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Thursday 13 August 2026
Siemens EDA unveils AI-Native Design strategy in South Korea
Siemens EDA has introduced an AI-Native Design strategy in Seoul, aiming to help chipmakers and system designers manage rising complexity while reducing the risk of AI errors. The...
Thursday 13 August 2026
Synopsys pushes into system design as Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom move up the stack
Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom are moving beyond chip-level design into subsystems and complete systems, a shift that is increasing the need to account for thermal, electrical, mechanical...
Thursday 13 August 2026
NXP expands Malaysia factory to bolster global chip supply resilience

NXP Semiconductors has begun expanding its Petaling Jaya assembly and test site in Malaysia, a move that could support semiconductor...

Thursday 13 August 2026
Nvidia's compute financing push signals a new phase for AI spending
Nvidia's plan to assemble more than US$500 billion in third-party capital for AI infrastructure could reshape how the industry pays for compute. By bringing major Wall Street firms...
Thursday 13 August 2026
From lab bench to IPO: How Taiwan's top university aims to turn professors into founders, campus into a unicorn factory

National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), one of Taiwan's leading research universities, has spent more than a decade cultivating a campus...

Thursday 13 August 2026
Progate posts record profit on TSMC, Synopsys ecosystem gains
Progate Group Corporation posted record second-quarter and first-half 2026 revenue and profit, as stronger operations and deeper ties with the TSMC, Synopsys, and ASE ecosystems boosted...
Wednesday 12 August 2026
OCP APAC 2026: AMD sees AI agents pushing CPU-GPU ratio toward 1:1
AMD expects the shift from chatbots to agentic AI to sharply increase CPU demand alongside GPU acceleration, potentially moving the traditional CPU-to-GPU ratio from roughly 1:4 toward...
Wednesday 12 August 2026
OCP photonics panel warns CPO packaging is still unsettled as pluggables fade

Pluggable front-panel optics still own the market, but Arista co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim gave them a deadline at an OCP APAC panel...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
OCP APAC 2026: Nvidia SVP Shainer on taking CPO to mass production —'can't release something just because it's cool'

Nvidia's Spectrum-6 co-packaged optics (CPO) switches are in production and shipping, Gilad Shainer, senior vice president of networking...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
Nvidia reportedly planning trillion-parameter Nemotron 4 in open-source push

Nvidia is intensifying its open-source strategy through its upcoming trillion-parameter model in the Nemotron 4 family, which is meant...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
OCP APAC 2026: Applied Materials exec calls for hardware co-optimization to solve AI power crisis

Speaking at the OCP APAC Summit in Taipei, Subi Kengeri, Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Systems to Materials at Applied...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
Japan's US$430B 2040 chip plan hinges on Rapidus 2nm

Japan has drawn up a plan for more than JPY370 trillion (approx. US$2.33 trillion) in combined public and private investment across 17 strategic...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
OCP APAC 2026: Microsoft leans on Taiwan supply chain for 'silicon-to-systems' AI buildout

Microsoft sources roughly 70% of the hardware content in its cloud infrastructure from Taiwan and the wider Asia-Pacific region, executives...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
OCP APAC 2026: Nvidia, Broadcom diverge on how to scale AI networks beyond the rack
Nvidia and Broadcom outlined different paths for scaling AI networks at the OCP APAC Summit in Taipei on Aug. 11, as clusters expand from rack-scale systems to entire data centers...
Wednesday 12 August 2026
Synnex sees strong growth in value-added commercial IT, semiconductors
AI-driven enterprise procurement and a consumer shift toward higher-end products lifted Synnex Technology International's revenue and profit in the second quarter of 2026, with profit...