India will invest INR45 billion (approx. US$500 million) to modernise and expand the Semiconductor Laboratory (SCL) in Mohali, India's Union Electronics and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said during a review visit. The minister reaffirmed that SCL would "not be privatized" and would instead undergo a major upgrade aimed at significantly boosting domestic chip production and strengthening India's strategic semiconductor capabilities
Following the US ban on sales of Nvidia's high-end chips to China, expectations have grown that Baidu could rapidly emerge as a new force in China's AI chip sector and become the country's second major source of domestic compute capacity after Huawei
Google's success training the Gemini frontier model entirely on in-house TPUs has boosted confidence among China's tech giants. It strengthens the view that reducing Nvidia dependence is both viable and commercially sound, accelerating investment in domestic tensor-processor designs and other non-GPU accelerators
As global demand for AI computing power surges, conventional ground-based data centers are increasingly constrained by limits in energy supply and cooling capacity
Optoelectronic semiconductor integration solution provider Brightek recently officially commissioned its Jiangsu factory, built with an investment of nearly CNY200 million (approx. US$28.3 million). Brightek stated that the new facility will fully support emerging applications such as international automotive manufacturers, smart mobility, intelligent sensing, and AI robotics, laying a critical foundation for growth over the next decade
Imagination Technologies made a prominent showing at the 31st ICCAD-Expo 2025 in Chengdu, where strategic partner Xiangdi Xian Computing Technology debuted its next-generation GPU built on the Imagination DXD architecture. Revealed via the company's WeChat account, the Fuxi A0 is confirmed as both the world's only mass-produced IMG DXD product and the first DXD chip to reach tape-out
China's Wingtech has appealed to the Dutch Supreme Court to regain control of chipmaker Nexperia BV, highlighting ongoing tensions despite a temporary truce that allowed some components to resume flowing. The appeal targets an Amsterdam court ruling that transferred Nexperia shares—except for one—to a court-appointed trustee and suspended Wingtech founder Zhang Xuezheng as CEO, actions Wingtech contests in full, according to Bloomberg
According to Bloomberg, Reuters, and Mint, Digital Connexion, a joint venture between Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries, Canada-based Brookfield Asset Management, and US-based Digital Realty Trust, announced that it will invest US$11 billion by 2030 to develop a 1GW artificial intelligence-native data center campus in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
According to Reuters and Bloomberg, India's Adani Group plans to invest as much as US$5 billion in Google's artificial intelligence (AI) data center project in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, the company said on Friday. The investment will be made through AdaniConneX, a joint venture between Adani Enterprises and private data center operator EdgeConneX
Tesla is touting low ownership costs to attract Indian buyers, but sluggish early sales and steep import prices are clouding its debut, prompting the EV maker to push for ecosystem improvements and potential policy shifts to regain momentum
Samsung Electronics is reportedly nearing the final stage of qualification tests for its HBM4 memory chips with Nvidia, with a December decision that could mark one of the company's most significant comebacks in the high-end memory market in recent years, according to South Korean outlet Newdaily. At the same time, reports from ZDNet Korea and The Korea Herald say Samsung has overhauled its memory development organization to stabilize HBM production and challenge SK Hynix's lead
South Korea's Solvit System is rolling out new search-and-rescue technologies designed to locate missing people in areas with no mobile coverage. The company introduced two systems honored with CES Innovation Awards that aim to sharply reduce search zones and speed up rescue missions in radio shadow regions where phones cannot connect
China's leading DRAM maker CXMT has unveiled new DDR5 and LPDDR5X chips with performance now viewed as comparable to Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. The launch has unsettled South Korea's memory sector, especially since CXMT reached this level in under a year after pivoting from low-cost DRAM to premium development in early 2025
China's top technology companies are shifting their LLM training to overseas data centers as Washington tightens controls on advanced AI chips and Beijing orders domestic firms to stop using foreign hardware for model development
