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Thursday 27 August 2026
Chart: Nvidia's segment split tells only half the AI demand story
Nvidia's data center business now splits almost evenly between hyperscalers and everyone else — US$48.7 billion against US$40.3 billion in the July quarter. The obvious reading...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Tri-fold, rollable foldables intensify materials supply chain battle
Samsung Electronics' first tri-fold handset of 2025, the Galaxy Z TriFold, has repeatedly sold out, but with global shipments of only about 30,000 units, it functioned more as a technology...
Thursday 27 August 2026
China OLED buildout lifts Korean equipment sales as backlogs grow
Chinese panel makers' investment in next-generation OLED production is beginning to translate into reported sales at South Korean equipment suppliers, with several vendors posting...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Analysis: From Starlink to Starmind, Nvidia deal reveals SpaceX's blueprint for an orbital AI economy
The recent disclosure of SpaceX's partnership with Nvidia to deploy Vera CPUs as part of the architecture behind SpaceXAI's Starmind AI satellite was an outright showcase of where...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Google, MediaTek embrace advanced packaging diversification
Google and MediaTek are moving toward advanced packaging diversification, as Intel's embedded multi-die interconnect bridge (EMIB) gains traction after Google's TPU was confirmed to...
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...