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Tuesday 25 August 2026
Nexperia China rebuilds 12-inch local supply chain after 330 days
Nexperia China said it has rebuilt a domestic 12-inch wafer supply chain after 330 days of overseas wafer supply disruptions, unveiling the new platform at a press conference outlining...
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
AI boom drives Foxconn past 40% of Taiwan-listed firms' China returns, with FII leading the way
Global demand for AI and high-performance computing (HPC) has lifted investment returns for Taiwan-listed companies in China, with Foxconn continuing to lead the pack. According to...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Vera Rubin transition gap eases as ASIC, general servers rescue supply chain
As Nvidia's next-generation Vera Rubin platform enters deployment, Taiwan's server supply chain is finding ways to bridge the transition gap before ramping up volume production. Ongoing...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Intel pitches Diamond Rapids at Hot Chips as server CPU competition heats up
Intel pitched its next-generation Diamond Rapids Xeon at Hot Chips 2026 as the company bets that agentic AI will increase the role of general-purpose processors in AI infrastructure,...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
OmniVision's CIS business slips, but machine vision and robotics surge 71%
OmniVision Group reported a sharp drop in first-half 2026 profit as weakness in consumer electronics and automotive electronics weighed on its core image sensor business, even as machine...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
TSMC, Intel, and Samsung battle over backside power delivery below 2nm
As competition in advanced semiconductor manufacturing moves below the 2nm node, the battleground is no longer just shrinking transistors; it has expanded to how power is delivered...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
China-based Guangyu Xinchen says 3D-stacked edge AI chip has entered mass-production deployment
According to 36Kr, Shanghai Guangyu Xinchen Technology says its TC1000 series of 3D-stacked near-memory-computing AI processors has moved from silicon validation to mass-production...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Commentary: Nvidia's 15% hike piles pressure on the AI supply chain, lifts ASIC prospects
Nvidia has reportedly notified major customers that server systems using its AI chips will rise by more than 15%, with the new pricing set to apply to models shipping from early 2027,...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Novosense encoder launch highlights China's push into robot joint sensing
Chinese analog and mixed-signal chipmaker Novosense Microelectronics has introduced the NSM350x series, a Hall-based magnetic encoder designed for high-precision angular measurement...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Infineon buys India-based C2i Semiconductors to bolster AI data center power systems
Infineon Technologies has agreed to acquire Bangalore-based C2i Semiconductors, a move that strengthens its position in power delivery for AI data centers and highlights India's growing...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Nvidia Groq 3 LPX enters full production for faster agentic AI inference

Nvidia said its Groq 3 LPX inference accelerator is now in full production, a move that could speed up agentic AI systems used worldwide...

Tuesday 25 August 2026
SpaceXAI to use Nvidia Vera CPUs for faster agentic AI at scale

SpaceXAI plans to deploy Nvidia's new Vera CPUs to speed up agentic AI workloads, a move that could influence how advanced AI systems...

Tuesday 25 August 2026
IBM unveils dual-architecture mainframe chip to run Arm, z/OS, Linux workloads

In an August 24 press release, IBM announced that it is developing the first dual-architecture mainframe processor, a move that could...

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...