Anthropic is exploring a custom AI chip and has held talks with Samsung Electronics as a potential manufacturing partner, joining OpenAI, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta in the race to control AI infrastructure.

Renesas Electronics has completed the sale of its timing device business to US fabless semiconductor specialist SiTime, tightening its portfolio around AI servers, electric vehicles, embedded computing and software-led chip design.

As South Korea moves to accelerate a new semiconductor cluster in the country's southwest, ruling-party officials have returned to one comparison: Kumamoto.

Huawei is reportedly preparing to launch its AI chips in South Korea for the first time in the fourth quarter of 2026, as rising demand for AI infrastructure opens a new market for alternatives to Nvidia-based systems.

Supermicro has pushed back against media characterizations of this week's events in Taiwan, saying the company is a cooperating party in the investigation rather than a target, and that misconduct, if any, lies with individual employees who have been suspended pending the outcome of the case.

Singapore authorities have filed additional fraud and money laundering charges against four individuals and brought fresh charges against four companies, as part of an investigation linked to the movement of servers that may have contained Nvidia artificial intelligence chips subject to US export controls. The case has been reported by multiple outlets, including CNA, The Straits Times, and Reuters.