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Thursday 27 August 2026
AI data center boom lifts Weltrend fan-control chip sales 64%
Weltrend Semiconductor said first-half 2026 revenue rose 28% from a year earlier to a record for the period, with growth driven almost entirely by cooling demand tied to AI data center...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Xiaomi's Xring O3, O100 and D100 define a three-tier AI chip strategy beyond smartphones
Xiaomi is expanding Xring from a smartphone chip program into a broader AI computing platform spanning consumer devices, vehicles, and edge inference, with three processors assigned...
Thursday 27 August 2026
AWS, Nvidia expand AI partnership with plan for 2 million more GPUs
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Nvidia are expanding their collaboration to add millions of GPUs and new infrastructure for agentic and physical AI. The move signals rising global demand...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Nvidia's binding constraint moves from demand to cost, and it has now put a number on both
For the first time in this cycle, Nvidia has told investors where its gross margin will bottom out and how far short of demand its supply will fall - two admissions that shift the...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Nvidia's second quarter shows demand intact and the cash cycle stretching
Growth has stopped being the interesting question at Nvidia. Revenue for the quarter ended July 26, 2026 was US$96.2 billion, up 106% from a year earlier, and Data Center accounted...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Nvidia says AI labs it is helping to finance will be about a quarter of next year's business
Nvidia has put a figure on its exposure to the AI labs it helps fund. On its second-quarter earnings call, chief financial officer Colette Kress said the company expects "demand from...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Nvidia's answer to custom silicon is the half of the market that will never build any
The sharpest question on Nvidia's second-quarter call came a Bank of America analyst, who noted that OpenAI and Anthropic - both major beneficiaries of Nvidia's ecosystem investment...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Nvidia caps its own growth at 70% because that is all the supply it can secure
Nvidia has guided a full year in advance for the first time, and the number it chose is not a demand forecast. Chief financial officer Colette Kress told the company's second-quarter...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
Cook's parting shot: Apple takes AI compute out of data centers
Apple took pre-orders on August 25 for a new Mac mini and Mac Studio. Both will ship on September 22. Prices of the Mac mini start at US$899 with the M6 chip, or $1,699 with the M5...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
Nvidia earnings hinge on Rubin ramp and Vera CPU
Nvidia will release its fiscal second-quarter 2027 financial results on August 26, US time. Given Nvidia's performance pattern in recent quarters, Wall Street has come to expect a...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
China GPU race, Part 2: Moore Threads, MetaX, Biren and Enflame pursue four formulas for breaking Nvidia's grip
Enflame's planned US$893 million STAR Market IPO, examined in Part 1 of this series, highlights both the opportunity and the financial strain facing China's emerging AI chip suppliers,...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
China GPU race, Part 1: Enflame IPO spotlights Tencent ties, deep losses and AI chip ambitions
Enflame Technology is preparing to become the latest of China's leading AI chip developers to tap public markets, with a CNY6 billion (approx. US$893 million) Shanghai STAR Market...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
Google's TPU v10 turns multi-vendor, deepening MediaTek's ASIC role
Google's expanding list of TPU partners has sparked widespread industry discussion, centering on whether current IC design suppliers Broadcom and MediaTek will see their orders imp...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
India chip manufacturing push exposes production-test skills gap, NI says
India's semiconductor expansion is beginning to expose a shortage of engineers with experience in production testing, a capability that will become increasingly important as new OSAT...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
Nvidia unveils Jetson Orin Nano 2 for edge AI robots and drones
Nvidia has introduced Jetson Orin Nano 2, a compact robotics computer aimed at entry-level edge AI, with implications for developers building autonomous machines worldwide. The system...