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Wednesday 26 August 2026
Google's TPU v10 turns multi-vendor, deepening MediaTek's ASIC role
Google's expanding list of TPU partners has sparked widespread industry discussion, centering on whether current IC design suppliers Broadcom and MediaTek will see their orders imp...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
India chip manufacturing push exposes production-test skills gap, NI says
India's semiconductor expansion is beginning to expose a shortage of engineers with experience in production testing, a capability that will become increasingly important as new OSAT...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
BOE, 3M expand materials partnership as foldable OLED competition intensifies
BOE Technology Group and 3M have opened a joint research laboratory in Beijing that covers optical films, optically clear adhesives, structural adhesives and advanced materials development...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
Nvidia unveils Jetson Orin Nano 2 for edge AI robots and drones
Nvidia has introduced Jetson Orin Nano 2, a compact robotics computer aimed at entry-level edge AI, with implications for developers building autonomous machines worldwide. The system...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
OpenAI says Jalapeño cuts latency up to 3.6x, targeting the bottleneck that slows agents
OpenAI said its first custom inference chip, Jalapeño, delivered faster responses and better power efficiency than competing systems in tests across several large language models...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
Xiaomi launches Xring O3 SoC, yet its low adoption limits threat to MediaTek, Qualcomm
Xiaomi officially unveiled its next-generation in-house system-on-chip (SoC), the Xring O3, at its Xring Chip Technology Briefing on August 24, continuing to position the silicon as...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
Samsung, Intel widen AI chip battle into memory, packaging
Samsung Electronics and Intel are pushing into each other's core businesses as AI semiconductor competition shifts from individual chips to full-system integration. South Korean reports...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
Samsung Display boosts OLED sales as Galaxy Z panel orders triple
The global small-size OLED market was flat in the second quarter of 2026 as seasonal weakness and cautious inventory management by Chinese device makers slowed demand. Samsung Display,...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
Waymo's 320 million-km milestone exposes the next robotaxi challenge: scaling the silicon
As robotaxi services expand beyond individual cities into wider regions, the growing appeal of AI-assisted driving and the technological vision that AV developers are eager to realize...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
TSMC's 310mm push threatens Samsung's PLP lead
Samsung Electronics commercialized fan-out panel-level packaging (FOPLP) before rivals, using the technology in mobile and wearable chips and now preparing to extend it into AI and...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Tesla senior chip engineer joins DensityAI as in-house plans face more strain
Tesla's senior director of AI hardware design, Shishuang Sun, joined DensityAI in July 2026, taking charge of packaging and system hardware development. The move came as Tesla continued...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Nexperia China rebuilds 12-inch local supply chain after 330 days
Nexperia China said it has rebuilt a domestic 12-inch wafer supply chain after 330 days of overseas wafer supply disruptions, unveiling the new platform at a press conference outlining...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Anthropic bets on in-house chips, reshaping ASIC orders
Anthropic confirmed on August 5 that it is building an internal silicon team to design custom chips for its Claude models, signaling a sharper push into self-developed AI hardware...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
AI boom drives Foxconn past 40% of Taiwan-listed firms' China returns, with FII leading the way
Global demand for AI and high-performance computing (HPC) has lifted investment returns for Taiwan-listed companies in China, with Foxconn continuing to lead the pack. According to...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Vera Rubin transition gap eases as ASIC, general servers rescue supply chain
As Nvidia's next-generation Vera Rubin platform enters deployment, Taiwan's server supply chain is finding ways to bridge the transition gap before ramping up volume production. Ongoing...