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Tuesday 10 November 2026
Spy probe highlights Nvidia's heavy reliance on CEO
Nvidia's management structure has become a topic of discussion after CEO Jensen Huang became embroiled in an espionage case following his affair with an alleged Chinese spy. With power...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Nvidia could face more scrutiny by new Congress in wake of spy probe
An incoming Democratic majority in the US Congress is likely to place Nvidia under greater scrutiny in light of recent revelations that the chipmaker's CEO, Jensen Huang, had an affair...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Intel looks beyond 18A and 14A to reshape computing
Intel has fallen noticeably behind rivals including Nvidia and AMD in the generative AI boom. Rather than concentrating all its resources on catching current market leaders, the company...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Jensen Huang drawn into spy allegations as China denies complicity
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s admission of an extramarital affair with Alice Huang, a former senior executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed, has triggered controversy, while China’s...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Nokia eyes AI optical interconnect market, potentially challenging Lumentum and Coherent
The AI data center optical interconnect market may soon see another heavyweight contender. Roughly a week after Marvell announced a US$1.15 billion acquisition of Lumentum to bolster...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Commentary: How will US midterms and Jensen Huang controversy reshape AI policy?
Recent developments, including the Democratic Party's strong showing in the US midterm elections and calls for Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to brief Congress on national security matters,...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Novatek faces AI infrastructure squeeze, pins growth ramp-up on new products
Novatek Microelectronics, a leading Taiwanese display driver IC (DDI) design house, hosted its quarterly earnings conference last week. Novatek President and Vice Chairman Steve Wang...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Trump says FBI examining Huang affair as Nvidia faces widening legal scrutiny
US scrutiny surrounding Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is expanding across national security, chip export enforcement, and shareholder disclosures, with US President Donald Trump saying the...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Google expands eighth-generation TPU portfolio to target secure, high-context agentic AI
Google has expanded its eighth-generation TPU portfolio with the announcement of two specialized AI systems—the TPU 8tx for hardware-encrypted confidential compute and the TPU...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Exclusive: Designing light for everyone—Wave Photonics seeks to make custom photonic chips accessible
In a Cambridge laboratory, an automated testing machine sits at the end of a process that has traditionally demanded years of specialized engineering: designing a photonic chip, sending...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Column: Nvidia explores PTFE for AI servers amid PFAS concerns
Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), the material behind the Teflon brand, has become one of the most closely watched materials for advanced electronics, drawing attention at the Open Compute...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Commentary: Why Nvidia's board would struggle to replace Jensen Huang
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's personal relationship controversy continues to widen, now spanning US national security, AI chip export controls, and corporate governance.
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Commentary: China's emerging semiconductor investment empire takes quieter route to dominance
A decade ago, China's Tsinghua Unigroup alarmed Taiwan's semiconductor industry with an aggressive acquisition campaign. Under then-chairman Zhao Weiguo, the group acquired Spreadtrum...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Exclusive: Quantum without quantum computers — Quinas bets on quantum tunneling to break AI's memory bottleneck
As artificial intelligence pushes computing systems toward unprecedented processing demands, another technological bottleneck is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore: the energy...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Semiconductor test-interface supplier WinWay revenue falls 11.51% MoM, rises 62.62% YoY
WinWay Technology, a semiconductor test-interface supplier, reported a slight decline in October revenue as holidays reduced shipping days and customer project adjustments affected...