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Monday 7 September 2026
How UC Santa Cruz's Silicon Valley lab is reverse-engineering the human brain to solve AI's chip power crisis
As the global race for artificial intelligence (AI) consumes vast oceans of electricity and pushes modern utility grids to the brink, a team of California researchers is looking to...
Monday 7 September 2026
Silicon Valley goes physical: how San Jose is building an energy-rich, tariff-mitigated capital for physical AI
As the artificial intelligence revolution outgrows the digital cloud and demands physical form, a major structural transition is quietly reshaping Silicon Valley. While the region...
Monday 7 September 2026
China smart driving chips hit bottlenecks in mass production, cost, in-house auto R&D
China's intelligent driving market is advancing rapidly, but the true trial has only just begun for domestic smart driving chipmakers.
Monday 7 September 2026
SiliconAuto pushes AI chiplets as automotive SoC ties tighten
Taiwanese automotive microcontroller (MCU) maker SiliconAuto showcased its products at SEMICON Taiwan 2026, with CEO Gene Liu saying the company is now spotlighting AI chiplet architecture...
Friday 4 September 2026
Cisco targets zero engineers writing code by end-October
AI is forcing companies to rethink not only how software is built but how quickly ageing systems must be replaced, with Cisco warning that increasingly capable frontier models are...
Friday 4 September 2026
Commentary: Apple shifts to smart vehicle software layer as Ternus era arrives
When Apple abandoned Project Titan, automotive supply chain insiders predicted the tech giant wouldn't bow out of the smart vehicle market entirely; it would simply approach the market...
Friday 4 September 2026
How agentic AI and 'AI physics' are reshaping chip design
As semiconductor designs advance toward trillion-transistor packages, the traditional engineering playbook of simply adding more personnel or running legacy software faster has hit...
Friday 4 September 2026
Nvidia sets an October launch for RTX Spark PCs, gives local AI a router
Nvidia used IFA 2026 to argue that serious AI work can run locally as well as in the cloud, pairing an October launch date for its RTX Spark Windows PCs with free software that distributes...
Friday 4 September 2026
Adobe names Anil Chakravarthy as next chief executive
Adobe's leadership change signals a broader shift in how major software companies are positioning themselves for an AI-driven market. The move may affect customers, partners, and investors...
Friday 4 September 2026
Analysts read Nvidia's Hugging Face deal as a hedge, not a software bet
Nvidia's agreement to buy Hugging Face for roughly US$13 billion is being framed by analysts less as a move into software than as insurance against three ways its core business could...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
Hardware isn't the problem — TSMC exec flags software, substrate gaps in 3D IC
Speaking at the SEMI 3DIC Advanced Manufacturing Alliance (3DICAMA) Global Summit on September 1, Jun He, TSMC Vice President of Advanced Packaging Technology and Service, noted that...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
Hunting for the next Jensen: Plug and Play zeroes in on Taiwan's AI and hardware founders
Saeed Amidi has been in Taiwan for about 20 hours, and he has been asking everyone the same question.
Tuesday 1 September 2026
XCENA teams up with Samsung on rack-scale CXL memory; demos on Intel Xeon 6
South Korean chip startup XCENA is pushing CXL beyond memory expansion and toward a new layer of server computing, unveiling measured results for its MX1 computational memory device...
Monday 31 August 2026
AI Macs, Part 1: OpenAI reportedly buys tens of thousands of Macs for reinforcement learning
Apple's Mac mini and Mac Studio are becoming unlikely fixtures in AI infrastructure. OpenAI has reportedly bought tens of thousands of the desktops for reinforcement learning and is...
Monday 31 August 2026
Shanghai's 15th Five-Year Plan bets on chips, AI, advanced packaging
On August 26, the Shanghai municipal government released its 15th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Strategic Emerging Industries, setting a target for added value in strategic...