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Friday 2 October 2026
Commentary: Broadcom's US$42 billion Anthropic loan exposes AI's emerging chip-financing loop
When the underlying economics of infrastructure commitments meet the financing muscle of the companies supplying foundational compute, the traditional boundary between supplier and...
Friday 2 October 2026
China chip talent tensions surface in Cambricon's US$4.15 billion ex-CTO dispute

Cambricon Technologies' equity dispute with former deputy general manager and chief technology officer Liang Jun has escalated sharply, with Liang...

Friday 2 October 2026
TSMC, NTU deepen R&D ties through nearly 50 projects a year
National Taiwan University's Graduate School of Advanced Technology (GSAT) has expanded its semiconductor research capabilities with new process and measurement equipment, strengthening...
Friday 2 October 2026
Hygon, Sugon deepen integration under one chairman after US$17.3B merger collapse

Chinese AI chipmaker Hygon Information Technology has appointed Jun Li as its new chairman following a recent board reshuffle. Li only took over...

Friday 2 October 2026
Onsemi revises Synaptics takeover deal after rival bid
Onsemi has amended its agreement to buy Synaptics in an all-cash deal, a move that could reshape semiconductor competition and affect global technology supply chains. The revised cash...
Friday 2 October 2026
CSPs embrace multi-vendor co-design for custom ASICs, ending single-supplier era
Hyperscale cloud service providers (CSPs) are expanding their custom ASIC partner networks, accelerating a shift toward multi-vendor technology integration. Industry insiders note...
Friday 2 October 2026
Commentary: AMD challenges Nvidia in embodied AI as Lisa Su acquires Fei-Fei Li's World Labs
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has agreed to acquire World Labs in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately US$8.2 billion. Following the closing, World Labs will operate as...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Ascend now ahead of Nvidia in China, with domestic supply driving AI chip substitution, says Huawei chairman
Huawei rotating chairman Eric Xu said the company's Ascend AI accelerators have surpassed Nvidia in both sales and market share in China, highlighting how US export controls on advanced...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Meta's Muse lifts server CPU demand, with AMD EPYC orders extending into 2028
Meta's rapid rollout of its Muse AI agent is emerging as an early test of how agentic AI could reshape server infrastructure demand, with CPU suppliers already seeing longer lead times...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Synopsys and Amazon sign US$1 billion-plus deal to speed custom chip development
Synopsys announced a strategic agreement with Amazon on September 30, a multi-year deal valued at more than US$1 billion that is intended to speed up Amazon's custom silicon work and...
Thursday 1 October 2026
MediaTek TPU orders rise as chip capacity war intensifies
MediaTek's Google Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) business is still moving steadily higher, but supply-chain sources say the real limit is capacity as chipmakers and cloud service providers...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Qualcomm, Samsung redesign chip packaging as heat limits phone performance
Qualcomm and Samsung Electronics are redesigning how memory is packaged with flagship smartphone processors, as rising chip performance puts greater pressure on the limited cooling...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Synopsys raises long-term growth and margin targets, guides fiscal 2027 revenue to US$11.15 billion
Synopsys is betting that custom silicon and AI-driven chip design will lift its growth above the double-digit pace it previously targeted. At its investor day in New York on September...
Thursday 1 October 2026
AWS Trainium 3 shipments stall as supply chain sees turnaround
AWS's latest Trainium 3 shipments appear to be running behind expectations, but the strain reflects broader pressures that global readers will recognize across the AI hardware supply...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Synopsys and OpenAI to share revenue from AI model built to run chip design tools
Synopsys is betting that the surest way to keep generative AI from eroding its electronic design automation (EDA) franchise is to build the model together with the AI developer and...