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Wednesday 23 September 2026
Taiwan tire maker Cheng Shin turns 'virtual tires' into an EV development weapon

Taiwanese tire maker Cheng Shin Rubber, best known for its Maxxis brand, is nearing its 60th anniversary and using AI and digital twins...

Wednesday 23 September 2026
Lightmatter launches an optical module that cuts AI cluster fiber in half
US photonics company Lightmatter has launched an optical module that sends and receives data over a single strand of fiber. The company says this halves the cabling needed to connect...
Tuesday 22 September 2026
Anthropic, OpenAI expected to start buying memory directly in 2027
Anthropic and OpenAI are expected to start buying memory directly from manufacturers in 2027 as model developers take greater control of chip and data-center design, potentially broadening...
Tuesday 22 September 2026
Apple's reported AI server push could reshape its role in enterprise infrastructure

Apple is reportedly developing an enterprise AI inference server powered by its in-house M8 Ultra chips. This move could mark its return...

Monday 21 September 2026
SK Hynix pushes deeper into logic for next-generation 3D DRAM

SK Hynix is pushing deeper into logic design as it develops a next-generation 3D DRAM architecture that could separate memory-cell processing...

Monday 21 September 2026
Weekly news roundup: AI boom strains chips; Google's TPUs pay off, China eyes 3nm without EUV
This week's reports centered on intensifying competition and bottlenecks across the semiconductor and AI supply chains, from Sandisk's unusual engineering push in Korea and Google's...
Friday 18 September 2026
China's AI data center token costs hinge on access to advanced GPUs
China's AI data centers are confronting a severe chip access bottleneck, with the cost of producing tokens shaped less by model design than by geopolitics, according to a recent Caijing...
Friday 18 September 2026
Samsung deepens Euclyd ties as startup reportedly reaches test-chip stage

Samsung Electronics is deepening its relationship with Dutch chip startup Euclyd after the company reportedly reached the test-chip...

Friday 18 September 2026
Modi says India's chip mission has reached commercial production as Semicon 2.0 lifts the purse to US$13.5 billion
India's government used the opening of Semicon India 2026 to reframe what it is asking the industry to believe: not that fabs will be built, but that they are already shipping. Prime...
Friday 18 September 2026
DeepSeek engineer's warning suggests AI may reshape, not simply eliminate, technical work

A DeepSeek engineer's viral reflection on AI's rapid progress has reignited debate over whether artificial intelligence will replace...

Thursday 17 September 2026
Tier IV open-sources self-driving AI chip design to challenge Nvidia

Japanese autonomous driving developer Tier IV is developing an AI chip and will release its chip design and related toolchain as open...

Thursday 17 September 2026
Samsung expands SRAM, IP to speed chip development

Memory shortages and pricing pressures are reshaping Samsung Electronics' foundry intellectual property (IP) development, as faster...

Thursday 17 September 2026
Onsemi puts power density at the center of its next-decade strategy

Onsemi is seeking to capture more value from AI, electrification, and automation by expanding from individual semiconductors into integrated...

Thursday 17 September 2026
Applied Materials announces 10-year investment plan ahead of SEMICON India
US-based semiconductor equipment maker Applied Materials will invest INR36 billion (US$375 million)) in the Indian state of Karnataka over the next 10 years, Karnataka Industries Minister...