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Tuesday 28 July 2026
Cadence raises 2026 outlook after record quarter, flags major Intel deal as revenue driver

Cadence Design Systems posted stronger-than-expected second-quarter results on July 27 and raised its full-year revenue growth outlook...

Tuesday 28 July 2026
Smart glasses ignite AI device battle as China nears 80% global brand share
Smart glasses are emerging as a major next-generation consumer device as breakthroughs in generative AI and large language models (LLMs) reshape the wearable market. Once constrained...
Tuesday 28 July 2026
Anthropic seeks SK Hynix supply for AI chips, SK chair says

Anthropic has asked SK Hynix to help supply chips for its own in-house AI chip production, SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won said. He...

Tuesday 28 July 2026
Robot boom heats up as Taiwan chipmakers race to catch up
Cloud AI chip giants are stepping up investment in robot applications, putting robots back at the center of industry debate. For Taiwanese chipmakers, the broad range of robot use...
Tuesday 28 July 2026
China reportedly starts making homegrown DUV chipmaking tools; threatens ASML's stranglehold on semiconductor equipment
China has begun manufacturing domestically developed immersion deep ultraviolet lithography machines, a potential turning point in its effort to build a self-sufficient semiconductor...
Tuesday 28 July 2026
Nvidia remaps Asia's AI supply chain, raising fresh questions over Taiwan's edge
Generative AI is reshaping the semiconductor and electronics industries while redefining how global supply chains divide roles across design, manufacturing, infrastructure, and app...
Tuesday 28 July 2026
Samsung, SK Hynix race to secure chipmaking tools before equipment lead times hit one year
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are considering placing semiconductor equipment orders earlier as a global wave of fab investment stretches delivery times for key chipmaking tools...
Tuesday 28 July 2026
Zeiss races to break ASML's EUV optics bottleneck for the AI chip boom
Zeiss Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology is expanding production capacity in Germany to relieve a critical constraint on ASML's lithography output, with AI data center investment...
Tuesday 28 July 2026
Apple, Micron's clash over CXMT puts White House in the middle
Apple and Micron are fighting over whether the smartphone maker can buy memory chips from Chinese manufacturer ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) for non-US devices, a move opposed...
Tuesday 28 July 2026
Nvidia's Vera targets AI server growth, with CSP adoption the key test
Nvidia is pushing into the server CPU market with its Vera chip as AI infrastructure competition enters a new phase, seeking to evolve from a chip supplier into a full AI computing...
Tuesday 28 July 2026
From models to chips: Anthropic chip ambitions pull Korea deeper into the AI silicon race
The push toward deeper sovereign control over the critical hardware stack underpinning AI models is gaining traction following news of Anthropic's outreach to SK hynix for supplies...
Tuesday 28 July 2026
EYEQ Lab completes 200mm SiC line validation with yield above 90%

South Korean power semiconductor maker EYEQ Lab has completed mass-production validation of its dedicated 8-inch, or 200mm, silicon carbide...

Tuesday 28 July 2026
Memory module maker Apacer warns 2027 DRAM supply could fall 70%
Memory price increases are expected to moderate in the second half of 2026, but shortages will remain severe, particularly for DRAM, according to Apacer CEO C.K. Chang.
Tuesday 28 July 2026
China's Yunnan Germanium wins long-term InP wafer order as AI optical demand rises
Yunnan Germanium has secured a major supply deal for indium phosphide (InP) wafers, underscoring how AI data center buildouts are reshaping global demand for high-speed optical parts...
Tuesday 28 July 2026
China faces AI compute divide as advanced capacity falls short and lower-tier resources sit underused
China's AI computing infrastructure is developing along two sharply divergent paths. As large language models and AI agents gain traction across industries, rapidly rising token consumption...