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Friday 3 July 2026
Tsinghua chip veteran’s US$1.8bn 3D AI chip startup targets China’s GPU gap

China's AI chip sector has a heavyweight new entrant: veteran semiconductor figure Shaojun Wei has formally unveiled Shanghai Orient...

Friday 3 July 2026
Samsung eyes marquee AI win as Anthropic explores custom chip beyond Nvidia

Anthropic is exploring a custom AI chip and has held talks with Samsung Electronics as a potential manufacturing partner, joining OpenAI,...

Wednesday 1 July 2026
Tenstorrent's Jim Keller says startup will outpace Cerebras as AI chip competition intensifies

AI chip competition is widening beyond raw performance, a shift that matters for global cloud providers, device makers, and investors...

Wednesday 1 July 2026
Supermicro smuggling probes reportedly push Nvidia to tighten AI server checks further

As the US tightens controls on advanced AI chip exports, smuggling schemes are surfacing across the AI server supply chain, driven...

Wednesday 1 July 2026
AI chip startup Rebellions' acquisition of SqueezeBits signals push beyond hardware

South Korean AI chip designer Rebellions said on June 30 that it is acquiring AI inference optimization company SqueezeBits, as part...

Monday 29 June 2026
Baidu subsidiary Kunlunxin seeks US$50B IPO valuation, asks investors to buy its chips

Kunlunxin, the semiconductor subsidiary of Chinese search engine giant Baidu, is targeting a US$50 billion valuation for its Hong Kong...

Sunday 28 June 2026
LG Chem weighs CCL expansion as AI chip demand strains supply

LG Chem is discussing whether to expand production of copper-clad laminate, or CCL, a core material used in semiconductor packaging, as...

Saturday 27 June 2026
JCET's US$1.1bn expansion shows where China's AI chip crunch is moving

China's AI chip race is pushing the semiconductor bottleneck into advanced packaging and testing, where HPC, HBM, Chiplets and domestic...

Thursday 25 June 2026
Chinese chip packaging giant JCET plans US$1.1b AI chip packaging plant
JCET Group is accelerating its AI chip packaging expansion with a CNY7.8 billion (US$1.1 billion) investment in a new advanced packaging and testing plant in Shanghai Lingang, strengthening...
Thursday 25 June 2026
ByteDance's reported AI chip orders mark breakthrough for Chinese GPU maker Iluvatar CoreX
ByteDance's reported plan to purchase at least 50,000 AI inference chips from Shanghai-based GPU developer Iluvatar CoreX could become one of the most significant commercial wins yet...
Wednesday 24 June 2026
Qualcomm, ByteDance talks signal new phase in China AI chip diversification
Qualcomm's reported talks to provide custom chip-design services to TikTok owner ByteDance show how China's AI chip supply chain is moving beyond a simple Nvidia replacement story.
Wednesday 24 June 2026
MediaTek-Global Unichip tie-up talk puts TSMC's AI ASIC ecosystem on watch
Cloud service providers are accelerating in-house AI chip development, lifting demand for application-specific integrated circuits, or ASICs, and reshaping collaboration across the...
Thursday 18 June 2026
Elon Musk aims for record maximum usable compute per wafer for AI6 chip
Following the announcement in April 2026 that the AI5 chip design had been finalized, Tesla CEO Elon Musk introduced a new benchmark, stating that under yield considerations, the AI6...
Thursday 18 June 2026
AI chip boom strains probe card supply, Taiwan test interface maker weighs prepayment deals
MPI Corporation, a major probe card supplier, said AI demand is tightening supply across the probe card market and extending order visibility, with the company considering a prepayment...
Thursday 18 June 2026
FOPLP race heats up as Innolux reportedly teams with TSMC
As AI chip technology advances, larger chip sizes and heterogeneous integration packaging are driving bigger package dimensions, pushing semiconductor makers to adopt FOPLP over FOWLP...