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Friday 29 May 2026
EU seeks to spur government buying of homegrown chips
The European Commission wants governments to buy chips from EU startups as Brussels seeks to reduce the bloc's reliance on US and East Asian suppliers, Reuters reported, citing...
Friday 29 May 2026
Qualcomm bets on US$300 laptops as memory costs squeeze PC makers
Qualcomm Technologies is pushing its Windows-on-Arm strategy into lower-cost laptops with a new Snapdragon C platform, betting that PC makers squeezed by rising memory costs will look...
Friday 29 May 2026
Analysis: ASIC market tightens as capacity becomes key battleground for cloud chips
Cloud service providers' demand for application-specific integrated circuits, or ASICs, is increasingly locked in as advanced process nodes, advanced packaging, and component supply...
Friday 29 May 2026
Malaysia's Oppstar revises AI chip deal, formalizes US$2.9 million design contract
Oppstar Bhd has restructured the delivery framework of an artificial intelligence chip development project with a Yokohama-based client, replacing an earlier tripartite arrangement...
Friday 29 May 2026
Morgan Stanley: Supply constraints to drive next phase of the AI boom
As the global buildout of artificial intelligence infrastructure accelerates, Taiwan's technology industry has emerged as one of the most closely watched hubs in the world. Ahead of...
Friday 29 May 2026
DeepX targets wider NPU partnerships at Computex 2026
South Korean fabless chip-design company DeepX is using Computex 2026 to broaden partnerships around its neural processing units, or NPUs, as it pushes low-power AI chips for industrial...
Friday 29 May 2026
SmartSens, Unisoc team up on Micro LED optical interconnects for AI computing
Chinese CMOS image sensor supplier SmartSens Technology announced on May 26 that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Chinese IC design company Unisoc to jointly develop...
Friday 29 May 2026
Taiwan's Panel maker TPK bets on UK energy storage boom with Sumitomo and GRID tie-up
TPK Holding, a Taiwan-based touch panel manufacturer facing weakening demand in its core business, has been pivoting aggressively into new growth areas in 2026 — from semiconductor...
Thursday 28 May 2026
FuriosaAI and Broadcom partner on AI inference platform for agentic computing era
South Korean AI chip startup FuriosaAI has announced a partnership with Broadcom to develop a next-generation AI inference platform aimed at large-scale agentic AI deployments, as...
Thursday 28 May 2026
Huawei chip chief says post-Moore race is no longer just about nanometers
As Moore's Law nears its limits, Huawei is promoting its "Tau (τ) Law" as a post-Moore chip framework that shifts the focus from nanometer process nodes to shorter signal transmission...
Thursday 28 May 2026
Apple's entry-level push puts pressure on Windows notebook makers
Apple's introduction of the MacBook Neo has intensified competition in the low-end notebook market, putting pressure on Windows-based manufacturers across both education and consumer...
Thursday 28 May 2026
Peking University's true-3D EDA tool gives Huawei's LogicFolding chip roadmap critical design link

Peking University researchers have unveiled a prototype electronic design automation (EDA) tool built for "true-3D" chip design, offering...

Thursday 28 May 2026
Nvidia's Rubin CPX plans clouded as Groq gains bigger inference role
Nvidia's plan to launch Rubin CPX, an inference-focused graphics processing unit for its Vera Rubin platform, has become increasingly uncertain as supply-chain activity around the...
Thursday 28 May 2026
Commentary: China's AI chip certification becomes new market gatekeeper
China has brought AI chips into its national security and reliability evaluation framework for the first time, turning what looks like a product certification process into something...
Thursday 28 May 2026
Synopsys flags mixed regional trends as China growth contrasts with weaker Western demand
Synopsys reported divergent regional performance in the second quarter, with China showing sequential growth while North America and Europe declined, as demand patterns for semiconductor...