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Monday 4 May 2026
L&T Semiconductor Technologies joins imec automotive chiplet program, aiming to shape global vehicle electronics
Larsen & Toubro's semiconductor unit, L&T Semiconductor Technologies, has joined imec's Automotive chiplet Program. The participation is expected to drive collaboration on packaging, die-to-die links, diagnostics, and lifecycle management, and to help shape standards for next-generation software-defined, energy-efficient vehicles worldwide.
Monday 4 May 2026
Realtek posts surge in revenue as Wi-Fi 7 adoption accelerates
Realtek reported first-quarter results on April 30, saying revenue rose to NT$36.42 billion (US$1.15 billion), driven by early customer pull-in orders that boosted demand into the second quarter, while warning of higher order uncertainty in the second half of the year. Executives said the company saw sequential margin improvement but flagged potential cost pressures from memory price moves and packaging constraints that could affect profitability going forward.
Monday 4 May 2026
Holtek raises low-margin MCU prices, expands AI server cooling and optical comms
Microcontroller (MCU) maker Holtek announced it has raised prices on low-margin MCUs following wafer foundry and packaging cost hikes in China at the end of 2025. This price adjustment has since driven order inflows for touch MCUs and other products. Holtek expects strong growth momentum in the security and health segments in the first half of 2026, with some orders already visible up to six months ahead. The company is also advancing the development of brushless DC motor (BLDC) products and external laser optical communication modules targeting AI servers.
Monday 4 May 2026
India roundup: India accelerates AI, semiconductor, and manufacturing push with major investments and startup bets

India's technology ecosystem is seeing rapid expansion across AI infrastructure, semiconductors, and electronics manufacturing. From startup bets on AI inference to multi-billion-dollar data center plans and OSAT capacity buildouts, global and domestic players are deepening commitments. The momentum underscores India's rising role in supply chains and compute-driven industries.

Monday 4 May 2026
AI data center demand boosts IDM growth in industrial market
Recovery in the industrial chip market, driven by AI data center demand, is poised to reshape manufacturers and supply chains worldwide, as Texas Instruments and NXP Semiconductors report stronger performance in their industrial segments. Improved demand visibility and projected growth through 2026 could influence component sourcing, pricing, and investment strategies for technology stakeholders.
Monday 4 May 2026
China AI chip designer VeriSilicon books US$1.1bn orders, revenue doubles
China-based chip design service provider VeriSilicon Microelectronics (Shanghai) Co. is seeing a sharp acceleration in AI-driven demand, with record orders and surging revenue in the first quarter of 2026 — even as heavy R&D spending continues to weigh on profitability.
Sunday 3 May 2026
Profile: MIT physicist Yichen Shen leads photonics chipmaker to Hong Kong IPO

On the morning of April 28, 2026, 37-year-old Yichen Shen stood at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, striking the IPO gong with a wooden mallet.

Saturday 2 May 2026
Qualcomm says Samsung chip share remains above 70% despite Exynos push
Qualcomm said its relationship with Samsung Electronics remains stable and that its share of Samsung smartphone silicon has risen to more than 70%, even as Samsung expands the use of its in-house Exynos application processors in selected premium models.
Saturday 2 May 2026
Onsemi expands collaboration with NIO to support 900V EV platforms
Onsemi's expanded collaboration with NIO to support the automaker's move to 900V electric vehicle platforms could accelerate global EV adoption by improving range, charging speed, and drivetrain efficiency, influencing vehicle performance and manufacturing scalability for new models introduced worldwide, including those scheduled to debut at the 2026 Beijing Auto Show.
Thursday 30 April 2026
Google's split TPU chips signal shift from universal to specialized AI accelerators
Google has unveiled its eighth-generation Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) by splitting them into two distinct chips: the training-focused TPU 8t and the inference-optimized TPU 8i. This move goes beyond simply designing two chips; it reflects Google's capability to break down bottlenecks across different stages of the model lifecycle, restructuring chip design, interconnects, memory, scheduling, and software stacks.
Thursday 30 April 2026
MetaX GPU revenue jumps 75%, losses narrow on AI demand
China-based GPU developer MetaX reported a solid start to 2026, underscoring how domestic high-performance GPUs are beginning to translate technical progress into tangible commercial traction.
Thursday 30 April 2026
Memory crunch squeezes smartphone SoC market as Samsung gains share

Global smartphone system-on-chip (SoC) shipments fell 8% year-over-year in the first quarter of 2026, as a prolonged memory shortage weighed on handset makers and chipset vendors, according to Counterpoint Research.

Thursday 30 April 2026
Intel kills three projects in two months as Kechichian launches multi-year reset
Intel's reorganization under Kevork Kechichian, backed by CEO Lip‑Bu Tan, aims to reposition amid Nvidia's AI dominance and Arm's rise, signaling a shift to CPU-centric orchestration alongside GPUs and ASICs—an opportunity with major worldwide implications for data-center economics, AI deployment strategies, and competition in the next two to three years.
Thursday 30 April 2026
Cambricon earnings surge on AI compute demand
China's Cambricon Technologies reported a sharp rise in first-quarter 2026 earnings, driven by surging AI compute demand, while intensifying competition and shifting investor positioning reshape the domestic AI chip market.
Thursday 30 April 2026
Amazon highlights US$50 billion chip potential and advances LEO satellite plans
On April 29, Amazon told investors on its first-quarter 2026 earnings call that AWS continued to accelerate, while the company doubled down on its custom chip business and pushed forward with plans for the Amazon low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite service, including the planned acquisition of Globalstar. Executives framed the moves as complementary elements of a broader strategy to capture a wave of demand driven by generative AI, even as they flagged memory and storage supply pressures and elevated capital spending tied to cloud and satellite buildouts.
Thursday 30 April 2026
Qualcomm to ship custom product with hyperscaler in 4Q26
In an earnings call on April 29, Qualcomm told investors it expects initial shipments of a custom silicon engagement with a leading hyperscaler in the December quarter, a milestone executives said will mark the start of a multi‑generation partnership
Thursday 30 April 2026
Samsung Electronics' record chip profits signal strengthening AI memory supercycle
Samsung Electronics reported a sharp increase in first-quarter 2026 profitability, led by its semiconductor division, as AI-driven demand for memory chips continued to accelerate. The company's chip unit delivered an operating profit of approximately KRW53.7 trillion (US$360 billion), accounting for the vast majority of group earnings and marking a significant expansion from the prior year.
Thursday 30 April 2026
China photonics chipmaker Lightelligence lists in HK, CPO commercialization in focus
As generative AI drives a sharp rise in computing demand, traditional electrical interconnect architectures are increasingly constrained by power consumption and density limits. On April 28, 2026, China-based silicon photonics chip developer Lightelligence debuted on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, with its share price surging at the open and its market capitalization briefly reaching HK$77.8 billion (US$10 billion).
Thursday 30 April 2026
Qualcomm flags near-term headwinds as data center push gains traction
Qualcomm reported results broadly in line with its guidance, but noted ongoing headwinds from memory supply constraints and soft smartphone demand. Revenue for the fiscal second quarter came in at about US$10.6 billion, down sequentially and slightly lower year-over-year, while operating income also declined. Profit rose sharply every quarter, reflecting prior-period impacts and cost dynamics.
Thursday 30 April 2026
Nvidia CEO says Google's TPUs pose no threat as AI chip race heats up
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently stated that Google's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) do not constitute a real threat to Nvidia. He made the comments during an interview on the Dwarkesh Podcast, where he also addressed the company's rise to a US$4 trillion market value in the large language model (LLM) era and the competitive landscape of AI chips.
Thursday 30 April 2026
Amkor advances data center CPU mass production amid manageable supply and cost risks
Amkor, the world's second-largest OSAT provider, recently held its earnings call where CEO Kevin Engel highlighted strong demand for AI and high-performance computing (HPC) chips driving robust orders for advanced packaging technologies like high-density fan-out (HDFO) and flip-chip. The company's HDFO packaging platform, which had already shipped two PC chip models, has now successfully integrated an AI data center CPU application set to enter mass production in the second quarter of 2026.
Wednesday 29 April 2026
China memory chip designer Montage lifts profit on DDR5, AI server demand
China-based memory interface chip supplier Montage Technology reported solid first-quarter 2026 results, supported by rising demand for AI servers and accelerating adoption of next-generation memory technologies.
Wednesday 29 April 2026
Automotive and networking chips move directly to 2nm as AI demand tightens capacity

Demand for advanced chips at TSMC is tightening amid the AI boom, with its 3nm process becoming increasingly congested as major customers compete for limited capacity.

Wednesday 29 April 2026
China's GPU IPO wave meets its hardest test: cluster stability
China's GPU startups, including Moore Threads, MetaX, and Biren, are gaining ground in the AI accelerator market. But as demand shifts from training to inference, cluster stability, software maturity, and cost efficiency are emerging as the real constraints.
Wednesday 29 April 2026
Commentary: China's chip-model strategy pressures Nvidia's AI economics
The global AI industry is shifting into an inference cost war in 2026, with DeepSeek V4 accelerating changes across China's semiconductor supply chain. By positioning Huawei's Ascend chips as viable alternatives to Nvidia GPUs, DeepSeek reframes competition beyond software versus hardware. The shift cuts deeper, reshaping how AI systems are architected from the ground up.