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Wednesday 16 September 2026
Samsung reportedly weighs Micron's newest memory for Galaxy S27
Samsung Electronics is reportedly testing Micron's most advanced 1γ LPDDR5X memory for possible use in the Galaxy S27 series, as rising costs around next-generation mobile DRAM...
Wednesday 16 September 2026
Apple reportedly accepts Samsung's 1Q27 memory hike, raising the 2027 smartphone cost floor
Apple's acceptance of sharply higher Samsung Electronics memory prices for early 2027 is putting a number on the cost of the AI boom for smartphones. The reported agreement comes just...
Wednesday 16 September 2026
Astera says customers are rethinking HBM needs for AI accelerators

AI infrastructure customers are starting to reconsider how much high-bandwidth memory (HBM) needs to be placed alongside accelerators...

Wednesday 16 September 2026
MediaTek keeps Dimensity 9600 Pro on HBPoP as cost drives decisions

MediaTek officially unveiled the Dimensity 9600 Pro on September 15, 2026, drawing significant industry attention to its choice of packaging...

Wednesday 16 September 2026
South Korean NPU startups face validation hurdle in push for global sales

South Korea's neural processing unit (NPU) startups are moving from chip development toward commercial deployment, but limited experience...

Wednesday 16 September 2026
China's humanoid robot race, Part 2: Upstream profits gather around dexterous hands
Humanoid robot makers are cutting prices and scaling production, yet much of the industry remains unprofitable. Upstream suppliers are starting to show a different economics —...
Wednesday 16 September 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: Intel may lack a price edge over TSMC on SK Hynix HBM base dies

SK Hynix is reportedly considering Intel as an additional manufacturing source for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) base dies beginning with...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
China's humanoid robot race, Part 1: Mass production outruns proven demand

China's humanoid robot industry is moving from prototypes to industrial production. The next test is no longer whether robots can be...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
Samsung, SK Hynix diverge on cell design for sub-10nm DRAM in 2028

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are preparing to move DRAM below the 10nm threshold in 2028, with the two memory makers pursuing different...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
Sigmaintell: Memory shortage to ease in 2027 before chip growth hits 2029 wall

After months of tight supply and sharp price increases in 2026, the global memory market is expected to see its supply-demand gap narrow...

Monday 14 September 2026
China optical firms target photonics with mixed high-end, lower-cost push
The 2026 China International Optoelectronic Exposition (CIOE) closed on September 11. While near-eye display applications such as AR/VR and smart glasses drew attention, vendors' latest...
Monday 14 September 2026
Google TPU pays back investment in 1 year, creating upside for MediaTek, Broadcom ASIC revenues

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian recently revealed that Google's overall payback period for AI server investments is less than two years,...

Friday 11 September 2026
Nvidia's US$13 billion Hugging Face deal bets physical AI can start at US$400, not US$40,000
Humanoid robotics has become one of the most visible fronts of the physical-AI race, but the industry's path to scale may depend as much on lowering the cost of experimentation as...
Friday 11 September 2026
Oracle's AI cloud build-out is now rewriting its cost structure

Oracle has passed the point where its artificial-intelligence infrastructure business is large enough to reshape the company's entire...

Friday 11 September 2026
d-Matrix brings Raptor chips to Nvidia racks as falling token prices pressure GPU economics
AI chip startup d-Matrix is adopting Nvidia's NVLink Fusion technology to bring its next-generation Raptor inference processors into Nvidia MGX racks, giving the company a path into...