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Friday 28 August 2026
ASIC makers see CSP orders stay strong through 2028
The four major US cloud service providers (CSPs) have already rewritten their 2026 capital expenditure records, and ASIC vendors are increasingly confident that demand will remain...
Friday 28 August 2026
Apple's M6 marks a transitional step before wider 2nm adoption
Apple on August 25 unveiled the M6 and M5 Ultra chips without holding a launch event, with the M6 becoming the company's first processor built on TSMC's 2nm process and debuting in...
Friday 28 August 2026
Anthropic sets sights on custom hardware to fuel AI ambitions, reportedly eyed $7B MatX deal
In an effort to accelerate its custom silicon initiative and curb reliance on external hardware suppliers, artificial intelligence developer Anthropic held discussions to acquire AI...
Friday 28 August 2026
AI packaging race heats up: Taiwan OSATs plan US$14.6 billion capex

The AI investment cycle is spreading from leading-edge wafer fabrication into semiconductor packaging and testing, with Taiwan's largest...

Friday 28 August 2026
Huawei's Ascend 910C sold out in China, but Nvidia's H200 supply gap persists
Huawei's Ascend 910C is already sold out in China, but domestic chips still cannot fully replace Nvidia's H200s. The shortage matters beyond China because AI compute constraints, pricing,...
Friday 28 August 2026
Nvidia forms PAC to expand Washington lobbying
According to Bloomberg, Nvidia has formed a federal political action committee (PAC), expanding its Washington presence as governments debate artificial intelligence rules...
Friday 28 August 2026
Nvidia's upbeat outlook points to tighter AI supply chains ahead
Nvidia's latest earnings and forecast suggest AI demand remains far ahead of available supply, with implications for memory, power, cooling, and networking worldwide. The chipmaker's...
Friday 28 August 2026
Samsung diverges from TSMC on FOPLP: retains 415×510mm panel size, targets 2028 mass production
Samsung Electronics' packaging technology lead, Lee Hee-seok, outlined the company's advanced semiconductor packaging roadmap at Advanced Semiconductor Packaging & Chiplet Show...
Friday 28 August 2026
Exclusive: IC design faces wire bonding bottleneck in 2027
Surging AI chip demand continues to outstrip TSMC's advanced packaging capacity. At the same time, massive AI server shipments are driving up demand for CPUs, networking equipment,...
Friday 28 August 2026
Renesas opens physical AI, robotics lab in Beijing
Renesas Electronics has opened a physical AI and robotics lab in Beijing, a move that could speed the development of safer, smarter machines for factories, logistics, and homes worldwide...
Friday 28 August 2026
Marvell raises its outlook twice in two quarters as custom silicon, scale-up optics broaden
Marvell Technology used its second-quarter fiscal 2027 earnings call on August 27 to lift its revenue outlook for a second consecutive quarter, and the composition of the raise says...
Friday 28 August 2026
Marvell revenue climbs 37% to a record US$2.74 billion on data center demand
Marvell Technology's second quarter of fiscal 2027 was the point at which its data center business stopped being the growth engine attached to a diversified infrastructure chipmaker...
Friday 28 August 2026
Taiwan's next biotech prescription: AI drug discovery, smart devices, biomedical chips
Taiwan is charting a new direction for its biomedical industry, drawing on its strengths in semiconductors, AI hardware, precision manufacturing and healthcare. AI-powered drug discovery,...
Friday 28 August 2026
China rises to No. 2 in global CMOS image sensors, overtaking Korea with 21% share
China's CMOS image sensor industry is gaining ground beyond smartphones, with robotics emerging as one of the latest areas where domestic suppliers are linking sensor technology with...
Friday 28 August 2026
US targets Singapore's Apex Logistics in widening probe into illicit Nvidia chip smuggling to China
Efforts to curb the illicit trade of advanced AI hardware to China have intensified following a series of indictments and probes targeting the supply chain.