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Thursday 29 October 2026
Powertech shifts to advanced packaging as AI demand drives growth
Rising demand for high-end AI chips is accelerating Powertech's transformation into an advanced packaging strategic partner. Powertech said its utilization rate exceeded 90% in the...
Thursday 29 October 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: Kinsus Tech identifies three challenges for larger AI chip packages
Surging demand for AI computing is driving advanced packaging toward larger form factors, according to Ting-Hao Lin, R&D vice president at Kinsus Interconnect Technology, speaking...
Thursday 29 October 2026
Anthropic's IPO filing highlights China AI rivalry as model distillation, chip export controls emerge as key risks
US AI startup Anthropic has formally filed for an initial public offering (IPO) with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), identifying competitive pressure from Chinese...
Thursday 29 October 2026
Kentec sees strong AI data center orders despite financing concerns
Kentec, a subsidiary of Kenmec Group and an engineering integrator providing complete AI data center infrastructure solutions, continues to see strong order visibility for its containerized...
Thursday 29 October 2026
Taiwan's growth surge nears end; electronics, machinery stay resilient in 2027
2026 will be a breakout year for Taiwan's economic growth, with GDP expanding at a double-digit rate—more than twice China's growth rate, according to a consensus among economic...
Wednesday 28 October 2026
UMC utilization tops 90% in 2H26 as AI demand drives expansion
United Microelectronics (UMC) saw operating momentum strengthen in the third quarter of 2026, as demand for artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance computing (HPC), communications,...
Wednesday 28 October 2026
Oracle accelerates AI chip diversification with Cerebras, Google, and SambaNova deals
Oracle has signed partnerships with Cerebras and other chipmakers to host their chips in its cloud infrastructure. The Cerebras deal gives the chipmaker a new large customer to anchor...
Wednesday 28 October 2026
AMD to invest US$1 billion in Meta's stock sale as Helios racks enter testing
AMD is backing one of its largest AI customers with capital and chips. Alongside an update on its hardware work with Meta, the chipmaker said on October 27 that it will invest US$1...
Wednesday 28 October 2026
SK Hynix's next bet goes beyond memory chips
SK Hynix is looking beyond its position as a leading supplier of high-bandwidth memory (HBM), using venture investments to gain a greater say in how next-generation AI infrastructure...
Wednesday 28 October 2026
Google TPUs land Oracle, with OpenAI reportedly next
Google's tensor processing unit (TPU) business has gained one confirmed and one reported major customer within a week, adding pressure on Nvidia, whose graphics processors still dominate...
Wednesday 28 October 2026
Unimicron steers resources to Taiwan AI substrates with NT$50.9B equipment orders, Japan unit sale
Unimicron Technology is reshaping its global production footprint and steering resources toward Taiwan's higher-margin AI supply chain as surging AI and high-performance computing...
Wednesday 28 October 2026
Anthropic's surging compute demand fuels ASIC prospects, favoring Broadcom over MediaTek
Anthropic recently disclosed details of its computing partnerships with Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), and other providers in its S-1 filing...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
Broadcom, financial firms agree on US$63 billion funding for Anthropic chip purchases
Broadcom has reached a deal with several financial firms for them to finance the purchase of US$63 billion worth of its chips for Anthropic. The agreement highlights how the line between...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
Nvidia says GPUs last 8 years, unlocking AI financing
After the GTC Berlin conference, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Silicon Valley technology investor Gavin Baker spoke with Yahoo Finance for about half an hour. Huang confirmed...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
AWS, Google challenge CUDA as AMD, Intel cut AI switch costs
AWS has launched the open-source TorchNeuron tool, allowing developers to port PyTorch artificial intelligence (AI) applications to its custom Trainium chips without rewriting code...