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Wednesday 16 September 2026
MediaTek keeps Dimensity 9600 Pro on HBPoP as cost drives decisions

MediaTek officially unveiled the Dimensity 9600 Pro on September 15, 2026, drawing significant industry attention to its choice of packaging...

Wednesday 16 September 2026
Beyond 2nm: Dimensity 9600 Pro gives MediaTek a bigger role in mobile AI
MediaTek has officially launched the Dimensity 9600 Pro, introducing a major architectural overhaul for its 2026 flagship mobile chip. Beyond the shift to a 2nm process, the new platform...
Wednesday 16 September 2026
South Korean NPU startups face validation hurdle in push for global sales

South Korea's neural processing unit (NPU) startups are moving from chip development toward commercial deployment, but limited experience...

Wednesday 16 September 2026
ITRI showcases AI robots, drones to push commercialization in southern Taiwan

The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) held its ITRI Innovation Day on September 15 in Tainan, Taiwan, bringing together...

Wednesday 16 September 2026
DeepSeek to hire its first CFO as it aims for public listing, expands workforce

DeepSeek is reportedly set to hire Wentao Yan, a partner at venture capital firm GL Ventures, as its first CFO. If the appointment takes...

Wednesday 16 September 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: Taiwan's small IC design firms face a weaker second half after rebound

Taiwan's smaller IC design firms posted a strong revenue recovery in the first half of 2026, but the gains may prove difficult to extend...

Wednesday 16 September 2026
Amodei's AI slowdown call is unlikely to dent chip demand, industry sources say

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call to slow frontier AI development has stirred debate over safety, but chip industry sources say global...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
China's Guoxin Micro buys its way into power-chip manufacturing

Unigroup Guoxin Microelectronics plans to acquire WeEn Semiconductors for CNY1.9 billion (≈ US$283 million), giving the Chinese...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
MediaTek unveils first 2nm chip to run 30 billion AI models on phones arriving this quarter

MediaTek has become the first merchant silicon vendor to announce a 2-nanometer smartphone processor, unveiling the Dimensity 9600 Pro...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
Beyond H100: China's GPU makers chase scale, not just parity

China's domestic GPU industry is entering a tougher phase: matching high-end accelerator performance is no longer enough. Vendors must...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
Sivers Semiconductors positions laser arrays as solution to copper's limits

At this year's China International Optoelectronic Expo (CIOE), Sivers Semiconductor brought two products to its booth that trace the...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
TSMC 3nm, 2nm, and CoWoS stay tight as AWS, MediaTek, TPU shift capacity
TSMC's 3nm, 2nm, and CoWoS advanced packaging capacity remained in short supply in late 2026's third quarter, as changes in major customer orders and front-end and back-end supply...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
Inside CIOE: takeaways from China's biggest optoelectronics show
Last week, from September 9 to 11, thousands of vendors gathered for an enormous trade show in the Chinese tech hub of Shenzhen. At the China International Optoelectronic Expo (CIOE),...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
XPeng's Turing chip expands beyond cars
XPeng Motors is extending its self-developed Turing AI chip from intelligent electric vehicles (EVs) into humanoid robots, broadening the processor's role in the company's Physical...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
Trump tells Nvidia's Jensen Huang that AI is 'bigger than the internet' and robot fears are a 'hoax'
US President Donald Trump joined Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang by phone on stage, using the call to place data center construction at the center of his economic agenda and to dismiss warnings...