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Tuesday 20 October 2026
MediaTek's Google TPU v9 faces potential delay over glass substrate yields, but 2026 orders remain strong
Market reports have recently suggested that MediaTek's tensor processing unit (TPU) v9 project with Google could face delays in volume production as Google reportedly revises the chip's...
Monday 19 October 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: Microsoft Maia 300 leads 2nm race, TSMC's US strategy shifts, Intel EMIB-T faces yield challenge
Microsoft's early adoption of TSMC's 2nm process, a US$2 billion manufacturing partnership between TSMC and GlobalFoundries, and delays to Google's next-gen TPU highlight diverging...
Monday 19 October 2026
Shipments of high-end cloud AI accelerators, 2027

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Friday 9 October 2026
MediaTek 3Q26 revenue beats forecast, maintains peak-season momentum
MediaTek reported its September and third-quarter 2026 revenue results, with September revenue of NT$55.40 billion (approx. US$1.74 billion), down 13.69% from the previous month and...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Marvell's custom AI chip upgrade points to a broader fight over peripherals
Marvell's higher long-term target for custom AI chip revenue suggests the market for artificial intelligence hardware is widening beyond accelerators, into management chips, storage,...
Thursday 1 October 2026
MediaTek TPU orders rise as chip capacity war intensifies
MediaTek's Google Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) business is still moving steadily higher, but supply-chain sources say the real limit is capacity as chipmakers and cloud service providers...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Google to test AI computing in space with first orbital TPU launch
Google is preparing to send its in-house AI accelerator, the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), into low Earth orbit for the first time as it explores whether AI computing can eventually...
Monday 21 September 2026
Weekly news roundup: AI boom strains chips; Google's TPUs pay off, China eyes 3nm without EUV
This week's reports centered on intensifying competition and bottlenecks across the semiconductor and AI supply chains, from Sandisk's unusual engineering push in Korea and Google's...
Thursday 17 September 2026
Google reportedly weighs CoWoS backup for 2027 TPU as EMIB-T substrate yields lag
Google's Humufish TPU project, scheduled to enter mass production by the end of 2027, is set to adopt Intel's EMIB-T advanced packaging technology with support from ASIC partner MediaTek...
Wednesday 16 September 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: Google outlines AI compute expansion, speeds TPU cycle to 6 months

DIGITIMES Intelligence said Google used SEMICON Taiwan 2026 to outline the direction of its AI infrastructure strategy, focusing not...

Wednesday 16 September 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: Google scales TPU systems to 1 million chips as power becomes the bottleneck

At SEMICON Taiwan 2026, Google outlined the direction of its AI infrastructure, and DIGITIMES notes that the discussion extended well...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
TSMC 3nm, 2nm, and CoWoS stay tight as AWS, MediaTek, TPU shift capacity
TSMC's 3nm, 2nm, and CoWoS advanced packaging capacity remained in short supply in late 2026's third quarter, as changes in major customer orders and front-end and back-end supply...
Monday 14 September 2026
Google TPU pays back investment in 1 year, creating upside for MediaTek, Broadcom ASIC revenues

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian recently revealed that Google's overall payback period for AI server investments is less than two years,...

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...
Saturday 5 September 2026
Google TPU splits training, inference as CPU becomes next focus
As AI model training, inference, and AI agent workloads continue to grow, AI accelerators are increasingly being optimized for different tasks. Amin Vahdat, Google's senior vice president...