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Friday 17 July 2026
Exclusive: SiPearl turns to Taiwan ODMs to bring Rhea-based servers to market

SiPearl has powered on and begun validating Rhea1, its first-generation server CPU designed in Europe. Its next challenge is convincing...

Friday 17 July 2026
AI server tracker: Taiwan's testing and design service leaders surge on global chip demand

The surge in AI and high-performance computing (HPC) technologies continues to reshape the semiconductor landscape, as demonstrated by the June...

Friday 17 July 2026
Montage Technology forecasts stronger first-half profit as AI demand lifts chip sales and discloses Korean prosecutors' search
China-based Montage Technology said its first-half results are expected to rise sharply, underscoring continued demand for AI-linked memory and interconnect chips that matter to data...
Friday 17 July 2026
Moore Threads forecasts sharp first-half revenue growth on AI demand
Moore Threads, a Chinese GPU maker, said its first-half revenue likely more than doubled as demand for artificial intelligence (AI) chips and large-scale computing clusters accelerated...
Friday 17 July 2026
TSMC boosts US manufacturing as Taiwan chip designers wait on moving production

TSMC Chairman C.C. Wei formally announced on July 16 that the company will invest an additional US$100 billion in the US, funding several...

Friday 17 July 2026
TSMC's US$100 billion bet: AI growth, US pressure and the cost of staying ahead
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) posted record second-quarter earnings for 2026, issued third-quarter revenue guidance above market expectations, and raised its full-year...
Thursday 16 July 2026
Beyond AI: Resilient consumer demand widens semiconductor supply crunch
Reports of lengthening semiconductor lead times have become increasingly common in recent months, highlighting that the imbalance between chip supply and demand has not eased but is...
Thursday 16 July 2026
Groups urge EU interim measures against Broadcom amid VMware antitrust case

A European industry group, the Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE), has joined four other trade organizations...

Thursday 16 July 2026
MCU lead times stretch, but industry holds the line against a pandemic-style order rush

Microcontrollers (MCUs), widely used across industrial automation, medical devices, and consumer electronics, are experiencing longer...

Thursday 16 July 2026
Cadence launches agentic AI platform for PCB and package design
Cadence has launched the AuraStack AI Super Agent on Allegro AI Studio, positioning it as the world's first agentic AI platform for printed circuit board (PCB) and advanced packaging...
Thursday 16 July 2026
India trims chip subsidies but widens their reach as it courts electronics supply chain away from China
India approved two large incentive packages on July 15 that together recast how New Delhi subsidizes electronics manufacturing: learner-per-project chip subsidies spread across a much...
Thursday 16 July 2026
China's TPU path gains traction with low-cost AI inference challenging GPU economics

Generative AI applications are expanding rapidly, making computing costs a growing bottleneck to commercial AI deployment. The AI accelerator...

Thursday 16 July 2026
Jensen refutes Vera Rubin's delay, continuing Nvidia's running rebuttal of the rumor mill

Nvidia co-founder and chief executive Jensen Huang used a developer event in Tokyo on July 15 to reject reports that manufacturing...

Thursday 16 July 2026
Commentary: Chip lead times extend as cloud AI squeezes capacity
Reports of longer chip lead times have been mounting. ADI has notified customers that, as recovering demand tightens supply, lead times for some analog chip products have stretched...
Thursday 16 July 2026
Apple reportedly explores AI chip acquisitions as it races to strengthen its infrastructure
Apple is exploring acquisitions of semiconductor companies to accelerate development of AI server chips, reflecting mounting pressure to improve the computing infrastructure behind...