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Friday 14 August 2026
Hua Hong's fabs were already full — price is what finally made them profitable
Hua Hong Grace Semiconductor has been running its fabs flat out for more than a year without earning an operating profit on the work. The June quarter ended that. Revenue reached a...
Friday 14 August 2026
Rapidus targets 8-reticle interposers by 2030
Rapidus expects interposers for high-performance chips to reach eight-reticle scale by around 2030, as larger chiplets and high-bandwidth memory (HBM) push advanced packages toward...
Thursday 13 August 2026
China AI chip market nears 90% domestic share in 2026—Huawei on course to eclipse Nvidia

China's high-end AI chip market could become almost entirely domestic in 2026, with local solutions expected to take nearly 90% of...

Thursday 13 August 2026
PC 2H26 pull-forward correction hits peripheral chip makers
As 2026 enters its second half, the PC market is facing pressure from both demand and supply. Rising memory and CPU prices are pushing up system prices and weighing on end-market demand,...
Thursday 13 August 2026
Nvidia's compute financing push signals a new phase for AI spending
Nvidia's plan to assemble more than US$500 billion in third-party capital for AI infrastructure could reshape how the industry pays for compute. By bringing major Wall Street firms...
Thursday 13 August 2026
Lenovo Capital backs Niobium Optoelectronics in Series B funding for TFLN chips
Jiangsu Niobium Optoelectronics Technology, a Chinese maker of thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) photonic chips, has closed a Series B funding round worth several hundred million yuan...
Thursday 13 August 2026
Longsys profit soars 715-fold on AI memory boom, enterprise storage, 5nm chips
Chinese memory supplier Longsys reported a dramatic earnings rebound for the first half of 2026, benefiting from rising memory prices, stronger AI data center demand, and a shift toward...
Wednesday 12 August 2026
Japan's US$430B 2040 chip plan hinges on Rapidus 2nm

Japan has drawn up a plan for more than JPY370 trillion (approx. US$2.33 trillion) in combined public and private investment across 17 strategic...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
Haechitech enters eSSD sensors as it prepares Kosdaq listing

South Korean sensor IC designer Haechitech is moving beyond smartphone compass chips into enterprise solid-state drive temperature sensors,...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
OCP APAC 2026: TSMC says AI advanced packaging enters system-level battle

AI computing demand is rapidly driving up chip integration complexity, pushing advanced packaging competition beyond single-device...

Tuesday 11 August 2026
Microsoft seeks expanded Maia 300 production to tap into demand for cheaper compute
Microsoft plans to unveil its new Maia 300 accelerator chip this fall, with a public announcement possible as early as next month, according to The Information. Although Microsoft...
Tuesday 11 August 2026
Liying posts record July revenue as AI chip recycling demand rises

Liying Environmental Protection Technology reported record July 2026 revenue as demand tied to AI semiconductor production continued...

Tuesday 11 August 2026
Anthropic taps Macquarie and GIC to build AI data centers under new venture
Anthropic PBC has formed a strategic partnership with Macquarie Asset Management and Singapore's GIC to build data centers dedicated to its Claude chatbot, the companies said on August...
Tuesday 11 August 2026
Memory drives 62% of Nvidia Vera Rubin's cost — SOCAMM2, not HBM4, leads the bill

Memory chips account for roughly 62% of the cost of Nvidia's next-generation AI platform, Vera Rubin, according to a new cost breakdown...

Tuesday 11 August 2026
Memory crunch pushes Apple toward China—and into Washington's security dilemma

Apple's unusual interest in testing CXMT memory and redirecting part of its procurement toward China has rattled Washington, given...