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Friday 12 June 2026
Taiwan PMIC maker Global Mixed-mode to raise prices as chip shortages persist

Taiwanese power management IC supplier Global Mixed-mode Technology (GMT) will follow peers in seeking price increases from customers...

Friday 12 June 2026
Taiwan compute suppliers rise on booming AI demand, with several firms extending strong growth
Taiwan's semiconductor and electronics supply-chain companies continued to post generally firm sales in May, according to monthly revenue data and company disclosures, with the strongest...
Friday 12 June 2026
Silicon Labs expands India presence as smart infrastructure demand grows ahead of TI acquisition

Silicon Labs is deepening its presence in India through expanded research operations and a greater commercial focus on smart infrastructure...

Friday 12 June 2026
PCIM 2026: Accepting local component deficits for system-level benefits

In power electronics engineering, Silicon Carbide (SiC) companies are competing to achieve the absolute lowest thermal resistance (Rth),...

Friday 12 June 2026
Alibaba's stealth model launch, Meitu's outsourcing play — China's visual AI market defies a single playbook

One of China's largest visual AI consumer platforms has deliberately chosen not to build its own models; a startup competing against...

Friday 12 June 2026
Cadence deepens Intel Foundry partnership on next-generation chip design
Cadence and Intel Foundry are expanding their collaboration on advanced chip design, a move that could affect future semiconductors used in devices and data centers worldwide. The...
Friday 12 June 2026
SuperAI 2026: From turbine backlogs to copper limits, AMD maps infrastructure walls closing in on AI
The artificial intelligence (AI) industry is expanding at a pace that the physical world cannot match, and the gap between digital demand and real-world supply is widening across every...
Friday 12 June 2026
Google TPU orders shift as MediaTek, Marvell, and Broadcom split market
Broadcom has acknowledged it will not win all of Google's TPU orders, highlighting how tensor processing units have become a competitive arena for multiple chipmakers. For global readers,...
Friday 12 June 2026
SuperAI Singapore: Arm and Cerebras push system-wide fixes to cut inference AI bottlenecks

Breaking the inference barrier requires a rethink of the whole system architecture, not just faster compute. This was the key takeaway...

Friday 12 June 2026
SuperAI Singapore: Physical AI accelerates as cheaper hardware and AI models drive robot data demand

Robotics has progressed rapidly in the past few years, but major obstacles — including data collection and trust infrastructure...

Thursday 11 June 2026
Nvidia takes PCB material competition upstream as HVLP4 copper foil gap widens
AI infrastructure demand is lifting high-end PCB orders, but fresh bottlenecks are emerging in the upstream copper-clad laminate (CCL) supply chain. T-glass glass fiber cloth remains...
Thursday 11 June 2026
CPO delays may shift AI networking demand, not derail it

Concerns have emerged in recent weeks that the commercialization of co-packaged optics (CPO), a technology widely viewed as the future...

Thursday 11 June 2026
MicroIP's new Kaohsiung R&D base points to broader AI push in southern Taiwan
MicroIP has opened a nearly 300-ping southern R&D center at Kaohsiung's PIER F, with plans to expand smart manufacturing and smart transportation applications. The move signals...
Thursday 11 June 2026
Questions emerge over timing of Nvidia's 800V data center push, but suppliers say plans remain unclear
Recent market speculation suggests that Nvidia's ambitious transition to a native 800-volt direct-current (800VDC) architecture for AI data centers may be delayed by up to a year,...
Thursday 11 June 2026
Exclusive: Astera Labs sees switch chips becoming biggest revenue driver by end of 2026

Astera Labs expects its Scorpio switch-chip business to become its largest revenue contributor by the end of 2026, marking a shift for...