Academia Sinica's Quantum Chip Fabrication Space (QC-Fab) in Tainan will open to external users at the end of September 2026, marking a new stage in Taiwan's in-house quantum chip development and manufacturing efforts. After the cleanroom was completed, the institute finished installing process equipment, connecting factory utility lines, testing equipment functions, and training operators.
Japanese electronics giant NEC stopped development of gate-based superconducting quantum computer hardware at the end of March 2026. According to Japanese media reports, NEC concluded that the commercialization timeline for a physical quantum computer was too long and that hardware investment would be unlikely to deliver commensurate returns. The decision also reportedly prompted quantum R&D researchers to join Fujitsu.
Chinese AI chipmaker Enflame will list on the STAR Market of the Shanghai Stock Exchange on September 11, 2026, becoming the last of China's "four little GPU dragons" to go public. Enflame is grouped with Moore Threads, MetaX, and Biren Technology as China's "four little GPU dragons," and with Enflame's listing, all four companies will have entered the capital market.
A recommended corporate-fraud investigation would reach Xiaomi at the weakest point its India business has known. India's Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) has proposed a detailed probe into alleged irregularities in the company's business model and its compliance with foreign investment law, according to a government memorandum drafted in May and reported by Reuters on September 9.
Germany's Elmos Semiconductor has secured wafer capacity from South Korea's SK keyfoundry through 2037, expanding an 18-year manufacturing relationship to 130nm technology as supply conditions tighten across parts of the 8-inch foundry market.
DeepSeek has opened roughly 150 positions in a new hiring round focused almost entirely on engineering and infrastructure, pointing to a shift from pure model development toward the systems needed to support larger-scale AI services, agents, and computing workloads.
