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Tuesday 25 August 2026
TSMC suppliers reportedly plan Taiwan plant for critical chipmaking tubing
Taiwan's semiconductor supply chain is moving to close a gap that turned costly during the industry's last major crunch: the plastic tubing that carries chemicals through chip fabs...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
AI's power crunch hits Taiwan: foundry capacity tightens, chip prices climb into 2H26
AI data centres are becoming a new stress point for the global power and semiconductor supply chain. As facilities shift towards megawatt-scale architectures, demand is rising for...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
US voices first complaint over South Korea's KRW800 trillion chip cluster as investment pressure mounts
The US has informally expressed dissatisfaction with the South Korean government's KRW800 trillion (US$578.5 billion) plan to build a semiconductor cluster in the country's southwest...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Kulicke and Soffa names Raj Talluri as CEO
Kulicke and Soffa Industries has appointed Raj Talluri as president and chief executive officer, a leadership change that may influence the company's strategy in semiconductor equipment...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Intel pitches Diamond Rapids at Hot Chips as server CPU competition heats up
Intel pitched its next-generation Diamond Rapids Xeon at Hot Chips 2026 as the company bets that agentic AI will increase the role of general-purpose processors in AI infrastructure,...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
OmniVision's CIS business slips, but machine vision and robotics surge 71%
OmniVision Group reported a sharp drop in first-half 2026 profit as weakness in consumer electronics and automotive electronics weighed on its core image sensor business, even as machine...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
TSMC, Intel, and Samsung battle over backside power delivery below 2nm
As competition in advanced semiconductor manufacturing moves below the 2nm node, the battleground is no longer just shrinking transistors; it has expanded to how power is delivered...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
China-based Guangyu Xinchen says 3D-stacked edge AI chip has entered mass-production deployment
According to 36Kr, Shanghai Guangyu Xinchen Technology says its TC1000 series of 3D-stacked near-memory-computing AI processors has moved from silicon validation to mass-production...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Commentary: Nvidia's 15% hike piles pressure on the AI supply chain, lifts ASIC prospects
Nvidia has reportedly notified major customers that server systems using its AI chips will rise by more than 15%, with the new pricing set to apply to models shipping from early 2027,...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Samsung, SK Hynix step up China NAND upgrades as US tool risks grow

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are stepping up equipment spending at their NAND flash plants in China through 2027, upgrading existing...

Tuesday 25 August 2026
Novosense encoder launch highlights China's push into robot joint sensing
Chinese analog and mixed-signal chipmaker Novosense Microelectronics has introduced the NSM350x series, a Hall-based magnetic encoder designed for high-precision angular measurement...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Infineon buys India-based C2i Semiconductors to bolster AI data center power systems
Infineon Technologies has agreed to acquire Bangalore-based C2i Semiconductors, a move that strengthens its position in power delivery for AI data centers and highlights India's growing...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Nvidia Groq 3 LPX enters full production for faster agentic AI inference

Nvidia said its Groq 3 LPX inference accelerator is now in full production, a move that could speed up agentic AI systems used worldwide...

Tuesday 25 August 2026
SpaceXAI to use Nvidia Vera CPUs for faster agentic AI at scale

SpaceXAI plans to deploy Nvidia's new Vera CPUs to speed up agentic AI workloads, a move that could influence how advanced AI systems...

Tuesday 25 August 2026
IBM unveils dual-architecture mainframe chip to run Arm, z/OS, Linux workloads

In an August 24 press release, IBM announced that it is developing the first dual-architecture mainframe processor, a move that could...