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Saturday 29 November 2025
CXMT's high-end DRAM push narrows China's gap with South Korea to one year
China's leading DRAM maker CXMT has unveiled new DDR5 and LPDDR5X chips with performance now viewed as comparable to Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. The launch has unsettled South...
Saturday 29 November 2025
Chinese AI giants bypass US chip curbs with Southeast Asian compute hubs
China's top technology companies are shifting their LLM training to overseas data centers as Washington tightens controls on advanced AI chips and Beijing orders domestic firms to...
Saturday 29 November 2025
GPU and TPU dispute illustrates zero-sum fallacy
The AI chip market is witnessing intensifying competition as Google's tensor processing units (TPUs) gain momentum alongside Nvidia's dominant graphics processing units (GPUs). With...
Friday 28 November 2025
Chinese analog chipmaker 3Peak to acquire Aura Semiconductor in major industry tie-up

3Peak, a leading Chinese analog chipmaker, plans to acquire Ningbo Aura Semiconductor through new share issuance and/or cash. The move...

Friday 28 November 2025
Google's TPU shakes up ASIC market, challenging Nvidia's lead
Google's push to expand its Tensor Processing Unit platform is drawing renewed attention across the AI chip sector, prompting debate over whether the company intends to challenge...
Friday 28 November 2025
Rapidus reportedly plans second Hokkaido fab for 1.4nm chips as funding gap widens, but company pushes back on timeline

Rapidus plans to begin construction on a second fabrication plant in Chitose, Hokkaido, in fiscal 2027 to produce 1.4nm and eventually...

Friday 28 November 2025
Google's TPU strategy mounts fresh challenge to Nvidia's GPU lead

Google's expanding Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) strategy is emerging as a serious challenge to Nvidia's long-running dominance in AI...

Friday 28 November 2025
Trump-Xi détente could unleash another wave of Taiwan AI chip boom
The US Genesis Mission, a major AI infrastructure project, has boosted Taiwan's AI chip supply chain, as all global AI inference chips come from Taiwanese firms. With 76% of TSMC's...
Friday 28 November 2025
Kneron's ambitious chip roadmap expands into AI infrastructure
Kneron introduced a new generation of AI chips on November 26, 2024, as the company positions itself as a full-stack AI infrastructure provider. The launch featured the flagship KL1140...
Friday 28 November 2025
Yesterday AOL, today OpenAI: Google's vertical integration threatens to repeat history
In the competitive realm of artificial intelligence computing power, Nvidia currently leads the market, but Google is emerging as a formidable contender with its self-developed TPUs...
Friday 28 November 2025
China's new TPU contender aims for Nvidia's AI chip dominance
China's AI chip startup Zhonghao Xinying has introduced its own tensor processing unit (TPU), a major step in the country's "de-Americanisation" drive as US export curbs continue...
Friday 28 November 2025
US pushes 50-50 chip split, but Taiwan's 10x capacity lead says otherwise
US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick previously proposed the idea of a 50–50 chip split between Taiwan and the US, but it is unclear whether this reflects Lutnick's personal...
Thursday 27 November 2025
China-EU urge an internal resolution of Nexperia dispute
China's Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao and European Commission Trade and Economic Security Commissioner Maros Sefcovic held a video conference on November 26, 2025, to address the...
Thursday 27 November 2025
Beijing reportedly bans ByteDance from using Nvidia GPUs in new data centers
Beijing authorities have reportedly imposed strict restrictions on high-end semiconductor imports, prohibiting ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, from deploying Nvidia GPUs...
Thursday 27 November 2025
Inventec gains from Google TPU drive as cloud firms seek Nvidia alternatives
Google's renewed focus on custom Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) for artificial intelligence is driving up demand for its server hardware, giving Taiwan's Inventec new momentum and...