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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...
Thursday 10 September 2026
Navigating economies of scale: how South Korea and China are reshaping the OLED market
Economies of scale occur when a company's average cost per unit falls as overall production volume increases. In the competitive display industry, reaching this state relies on either...
Thursday 10 September 2026
China's Nvidia rivals raise prices as HBM shortage bites
Chinese chipmakers challenging Nvidia are sharply raising prices for current and next-generation accelerators as high-bandwidth memory (HBM) becomes scarcer and more expensive, adding...
Thursday 10 September 2026
Europe's BEV running costs now 33% below ICE
Daily operating and maintenance costs for battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in Europe are now 33% lower per kilometer than those for comparable internal combustion engine (ICE) cars,...
Thursday 10 September 2026
CIOE 2026: Morphotonics draws on display background to break AR waveguide bottlenecks
At the China International Optoelectronic Expo (CIOE), Morphotonics, a Netherlands-based nanoimprint lithography company, made the case that the quickest way to reach affordable AR...
Thursday 10 September 2026
Samsung India reportedly cuts jobs as memory costs squeeze electronics unit
Samsung Electronics' Indian unit has reportedly started cutting jobs in its TV and home-appliance businesses as higher memory-chip prices, currency weakness, and soft consumer demand...
Thursday 10 September 2026
Analysis: China chases EUV as chipmakers move to High-NA
The extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography race is splitting into two tracks. Intel has moved High-NA EUV into production, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are targeting DRAM production...
Wednesday 9 September 2026
Apple yields to memory suppliers in historic strategy shift, with Kioxia tipped as NAND long-term agreement recipient
Apple, historically known for wielding unmatched leverage in component price negotiations, has reportedly been trading pricing leverage for long-term supply guarantees from memory...
Tuesday 8 September 2026
LG's robot actuator push turns appliance know-how into a physical AI supply-chain bet
As humanoid robots increasingly move from demonstrations toward factories and commercial deployments, competition is expanding beyond finished robots into the components that determine...
Tuesday 8 September 2026
Nvidia reportedly shifts Rubin Ultra toward 8-high HBM as memory costs rise

Nvidia is reportedly shifting its Rubin Ultra AI accelerator toward an eight-high high-bandwidth memory (HBM) configuration, down from...

Monday 7 September 2026
China smart driving chips hit bottlenecks in mass production, cost, in-house auto R&D
China's intelligent driving market is advancing rapidly, but the true trial has only just begun for domestic smart driving chipmakers.