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Tuesday 14 July 2026
UMC pushes into silicon photonics in Singapore to ride AI's connectivity crunch
United Microelectronics Corp (UMC) is moving into silicon photonics, positioning itself to address one of the defining bottlenecks in artificial-intelligence data centers: the speed...
Tuesday 14 July 2026
US chases AI talent abroad as China strengthens its homegrown pipeline

The US can no longer close its artificial-intelligence talent gap with China through visa curbs or export controls alone, a new Hoover...

Tuesday 14 July 2026
Samsung brings HBM, logic, and optics together in packaging push
Samsung Electronics is developing advanced packaging technology that combines high-bandwidth memory (HBM), logic chips and silicon photonics (SiPh) as it seeks to address the rising...
Tuesday 14 July 2026
Column: Physical AI's rivalry shifts from companies to states

At the Humanoids Summit in Tokyo at the end of May 2026, a conference that had originally focused on technology and commercialization...

Monday 13 July 2026
Nvidia's HVDC shift could reshape data center power chains worldwide
Nvidia's move toward high-voltage direct current (HVDC) power systems for artificial intelligence (AI) data centers could alter how global servers are built and powered. The shift...
Monday 13 July 2026
Egis sells part of iCatch stake as ASMedia becomes largest shareholder
Egis Technology on July 9 said it sold part of its stake in iCatch Technology as part of a routine adjustment to its group equity holdings. The IC design company said the move was...
Monday 13 July 2026
AI's new gatekeepers: US and China tighten grip on frontier models

The world's most powerful AI models are encountering a new constraint beyond chips, data and engineering talent: governments increasingly...

Sunday 12 July 2026
Taiwan PCB leaders launch fundraising wave for AI data centers

Taiwan's PCB industry is entering a new expansion cycle as investment in AI data centers and other emerging applications accelerates...

Sunday 12 July 2026
InP supply crunch leaves South Korea exposed
Coherent has agreed to prepay AXT US$22.3 million under a three-year agreement for committed 6-inch indium phosphide substrate capacity, showing how buyers are moving to reserve future...
Saturday 11 July 2026
TV panel prices fall in July as weak demand expected to hit 3Q26

The global LCD TV panel market moved into a down cycle in July after prices held flat in the second quarter of 2026. With pre-build...

Friday 10 July 2026
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang heads to Japan with RTX Spark as AI PC competition heats up

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will travel to Japan for an event celebrating the US chipmaker's three-decade relationship with Sega, revisiting...

Friday 10 July 2026
Wolfspeed challenges Navitas over GaN and SiC patent boundaries

Wolfspeed's patent lawsuit against Navitas Semiconductor has opened a new front in the wide-bandgap power chip race, extending the legal...

Friday 10 July 2026
Samsung plans new PC chip in push beyond smartphones
Samsung Electronics is developing a new chip for personal computers (PCs) as its System LSI business seeks growth beyond smartphone processors, according to ET News and the...
Friday 10 July 2026
Taiwan firms race ahead on AI agents, raising governance stakes
Taiwanese companies are adopting AI agents faster than expected, according to a new IDC survey that found 57% have already deployed them, well above the 36% Asia-Pacific average. For...
Friday 10 July 2026
Google Cloud says Taiwan's AI shift to production could shape global enterprise use
Taiwan's move from AI trials to production systems signals a broader shift that could affect how companies worldwide adopt automation, data governance, and digital security. As more...