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Thursday 13 August 2026
Siemens EDA unveils AI-Native Design strategy in South Korea
Siemens EDA has introduced an AI-Native Design strategy in Seoul, aiming to help chipmakers and system designers manage rising complexity while reducing the risk of AI errors. The...
Thursday 13 August 2026
Synopsys pushes into system design as Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom move up the stack
Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom are moving beyond chip-level design into subsystems and complete systems, a shift that is increasing the need to account for thermal, electrical, mechanical...
Thursday 13 August 2026
NXP expands Malaysia factory to bolster global chip supply resilience

NXP Semiconductors has begun expanding its Petaling Jaya assembly and test site in Malaysia, a move that could support semiconductor...

Thursday 13 August 2026
Nvidia's compute financing push signals a new phase for AI spending
Nvidia's plan to assemble more than US$500 billion in third-party capital for AI infrastructure could reshape how the industry pays for compute. By bringing major Wall Street firms...
Thursday 13 August 2026
Taiwan manufacturers call for faster nuclear restart to keep pace with AI, chip growth

The Chinese National Federation of Industries (CNFI), a major industrial and manufacturing association in Taiwan, called for the government...

Thursday 13 August 2026
OCP APAC 2026: Intel sees agentic AI shifting bottlenecks toward CPUs, memory
Intel sees agentic AI changing the balance of AI servers, as CPU orchestration, memory capacity and data movement emerge as performance constraints even when more GPU capacity is a...
Thursday 13 August 2026
Lenovo Capital backs Niobium Optoelectronics in Series B funding for TFLN chips
Jiangsu Niobium Optoelectronics Technology, a Chinese maker of thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) photonic chips, has closed a Series B funding round worth several hundred million yuan...
Thursday 13 August 2026
TSMC-Sony image sensor venture pushes Japan chip investment to JPY6 trillion

TSMC said on August 11 that it will invest in CMOS image sensor development and mass production with Sony Group in Kumamoto Prefecture,...

Thursday 13 August 2026
Yangtze Memory-backed capital expands into FD-SOI specialty process investment

Changcun Capital, the investment arm backed by Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., has completed a strategic investment in RuiLiPingxin...

Thursday 13 August 2026
Can diamond rewrite the rules of AI chip cooling? Wiwynn is putting it to the test
As AI processors become more powerful, one of the industry's most stubborn constraints is becoming increasingly physical: there is only so much heat conventional materials can move...
Thursday 13 August 2026
LSE Semiconductor wins strategic investment from TIS

Lithography Semiconductor Equipment Co. (LSE) officially announced on August 11 that TECO Image Systems Co. (TIS) had completed a strategic...

Thursday 13 August 2026
From lab bench to IPO: How Taiwan's top university aims to turn professors into founders, campus into a unicorn factory

National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), one of Taiwan's leading research universities, has spent more than a decade cultivating a campus...

Thursday 13 August 2026
Vietnam opens Haiphong free trade zone to court semiconductor investment
Vietnam has launched the Haiphong Free Trade Zone to draw high-value investment into northern port city of Haiphong, with semiconductors, precision manufacturing, and other strategic...
Thursday 13 August 2026
South Korea widens chip strategy beyond Samsung and SK Hynix with KRW5 trillion ecosystem fund
As market momentum spirals into an intensifying race over AI infrastructure buildouts, the global landscape has entered a more aggressive round of AI-centered investment, with national-scale...
Thursday 13 August 2026
Longsys profit soars 715-fold on AI memory boom, enterprise storage, 5nm chips
Chinese memory supplier Longsys reported a dramatic earnings rebound for the first half of 2026, benefiting from rising memory prices, stronger AI data center demand, and a shift toward...