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Wednesday 21 October 2026
Li Auto chip subsidiary Mahe Xin raises CNY1.6 billion in equity financing as automakers aim to become chipmakers
Li Auto's chip and domain controller subsidiary, Mahe Xin Technology, has entered a first-round equity financing agreement worth CNY 1.625 billion (approx. US$243.33 million). The...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
Infineon, Wolfspeed pivot to 8-inch SiC to cut costs and meet rising AI power demand
Infineon Technologies and US-based silicon carbide (SiC) leader Wolfspeed announced on October 15 a new multi-year supply agreement for 8-inch SiC wafers. This deal transitions their...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
Sony keeps chip unit as imaging sensors, TSMC partnership drive strategy
Sony Group will not spin off its semiconductor business, which focuses on image sensors, president and CEO Hiroki Totoki said recently. The group is retaining the unit because its...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
AMD and Intel align PyTorch CPU optimizations around oneDNN
AMD and Intel plan to consolidate their PyTorch optimizations for x86 processors in oneDNN, aiming to give AI developers a common path to performance improvements across both companies'...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
Qualcomm plans global performance-based layoffs from November
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon told employees in a memo on October 19 that the company will conduct global, performance-based layoffs after completing its annual employee evaluations,...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
US sanctions five Chinese entities over trade secret theft tied to ex-Google engineer
The US imposed sanctions on five Chinese entities tied to ex-Google engineer Linwei Ding for theft of trade secrets. The action follows his conviction for stealing confidential AI...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
AMD: Physical AI demands more than TOPS
Physical AI that can sense, reason, control machines and interact with people, Salil Raje, senior vice president of AMD's Embedded Computing Group, said TOPS (trillions of operations...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
SpaceX pushes AI scaling into industrial realm as power equipment becomes limiting factor
The AI infrastructure race is increasingly becoming a contest over who can turn electrical capacity, cooling systems, and hardware into usable compute the fastest.
Wednesday 21 October 2026
How ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent are testing the boundaries of US AI chip restrictions
Chinese tech giants ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent have collectively ordered more than 3 million units of Nvidia's new RTX PRO 5500 graphics cards, representing a total value exceeding...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
LX Semicon uses AI agents to cut display chip design time by 80%
South Korean IC design firm LX Semicon has deployed AI agents in the development of display driver ICs (DDIs), reducing the design time for a benchmark image-processing engine from...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
Nvidia's Vera CPU signals a broader shift in AI infrastructure
Nvidia is positioning its Vera CPU as a central component of data-center infrastructure for agentic artificial intelligence, as multistep reasoning and tool calls increase demand for...
Tuesday 20 October 2026
Hygon's revenue jumps 58% on AI chip demand, but growth slows amid 51% stock slump
China's Hygon Information Technology reported a 57.58% increase in revenue for the first nine months of 2026, reflecting sustained demand for domestic high-performance processors and...
Tuesday 20 October 2026
DeepSeek-Huawei chip co-design could shift AI training away from Nvidia
DeepSeek is reportedly working closely with Huawei to influence the design of its future AI chips, a link reportedly closer than typical supplier-customer relationships. The collaboration...
Tuesday 20 October 2026
China's S2C–HyperSilicon merger targets hardware emulation gap in domestic EDA with Empyrean backing
China's electronic design automation (EDA) industry is consolidating, with Shanghai-based S2C and Wuxi-based HyperSilicon merging into a unified digital front-end EDA platform. Backed...
Tuesday 20 October 2026
Intel says it is the only high-volume fab for 12-inch InP silicon photonics as co-packaged optics nears deployment
Intel is pitching its foundry as the industry's supplier of light sources for AI data center optics, claiming at the 2026 Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit that it is the only...