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Tuesday 10 November 2026
Automotive architecture shifts to zonal control as AI cyber risks rise
Automotive electrical/electronic architecture (E/EA) continues to evolve—moving from early distributed control systems to today's mature domain-based architectures, and now ushering...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Samsung SDI reportedly set to lead early battery supply for Boston Dynamics' Atlas
Samsung SDI is expected to provide most of the initial battery supply for Atlas, the humanoid robot developed by Hyundai Motor Group's Boston Dynamics, according to South Korean industry...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Novatek faces AI infrastructure squeeze, pins growth ramp-up on new products
Novatek Microelectronics, a leading Taiwanese display driver IC (DDI) design house, hosted its quarterly earnings conference last week. Novatek President and Vice Chairman Steve Wang...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Exclusive: Designing light for everyone—Wave Photonics seeks to make custom photonic chips accessible
In a Cambridge laboratory, an automated testing machine sits at the end of a process that has traditionally demanded years of specialized engineering: designing a photonic chip, sending...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Taiwan begins 6G spectrum prep as 4G licenses expire in 2030
Taiwan's Ministry of Digital Affairs (MODA) plans to begin preparatory work in 2027 for a potential 6G spectrum release, as licenses for the 700MHz, 900MHz, and 1800MHz bands are due...
Monday 9 November 2026
DeepSeek Harness active users quadruple as plugin ecosystem expands
DeepSeek said its open-source AI agent framework, DeepSeek Harness, had 1.54 million daily active users as of November 4, more than quadrupling in less than three months. The company...
Monday 9 November 2026
Paras Semiconductors teams with US-based BroadPak on advanced packaging plant in India
Paras Semiconductors, a subsidiary of Indian defense company Paras Defence & Space Technologies, announced a strategic technology partnership with US-based BroadPak Corporation...
Saturday 7 November 2026
Analysis: Britain's semiconductor paradox—world-class innovation, but who captures the value?
As artificial intelligence reshapes global chipmaking, the UK's strength in design, materials and research is being tested by a longstanding challenge: turning technological breakthroughs...
Friday 6 November 2026
Qualcomm validates HBC memory architecture, targets AI250 samples in 1H27
Qualcomm has completed initial hardware validation of its high-bandwidth compute (HBC) memory architecture, which will form a key part of its next-generation Dragonfly data-center...
Friday 6 November 2026
Taiwan-UK tech ties could support Europe's chip autonomy drive
Taiwan and the UK are deepening technology ties as supply-chain restructuring and industrial security reshape semiconductor strategy. A new bilateral arrangement covers semiconductors,...
Friday 6 November 2026
Foxtron stresses localized supply chains as protectionism rises
Foxconn-backed Foxtron GM Adam Chen said the company exported EVs to Australia and New Zealand in September this year, signed an agreement with Mitsubishi Fuso to develop electric...
Friday 6 November 2026
Pluggable optical module forms diverge; rack design emerges as key variable
As switch chips move toward 400G per channel, the gold-finger connectors used in current pluggable modules are approaching their high-frequency limits. The pluggable optics camp introduced...
Thursday 5 November 2026
EU launches EUR525 million push to close chip design gap
The European Union has launched a EUR525 million (approx. US$590 million) initiative to strengthen its semiconductor design industry, seeking to narrow the gap with the US and China...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Anthropic's Claude reportedly cuts custom chip design timelines with a 15-person team
Anthropic has reportedly told investors that its chip design team, comprising just 15 people, is using its Claude models to design custom chips. It and another frontier lab, OpenAI,...
Thursday 5 November 2026
GlobalFoundries secures nearly US$1 billion in custom chip design wins as it expands into physical AI

GlobalFoundries is gaining traction in custom silicon, processor intellectual property (IP) and physical AI applications, as the chipmaker seeks...