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Thursday 23 July 2026
Moonshot AI model challenges EDA moat with 2-day chip design
China AI startup Moonshot AI has drawn intense attention from the semiconductor industry after unveiling its new large language model Kimi K3, which delivered strong results across...
Thursday 23 July 2026
STMicroelectronics raises AI data center ambition as second-quarter revenue rebounds 26%
STMicroelectronics (ST) has raised its revenue ambition for AI data centers to above US$1 billion in 2026 and well above US$2 billion in 2027, staking a larger claim on the AI infrastructure...
Thursday 23 July 2026
Tesla confirms equipment orders for TeraFab, targets in-house chip production to break supply bottleneck
Tesla has placed equipment orders for an in-house semiconductor development facility in Austin it calls TeraFab, CEO Elon Musk confirmed during the company's Q2 2026 earnings call...
Thursday 23 July 2026
Server CPUs are AI boom's next scarce commodity: Intel, AMD reportedly lock in Chinese buyers
The AI build-out has found its next pinch point. After spreading from Nvidia's accelerators to memory and networking gear, the scramble for capacity has now reached the once-plentiful...
Thursday 23 July 2026
SEMICON Taiwan 2026 sees record global participation as AI investment accelerates

Participation in the Global Pavilion at the upcoming SEMICON Taiwan 2026 has reached a new high, with the number of participating countries...

Thursday 23 July 2026
Google bets bigger on AI infrastructure as demand signals grow stronger across the board
Alphabet's Q2 earnings call reveals a company doubling down on compute capacity, custom silicon, and frontier model development — while investors probe the limits of the...
Thursday 23 July 2026
China's research ties weaken as UK, Germany and the US expand cross-border papers

China's research and academic community appears to be drifting away from international collaboration, even as the UK, Germany, and...

Thursday 23 July 2026
WAIC 2026: Lightelligence maps AI's optical future with CPO, NPO, photonic computing

Lightelligence is positioning optical interconnects, optical switching, and optical computing as the next foundation of AI infrastructure,...

Thursday 23 July 2026
Commentary: Intel must show real AI orders to prove its turnaround
Agentic AI is rapidly gaining traction worldwide, while cloud giants and Anthropic are accelerating spending on AI infrastructure. That surge is pulling CPU demand back to the center...
Thursday 23 July 2026
Texas Instruments 2Q26: Revenue beats at $5.46B as industrial and auto recovery silences fab-spend doubters
Texas Instruments delivered a second-quarter 2026 result that topped Wall Street expectations and, more importantly for the industry, signaled that the analog chip cycle is turning...
Thursday 23 July 2026
AMD lands Anthropic as its third marquee AI customer, chipping at Nvidia's grip on training silicon
Advanced Micro Devices has signed Anthropic to a multi-year supply-and-investment pact worth tens of billions of US dollars, a deal that hands the chipmaker its third top-tier artificial-intelligence...
Wednesday 22 July 2026
Nvidia's Huang to meet Samsung, SK and Naver chiefs in Silicon Valley, reports say
Samsung Electronics executive chairman Lee Jae-yong, SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won and Naver founder and board chairman Lee Hae-jin are reportedly preparing to meet Nvidia CEO Jensen...
Wednesday 22 July 2026
Nvidia details Vera CPU for agentic AI workloads
Nvidia has outlined the design of its Vera CPU, positioning the chip for agentic AI systems that rely heavily on the processor for code execution, tool calls, retrieval, and data handling...
Wednesday 22 July 2026
Albany NanoTech Complex acquires ASML High NA EUV tools for chip research
Parts of ASML's next-generation high numerical aperture (High NA) extreme ultraviolet (EUV) machine have arrived in New York state, where they will be used for chipmaking R&D....
Wednesday 22 July 2026
Samsung's next Galaxy phones may deepen Qualcomm reliance, underscoring the limits of Exynos revival
Samsung Electronics is expected to rely heavily on Qualcomm chips in its next Galaxy phones, according to market reports, a sign that the company is still prioritizing flagship performance...