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Wednesday 24 June 2026

China's LineShine supercomputer tops TOP500, but AI lead remains unclear

China's LineShine supercomputer debuted at No. 1 on the June 2026 TOP500 list, announced at the ISC 2026 conference in Hamburg, becoming...

Wednesday 24 June 2026

Qualcomm, ByteDance talks signal new phase in China AI chip diversification

Qualcomm's reported talks to provide custom chip-design services to TikTok owner ByteDance show how China's AI chip supply chain is moving beyond a simple Nvidia replacement story.

Wednesday 24 June 2026

MediaTek-Global Unichip tie-up talk puts TSMC's AI ASIC ecosystem on watch

Cloud service providers are accelerating in-house AI chip development, lifting demand for application-specific integrated circuits, or ASICs, and reshaping collaboration across the...

Wednesday 24 June 2026

Samsung eyes Galaxy Ultra for 2nm Exynos 2700

Samsung Electronics' System LSI division is pressing its mobile business to expand adoption of the in-house Exynos 2700 processor beyond...

Wednesday 24 June 2026

Cerebras leans on OpenAI and AWS as anchor customers, raising questions about concentration

Cerebras Systems' first public quarter highlighted its dependence on a small set of large partners — OpenAI and AWS anchor the business — even as management declined on...

Wednesday 24 June 2026

MediaTek price hike signals broader cost pressure for Taiwan IC design houses

Reports of MediaTek price adjustments appear to confirm a broader pricing trend across Taiwan's IC design sector. Industry sources said many small and mid-sized chip suppliers have...

Wednesday 24 June 2026

Cerebras bets on speed as a product, racing to add data center capacity through 2027

Cerebras Systems used its first earnings call on June 26 to argue that speed is its core advantage and that the entire AI inference market is addressable. It also detailed an aggressive...

Wednesday 24 June 2026

Cerebras posts 92% revenue growth in first public quarter, but warns compute rentals will squeeze margins

Cerebras Systems delivered 92% revenue growth in its first quarter as a public company, but management cautioned that its decision to rent back computing capacity from an existing...

Tuesday 23 June 2026

Smartphone demand and chip supply pressures cloud 2H26 peak season outlook

Market sentiment toward the smartphone industry remains subdued. On the demand side, global smartphone sales have declined for several consecutive weeks during the second quarter of...

Tuesday 23 June 2026

Intel deepens ties with Taiwan's chip supply chain as October talks expand

Intel is deepening cooperation with Taiwan's semiconductor supply chain and plans to broaden its engagement again in mid-October after completing exchanges in the US with several Taiwanese...

Tuesday 23 June 2026

India reportedly plans to launch fresh chip incentive in fiscal 2027

The Indian government plans to disburse INR71 billion in semiconductor incentives in fiscal year 2027 to expand its local chip supply chain, according to anonymous government officials...

Tuesday 23 June 2026

Thailand approves semiconductor strategy, targets investment and talent growth

Thailand's newly established National Semiconductor and Advanced Electronics Policy Committee has approved the framework for a national semiconductor strategy and a workforce development...

Tuesday 23 June 2026

MediaTek issues official price hike notice, products facing supply constraints likely to increase first

Taiwanese IC design leader MediaTek has sent a price hike letter to customers, signaling that the current wave of chip price increases is sweeping across the semiconductor market and...

Tuesday 23 June 2026

Commentary: Google defines AI path to ASI, validates chip boom

Google released a 30,000-word AI roadmap on June 14 that, for the first time, clearly defines AI having the capability of 100 million humans as a key milestone on the path to artificial...

Monday 22 June 2026

Groq CEO sees GPU and LPU as complementary as AI compute demand grows

Nvidia's planned US$20 billion strategic deal with Groq is built on a simple logic: as compute gets cheaper, demand keeps expanding. In a recent interview, Groq co-founder and CEO...

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