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Friday 2 October 2026
Inside Volantis's photonic bid to break AI's memory wall after US$88 million raise
Semiconductor startup Volantis has raised US$88 million in Series A funding to develop an AI inference architecture that uses photonic interconnect technology to address memory bottlenecks...
Friday 2 October 2026
Amazon weighs US$8B chip sale-leaseback to support credit rating
Amazon is considering moving about US$8 billion worth of high-end Nvidia chips off its balance sheet through a sale-leaseback structure, according to the Financial Times and...
Friday 2 October 2026
Qbic expands edge AI on Arm, lifts smart access control above 60%
Industrial computer (IPC) maker Qbic held its pre-IPO presentation for the over-the-counter market on October 1, 2026, highlighting a strategy that differs from that of most Taiwanese...
Friday 2 October 2026
Life after Meta: Manus regains independence, debuting Manus 2.0 and 'Cue' AI agent
Following its return to independent operations, AI startup Manus unveiled two new products in late September 2026: Manus 2.0 and "Cue," a personal agentic AI application. The product...
Friday 2 October 2026
California tech exec arrested in US$300M Nvidia AI server smuggling case
US federal prosecutors on October 1 arrested a 38-year-old California man accused of violating US export controls by smuggling computer servers containing US$300 million worth of Nvidia...
Friday 2 October 2026
AMD bets on AI demand by buying World Labs
Under Lisa Su's 12-year tenure at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), the company has gradually moved beyond its role as Intel's challenger in the CPU market. But in the accelerator market...
Friday 2 October 2026
Google's first Suncatcher satellite reaches orbit to test AI chips in space
Google has moved its orbital AI data center ambitions from paper to hardware. A prototype satellite carrying the company's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) reached orbit on October 1,...
Friday 2 October 2026
China AI infrastructure spreads to mid-sized firms
China's AI investment is increasingly turning into server purchases and data center construction, and the wave that began with large tech companies is now spreading to mid-sized firms...
Friday 2 October 2026
Micron expands global fabs, calls on Taiwanese suppliers to go overseas
AI-driven memory demand is surging, and Micron has recently accelerated capacity expansion across multiple regions worldwide, including Taiwan, the US, Japan, Singapore, and India...
Friday 2 October 2026
Commentary: Broadcom's US$42 billion Anthropic loan exposes AI's emerging chip-financing loop
When the underlying economics of infrastructure commitments meet the financing muscle of the companies supplying foundational compute, the traditional boundary between supplier and...
Friday 2 October 2026
Column: AI benchmarks remain lucrative business
New AI models arrive every few weeks, and the question of which is better often comes down to the leaderboard. Behind those rankings, evaluation can look like an academic exercise...
Friday 2 October 2026
Samsung launches Tab S12, Buds On, SmartTag3
Samsung Electronics on October 1 unveiled its next-generation premium Galaxy Tab S12 series, its first clip-on wireless earbuds, the Galaxy Buds On, and the Galaxy SmartTag3, which...
Friday 2 October 2026
SK Hynix says Solidigm IPO remains undecided as AI storage demand drives investment
SK Hynix has reiterated that no decision has been made on a potential US initial public offering (IPO) or other external financing for its Solidigm subsidiary, as the company weighs...
Friday 2 October 2026
Toshiba reportedly to double HDD production as AI drives storage demand
Toshiba plans to double production capacity for hard disk drives (HDDs) used in AI data centers by fiscal 2027, investing about JPY60 billion (US$379.4 million) to expand its Philippine...
Friday 2 October 2026
Meta hires MongoDB CEO to lead AI enterprise platform
Meta has launched a new business unit, "Meta Enterprise Platform," to package its artificial intelligence (AI) models, agent tools, and infrastructure for enterprise customers, and...