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Wednesday 14 October 2026
Broadcom executive says chipmakers must tackle packaging, power limits together
Broadcom's Frank Ostojic said semiconductor firms need joint innovation across equipment, materials, and design to overcome bottlenecks that affect AI chips worldwide. He warned that...
Wednesday 14 October 2026
Cisco, Nvidia target high-speed optical interconnects with 4x USFP density
Cisco and Nvidia announced at the 2026 OCP Global Summit that they are jointly developing an ultra-dense small form factor pluggable (USFP) optical module designed to support 400Gb/s...
Wednesday 14 October 2026
Hua Hong forges strategic alliances with four Chinese chip equipment giants
Hua Hong Group signed strategic agreements with four Chinese semiconductor equipment suppliers at the inaugural 2026 China Integrated Circuit Exhibition (China Chip Exhibition) in...
Wednesday 14 October 2026
Pegatron showcases rack-scale AI infrastructure at OCP Global Summit
Pegatron showcased its end-to-end AI infrastructure capabilities at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit 2026, highlighting Nvidia-based products designed to move from engineering...
Wednesday 14 October 2026
Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger sees hardware renaissance in memory, optical interconnects
As AI reshapes the global computing landscape, former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said AI is making chip design easier, while physical bottlenecks in manufacturing, memory, and energy...
Wednesday 14 October 2026
Shield AI delivers first V-BAT drone to Taiwan Coast Guard
US defense technology company Shield AI has delivered its first V-BAT vertical takeoff and landing unmanned aircraft to Taiwan's Coast Guard Administration after winning a contract...
Wednesday 14 October 2026
India's Tessolve raises US$75 million from Vector Line Capital to fund chip-services acquisitions
Indian semiconductor engineering services firm Tessolve has raised US$75 million from US-based Vector Line Capital and says it is in advanced discussions to close multiple acquisitions...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
SK Hynix unveils low-power processor design for SSDs
SK Hynix has unveiled a new processor architecture designed to reduce power consumption and chip area in solid-state drive (SSD) controllers, expanding its efforts to address storage...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
Nvidia and Cisco unveil new optics design to help scale AI factories
Nvidia and Cisco have introduced a new pluggable optics form factor to expand AI infrastructure without sharply increasing power use or network complexity. For global cloud operators,...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
AMD Helion aims to reshape data center design for agentic AI
AMD has introduced Helion, an open rack architecture designed for agentic AI workloads that could change how data centers allocate compute, power, and cooling. The system targets hyperscale...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
Terafab and beyond: Musk's push to fuse silicon, robotics, space into one AI system
As plans for the Terafab project begin to take shape, the emergence of a scaled chipmaking initiative increasingly reflects Elon Musk's broader ambition to push vertical AI integration...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
Interview: Microsoft's Maia GM on Maia 300, Taiwan and HBM supply
Microsoft's in-house Azure Maia chips will become the main platform for its own AI services, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Foundry. However, the company...
Monday 12 October 2026
Microsoft to scale Maia AI chips to multi-gigawatt deployments, unveils TSMC N2P-based Maia 300
Microsoft will scale its in-house Azure Maia AI accelerators to multi-gigawatt deployments starting in 2027, making Maia the primary AI inference system for its products and services...
Monday 12 October 2026
Microsoft's Maia 300 rack: 96 accelerators, HBM4, mostly liquid-cooled
Microsoft has released architecture details for Maia 300, its third-generation Azure AI accelerator. The design pairs 96 accelerators per rack with a two-tier network that links up...
Monday 12 October 2026
China proposes physical controls and tougher testing for new vehicles
China proposed tighter vehicle design and safety requirements that would restrict fully hidden door handles, virtual controls for critical functions and several interior features in...