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Monday 1 December 2025
PaleBlueDot AI seeks US$300m loan for Nvidia chips
US AI company PaleBlueDot AI is reportedly seeking a US$300 million loan to help Chinese social media platform RedNote (Xiaohongshu) use Nvidia's high-end AI chips through a data center located in Tokyo.
Monday 1 December 2025
India commits US$500 million to modernise SCL Mohali and boost domestic chip production
India will invest INR45 billion (approx. US$500 million) to modernise and expand the Semiconductor Laboratory (SCL) in Mohali, India's Union Electronics and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said during a review visit. The minister reaffirmed that SCL would "not be privatized" and would instead undergo a major upgrade aimed at significantly boosting domestic chip production and strengthening India's strategic semiconductor capabilities.
Monday 1 December 2025
China turns to Baidu's Kunlun as AI chip constraints intensify
Following the US ban on sales of Nvidia's high-end chips to China, expectations have grown that Baidu could rapidly emerge as a new force in China's AI chip sector and become the country's second major source of domestic compute capacity after Huawei.
Monday 1 December 2025
A coming quantum shock? Pat Gelsinger says AI's GPU era is nearing its end
In a recent interview with the Financial Times, former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger delivered a bold forecast: quantum computing could reach mainstream adoption within just two years, potentially puncturing the current AI hype. He went further, asserting that GPUs, which currently dominate AI processing, may begin to be gradually replaced by 2030.
Monday 1 December 2025
Jensen Huang says Nvidia must run very fast as AI chip competition intensifies

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made his fifth visit to Taiwan in 2025 on November 27, reportedly to pay a personal visit to TSMC founder Morris Chang. Speaking publicly, Huang confirmed he had met with Chang, describing the semiconductor pioneer's health as "very good," and added that he would be leaving Taiwan later that day.

Monday 1 December 2025
China's Xiangdi Xian unveils Fuxi A0, the first mass-produced IMG DXD GPU
Imagination Technologies made a prominent showing at the 31st ICCAD-Expo 2025 in Chengdu, where strategic partner Xiangdi Xian Computing Technology debuted its next-generation GPU built on the Imagination DXD architecture. Revealed via the company's WeChat account, the Fuxi A0 is confirmed as both the world's only mass-produced IMG DXD product and the first DXD chip to reach tape-out.
Monday 1 December 2025
Weekly news roundup: China phone makers pull back as Huawei advances chip tech, Nvidia strengthens Taiwan ties
These are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories in the week of November 24 to November 30, 2025.
Monday 1 December 2025
Nvidia and Apple compete for TSMC capacity, targeting A16 and A14 nodes
Driven by strong AI demand, TSMC continues to expand its advanced process capacity. To meet long-term needs from customers like Nvidia, TSMC is not only ramping up 3nm production at its Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP) wafer fabs but also planning three new 2nm fabs in the same area. This capital expenditure increase over the next three years will boost the entire supply chain, including factory engineering, equipment, and materials suppliers.
Monday 1 December 2025
Jensen Huang visits Taiwan and refutes ODM capacity concerns
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has recently been on the move, drawing significant attention. Aside from visiting TSMC founder Morris Chang and Quanta chairman Barry Lam during his Thanksgiving trip to Taiwan, there are also rumors that Huang made the trip to address ODM shipment issues with the GB300. Supply chain companies clarified that GB300 shipments are proceeding without problems, though pushing output to meet Nvidia's required volume will need an extra push.
Monday 1 December 2025
Commentary: Nvidia’s trillion-dollar test as the AI build-out hits a harder phase
Michael Burry, famed for predicting the 2008 financial crisis, has launched a paywalled Substack called Cassandra Unchained. In his debut post, he targets the AI boom and warns that Nvidia may now sit in the same systemic hotspot Cisco occupied during the dot-com era.
Monday 1 December 2025
Riding the AI wave, Abico Asia pivots toward robotics and semiconductors

As generative AI applications surge, global venture investment has shown a steady rebound, with AI and robotics emerging as two of the most sought-after sectors. Sensing the momentum of this technological shift, Abico Asia Capital has already repositioned its portfolio and will make AI, robotics, and semiconductors its core investment pillars for 2026. The firm also emphasized its commitment to identifying Taiwan's "hidden champions" and helping them upgrade and globalize their supply chains.

Sunday 30 November 2025
Taiwan's vertical integration cluster advantage limits industry relocation risk
Amid reports that Taiwan plans to invest US$400 billion in the US to secure better tariff treatment, avoid overlapping tax rates, and reduce Section 232 impacts under the Trump administration, a Deloitte Taiwan consultant says concerns over industrial relocation and hollowing out are largely unfounded.
Friday 28 November 2025
Google's TPU strategy mounts fresh challenge to Nvidia's GPU lead

Google's expanding Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) strategy is emerging as a serious challenge to Nvidia's long-running dominance in AI accelerators, particularly after a report from The Information revealed that Meta is in talks to begin using Google TPUs in its data centers in 2027 under a potential multibillion-dollar agreement.

Friday 28 November 2025
Commentary: Taiwan's IC design edge in ASIC development
Taiwan's IC design sector has rapidly expanded in the application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) market, driven by growing demand for AI applications. MediaTek has entered Google's TPU supply chain, Alchip Technologies has secured new Amazon Web Services programs, and Global Unichip (GUC) continues to win additional projects. Market chatter indicates GUC has landed the full back-end turnkey order for Tesla's AI5 chip, expected to contribute revenue starting in 2027.
Friday 28 November 2025
Yesterday AOL, today OpenAI: Google's vertical integration threatens to repeat history
In the competitive realm of artificial intelligence computing power, Nvidia currently leads the market, but Google is emerging as a formidable contender with its self-developed TPUs. According to CNBC, Google has collaborated extensively with Broadcom since 2016 to design and manufacture its AI chips. This partnership has progressed into the seventh generation of TPUs, which power Google's internal AI infrastructure and rival Nvidia's GPUs in AI workloads.
Friday 28 November 2025
China's new TPU contender aims for Nvidia's AI chip dominance
China's AI chip startup Zhonghao Xinying has introduced its own tensor processing unit (TPU), a major step in the country's "de-Americanisation" drive as US export curbs continue to block access to Nvidia's high-end GPUs.
Friday 28 November 2025
FitTech targets 2Q26 profits with goal to become Taiwan's largest foundry
FitTech has had weak performance since 2023. It posted a net loss attributable to the parent of NT$290 million (approx. US$9.2 million) for the first three quarters of 2025, although a sharp improvement from 2024. The company has started in LED testing and is optimistic about its DFB and FEL foundry testing business in optical communications for 2026. Strong customer demand has clarified order visibility, and 2026 is expected to see multiple-fold growth. With new product layouts entering the harvesting stage, FitTech aims to turn profitable as early as the second quarter.
Friday 28 November 2025
Taiwan boosts funding for system-level IC designs, focuses on drone sensors and secure chips
Taiwan's Industrial Development Administration said it has approved 28 projects under its 2025 IC design subsidy program, selecting 33 companies for a combined NT$1.3 billion in government funding. The agency expects the initiative to generate nearly NT$36 billion in commercial opportunities as the island pushes system-level innovation in AI, drones and advanced sensing.
Thursday 27 November 2025
Beijing reportedly bans ByteDance from using Nvidia GPUs in new data centers
Beijing authorities have reportedly imposed strict restrictions on high-end semiconductor imports, prohibiting ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, from deploying Nvidia GPUs in newly built data centers. Nationally funded infrastructure projects must now utilize domestically produced AI chips, signaling a significant policy shift towards semiconductor self-reliance.
Thursday 27 November 2025
Commentary: How Huawei’s Kirin 9030 pushes into 7nm threshold
Huawei has launched the Mate 80 flagship series, with the Kirin 9030 once again capturing domestic and international attention. As the United States continues restricting China’s access to sub-14nm tools, industry debate now centres on how the Kirin 9030 reaches “near-7nm” performance and what this means for China’s broader push toward semiconductor self-reliance.
Thursday 27 November 2025
Intel backs Wei-Jen Lo—raising awkward questions for TSMC, Washington, and the chip world
Intel's controversial hiring of former TSMC senior vice president Wei-Jen Lo has escalated into one of the semiconductor industry's most sensitive personnel disputes in years. The situation has become tangled in legal uncertainty, national security implications, and geopolitical imbalances in technology cooperation.
Thursday 27 November 2025
Google pushes TPU-OCS architecture as Gemini 3 aims at ChatGPT

Google's release of its Gemini 3 large language model (LLM) in November—trained primarily on the company's in-house TPU chips and performing at or above the level of OpenAI's ChatGPT—has become a catalyst for a broader strategic push. According to overseas reports, Google is now using its newest advances in AI models to pitch major clients, including Meta, on deploying TPU-based systems inside Google-operated data centers.

Thursday 27 November 2025
Taiwan advances in global quantum race with photon pair and entanglement chip breakthroughs
Taiwan's national quantum program is entering the final year of its first phase, with Academia Sinica and other research groups achieving significant breakthroughs. These include optical Schrödinger cat state generators using heralded photon pairs and high-integration polarization-entangled Bell-state quantum light source chips.
Thursday 27 November 2025
MediaTek research earns global recognition as CEO prepares plenary talk for ISSCC 2026
MediaTek announced that numerous company research papers have been accepted at leading global academic conferences in semiconductors, artificial intelligence (AI), and communications in 2025. This includes two papers from MediaTek's Taiwan headquarters research and development team, which were selected for the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) 2026, often called the "Olympics of IC design." With these additions, the company has now had more than 100 papers accepted over 23 consecutive years.
Wednesday 26 November 2025
US pulling far ahead in advanced chips as Europe shifts to supply-chain defense, says McKinsey
A new McKinsey report says the global semiconductor landscape is undergoing a dramatic divergence, with the US emerging as the center of leading-edge computation while Europe pivots toward securing industrial supply chains. As 2025 nears its end, the firm notes that a clear pattern has formed in the wave of greenfield Foreign Direct Investment (FDI): the US is consolidating the future of advanced logic production, and Europe is focusing on technological security and manufacturing continuity.
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