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Thursday 27 August 2026
Nvidia reportedly acquires Hugging Face for US$12.9 billion, tying open-source AI to chip dominance
Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for US$12.9 billion, giving the AI chipmaker control of one of the most widely used platforms for open-source models, datasets, and AI deployment...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Analysis: From Starlink to Starmind, Nvidia deal reveals SpaceX's blueprint for an orbital AI economy
The recent disclosure of SpaceX's partnership with Nvidia to deploy Vera CPUs as part of the architecture behind SpaceXAI's Starmind AI satellite was an outright showcase of where...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Analysis: Smartwatch demand set to outpace broader hardware market in 2026
Smartwatch shipments are expected to continue rising faster than broader IT hardware in 2026, even as smartphones and notebook PCs see weaker growth due to higher memory costs. For...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
Record mid-2026 growth for WUS Printed Circuit and China's pivot to ultra-high-layer PCBs
The global hardware supply chain is undergoing a structural transformation, driven by an unprecedented surge in artificial intelligence infrastructure investment. "This shift has brought...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
Cook's parting shot: Apple takes AI compute out of data centers
Apple took pre-orders on August 25 for a new Mac mini and Mac Studio. Both will ship on September 22. Prices of the Mac mini start at US$899 with the M6 chip, or $1,699 with the M5...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Tesla senior chip engineer joins DensityAI as in-house plans face more strain
Tesla's senior director of AI hardware design, Shishuang Sun, joined DensityAI in July 2026, taking charge of packaging and system hardware development. The move came as Tesla continued...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Anthropic bets on in-house chips, reshaping ASIC orders
Anthropic confirmed on August 5 that it is building an internal silicon team to design custom chips for its Claude models, signaling a sharper push into self-developed AI hardware...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Kaynes Technology and BOSGAME sign MoU to expand India market presence
Kaynes Technology India and BOSGAME have signed a strategic memorandum of understanding to support BOSGAME's entry and expansion in India. The deal highlights how global hardware brands...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Broadcom's debt push signals AI compute is becoming Wall Street asset class
The AI infrastructure race is entering a phase where access to silicon is no longer the only constraint. As compute demand expands into multi-gigawatt projects, the industry is increasingly...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
SK Hynix and Alibaba tackle the next AI bottleneck: getting more value per chip
The AI infrastructure race has been marked by a near-fixated drive to expand AI-powered buildouts, as demand for increasingly complex chip configurations pushes against the physical...
Monday 24 August 2026
Advanced packaging substrates hit limits; ceramic cores rise to challenge glass materials
As hardware demands for artificial intelligence continue to surge, beyond increased size and complexity in chip packaging, advanced packaging substrates face mounting challenges: larger...
Monday 24 August 2026
AI chip roadmaps force faster changes in data-center design, Cadence says
Rapid changes in the power and thermal requirements of AI accelerators are forcing data-center designers to incorporate chip-level information earlier in the planning process, according...
Monday 24 August 2026
Interview: Inside Foxconn's playbook for the sovereign AI data center race
Foxconn is repositioning its AI data center business around system integration, modular deployment, and sovereign computing, as the rapid growth of GPU infrastructure changes how customers...
Monday 24 August 2026
AI accelerator shipments are set to turn advanced packaging into the next battleground: Counterpoint
AI accelerator shipments are expected to reshape semiconductor demand worldwide, with implications for cloud operators, memory suppliers, and device makers in every major market. Counterpoint...
Monday 24 August 2026
Agentic AI opens new era for humanoid robots, shipments to jump fourfold by 2030

Humanoid robots have entered a clear new phase since agentic AI emerged in 2025, with DIGITIMES analyst Zouhao Shen saying the category...