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Tuesday 17 March 2026
MetaX GPU push delivers growth, not profit, as losses hit US$560 million

MetaX, one of China's most closely watched domestic GPU developers, remains loss-making despite rapid revenue growth. According to Sina,...

Tuesday 17 March 2026
HBM4 showdown at GTC 2026: SK Hynix, Samsung, and Micron battle for AI memory supremacy
The 2026 NVIDIA Global Technology Conference (GTC) has transcended its origins as a developer forum to become the ultimate proving ground for the high-bandwidth memory (HBM) indust...
Tuesday 17 March 2026
Nvidia GTC 2026: Jensen Huang projects US$1 trillion inference market, LPU chip to be made by Samsung
As generative AI advances into the inference and agentic AI stages, global demand for AI computing power is entering a new surge. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang outlined during his keynote...
Tuesday 17 March 2026
Meta and Nebius reach US$27B deal for AI infrastructure capacity as data center computing demand soars
Nebius, a Dutch data center firm, announced a US$27 billion deal with Meta on March 16, 2026, to supply AI infrastructure capacity to the tech giant. The agreement comes as soaring...
Tuesday 17 March 2026
MOEA establishes high-speed silicon photonics verification lab to shorten development timelines
In January 2026, Taiwan's Executive Yuan officially approved the Ten AI Initiatives Promotion Plan, coordinated by the National Development Council (NDC) in collaboration with the...
Tuesday 17 March 2026
US Defense Department agrees on rare earths purchase with Lynas at Japan-matched floor price
Lynas Rare Earths has signed a binding letter of intent to supply rare earth oxides to the US Department of Defense (DOD) over the next four years. According to Lynas, the agreement...
Tuesday 17 March 2026
Samsung Electronics reports shifts in raw material costs and production output in fiscal 2025
Samsung Electronics has released comprehensive operational data for fiscal 2025, revealing a complex picture of shifting raw material costs and high production efficiency. Despite...
Tuesday 17 March 2026
Samsung cautious on memory expansion amid concerns over 2028 supply glut
Samsung Electronics' semiconductor division is concerned that the current memory supercycle, driven by supply shortages, could last only one to two years before the market turns downward...
Tuesday 17 March 2026
Micron enters high-volume production of HBM4 and PCIe Gen6 SSDs for Nvidia platforms
At the Nvidia GTC 2026 conference, Micron Technology signaled a major push in the AI hardware race, announcing high-volume production of memory and storage components purpose-built...
Tuesday 17 March 2026
How Nvidia and Taiwan's co-engineering pact is fueling a US$1 trillion token economy
The air inside the SAP Center carried more than just Silicon Valley anticipation. There was a distinct sense of historical gravity as Jensen Huang took the stage for GTC 2026.
Tuesday 17 March 2026
AI-related impact on gaming industry goes beyond memory chip shortage
As demand for memory chips in AI data centers continues to surge, the global "RAMaggedon" has now claimed another unwitting victim: the gaming industry. The sector is now feeling the...
Tuesday 17 March 2026
eMMC shortage sends NAND prices soaring, with further gains ahead
Supply disruptions in low-capacity eMMC are driving sharp price increases for SLC and MLC NAND as major global memory manufacturers exit older production nodes. Contract prices for...
Tuesday 17 March 2026
As Middle East conflict further raises oil prices, air freight costs hit semiconductor supply chain
As the Middle East conflict enters its third week, global energy supply and sea-air logistics networks are facing major disruptions. Because semiconductor and electronics supply chains...
Tuesday 17 March 2026
Nvidia GTC 2026: Samsung unveils HBM4E, showcasing comprehensive AI solutions, Nvidia partnership, and vision
Samsung Electronics outlined the full range of AI computing technologies it will present at Nvidia GTC 2026 in San Jose, California, March 16-19, highlighting memory, logic, foundry,...
Tuesday 17 March 2026
Memory supply chain defies seasonality with contract price hikes in 1Q26
Despite a short-term market adjustment and price softening before the Lunar New Year holidays, the memory sector saw contract price increases significantly reflected in first quarter...