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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...

Friday 24 July 2026
AMD's latest 2nm-EPYC rollout signals broader role for CPUs in the AI data center
AMD unveiled its sixth-generation EPYC 9006 server processors, widening its push into AI data centers with chips designed for agentic AI, cloud computing, enterprise workloads, and...
Friday 24 July 2026
AMD splits next-generation data center GPUs for specialized AI demand
AMD unveiled its Instinct MI400 series at its Advancing AI 2026 conference, broadening its push into data center chips with products aimed at different users. For global readers, the...
Friday 24 July 2026
China's AI chip share tops 50%, but Nvidia still rules frontier training

China's AI infrastructure build-out is rapidly lifting demand for domestic accelerators, giving Huawei, Alibaba's T-Head Semiconductor,...

Friday 24 July 2026
Apple prepares sweeping Mac refresh, betting on AI-driven demand
Apple is gearing up for a broad update to its entire Mac lineup, aiming to ride the wave of demand for high-performance computers driven by AI. New versions of nearly every Mac model...
Friday 24 July 2026
DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng says China trails US AI by up to 18 months, with compute the decisive gap
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng says China's AI industry trails the US by six to 18 months mainly because of limited computing power, not talent.
Thursday 23 July 2026
Kimi K3 under fire, part 1: Inside Washington's case against Moonshot AI

The US government is investigating Chinese artificial intelligence developer Moonshot AI over allegations that its Kimi K3 model improperly...

Thursday 23 July 2026
WAIC 2026: Lightelligence maps AI's optical future with CPO, NPO, photonic computing

Lightelligence is positioning optical interconnects, optical switching, and optical computing as the next foundation of AI infrastructure,...