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Wednesday 21 May 2025
Compeq rides LEO satellite boom, but currency woes cloud growth
Taiwan-based high-density interconnect (HDI) board manufacturer Compeq Manufacturing has reported robust growth in its low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications segment, which...
Wednesday 21 May 2025
TSMC says no to Singapore, India, and Qatar—here’s why it matters
As semiconductors evolve into critical assets for national security and sovereign AI ambitions intensify, TSMC has emerged as a strategic lynchpin in the global chip race. While the...
Wednesday 21 May 2025
Malaysia retracts Huawei AI server deployment claim as US export control tension rises
Just one day after announcing plans to deploy 3,000 Huawei Ascend-powered AI servers by 2026, Malaysia's Deputy Communications Minister Teo Nie Ching abruptly retracted the statement...
Wednesday 21 May 2025
Zeiss joins AI server race at Computex 2025
Zeiss made its debut at Computex 2025, unveiling industrial metrology tools designed for AI server manufacturing, including CT scanners, 3D scanning systems, and industrial microscopes...
Wednesday 21 May 2025
Japan’s chip buildout stalls as new fabs sit idle
Of the seven semiconductor fabs completed in Japan during fiscal 2023–2024 (April 2023 to March 2025), only three had begun mass production by April 2025. New facilities from...
Tuesday 20 May 2025
China says US Huawei chip ban could derail fragile trade truce
China's Ministry of Commerce has denounced new US restrictions targeting Huawei's artificial intelligence (AI) chips, arguing the move threatens the recently established trade consensus...
Tuesday 20 May 2025
TSMC supplier AEMC ramps up in Taiwan, defers US plans until post-2030
TSMC is fast-tracking its capacity expansion with plans to build nine new facilities in 2025, including eight wafer fabs and one advanced packaging plant. The move has energized sentiment...
Tuesday 20 May 2025
AI agent race heats up: cross-system integration and standardization key to widespread adoption
In a keynote on May 19, 2025, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang focused on AI infrastructure, AI agents, and physical AI (robots). He highlighted that AI agents require significantly more computing...
Tuesday 20 May 2025
Broadcom unveils third-gen CPO technology to power AI's next leap

Semiconductor giant Broadcom has introduced the third generation of its co-packaged optics (CPO) technology, significantly advancing...

Tuesday 20 May 2025
SK Hynix places orders for HBM equipment with Hanwha Semitech and Hanmi Semiconductor amid patent disputes
South Korean chip giant SK Hynix has placed significant orders for thermal compression bonding (TCB) equipment with two domestic suppliers, Hanwha Semitech and Hanmi Semiconductor,...
Tuesday 20 May 2025
Nvidia courts ASIC allies with NVLink Fusion, so why is Broadcom still saying no?
At this year's COMPUTEX keynote, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled NVLink Fusion, a new initiative to open the company's proprietary NVLink interconnect to third-party ASICs and CPUs...
Tuesday 20 May 2025
Nvidia's GB300 gains strong demand with 10,000 units planned for Taiwan AI factory
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced an expanded collaboration with Foxconn and the Taiwan government to develop an AI factory, a project that will utilize 10,000 Nvidia GB300 GPUs.
Tuesday 20 May 2025
Qualcomm aims for double-digit AI PC market share by 2029
Following his keynote at Computex 2025, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon announced that new updates for the Oryon CPU computing will be released in 2025. This includes the possible launch...
Tuesday 20 May 2025
Xiaomi pledges CNY50 billion investment in chip design over next decade
Xiaomi founder and CEO Jun Lei announced on May 19 via Weibo that the company will unveil its first 3nm mobile system-on-chip (SoC), the "Xring O1," on May 22. He also revealed that...
Tuesday 20 May 2025
Xiaomi's XRing SoC: next HiSilicon breakthrough or Zeku-style flameout?
Years after launching the Pinecone Surge S1 in 2017, Xiaomi founder and CEO Lei Jun announced the company's return to in-house smartphone chip design. Its new self-developed SoC,...