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Friday 23 October 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: BCI grasping reaches market; implant stability and chip heat keep advanced uses beyond 2030
Invasive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are demonstrating long-term commercial potential. Neuralink has enabled paralysed patients to control computers and robotic arms through thought;...
Friday 23 October 2026
Mounting R&D and memory costs push Huawei to borrow US$2.3B from six Chinese banks
Huawei Technologies has secured a seven-year, CNY15 billion (approx. US$2.3 billion) offshore yuan loan from six Chinese banks, as rising research spending and memory costs weigh on...
Friday 23 October 2026
Elan targets drone market with solutions contributing revenue in 2026 and 2027
Elan Microelectronics is pursuing drone opportunities across multiple applications, showcasing a broad range of solutions at the 2026 TAITRONICS expo. Solutions developed with Taiwanese...
Friday 23 October 2026
LG home appliance chip volume tops 1 million; spins off startup PADO to target GPU compute leasing
LG Electronics is expanding its artificial intelligence (AI) footprint on two fronts: in-house appliance chips and GPU compute services. On one hand, the company is scaling up the...
Friday 23 October 2026
Samsung Foundry targets automotive, edge AI chips with 8LPU+
Samsung Electronics' foundry business will extend its 8-nanometer process, now more than eight years old, into another generation with the launch of the second-generation 8LPU+ platform...
Thursday 22 October 2026
Nvidia becomes AI's central bank as cloud startups face mounting pressure
As Nvidia expands its chip business beyond technology giants into emerging AI markets such as new cloud providers, it has become a "central bank" helping these companies expand by...
Thursday 22 October 2026
Charts: Nvidia's China AI chip lead shrinks 80% as Huawei closes in
Nvidia's lead over Huawei in China's AI accelerator market has narrowed by 80% in a year, bringing CEO Jensen Huang's warnings about losing the country's US$50 billion AI chip market...
Thursday 22 October 2026
China's IC designers expand into AI server memory interconnects beyond DDR5
China's IC designers are expanding into high-speed interconnect technologies as AI inference and agent applications fuel demand for server CPUs, memory modules and connectivity chips...
Thursday 22 October 2026
Texas Instruments' analog recovery broadens as 12-inch investment turns into margin
Texas Instruments' third quarter suggested the analog chip upturn has moved beyond restocking into a broad-based recovery, and that the company's multi-year build-out of 12-inch wafer...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
Samsung, SK Hynix reportedly upgrading China NAND fabs to fend off YMTC amid softening US stance
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are upgrading their NAND flash factories in China to make chips with more than 200 layers, Reuters reported on October 21, citing four people...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
Anthropic's IPO spotlight falls on its potential US$750 billion AI compute tab
Anthropic's draft IPO prospectus captures the tension behind its rapid growth: first-half revenue surged to US$16.3 billion, while the company reported a US$80.7 billion net loss and...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
Apple expands US iPhone supply ties with Perryman and Qnity
Apple announced new and expanded US supplier partnerships on October 20, 2026, including plans to commit up to US$100 million to titanium producer Perryman Company over three years...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
SpaceX pushes AI scaling into industrial realm as power equipment becomes limiting factor
The AI infrastructure race is increasingly becoming a contest over who can turn electrical capacity, cooling systems, and hardware into usable compute the fastest.
Wednesday 21 October 2026
How ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent are testing the boundaries of US AI chip restrictions
Chinese tech giants ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent have collectively ordered more than 3 million units of Nvidia's new RTX PRO 5500 graphics cards, representing a total value exceeding...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
Samsung Electro-Mechanics wins KRW360.5 billion memory substrate deal as AI demand drives expansion
Samsung Electro-Mechanics has secured a KRW360.5 billion (US$271.8 million) long-term contract to supply package substrates for memory semiconductors, strengthening its position in...