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Thursday 28 May 2026
Commentary: China's AI chip certification becomes new market gatekeeper
China has brought AI chips into its national security and reliability evaluation framework for the first time, turning what looks like a product certification process into something...
Thursday 28 May 2026
ByteDance's chip ambition grows with US$70 billion capex plan
ByteDance is considering a sharp increase in capital spending this year as the TikTok owner pushes deeper into artificial intelligence infrastructure — a move that could make...
Thursday 28 May 2026
Qualcomm wins ASIC customers beyond ByteDance
Qualcomm has reportedly landed more than one ASIC customer, with a separate project for a US cloud service provider also taking shape, according to industry sources. The development...
Thursday 28 May 2026
Synopsys sees hyperscaler chip ambitions fueling AI-related demand
Synopsys said growing demand for artificial intelligence chips from semiconductor companies and hyperscale data center operators is driving broader adoption of its electronic design...
Thursday 28 May 2026
Samsung foundry targets robotics, auto AI chips with Cadence platform
Samsung Electronics is preparing to expand its foundry push into physical AI semiconductors through a chiplet platform developed with Cadence, targeting chips for robotics, automotive...
Wednesday 27 May 2026
Samsung reportedly to expand Vietnam footprint with new memory chip testing plant

Samsung Electronics plans to invest VND39 trillion (approx. US$1.5 billion) in a new semiconductor testing facility in northern Vietnam,...

Wednesday 27 May 2026
Qualcomm and ByteDance's rumored AI ASIC deal signals potential shift in China's data center chip supply
The agreement between Qualcomm and ByteDance positions the former for large-scale AI ASIC demand from the latter, as reported by Bloomberg, but market viability remains uncertain...
Wednesday 27 May 2026
China clears 9 domestic AI chips for state procurement
China has formally brought AI chips into its national security and reliability evaluation framework for the first time, marking a further expansion of the country's Information Technology...
Wednesday 27 May 2026
Qualcomm's ByteDance deal gives smartphone chipmaker entry into AI data center market
Qualcomm has reached a deal to supply AI data center chips to ByteDance, giving the US smartphone processor designer a potentially high-volume customer as it tries to expand into AI...
Wednesday 27 May 2026
Broadcom and Taiwan's chipmakers ride ASIC wave
The world's largest chip designers are steadily growing more bullish on the future of cloud artificial intelligence (AI) chips known as ASICs (application-specific integrated circuits)...
Wednesday 27 May 2026
SK Hynix seeks to embed cooling inside HBM to beat the heat
SK Hynix has unveiled a new high-bandwidth memory technology designed to reduce heat buildup in next-generation AI systems, as rising computing density turns thermal management into...
Tuesday 26 May 2026
Alchip: ASIC growth may outpace the broader GPU market
For the past three years, graphics processing units, or GPUs, have dominated the artificial intelligence boom. But Johnny Shen, chairman of Alchip Technologies, believes the next phase...
Tuesday 26 May 2026
Inside China's chip war: How Xiaomi, BYD, and Nio are rewriting the rules
China's semiconductor war has been underway for seven or eight years now.
Tuesday 26 May 2026
Huawei Tau Law series 1: How China's chip industry is pivoting beyond Moore's Law
When Huawei unveiled its "Tau (τ) Scaling Law" at ISCAS 2026 in Shanghai, the announcement signalled more than another chip architecture update. It marked China's most ambitious...
Tuesday 26 May 2026
China pushes homegrown AI stack with local chips, LLMs

Following the conclusion of the Trump-Xi meeting and amid continued delays in China approving imports of Nvidia H20 GPUs, China's National...