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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
Apple, Huawei foldables to collide in September, lifting ultra-thin glass, hinge and cooling demand
Huawei and Apple are set to intensify competition in foldable smartphones in September, accelerating demand across a supply chain spanning foldable OLED panels, ultra-thin glass, hinges,...
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
Apple pressure on OLED prices squeezes South Korean panel profits
Apple is reportedly negotiating lower unit prices with South Korean OLED panel suppliers as surging prices for high-performance mobile DRAM, NAND flash, and other memory chips threaten...
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
Record mid-2026 growth for WUS Printed Circuit and China's pivot to ultra-high-layer PCBs
The global hardware supply chain is undergoing a structural transformation, driven by an unprecedented surge in artificial intelligence infrastructure investment. "This shift has brought...
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
TCL, Asus drop China OLED as LGD gains edge
TCL has reportedly stopped using OLED panels from its own TCL CSOT unit as it expands its monitor lineup, instead turning again to LG Display (LGD), while Asus is said to have halted...
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,...