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Wednesday 4 March 2026

Apple unveils M5 Pro and M5 Max with new Fusion Architecture and AI focus

Apple's latest Mac chips mark a structural shift in its silicon roadmap, introducing a new dual-die "Fusion Architecture" for Pro models and sharpening its focus on on-device AI, even...

Tuesday 3 March 2026

MediaTek invests US$90M in SiPh startup Ayar Labs

MediaTek has announced that its holding company, Digimoc Holdings, will acquire 1,722,759 preferred shares of US-based silicon photonics (SiPh) startup Ayar Labs at US$52.24 per share,...

Tuesday 3 March 2026

Nvidia invests in Lumentum to advance AI optics technology

Nvidia has announced a strategic partnership with Lumentum Holdings, accompanied by a US$2 billion investment aimed at boosting US-based manufacturing and R&D for advanced optics...

Monday 2 March 2026

Insight: Broadcom delivers 2nm 3.5D AI processor, expanding custom chip push against Nvidia

Broadcom has begun shipping the industry's first 2nm custom compute SoC built on its 3.5D eXtreme Dimension System in Package (XDSiP) platform...

Monday 2 March 2026

Commentary: Nvidia sparks silicon photonics race, yet copper still anchors data centers?

As data center computing demand expands, high-speed transmission architectures are under pressure to upgrade. Scaling high-performance computing platforms is exposing bandwidth and...

Thursday 26 February 2026

Nvidia GTC 2026 to spotlight mystery chip, silicon photonics, and power limits

Nvidia's GTC 2026 will be held in mid-March. CEO Jensen Huang is expected to address concerns about an AI bubble while reaffirming that the Vera Rubin platform has entered mass production...

Wednesday 25 February 2026

India's Kaynes Semicon deepens ties with Synopsys in push toward advanced packaging

Kaynes Semicon, the semiconductor assembly and test arm of Kaynes Technology India Ltd., has adopted engineering simulation software from Synopsys to strengthen its outsourced semiconductor...

Wednesday 25 February 2026

AMD and Meta seal US$100 billion AI infrastructure deal for 6GW of Instinct GPUs

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Meta have entered into a multi-year agreement to deploy up to 6 gigawatts of AMD Instinct GPUs to power Meta's next-generation AI data centers, marking...

Wednesday 25 February 2026

US issues preliminary countervailing duties on solar cells from India, Indonesia, and Laos

The US Department of Commerce has announced preliminary affirmative determinations in its countervailing duty investigations into crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells from India,...

Wednesday 25 February 2026

Next in line to challenge Nvidia: Taalas hardwires Llama into silicon, claims 17,000 tokens per second

Toronto-based AI chip startup Taalas says it can hardwire a large language model directly into silicon to accelerate inference beyond what conventional GPUs can deliver. Founded in...

Tuesday 17 February 2026

Intel India makes key contributions to Panther Lake, leads reference design and validation

Intel's India engineering center made significant contributions to the recently launched Panther Lake client platform in the areas like x86 core, platform design, post-silicon validation,...

Friday 13 February 2026

QuiX Quantum, Artilux target data center integration with energy-efficient photonic quantum systems

Netherlands-based photonic quantum computing hardware company QuiX Quantum B.V. and germanium silicon (GeSi) photonics specialist Artilux...

Thursday 12 February 2026

Tower Semiconductor revamps strategy after Intel deal collapses

Intel's decision to walk away from its September 2023 agreement for Fab 11X in New Mexico has prompted Tower Semiconductor to revamp its manufacturing roadmap, scrap the facility from...

Thursday 12 February 2026

GlobalFoundries accelerates silicon photonics targets; eyes US$1 Billion revenue run rate by 2028

GlobalFoundries is aggressively pulling forward its financial targets for silicon photonics (SiPh), betting that the "insatiable" demand for AI...

Thursday 12 February 2026

SEMI: AI and HBM lift 2025 silicon wafer shipments, revenue still dips

Worldwide silicon wafer shipments increased 5.8% in 2025 to 12,973 million square inches (MSI), while wafer revenue declined 1.2% to US$11.4 billion, according to the year-end analysis...

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