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Thursday 1 October 2026
AWS Trainium 3 shipments stall as supply chain sees turnaround
AWS's latest Trainium 3 shipments appear to be running behind expectations, but the strain reflects broader pressures that global readers will recognize across the AI hardware supply...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Synopsys and OpenAI to share revenue from AI model built to run chip design tools
Synopsys is betting that the surest way to keep generative AI from eroding its electronic design automation (EDA) franchise is to build the model together with the AI developer and...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Jensen Huang wins Van Fleet Award as Nvidia, South Korea trio reunites
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attended the Korea Society's annual dinner in New York on September 28 local time and received the 2026 Van Fleet Award, with Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Qualcomm says PC chip shortages are manageable; price swings hit harder
Qualcomm's senior vice president and general manager of the compute and gaming business, Kedar Kondap, said the biggest challenge facing the PC industry is not component shortages,...
Thursday 1 October 2026
ASIC shipments top GPUs in 2027 as ABF substrate bottlenecks shift
The high-end cloud AI accelerator market will see a structural shift in 2027, with total ASIC shipments surpassing GPU shipments for the first time, driven by rising output from Google,...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
ASE Technology buys Singapore factory for AI chip testing expansion
ASE Technology Holding's Singapore unit has approved the purchase of a factory in Yishun Industrial Park from Dutch LED maker Lumileds Singapore for about US$68.44 million, or about...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Jensen Huang, Lisa Su join Tsinghua University advisory board, putting AI chip leaders closer to Beijing

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang and AMD chair and CEO Lisa Su have joined the advisory board of Tsinghua University's School of Economics and...

Wednesday 30 September 2026
DeepSeek brings software tools to Huawei's Ascend 950 to take on Nvidia
DeepSeek is bringing more of the software used to develop its AI models to Huawei Technologies' Ascend 950 processors, deepening cooperation as Chinese technology companies seek to...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
AMD's Lisa Su reportedly revisiting South Korea in October to deepen HBM4, NPU ties
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) CEO Lisa Su is reportedly set to visit South Korea again in October 2026, after her March 2026 trip, which formally launched next-generation AI memory...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Broadcom-Toppan venture opens Singapore's first high-end FC-BGA substrate plant
Advanced Substrate Technologies (AST), a joint venture between Japan's Toppan Holdings and Broadcom, officially opened a manufacturing facility in Singapore on September 29, 2026,...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Meta reaches agreements with Firmus on securing AI compute in Southeast Asia
Meta reached several agreements to source AI compute capacity from Firmus, an Australian neocloud, which will lease GPU compute capacity at its AI factories in Southeast Asia. The...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Column: Why Micron's US$250M venture fund is about more than HBM margins—Taiwan has a stake in it
Micron unveiled the Micron Ventures Paradigm Fund, a US$250 million venture vehicle, in mid-August 2026, as the memory maker pairs more than US$25 billion in fiscal 2026 capex with...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Samsung bonus plan to lift South Korea talent race

Samsung Electronics' Device Solutions division is set to announce the calculation and payout rules for its special management performance...

Tuesday 29 September 2026
GF's MIPS bets on RISC-V physical AI, expands into autos and data centers
MIPS, a GlobalFoundries (GF) unit, said it has completed its integration with the ARC unit acquired from Synopsys earlier this year and is using the move to position RISC-V for physical...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Chips make up nearly half of South Korea's September exports; China, Hong Kong account for 52% of them
Semiconductors made up nearly half of South Korea's exports in the first 20 days of September, while China and Hong Kong combined accounted for more than half of the country's chip...