The price behind India's investment boom

India, the world's most populous democracy, is pushing hard to expand transport and power infrastructure to support manufacturing and...

Wednesday 1 July 2026
Taiwan's connector makers head into 2H26 on AI demand, but face rising costs and supply constraints
AI-driven demand is expected to keep Taiwan's connector industry on a growth trajectory in the second half of 2026, with AI servers, data centers and high-speed interconnects continuing...
Wednesday 1 July 2026
LCD TV panel makers face a softer peak season as demand weakens and costs climb
Liquid-crystal-display (LCD) TV panel makers face a muted peak season in the second half of 2026, as weaker demand, rising material costs, and looser supply-demand conditions put pressure...
Tuesday 30 June 2026
TSMC fast-tracks CoPoS—whole supply chain under gag order

TSMC is accelerating CoWoS capacity expansion while also pushing ahead with next-generation panel-level packaging, CoPoS, aiming to...

Tuesday 30 June 2026
Apple faces iPhone 18 Pro price pressure as memory crunch tests AI upgrade strategy

Apple's next iPhone Pro lineup could be heading toward one of its sharpest pricing tests in years, as surging memory costs threaten...

Tuesday 30 June 2026
Forget prompts: Nvidia's Huang sees 'loop engineering' as AI's next frontier

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang is drawing attention to a new AI concept called loop engineering, which shifts emphasis from writing...

Monday 29 June 2026
Goertek's 12-inch AR wafer fab could double waveguide output, cut AI glasses costs
Goertek has begun mass production at China's first 12-inch AR optical wafer fab, a milestone that could cut waveguide costs, strengthen the domestic AI smart glasses supply chain and...
Saturday 27 June 2026
Zettabyte urges new standard for quality AI compute as demand surges over two years
AI infrastructure firm Zettabyte said AI token generation exploded more than 330-fold over two years and urged that compute be measured by delivered useful work rather than raw hardware...
Friday 26 June 2026
Qualcomm HBC takes aim at HBM costs in AI data centers

Qualcomm has unveiled its latest AI data center platform, Dragonfly, at its annual investor day, highlighting a new technology it calls...

Thursday 25 June 2026
Europe's AI infrastructure: the cost gap that policy cannot paper over
The EU currently hosts roughly 5% of the world's AI compute capacity. The US holds close to 75%. McKinsey projects European data center demand will grow from 10 GW of IT load in 2024...