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Monday 4 May 2026
Taiwanese Micro LED suppliers race to tap optical links for AI data centers
Micro LED is emerging as a potential contender in AI optical communications as the industry shift toward "optical replacing copper" gathers pace.
Monday 4 May 2026
AI memory crunch squeezes 5G FWA market
DIGITIMES' latest report says the global 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) customer premises equipment (CPE) market posted its first year-on-year shipment decline in the first...
Monday 4 May 2026
Anthropic reportedly in talks with Fractile to buy inference chips amid AI compute crunch
Anthropic has been in talks with Fractile, a London-based startup, to purchase its inference chips for running its AI models more efficiently, as inferential AI tasks have pushed up...
Monday 4 May 2026
AI's 1.6T shift turns InP into optical supply chain bottleneck

The transition from 800G to 1.6T optical modules is no longer an upgrade cycle — it is a physics-driven inflection point.

Monday 4 May 2026
TSMC’s 3nm crunch will keep Apple Mac supply constrained until 2nm ramps up
Supply-chain participants said Apple's fiscal second-quarter 2026 performance should be read less as a demand story and more as a reflection of persistent constraints in advanced semiconductor...
Monday 4 May 2026
India roundup: India accelerates AI, semiconductor, and manufacturing push with major investments and startup bets

India's technology ecosystem is seeing rapid expansion across AI infrastructure, semiconductors,...

Sunday 3 May 2026
Silicon Motion posts record 1Q26 revenue driven by AI, new products to boost growth
Silicon Motion Technology reported a record quarterly revenue of US$342 million in the first quarter of 2026, up 23% from the previous quarter and soaring 105% year-over-year. The...
Saturday 2 May 2026
OpenAI reworks Stargate data center strategy as site plans change

OpenAI is reworking its US$500 billion Stargate initiative, shifting from a fixed data center joint venture toward a more flexible strategy...

Saturday 2 May 2026
Qualcomm says Samsung chip share remains above 70% despite Exynos push
Qualcomm said its relationship with Samsung Electronics remains stable and that its share of Samsung smartphone silicon has risen to more than 70%, even as Samsung expands the use...
Saturday 2 May 2026
Lite-On profit rises on surge in AI-driven cloud demand

Lite-On Technology reported first-quarter revenue of NT$43.4 billion (approx. US$1.35 billion), up 19% from a year earlier, as surging...

Saturday 2 May 2026
Foxconn Industrial Internet posts 102% net profit growth in 1Q26 on AI GPU, ASIC demand
Benefiting from the continued expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) computing power demand, Foxconn Industrial Internet (FII), a subsidiary of Hon Hai Precision Industry (Foxconn),...
Saturday 2 May 2026
MediaTek lifts 2026 ASIC target to $2 billion despite smartphone market deterioration
MediaTek held its earnings call on April 30, expressing a cautious outlook for the 2026 smartphone market. Despite this, growth in other applications is expected to effectively offset...
Friday 1 May 2026
OpenAI demand doubts cast shadow over AI server supply chain

OpenAI's aggressive push to secure AI computing capacity is facing growing scrutiny, with signs that its multibillion-dollar data center...

Friday 1 May 2026
China's US$1M Nvidia AI servers expose global chip squeeze

Prices for high-end AI servers in China are diverging sharply from global benchmarks, with systems built around Nvidia's B300 chips now...

Friday 1 May 2026
China unveils CPU-only exascale supercomputer plan, targets 2 ExaFLOPS without GPUs
China's National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen has launched the LineShine supercomputer project, aiming to break into the exascale...