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Friday 4 September 2026

From chips to physical AI: Experts urge Taiwan-US push for trusted drone supply chains at Semicon Taiwan 2026

Trustworthy supply chain concerns are extending beyond semiconductors to drones and other autonomous systems, now emerging as national strategic industries. At a Semicon Taiwan 2026...

Friday 4 September 2026

How agentic AI and 'AI physics' are reshaping chip design

As semiconductor designs advance toward trillion-transistor packages, the traditional engineering playbook of simply adding more personnel or running legacy software faster has hit...

Friday 4 September 2026

China interconnect chipmaker Montage enters Samsung, SK Hynix CXL 3.2 supply chains and begins DDR6 development

Montage Technology is accelerating its move beyond traditional DDR memory interfaces, with CXL 3.2, DDR6 and PCIe products positioning the...

Friday 4 September 2026

Fujitsu says useful quantum computers may need far fewer qubits than expected

For years the quantum industry has worked on a discouraging assumption: that a machine capable of doing anything commercially useful would need a million qubits or more. Fujitsu told...

Friday 4 September 2026

Nvidia sets an October launch for RTX Spark PCs, gives local AI a router

Nvidia used IFA 2026 to argue that serious AI work can run locally as well as in the cloud, pairing an October launch date for its RTX Spark Windows PCs with free software that distributes...

Friday 4 September 2026

Analysts read Nvidia's Hugging Face deal as a hedge, not a software bet

Nvidia's agreement to buy Hugging Face for roughly US$13 billion is being framed by analysts less as a move into software than as insurance against three ways its core business could...

Friday 4 September 2026

Nvidia's Hugging Face terms pay out its chip rivals and reserve US$1 billion to keep the staff

The mechanics of Nvidia's US$12.93 billion purchase of Hugging Face say as much about the deal's purpose as the strategic case does: a tenth of the consideration is set aside to stop...

Friday 4 September 2026

Nvidia buys the front door to open AI with a US$12.93 billion Hugging Face deal

Nvidia's agreement to acquire Hugging Face for US$12.93 billion pushes the world's dominant AI chip supplier past silicon and into the layer where developers actually pick their models...

Friday 4 September 2026

China's GPU makers found scale as profit came from elsewhere

China's domestic GPU industry crossed a commercial threshold in the first half of 2026, but the interim filings of its six listed players show that revenue growth and earnings power...

Friday 4 September 2026

Young Liu urges 'Made with Taiwan' supply chain rethink

Foxconn chairman Young Liu on September 2 called on Taiwan's supply chain to shift from "Made in Taiwan" to "Made with Taiwan," saying...

Thursday 3 September 2026

Infineon sees AI data centers, physical AI as growth drivers

Infineon said the rapid buildout of AI data centers and emerging Physical AI applications could reshape semiconductor demand worldwide. The shift signals higher infrastructure spending,...

Thursday 3 September 2026

Intel pre-funds EMIB-T and CPU capacity, will address DRAM through partners rather than fabs

Intel's US$23 billion equity raise in August was pre-funding for a capacity build driven by demand and process confidence rather than distress, chief financial officer David Zinsner...

Thursday 3 September 2026

Taiwan's supply chain is 'one of a kind,' MediaTek CEO says

MediaTek CEO Rick Tsai said Taiwan's supply-chain capabilities are unmatched as the technology industry moves into the AI and robotics era, while joking that the chip designer will...

Thursday 3 September 2026

Apple, Xiaomi and Nvidia chase terabyte-class bandwidth for AI chips

For decades, semiconductor performance gains largely came from shrinking process nodes, from 22nm and 14nm to 7nm and 3nm. AI is changing the constraint: processors are getting faster,...

Thursday 3 September 2026

UniVista expands China EDA stack with AI agents, native 3DIC tools

Shanghai UniVista Industrial Software Group has launched an Agentic EDA framework, a native 3DIC physical-design tool and an advanced-process closure platform, expanding China's domestic...

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