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Tuesday 22 July 2025
NXP signals soft outlook; TI may strike similar tone as auto, industrial chip markets struggle
NXP Semiconductors posted a second-quarter revenue decline and cautious guidance for the third quarter, reinforcing concerns over lingering weakness in the automotive and industrial...
Tuesday 22 July 2025
NXP posts soft 2Q25, guidance fails to impress as growth headwinds persist
NXP Semiconductors reported a steeper-than-expected year-on-year revenue decline in the second quarter and issued a lukewarm third-quarter forecast, underscoring ongoing weakness...
Tuesday 22 July 2025
Nvidia and MediaTek delay AI PC launch to 2026 due to Microsoft OS hurdles and market headwinds
MediaTek and Nvidia have postponed the launch of their highly anticipated AI PC platform to the first quarter of 2026, supply chain sources say, citing a combination of delays in...
Tuesday 22 July 2025
Arm's ASIC ambitions test loyalty of chip-making partners
Arm is reportedly considering re-entry into the application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) market, potentially positioning itself as a competitor to some of its key customers...
Tuesday 22 July 2025
China's RISC-V charge expedites: DAMO Academy, BOSC go deep on server-class and 16-core CPUs
China is accelerating its deployment of RISC-V architecture as US-China tech decoupling intensifies, aiming to build a fully autonomous semiconductor supply chain. At the 5th RISC-V...
Tuesday 22 July 2025
Softstar takes over Taiwan Mask Corporation
Softstar Entertainment has expanded its territory in recent years and actively deepened its presence in Taiwan's key industries, covering diverse fields such as heavy electrical equipment,...
Tuesday 22 July 2025
Synopsys strengthens India's role with push for world's first AI-based chip foundry
Synopsys is playing a key role in India's growing semiconductor ambitions, partnering closely with Tata Electronics to support what may become the world's first AI-based semiconductor...
Monday 21 July 2025
Seoul backs RF Materials in US$76 million space-grade semiconductor initiative

As Seoul intensifies efforts to build next-generation aerospace technologies, RF Materials, a South Korean firm specializing in compound...

Monday 21 July 2025
Rapidus sets 2027 goal for 2nm mass production, but political shake-up clouds outlook
Rapidus has unveiled a working 2nm chip prototype, advancing Japan's efforts to reestablish a foothold in leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing. The company aims to launch the...
Monday 21 July 2025
Taiwan Mask Corporation changes major shareholder following subsidiary bankruptcy
Taiwan Mask Corporation (TMC), the world's fourth-largest independent photomask maker, has undergone a change in its largest corporate shareholder, as Softstar Entertainment acquired...
Monday 21 July 2025
Nvidia's China chip clearance spurs SK Hynix memory expansion plans
Nvidia's renewed ability to sell H20 artificial intelligence chips to China following the lifting of US restrictions is driving SK Hynix to consider expanding production of advanced...
Monday 21 July 2025
Is computing the wrong focus? Lightmatter's 3D photonics tackles AI's data bottleneck
As AI workloads hit data movement bottlenecks, MIT spinoff Lightmatter is betting that photonics, not more transistors, holds the key to next-generation infrastructure. After years...
Monday 21 July 2025
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang highlights China's unique role in AI innovation and tech ecosystem
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang recently visited China, and in a one-on-one interview with CCTV, he highlighted the uniqueness and significance of the Chinese AI market...
Monday 21 July 2025
Taiwan AI server makers boost North America investment ninefold on tariff fears
Although the US has yet to finalize its reciprocal tariffs on Taiwan, Taiwanese AI server manufacturers have already taken aggressive preemptive measures. In the first half of 2025,...
Monday 21 July 2025
Samsung reportedly lobbies Washington on chip tariffs and AI export curbs
A senior executive from Samsung Electronics' Device Solutions (DS) division has reportedly visited Washington, D.C., to express the company's concerns regarding US semiconductor tariff...