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Friday 11 September 2026
'More memory won't fix AI's bottleneck', says Microsoft's Azure hardware chief
Microsoft's AI accelerator was never designed to compete with Nvidia. It was designed to run Microsoft's own inference workloads across its own fleet, and that scoping decision —...
Thursday 10 September 2026
ITRI to showcase 3.2T silicon photonics and AI data center cooling
Taiwan's 2026 Innovation Technology Expo will run from September 17 to 19 at Taipei World Trade Center Hall 1. The Ministry of Economic Affairs Industrial Development Administration...
Thursday 10 September 2026
Hermes Testing ships membrane probe cards, targets SiPh and CPO
Hermes Testing Solutions said its August revenue kept rising and topped NT$500 million for the first time, setting a new monthly record on steady growth in semiconductor test equipment...
Thursday 10 September 2026
DB HiTek completes reliability qualification for 8-inch SiC MOSFET process
DB HiTek said it has completed reliability qualification for its 1,200 V silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET process on 8-inch wafers. The development could expand foundry capacity for next-generation...
Thursday 10 September 2026
Apple's A20 Pro pushes mobile chips into the 2nm era — but AI may be the bigger disruption

For years, smartphone processors have competed through a familiar formula: faster CPUs, stronger graphics, and increasingly smaller...

Thursday 10 September 2026
Qualcomm's AWS deal raises stakes for MediaTek and Alchip
Qualcomm this week announced a multi-generation collaboration with Amazon to develop custom silicon for AI inference and high-performance optical connectivity for Amazon Web Services...
Thursday 10 September 2026
Silicon photonics boom could push InP supply-demand gap above 70%, triggering race for strategic optical resources
As AI drives the transition toward high-speed transmission technologies such as 800G and 1.6T, silicon photonics has become increasingly mainstream in high-speed optical communications,...
Wednesday 9 September 2026
China's up to 99.2% anti-dumping duty on Japan DCS boosts local chip material suppliers
China has imposed provisional anti-dumping measures on Japanese dichlorosilane (DCS), a semiconductor material used in thin-film deposition, potentially accelerating Chinese wafer...
Wednesday 9 September 2026
Arm expands push for agentic AI infrastructure with new Neoverse chip design
Arm is stepping up its role in AI infrastructure as cloud providers, original equipment makers, and software partners build systems for agentic AI, a shift that could affect data centers...
Wednesday 9 September 2026
Qualcomm to build custom AI inference chips for AWS
Qualcomm's multi-generation agreement to build customized AI inference silicon and optical interconnects for Amazon gives the company something its data center roadmap has lacked since...
Tuesday 8 September 2026
Samsung speeds silicon photonics test plan with TSMC-vetted probe vendors
Samsung Electronics has moved to accelerate its silicon photonics push by using the same test partners selected by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. for key validation work, according...
Monday 7 September 2026
How UC Santa Cruz's Silicon Valley lab is reverse-engineering the human brain to solve AI's chip power crisis
As the global race for artificial intelligence (AI) consumes vast oceans of electricity and pushes modern utility grids to the brink, a team of California researchers is looking to...
Monday 7 September 2026
NEC reportedly ends quantum computer hardware development, shifts focus to annealing
Japan's NEC has halted development of gate-based quantum-computer hardware, marking a strategic retreat from a field the company helped pioneer, while continuing to invest in quantum...
Monday 7 September 2026
Naura 3D DRAM etching breakthrough could give CXMT a new path beyond EUV
China's Naura Technology has demonstrated a selective etching process for 64-layer 3D DRAM structures, potentially giving domestic memory makers another route to raise transistor density...
Monday 7 September 2026
Orphans of the liquid cooling age: xMEMS targets data center 'hot spots,' eyes 2027 smartphone and smartglasses cooling ports
As the world's most powerful enterprise data centers undergo a massive migration to liquid cooling to support high-power artificial intelligence processors, a Silicon Valley chipmaker...