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Monday 7 September 2026
Orphans of the liquid cooling age: xMEMS targets data center 'hot spots,' eyes 2027 smartphone and smartglasses cooling ports
As the world's most powerful enterprise data centers undergo a massive migration to liquid cooling to support high-power artificial intelligence processors, a Silicon Valley chipmaker...
Monday 7 September 2026
SiliconAuto pushes AI chiplets as automotive SoC ties tighten
Taiwanese automotive microcontroller (MCU) maker SiliconAuto showcased its products at SEMICON Taiwan 2026, with CEO Gene Liu saying the company is now spotlighting AI chiplet architecture...
Monday 7 September 2026
AI racks move toward MW scale as power, cooling converge
As AI computing power surges, the energy consumption of AI servers has become a major bottleneck that must be solved. The issue is spreading from chips into power delivery systems...
Sunday 6 September 2026
Taiwan chip equipment maker Scientech sees orders into 2028, may turn away customers in 2027
AI and high-performance computing (HPC) demand is extending order visibility for Taiwanese semiconductor equipment supplier Scientech into 2028, while capacity constraints may force...
Sunday 6 September 2026
Trumpf CTO says advanced packaging reshapes semiconductor equipment race
AI and high-performance computing (HPC) demand is changing the semiconductor industry's technology and investment priorities. As chip power consumption, computing density, and data...
Saturday 5 September 2026
Topco targets optical comms, cooling as copper gives way
System integration remains a key hurdle as the AI chip industry pushes for higher power efficiency and faster transmission speeds, drawing intense attention to when short-reach optical...
Saturday 5 September 2026
Google TPU splits training, inference as CPU becomes next focus
As AI model training, inference, and AI agent workloads continue to grow, AI accelerators are increasingly being optimized for different tasks. Amin Vahdat, Google's senior vice president...
Friday 4 September 2026
Analysts read Nvidia's Hugging Face deal as a hedge, not a software bet
Nvidia's agreement to buy Hugging Face for roughly US$13 billion is being framed by analysts less as a move into software than as insurance against three ways its core business could...
Friday 4 September 2026
Taiwan's tech council allocates NT$3.76 billion for quantum host
Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) has budgeted NT$3.76 billion (US$116.58 million) for a quantum computer system project, while the Industrial Technology Research...
Thursday 3 September 2026
CHPT spans wafer to system-level testing
Chunghwa Precision Test Tech showcased a range of test interface solutions for AI chips and high-performance computing (HPC) at SEMICON Taiwan 2026, including AI probe cards, memory...
Thursday 3 September 2026
Niching validates 500-ton press for large heat spreaders
Niching Industrial is expanding its heat-spreader capacity as AI and high-performance computing demand pushes up orders across the global semiconductor supply chain. The company said...
Thursday 3 September 2026
Zeiss deepens Taiwan bet as advanced chip packaging raises the stakes for inspection tools
Zeiss is expanding its Taiwan presence as artificial intelligence (AI) accelerates demand for smaller chips, vertical stacking, and 2.5D and 3D heterogeneous integration. The shift...
Thursday 3 September 2026
Apple, Xiaomi and Nvidia chase terabyte-class bandwidth for AI chips
For decades, semiconductor performance gains largely came from shrinking process nodes, from 22nm and 14nm to 7nm and 3nm. AI is changing the constraint: processors are getting faster,...
Thursday 3 September 2026
China packaging specialist SJSemi reaches 3.3-reticle 2.5D scale for AI, HBM integration
Chinese advanced packaging provider SJ Semiconductor (SJSemi) has expanded its silicon-interposer-based 2.5D packaging platform to 3.3 times the standard reticle size, enabling denser...
Thursday 3 September 2026
TRUMPF targets advanced packaging as AI chip makers chase higher density, better cooling
As AI chips grow more powerful, the race is shifting beyond transistor scaling to packaging, glass substrates, and thermal control. For global readers, that means the next gains in...