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Tuesday 21 July 2026
Google developing 'frozen' chip that embeds Gemini models for efficiency gains

Google is reportedly developing a new chip that embeds information from its Gemini AI models directly onto the silicon to boost efficiency...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
Li Auto reportedly forms new Shanghai chip company to expand in-house semiconductor ambitions
Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker Li Auto has established a new subsidiary focused on IC chip design, underscoring its long-term strategy of developing core AI technologies in-ho...
Tuesday 21 July 2026
AIYO: An AI tool that designs chips to user specifications

The Best AI awards were given out in two categories: artificial intelligence (AI) applications and integrated circuit (IC) design. AIYO was entered in the IC design category,...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
Amigo-LLM: AI-enabled electronic design automation for increased first-silicon success

"Integrated circuit" is a fancy term for the chips that control the electronics that make our modern life possible. They are composed of hundreds of thousands or even...

Monday 20 July 2026
Alibaba open-sources AI chip software, launches Zhenwu cloud supernode service
Alibaba Group's chip design unit, T-Head, has open-sourced the software stack behind its Zhenwu AI processors while extending the platform from individual accelerators into rack-scale...
Monday 20 July 2026
Rapidus taps Cadence AI agents to speed 2nm chip design
Japanese foundry Rapidus is integrating Cadence's AI-agent technology into its chip design platform as it seeks to shorten development cycles and attract customers for its planned...
Monday 20 July 2026
Commentary: Apple sues OpenAI, but Trump holds the whistle

Apple has filed a sharp antitrust-style complaint against OpenAI, turning a once-celebrated AI partnership into a legal clash over...

Monday 20 July 2026
Alibaba pitches Qwen3.8 Max as 'second only to Fable 5' — without the benchmarks to prove it
Alibaba's decision to rank its newest flagship directly against a single American system — describing Qwen3.8 Max as "second only to" Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 — underscores...
Monday 20 July 2026
PGC Boosts COT Model, Integrates TSMC Ecosystem for ASIC Growth

As artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance computing (HPC), high-speed networking, and edge computing applications continue to expand rapidly, global demand for...

Friday 17 July 2026
Exclusive: SiPearl turns to Taiwan ODMs to bring Rhea-based servers to market

SiPearl has powered on and begun validating Rhea1, its first-generation server CPU designed in Europe. Its next challenge is convincing...

Thursday 16 July 2026
TSMC says 2nm has four times as many tape-outs as 3nm at the same stage
Customer tape-outs for TSMC's N2 process have reached four times the number recorded by its 3nm technology at the same stage, showing faster design activity as the foundry ramps production...
Thursday 16 July 2026
Apple lawsuit targets OpenAI's AI hardware ambitions
Apple has sued OpenAI for allegedly stealing trade secrets, but the real fight is over who controls the entry points of AI. As LLM technology converges, the case shows that competition...
Thursday 16 July 2026
Cadence launches agentic AI platform for PCB and package design
Cadence has launched the AuraStack AI Super Agent on Allegro AI Studio, positioning it as the world's first agentic AI platform for printed circuit board (PCB) and advanced packaging...
Thursday 16 July 2026
India trims chip subsidies but widens their reach as it courts electronics supply chain away from China
India approved two large incentive packages on July 15 that together recast how New Delhi subsidizes electronics manufacturing: learner-per-project chip subsidies spread across a much...
Thursday 16 July 2026
Samsung weighs outsourcing Google TPU back-end design as 2nm demand grows

Samsung Electronics is considering outsourcing some or all of the back-end design work for an input/output die in Google's reported...