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Monday 12 October 2026
Lumentum says AI laser capacity is sold out into 2029 as hyperscalers help fund expansion
The shortage of indium phosphide (InP) lasers that feed AI data center optics is lengthening, not easing. Lumentum now says its capacity is spoken for into early 2029, and its largest...
Monday 12 October 2026
Commentary: Could a 65% US-content rule redraw China's 3.2T optical supply chain?
AI data centers are shifting toward faster networking architectures, with optical transceivers advancing from 800G and 1.6T toward 3.2T. Yet China's ability to retain its position...
Monday 12 October 2026
CyberTAN enters 1.6T AI switch race with Marvell-backed platform
CyberTAN Technology is moving into the fast-growing AI data center switch market, joining Marvell Technology on a new 3nm Pallas 1.6T platform. The effort underscores rising global...
Monday 12 October 2026
CXMT targets 2026 debut of 4F² DDR5 RDIMM in bid to challenge server DRAM rivals

China's ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) plans to introduce DDR5 registered DIMMs (RDIMMs) based on its new 4F² DRAM architecture by the...

Monday 12 October 2026
MediaTek flagship AP share to surpass Samsung as TSMC boosts Dimensity
As the global smartphone system-on-chip (SoC) market contracts, competition in the high-end application processor (AP) segment is intensifying. MediaTek is accelerating its push into...
Monday 12 October 2026
Weekly news roundup: Musk's Terafab faces reality check; Samsung HBM4E clears quality validation
This week's (October 5 to October 11, 2026) coverage highlights intensifying efforts to build resilient semiconductor and AI hardware supply chains. Elon Musk's Terafab project faces...
Monday 12 October 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: Why AI is shifting telecom traffic to the uplink
AI is changing the logic of telecom traffic growth, with Ericsson and industry researchers warning that mobile networks must now handle not only more data, but also more uplink traffic,...
Sunday 11 October 2026
Sysgration bets on battery backup, drones to hit US$314 million in sales by 2028
Sysgration posted record monthly consolidated revenue in September 2026 for the third consecutive month, pushing third-quarter revenue above NT$1 billion (approx. US$31.4 million)...
Sunday 11 October 2026
Everlight Chemical September revenue rises on strong electronic chemicals demand
Everlight Chemical reported higher September and year-to-date revenue, with electronic chemicals driving most of the growth. The results suggest continued resilience in industrial...
Sunday 11 October 2026
Taiwan eases IFRS sustainability disclosure rules, cutting mandatory scope
Taiwan has relaxed its IFRS sustainability disclosure rules for listed and OTC companies, shrinking the number of firms required to fully comply from an originally planned 1,970 to...
Sunday 11 October 2026
Mobile and notebook slowdown boosts wearable sports tech demand
Growth in the smartphone and notebook markets is slowing in 2026 as memory price hikes and other factors weigh on shipments. The market even expects that smartphone shipments in 2026...
Saturday 10 October 2026
Huawei faces price reset as memory costs surge
Huawei consumer business group chairman Richard Yu said surging memory component costs have added more than US$200 to the hardware cost of each Huawei smartphone, putting fresh pressure...
Saturday 10 October 2026
Unified memory lifts AI PC ambitions as Chinese open models gain local-inference ground
The hardware boundary separating cloud-scale AI from local inference is becoming increasingly porous as PC vendors expand memory capacity and software platforms make larger open-weight...
Saturday 10 October 2026
China's GW satellite network clears dual-polar test, signaling broader push toward sovereign LEO communications
China's state-backed Guowang (GW) low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite network has completed its first communications test during the country's 16th Arctic expedition, enabling a live video...
Saturday 10 October 2026
AI headphones expose audio market's missing platform
As artificial intelligence (AI) moves into headphones, a problem often hidden by hardware specs is becoming clearer: the audio market has a huge installed base, but lacks a common...