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Thursday 22 October 2026
SDC supplies over 70% of major laptop brands' OLED panels
Samsung Display (SDC) currently supplies more than 70% of the OLED panels used by major global laptop brands, intensifying concerns over supply and pricing risks tied to dependence...
Thursday 22 October 2026
iPhone Duo preorders surge, but sales momentum remains uncertain
Apple Inc.'s first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, has exceeded sales expectations since preorders opened on October 16, 2026. Supply constraints have extended delivery times to January...
Thursday 22 October 2026
Unimicron warns of double-booking risks as AI PCB capacity race strains supply chains

Rapid growth in AI-driven demand is placing new pressure on the printed circuit board (PCB) supply chain, with equipment constraints, shorter product...

Thursday 22 October 2026
Charts: Nvidia's China AI chip lead shrinks 80% as Huawei closes in
Nvidia's lead over Huawei in China's AI accelerator market has narrowed by 80% in a year, bringing CEO Jensen Huang's warnings about losing the country's US$50 billion AI chip market...
Thursday 22 October 2026
Nvidia's AI factory strategy points to a broader shift in computing, industry
Nvidia is positioning the expansion of artificial intelligence as an infrastructure and industrial shift, not simply a software trend. At GTC Berlin, CEO Jensen Huang described an...
Thursday 22 October 2026
Nvidia lines up six suppliers to expand substrate, packaging, and testing capacity
Nvidia said on October 21 that it is working with six supply chain partners to expand manufacturing capacity for substrates, advanced packaging, testing, and optical engines to meet...
Thursday 22 October 2026
Memory surge drives phone makers from LTPO to LTPS
Soaring memory prices are intensifying cost pressure across the display industry, prompting some smartphone manufacturers to downgrade panel specifications. Market estimates indicate...
Thursday 22 October 2026
China's IC designers expand into AI server memory interconnects beyond DDR5
China's IC designers are expanding into high-speed interconnect technologies as AI inference and agent applications fuel demand for server CPUs, memory modules and connectivity chips...
Thursday 22 October 2026
Texas Instruments' analog recovery broadens as 12-inch investment turns into margin
Texas Instruments' third quarter suggested the analog chip upturn has moved beyond restocking into a broad-based recovery, and that the company's multi-year build-out of 12-inch wafer...
Thursday 22 October 2026
Unimicron, STATS ChipPAC, Wistron address advanced packaging bottlenecks in AI system integration
The Global Electronics Association hosted a panel titled "Component to System Integration Advances" during the IMPACT 2026 symposium, bringing together industry leaders from Unimicron,...
Thursday 22 October 2026
Samsung's Nvidia HBM bid raises four strategic concerns
Samsung Electronics is reportedly turning to TSMC's 3nm process to produce base dies for Nvidia's custom high-bandwidth memory (NVHBM), abandoning its long-standing turnkey integration...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
Li Auto chip subsidiary Mahe Xin raises CNY1.6 billion in equity financing as automakers aim to become chipmakers
Li Auto's chip and domain controller subsidiary, Mahe Xin Technology, has entered a first-round equity financing agreement worth CNY 1.625 billion (approx. US$243.33 million). The...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
Infineon, Wolfspeed pivot to 8-inch SiC to cut costs and meet rising AI power demand
Infineon Technologies and US-based silicon carbide (SiC) leader Wolfspeed announced on October 15 a new multi-year supply agreement for 8-inch SiC wafers. This deal transitions their...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
Sony keeps chip unit as imaging sensors, TSMC partnership drive strategy
Sony Group will not spin off its semiconductor business, which focuses on image sensors, president and CEO Hiroki Totoki said recently. The group is retaining the unit because its...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
AMD and Intel align PyTorch CPU optimizations around oneDNN
AMD and Intel plan to consolidate their PyTorch optimizations for x86 processors in oneDNN, aiming to give AI developers a common path to performance improvements across both companies'...