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Monday 25 May 2026
Beyond Silicon Valley: Lam Capital's startup contest goes global
Lam Research's Lam Capital recently held its fourth startup competition, drawing teams from the US, South Korea, Singapore, India, and Taiwan to vie for a sizeable prize pool. US startup...
Monday 25 May 2026
Huawei targets AI optical networking with InP chip startup investment
Huawei is expanding deeper into AI optical networking and silicon photonics (SiPh) through a new investment in an indium phosphide (InP) optical chip startup, as rising AI data center...
Monday 25 May 2026
Samsung Electro-Mechanics secures large silicon capacitor supply contract
Samsung Electro-Mechanics (Semco)'s KRW1.5 trillion (approx. US$990 million) silicon capacitor supply contract with a major global company could reshape component supply for AI servers,...
Saturday 23 May 2026
Jensen Huang says he uses Claude at work and his son runs AI agents at home to manage the family
Jensen Huang fielded a wide-ranging set of questions during his Taiwan visit this week, touching on China market access, rising memory costs, silicon photonics, the LPU versus GPU...
Friday 22 May 2026
AP Memory IPD enters Intel's EMIB supply chain, shipments set for 2Q26
Specialty memory design company AP Memory is positioning itself to capture growth momentum from stack silicon capacitors (S-SiCap). The company said its discrete S-SiCap products,...
Friday 22 May 2026
As AI reshapes data center power, Liteon bets on silicon photonics

Liteon Technology is positioning 2026 as a reset year after marking its 50th anniversary in 2025, as the company pushes deeper into...

Friday 22 May 2026
Nvidia characterizes LPX as niche silicon optimized for high-speed premium tokens
Nvidia has positioned its specialized LPX accelerator as a niche product designed specifically for low-latency, high-speed token generation rather than broad-market enterprise workloads...
Thursday 21 May 2026
How Nvidia plans to sell Vera CPUs: Four deployment models explained
Nvidia has unveiled a strategic expansion of its silicon portfolio, detailing a four-pronged commercial approach for its new Vera central processing unit. The chipmaker expects the...
Thursday 21 May 2026
Demand surge for power semiconductors reshapes data-center power and cooling, pushing suppliers toward SiC and GaN
Demand for power components is surging as AI servers adopt high-voltage direct current power delivery and advanced cooling technologies. This shift could increase component density...
Thursday 21 May 2026
Nvidia prices rivals out of AI factory race with Blackwell, Vera CPU, and Rubin
Nvidia used its first quarter of fiscal year 2027 earnings call on May 20, 2026 to lay out a three-tier silicon cadence that should make any rival roadmap look thin: a Blackwell ramp...
Thursday 21 May 2026
China memory supplier Biwin's AI photonics funding raises questions
China's AI infrastructure race is entering a new phase, with industry focus shifting from raw computing power toward data transmission efficiency.
Thursday 21 May 2026
TSMC's COUPE push puts Samsung's silicon photonics ambitions under pressure
Samsung Electronics has launched silicon photonics foundry services and entered pilot production, signaling during its latest earnings call that optical communication modules will...
Wednesday 20 May 2026
Amazon's AI chip push gains ground as Nvidia remains central to AWS

Amazon's yearslong push to build a credible alternative to Nvidia's AI chips is beginning to gain traction, as software improvements,...

Tuesday 19 May 2026
DB HiTek's power-chip push hits delay as stakes rise
South Korean foundry operator DB HiTek is facing a slower ramp in silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN), testing its push into next-generation power semiconductors as technology...
Tuesday 19 May 2026
Arm faces US antitrust probe after announcing plan to design its own chips
Arm was notified by the US Federal Trade Commission in early 2026 that it was the subject of an antitrust investigation after the chip designer said it would begin engineering its...