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Wednesday 4 November 2026
Screen doubles investment as Kyoto equipment site takes shape
Screen Holdings is expanding production of semiconductor cleaning equipment with a JPY25 billion (US$157.53 million) site in Nagaokakyo, Kyoto, while raising its capex budget for the...
Wednesday 4 November 2026
USI to launch Wi-Fi 8 SiP modules in 1Q27 for AI devices
Universal Scientific Industrial (USI), a subsidiary of ASE, plans to launch Wi-Fi 8 (IEEE 802.11bn) products in the first quarter of 2027, building on its experience developing and...
Wednesday 4 November 2026
Foxconn's AI infrastructure edge goes beyond assembly — precision manufacturing, vertical integration set a higher bar
Foxconn is leveraging its precision manufacturing and vertical integration capabilities to strengthen its position in AI infrastructure, where rapid server upgrades increasingly demand...
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
Stellantis warns chip shortages could disrupt Fiat production in Italy
Stellantis said on November 2 that shortages of critical electronic components for engine control units (ECUs) had significantly disrupted production of several Fiat models in Italy...
Monday 2 November 2026
AMOLED advances, hitting IT LCD panels
DIGITIMES forecasts that global large-size TFT LCD shipments will reach 910 million units by 2031 as supply expansion slows and panel capacity continues to be restructured. While TV...
Friday 30 October 2026
Power shortages slow AI data-center builds as Delta expands HVDC, SOFC
Power shortages and a shortage of high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) technicians in the US are slowing AI data center construction and making delivery schedules harder to predict,...
Thursday 29 October 2026
Huawei deploys Tau Law in base-station design, rolling out new wireless baseband overseas
Huawei has extended its semiconductor-focused "Tau (τ) Law" framework to 5G base station design, using co-design across algorithms, chip architectures, and high-speed interconnects...
Wednesday 28 October 2026
Skymizer partners with Egis to develop 12nm and 6nm AI accelerators
Taiwanese startup Skymizer has formally announced a strategic partnership with Egis Technology to develop Flow (T12), a new-generation AI inference chip. Fabricated on TSMC's 12nm...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
Pat Gelsinger warns AI compute efficiency must jump 10,000x amid power, memory, and fab constraints
Silicon Valley venture capital firm Playground Global has returned to Taiwan alongside a cohort of portfolio companies specializing in memory, power management, optical communications,...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
DIGITIMES Insights: AI servers move toward 800V DC as vertical power delivery promises higher efficiency, lower transmission losses
AI server power architectures are evolving toward high-voltage distribution and point-of-load voltage conversion, according to DIGITIMES Intelligence.
Friday 23 October 2026
Japan targets 2nm medical AI chip with IBM design, Rapidus eyed for foundry
Japan's Leading-edge Semiconductor Technology Center (LSTC), Hokkaido University, Fujifilm Corporation, GE HealthCare Japan, and imec announced a joint initiative in Tokyo on October...
Friday 23 October 2026
Analysis: Nvidia's Vera CPU takes on Intel and AMD with a platform play
Nvidia has won a CPU supply order from AI startup Modal, challenging Intel and AMD in the server CPU market as it expands beyond GPUs into general-purpose computing. Although Modal's...
Thursday 22 October 2026
Meta says compute, not demand, now limits Muse; pushes shared standard for AI shopping agents
Meta Platforms is limiting the Muse personal AI agent to the US and Canada for now, saying that compute costs are the main reason it hasn't gone global.
Thursday 22 October 2026
Samsung patent boosts AI server memory efficiency without adding GPUs
Samsung Electronics has disclosed a patent application targeting GPU memory shortages when multiple users simultaneously submit requests to AI servers. By calculating data-transfer...