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Tuesday 28 July 2026
Magnitude 7.1 quake strikes Japan's Kumamoto; TSMC activates emergency protocols at local fab
A powerful earthquake struck Japan's Kyushu region at 4:27 p.m. on July 28. The Japan Meteorological Agency initially estimated the quake at magnitude 7.1 with a depth of 6.2 miles...
Tuesday 28 July 2026
Automotive chip demand surges in 2Q26 on EV reset

Automotive chip demand surprised to the upside in the second quarter of 2026, with industry players saying the market could stay hot...

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
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
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...
Monday 27 July 2026
Nvidia weighs US$250B backstop for OpenAI's Ohio data center

Nvidia is in talks to provide a financial backstop of roughly US$250 billion that would help OpenAI lease and finance a massive AI...

Monday 27 July 2026
Qualcomm tells customers chip prices will rise by double digits from September

Qualcomm plans to raise chip prices by a double-digit percentage from September 1, passing higher supplier costs into a smartphone market...

Monday 27 July 2026
Hitachi selected for Japan quantum computing project with Intel collaboration
Hitachi has been selected as the prospective implementation organization for a Japanese government-backed project to advance next-generation quantum computers, with Intel contributing...
Monday 27 July 2026
Samsung’s Broadcom AI chip pact expected to top US$200 billion as Hyundai expands robotics push

Samsung Electronics and Hyundai Motor Group used the San Francisco AI Summit to outline separate artificial intelligence (AI) expansion...

Saturday 25 July 2026
Hisense expands AI strategy into energy, chips, and automotive electronics
Hisense outlined a broader AI strategy at its global partner conference in New York, saying it will expand beyond home appliances into semiconductors, smart energy, laser displays,...
Friday 24 July 2026
US moves to curb Chinese humanoid robots, opening a new front in the AI rivalry

Washington is opening a new front in its technology contest with China, moving beyond chips and artificial intelligence models to target...

Friday 24 July 2026
China's Xi'an Eswin tops 1 million monthly 12-inch wafer sales and output, targets 1.8 million capacity

China's 12-inch silicon wafer maker Xi'an Eswin Material Technology said monthly output and sales of its 12-inch electronic-grade silicon...