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Thursday 18 September 2025
Arm inaugurates Bengaluru design center, boosting India's chip ambitions
Arm has opened a new chip design center in Bengaluru focused on advanced 2nm chips. Union IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw called it a milestone for India's semiconductor goals, making...
Thursday 18 September 2025
China tightens the reins on Nvidia: antitrust probe reopens Mellanox questions
China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) announced on September 15, 2025, that Nvidia had breached Chinese antitrust law and conditions imposed when Beijing cleared...
Thursday 18 September 2025
Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu turn to local AI chips, shaking Nvidia's grip
Tencent said this week it has integrated AI chips from Chinese suppliers and plans to scale up its use in cloud-based AI services. Alongside Alibaba and Baidu, which have already...
Thursday 18 September 2025
Holiday shopping season cooling off? Taiwan IC design houses' confidence in 2H25 operations wanes
As the third quarter of 2025 draws to a close, a consensus has formed within Taiwan's IC design industry that overall demand remains weak. Notably, an increasing number of chipmakers...
Thursday 18 September 2025
Taiwan's Transcom deepens investment in defense and satellite communications

Transcom, a specialist in high-power amplifiers, is making bold strides into the dual frontiers of national defense and space communications...

Thursday 18 September 2025
China turns away from Nvidia as AI rivalry with US enters a new phase

China's internet regulator has instructed leading technology firms, including Alibaba Group Holding and ByteDance, to stop buying Nvidia's...

Thursday 18 September 2025
Nvidia, TSMC face antitrust scrutiny as US-China tensions spotlight market power
Just as Washington and Beijing are preparing to resume trade talks, China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) has thrown a wrench into the works. The agency accused...
Thursday 18 September 2025
SpaceX advances D2D plans with EchoStar spectrum deal

SpaceX is reportedly working with semiconductor manufacturers to develop a custom chip that will enable its upcoming direct-to-device...

Wednesday 17 September 2025
SMIC initiates testing of domestically produced lithography machines to bypass US sanctions
In response to US export controls and to reduce reliance on ASML, China has begun testing its first domestically manufactured deep ultraviolet (DUV) lithography machine. According...
Wednesday 17 September 2025
Taiwan semiconductor industry holds home advantage, says economics minister
Taiwan's AI server exports have doubled, with manufacturers' GPU and graphics card production capacity fully booked, driving remarkable export growth for the country. Minister of...
Wednesday 17 September 2025
Commentary: Smartphone chipmakers rebrand as Qualcomm, Apple, MediaTek, and Xiaomi refresh product names to stay competitive
Qualcomm will unveil its latest Snapdragon flagship mobile platform next week and has officially confirmed the chip will be called Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. The move comes as part...
Wednesday 17 September 2025
China's TI anti-dumping probe likely more symbolic than punitive
China is reportedly probing whether US-made analog chips are being dumped into its market, a move widely seen as targeting Texas Instruments (TI), the dominant US supplier of analog...
Wednesday 17 September 2025
China opens anti-dumping probe into US chipmakers amid tariff tensions

China's Ministry of Commerce has announced a sweeping anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation into certain analog ICs imported from...

Wednesday 17 September 2025
NXP outlines SDV, robotics, and smart-glasses plans as new leadership prepares to take charge
Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors plans to complete its CEO transition by October 2025. Current CEO Kurt Sievers, who will remain in the position until then, made what is likely...
Wednesday 17 September 2025
Nvidia's Jensen Huang reverses quantum strategy, bets billions on next computing era
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is making a big U-turn on quantum computing. After years of downplaying the technology's timeline, the tech titan is now pouring money into quantum startups...