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Thursday 5 November 2026
Taiwan digs deep: 2,049-meter geothermal well strikes 140°C in Taitung
Taiwan's deep geothermal sector is reporting fresh progress after a 2,049-meter well that reached temperatures of 140 degrees Celsius was completed in a challenging metamorphic rock...
Thursday 5 November 2026
OpenAI moves deeper into software infrastructure with Pierre acquisition plan
OpenAI plans to acquire Pierre Computer Company, extending its push into the infrastructure behind AI-generated software as competition expands beyond coding assistants to the systems...
Thursday 5 November 2026
FPT starts chip-testing plant trials in northern Vietnam, plans packaging expansion
FPT has begun trial operations at a semiconductor testing and packaging plant in Vietnam's Bac Ninh province, initially focusing on chip testing as it prepares to expand into packaging...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Taiwan-Netherlands launch four photonics R&D partnerships
Taiwan and the Netherlands announced four joint research and development collaborations on November 4 under their bilateral Technology Bridge Program, targeting photonic packaging,...
Thursday 5 November 2026
AI chips need 1.5 years to move beyond cloud: HCLTech
HCLTech said AI chips will need about 1.5 years to move into mass adoption beyond cloud infrastructure, as the industry develops integrated semiconductor platforms to support large-scale...
Thursday 5 November 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: TSMC, ASML's 2031 photomask target puts High NA EUV suppliers on the clock
ASML and TSMC announced plans in September 2026, ahead of the SPIE BACUS symposium, to advance high-numerical-aperture extreme ultraviolet (High NA EUV) lithography by replacing the...
Wednesday 4 November 2026
Ohio voters approve data center ban that could derail Amazon's US$2 billion plan
Voters in Sunbury, Ohio, approved a ban on large data centers in the November 3 election, raising a new obstacle to Amazon's proposed US$2 billion project as communities across the...
Wednesday 4 November 2026
GigaDevice sees tight niche DRAM supply, slower price gains
AI demand continues to heat up while major global memory makers shift capacity toward higher-value products, keeping niche memory supplies tight in the near term. China-based IC design...
Wednesday 4 November 2026
DeepSeek V5 reportedly targets Huawei Ascend 950 training in 2027, a crucial test for a Chinese alternative to Nvidia
DeepSeek plans to use Huawei's Ascend 950 chips as the core training hardware for its next-generation V5 model, potentially extending the companies' partnership from inference to full...
Tuesday 3 November 2026
Nvidia uses 8,192 GPUs to set fault-tolerant quantum simulation record, targeting error correction costs
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's latest European trip has highlighted another strategic priority: using massive computing resources to simulate quantum systems and establish a foothold in...
Tuesday 3 November 2026
Ceva takes NeuPro NPU into AI data centers, targeting efficiency gaps rather than Nvidia's dominance
US semiconductor intellectual property (IP) provider Ceva has expanded its NeuPro neural processing unit (NPU) portfolio into AI infrastructure for the first time. At a November 2...
Tuesday 3 November 2026
Gemtek joins three optical standards groups for AI data center development
Gemtek Technology has joined three optical communications standards groups as the industry develops alternatives for connecting AI data centers. The move could influence interoperability,...
Tuesday 3 November 2026
TSMC's next US chip plant could land in Sherman
Sherman, a city north of Dallas, has emerged as a possible site for TSMC's next US chip plant, with Texas development documents describing a proposed US$45 billion investment in two...
Tuesday 3 November 2026
South Korea aims to speed up chip fab openings by two years
South Korea plans to bring new semiconductor fabs into operation at least two years ahead of schedule by speeding up construction approvals and infrastructure development, as the government...
Tuesday 3 November 2026
Micron dismisses 4F-squared DRAM as CXMT presses ahead — why Samsung, SK Hynix remain divided
Micron Technology and China's CXMT have taken sharply different approaches to next-generation DRAM scaling, exposing a divide over the commercial viability of 4F-squared memory-cell...