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Monday 25 May 2026
Nvidia's reporting pivot and AMD's US$10B Taiwan bet signal a new frontier in AI chip war
Nvidia's structural pivot to isolate its ACIE market and AMD's US$10 billion investment in Taiwan infrastructure signal a profound realignment in the AI chip war. Both developments...
Monday 25 May 2026
Lam Research CEO: New fabs alone will not solve chip bottlenecks
Lam Research CEO Tim Archer said artificial intelligence and robotics can help chipmakers improve fab productivity as the semiconductor industry faces memory capacity constraints,...
Monday 25 May 2026
AI servers drive order growth; Weltrend's fan motor driver IC visibility strong
At its earnings conference, Weltrend Semiconductor described the first quarter of 2026 as an exceptional one. Despite the period being historically slow, the company posted year-over-year...
Monday 25 May 2026
Nan Pao joint venture nears full capacity as semiconductor demand rises

Nan Pao Resins Chemical is accelerating its push into the high-end semiconductor materials market through a joint venture with Advanced...

Monday 25 May 2026
Analysis: Lisa Su moves on China — and Nvidia's CUDA moat
For AMD CEO Lisa Su, the current moment presents an opening that Nvidia does not have. Nvidia's high-end chips have repeatedly faced scrutiny and export restrictions in China, and...
Monday 25 May 2026
Weekly news roundup: TSMC faces its first real rivals; Agibot claims 100% success rate in factory deployment
Below are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories from the week of May 18-24, 2026:
Monday 25 May 2026
Global Electronics Policy Council formed to coordinate industry response to tariffs and export controls
The Global Electronics Association announced the formation of the Global Electronics Policy Council on Monday to centralize policy advocacy for the electronics supply chain in response...
Monday 25 May 2026
India roundup: India accelerates chip ambitions, but ecosystem gaps remain a key challenge

India is advancing its technology and semiconductor ambitions through new fab projects, packaging...

Sunday 24 May 2026
Geopolitics disrupts chips — can Taiwan and South Korea cooperate to hold the line?
The global semiconductor industry is being pulled in two directions. On one side, the cost of building a single advanced chip factory has ballooned to as much as US$40 billion, concentrating...
Saturday 23 May 2026
Jensen Huang says he uses Claude at work and his son runs AI agents at home to manage the family
Jensen Huang fielded a wide-ranging set of questions during his Taiwan visit this week, touching on China market access, rising memory costs, silicon photonics, the LPU versus GPU...
Saturday 23 May 2026
Jensen Huang lands in Taiwan, calls Vera Rubin biggest product ramp in computer history
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang arrived in Taiwan on May 23 ahead of COMPUTEX, telling reporters that the company's next-generation AI server platform — codenamed Vera Rubin —...
Saturday 23 May 2026
IBM and US DoC announce America's first purpose-built quantum foundry, supported by proposed US$1 billion CHIPS award
IBM and the US Department of Commerce (DoC) announced a Letter of Intent (LOI) to build an American quantum chip foundry, securing the nation's global quantum leadership and fueling...
Saturday 23 May 2026
Seoul as next frontier for global startups
At the Plug and Play Silicon Valley May Summit 2026, industry leaders gathered for the "Seoul Forward: Where Global Startups Scale Next" session to discuss the city's rapid evolution...
Saturday 23 May 2026
Analysis: AMD bets the future of AI runs on CPUs as much as GPUs
Under CEO Lisa Su, AMD is reshaping itself for the age of artificial intelligence. To describe AMD today simply as a hardware company is no longer accurate. As Jensen Huang has often...
Saturday 23 May 2026
Trump revives chip theft claim, heaping pressure on Taiwan semiconductor firms
US President Donald Trump has again repeated the false claim that Taiwan stole America's chip industry after his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping earlier this month, sparking...