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Friday 17 October 2025
Apple releases M5 chip with 30% higher memory bandwidth and enhanced NPU
Apple quietly launched new MacBook, iPad, and Vision Pro products equipped with its latest M5 chip on the evening of October 15, 2025, in Taiwan, generating considerable public attention over the major M5 chip upgrades.
Friday 17 October 2025
Airoha leverages MediaTek Wi-Fi chips to diversify into global telecom market
Airoha Technology has continued to secure new collaboration opportunities in the international telecom market in 2025, with some of its previously developed markets now entering mass production and shipment phases, driving steady growth in its overall revenue. The company has also integrated MediaTek's Wi-Fi chips into its solutions.
Friday 17 October 2025
Rebellions joins Arm Total Design to advance next-gen AI infrastructure
AI inference chip startup Rebellions announced on October 15 that it has joined Arm's Total Design ecosystem. The announcement, made at the OCP Global Summit 2025, positions the company to accelerate the development of customized, high-efficiency chips for next-generation AI data centers.
Friday 17 October 2025
Audix sales driven by AI, EV, and medical growth in 3Q25
Electronic components distributor Audix has demonstrated operational resilience with steady revenue growth in the third quarter of 2025, when gross margin surged past 30% to reach the company's second-highest ever level. Audix's strategic transformation across three core business units has expanded its reach from traditional products into emerging technology sectors, including AI, electric vehicles (EV), and medical devices.
Friday 17 October 2025
OCP Summit: Broadcom claims 90% AI efficiency jump, reshaping optical and interconnect supply chains

At the OCP Global Summit, Broadcom unveiled major advances in Co-Packaged Optics (CPO), claiming the technology has reached the maturity and reliability needed to transform next-generation AI compute clusters.

Thursday 16 October 2025
Tsinghua University breaks imaging limits with Rafael chip, launching sub-angstrom era
The Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University (THU) in Beijing has developed the world's first "sub-angstrom snapshot spectral imaging chip" named Rafael. The research findings were published online in Nature, marking a significant advance in high-precision photonic chips and imaging technology in China. This breakthrough ushers intelligent photonics into an ultra-high resolution era below 0.1 nanometers (sub-angstrom level).
Thursday 16 October 2025
Qualcomm faces China antitrust probe over Autotalks acquisition
Ten years ago, Qualcomm paid the largest antitrust fine in China's market regulation history. It has yet again violated China's policies, this time because its acquisition case was not declared properly.
Thursday 16 October 2025
How a viral Taiwan dinner photo put Nvidia and its partners under Washington’s microscope
A publicly shared photo from a private gathering in Taiwan has set off debate over whether US export rules on advanced technology are being skirted, putting Taiwanese hardware makers MSI and Gigabyte under fresh scrutiny.
Thursday 16 October 2025
Intel pursues open AI architecture and annual GPU updates to catch up
Intel has unveiled its most ambitious artificial intelligence (AI) roadmap to date, featuring the next-generation Panther Lake AI PC processor, Clearwater Forest server processor, and a comprehensive AI execution plan. At the recent Intel Tech Tour (ITT) keynote, the company's new Chief AI and Technology Officer, Sachin Katti, announced that Intel will adopt an "annual update" cadence for its AI product lineup, marking a strategic shift toward faster iteration and innovation.
Thursday 16 October 2025
Column: Macroscopic quantum tunneling discovery redefines limits of quantum mechanics and fuels quantum technology advances
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis for their groundbreaking experimental work demonstrating macroscopic quantum tunneling, a phenomenon showing that quantum effects can manifest in systems large enough to be observed directly.
Thursday 16 October 2025
Apple unveils Vision Pro, MacBook Pro, and iPad Pro powered by the new M5 chip
On October 15, 2025, Apple announced three major product launches — the upgraded Apple Vision Pro, a new 14-inch MacBook Pro, and the latest iPad Pro — each powered by the new M5 chip that promises breakthroughs in performance, AI capabilities, and energy efficiency. The announcements mark Apple's next big leap in spatial computing, professional performance, and tablet productivity.
Thursday 16 October 2025
OCP Summit: Arm expands ecosystem to support AI workloads and chiplet integration
Arm is strengthening its ecosystem for next-generation AI applications by adding partners across firmware, ASIC design, networking, and packaging. The company is also advancing chiplet standardization through the Open Compute Project (OCP), promoting reusable components, and maintaining collaborations with Nvidia and other vendors to accelerate AI, edge, and data center deployments.
Thursday 16 October 2025
Apple introduces M5 chip with major AI and performance upgrades
Apple has announced its latest system-on-chip (SoC), the M5, marking a major step forward in the company's in-house silicon roadmap. Built on third-generation 3nm process technology, the M5 powers Apple's newest 14-inch MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and Apple Vision Pro, delivering notable gains in graphics, CPU efficiency, and on-device AI processing.
Thursday 16 October 2025
TSMC's advanced chip orders surge with AI boom, boosting Taiwan's OSAT sector

As TSMC prepares to release its latest financial results, investor optimism remains high despite renewed concerns over an AI bubble. Industry watchers continue to bet on generative AI as a key growth driver, propelling demand in the high-performance computing (HPC) sector and encouraging clients to steadily scale up chip orders with TSMC.

Thursday 16 October 2025
Samsung bets its 2nm comeback on Qualcomm to challenge TSMC’s grip

In a high-stakes bid to reclaim lost ground in the semiconductor arms race, Samsung Electronics has delivered early samples of its 2-nanometer application processor (AP) to Qualcomm, signaling a potential thaw in a once-close relationship fractured by past technical missteps. At the same time, Samsung is reportedly undercutting rival TSMC's pricing by as much as 33%, escalating tensions in the global foundry market just as the industry braces for the 2nm era.

Thursday 16 October 2025
OCP Summit: Intel takes on AI rivals with new 'Crescent Island' GPU and open-system push
Intel is making a major play in the artificial intelligence market, unveiling a new strategy focused on open and modular systems. The plan, detailed at the OCP Global Summit 2025 by Chief Technology and AI Officer Sachin Katti, is headlined by a new inference-focused GPU, codenamed "Crescent Island," designed to challenge the industry's closed ecosystems.
Wednesday 15 October 2025
Broadcom joins AI accelerator race with major OpenAI deal
Broadcom is jumping into the booming artificial intelligence chip market, striking a major deal to develop custom AI accelerators for OpenAI. The move positions Broadcom alongside Nvidia and AMD as a key hardware supplier for the world's leading AI company.
Wednesday 15 October 2025
L&T Semiconductor partners with Foxconn's HYS to develop high-voltage power wafers
On October 14, 2025, L&T Semiconductor Technologies (LTSCT) announced a long-term partnership with Foxconn subsidiary Hon Young Semiconductor (HYS) to jointly develop and manufacture high-voltage semiconductor wafers ranging from 650V to 3,300V. The collaboration aims to address growing global demand for efficient and reliable power components used in electrification platforms across automotive and industrial applications.
Wednesday 15 October 2025
China Mobile to fully adopt domestic AI chips by 2028
China Mobile announced at its global partner conference in Guangzhou that it plans to exclusively use domestically produced chips across the country's largest artificial intelligence (AI) computing network by 2028. The move seeks to accelerate AI autonomy and reduce reliance on foreign technology amid growing geopolitical tensions.
Wednesday 15 October 2025
Samsung ramps up semiconductor talent hiring in India amid global AI design push
South Korean chipmaker Samsung Electronics is stepping up efforts to secure engineering talent in India, reinforcing the country's growing role as a global hub for semiconductor design and innovation.
Wednesday 15 October 2025
OCP Summit: Arm redefines AI infrastructure with open chiplet collab
At the OCP Global Summit 2025, Arm's Mohamed Awad, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Infrastructure Business, delivered a keynote urging the data center industry to rethink how systems are built in the age of AI. His talk, titled "What AI Wants: New Silicon, New Systems, and a New Era for the Data Center," highlighted that performance-per-watt optimization, ecosystem collaboration, and custom silicon are key to meeting the explosive growth in AI workloads.
Wednesday 15 October 2025
Subsidiary of China's SiCarrier launches home-grown EDA software at SEMiBAY 2025
Qiyunfang, a subsidiary of SiCarrier, officially released two domestically developed Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software products at the SEMiBAY 2025 event on October 15. The announcement represents a major advancement for China's efforts to achieve technological independence in EDA design software, a critical area in semiconductor manufacturing.
Wednesday 15 October 2025
OCP Summit: Intel to launch Crescent Island AI server GPU in 2026 to re-enter AI market
Intel CTO Sachin Katti announced at the 2025 Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit that the company plans to launch a new AI server GPU, codenamed Crescent Island, in 2026. The company expects to provide samples to customers for testing in the second half of 2026, signaling its renewed efforts to compete in the AI hardware sector.
Wednesday 15 October 2025
Commentary: Lip-Bu Tan's AI and openness strategy to reinvent new Intel
Since Lip-Bu Tan took over as CEO in March 2025, Intel has experienced a historic year of upheaval, becoming the center of attention in the global tech community.
Wednesday 15 October 2025
Oracle picks AMD's MI450 GPUs to power next-gen AI supercluster
Oracle and AMD announced a major expansion of their partnership to support large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) computing, marking one of AMD's biggest supply deals for its upcoming AI accelerators.