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Wednesday 14 October 2026
AP Memory completes US$415.5M GDR offering, boosts three product lines
Memory IC design house AP Memory Technology has successfully priced its global depositary receipt (GDR) offering, raising a total of US$415.5 million. The GDRs were priced at US$56.15...
Wednesday 14 October 2026
SEMICON West makes three-year commitment to Phoenix, home to over US$200B in chip investment
SEMI announced at a media event during SEMICON West 2026 that the exhibition will move to Phoenix, Arizona, in 2027 and shift to a spring schedule. SEMI Americas President Joe Stockunas...
Wednesday 14 October 2026
Pegatron showcases rack-scale AI infrastructure at OCP Global Summit
Pegatron showcased its end-to-end AI infrastructure capabilities at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit 2026, highlighting Nvidia-based products designed to move from engineering...
Wednesday 14 October 2026
China's AI chipmakers target 3D packaging, optical interconnects and software ecosystems
China's domestic AI chipmakers are shifting their competitive focus from individual GPU performance to system-level integration as AI models grow increasingly complex. Three priorities—3D...
Wednesday 14 October 2026
Foxconn unveils Vera Rubin AI racks, liquid-cooling systems at OCP Summit
Foxconn Technology Group showcased rack-scale artificial intelligence infrastructure at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit 2026 in San Jose, California, combining computing...
Wednesday 14 October 2026
India's Tessolve raises US$75 million from Vector Line Capital to fund chip-services acquisitions
Indian semiconductor engineering services firm Tessolve has raised US$75 million from US-based Vector Line Capital and says it is in advanced discussions to close multiple acquisitions...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
China's Blue Core Computing secures nearly US$300 million to challenge x86, Arm in AI servers
Shenzhen-based Blue Core Computing (Shenzhen) Technology has raised nearly CNY2 billion (≈ US$298.7 million) in Series B financing to accelerate production of its RISC-V server...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
Malaysian states team up to back homegrown chip firms
The Selangor state government has committed MYR50 million (US$12.24 million) to the National Strategic Investment Fund, joining Khazanah Nasional Bhd and the Penang government in a...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
SmartSens targets automotive CIS, robot vision growth with US$478M funding
Chinese CMOS image sensor (CIS) maker SmartSens completed a CNY3.2 billion (approx. US$478 million) capital increase in September 2026 to expand into automotive electronics and AI...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
Nvidia reportedly may halt RTX 5090 production to favor RTX PRO cards, leakers claim
Nvidia may be preparing to stop making its flagship GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card and reserve the GB202 chip inside it for professional RTX PRO products, according to unconfirmed...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
AI Server tracker: Taiwan's AI server chain grew 55% in September, but the growth narrowed to fewer suppliers
The AI buildout is still lifting Taiwan's server supply chain faster than almost any other industry, yet September's filings show the lift concentrating into fewer hands. The 49 listed...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
Interview: Microsoft's Maia GM on Maia 300, Taiwan and HBM supply
Microsoft's in-house Azure Maia chips will become the main platform for its own AI services, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Foundry. However, the company...
Monday 12 October 2026
Microsoft to scale Maia AI chips to multi-gigawatt deployments, unveils TSMC N2P-based Maia 300
Microsoft will scale its in-house Azure Maia AI accelerators to multi-gigawatt deployments starting in 2027, making Maia the primary AI inference system for its products and services...
Monday 12 October 2026
Biren's BR20X GPU targets 1,024-chip AI systems, but US curbs cloud mass production

China's Biren Technology has successfully powered on its next-generation BR20X GPU, advancing to post-tapeout validation while preparing for customer...

Monday 12 October 2026
ELAN Microelectrics's 3Q26 PC momentum stalls on shortages, inventory overhang
Touch IC leader Elan Microelectronics recently announced its September 2026 consolidated revenue of NT$602 million (approx. US$18.9 million), down 18.74% month-over-month and 46.9%...