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Friday 30 October 2026
Taiwan manufacturing demand rises as bank property loans decline
Strong demand for AI applications and cloud services is driving investment in high-performance computing chips and AI servers, prompting Taiwan manufacturers to expand capacity and...
Friday 30 October 2026
Anthropic's multi-platform AI strategy pressures Nvidia pricing power
Anthropic's "multi-platform resource pool" strategy, disclosed in its S-1 filing, is sending an important signal to the AI chip industry. The company uses Amazon Trainium, Google tensor...
Friday 30 October 2026
Beyond nanometers: AI forces Taiwan's semiconductor ecosystem to compete at system level
Taiwan's semiconductor rise was built on a powerful division of labor: world-class IC design feeding increasingly advanced foundries, supported by packaging, testing, and an unusually...
Friday 30 October 2026
Intel increases equipment orders as server demand exceeds supply
Intel's server expansion is drawing equipment and materials suppliers into a capacity push, but the benefits will arrive in stages. Management's October 29 earnings-call comments identified...
Friday 30 October 2026
Amazon's cloud acceleration lifts profitability as AI spending absorbs cash
Amazon's third quarter showed its cloud expansion translating into stronger operating profitability, while the cash demands of building AI infrastructure kept rising. The result sharpens...
Friday 30 October 2026
STMicroelectronics' recovery gains momentum, but power chips lag
STMicroelectronics is turning a demand recovery into stronger factory economics, with communications and embedded-processing products driving the improvement. Yet the widening loss...
Friday 30 October 2026
Intel slashes 18A costs by 40% as foundry posts US$1.9 billion loss
Intel is cutting manufacturing costs for its newest processors, but the gains are reaching individual products and its foundry business at different speeds. Its October 29 earnings...
Friday 30 October 2026
Intel's AI PCs are selling, but the wider PC recovery is still missing
Intel's growing AI PC sales are coexisting with a shrinking PC market, as memory constraints weaken purchases and computer makers reduce processor inventories. The distinction matters...
Friday 30 October 2026
Taiwan semiconductor output to hit NT$9.1 trillion as TSIA urges stable power
The Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association (TSIA) expects its members' total output to exceed NT$9.1 trillion (US$279.5 billion) in 2026, a 40.9% year-over-year increase driven...
Friday 30 October 2026
AUO returns to a third-quarter loss as panel demand weakens
AUO reported a consolidated net loss attributable to its parent-company owners in the third quarter of 2026 as cautious panel purchasing and weaker consumer electronics demand reduced...
Friday 30 October 2026
Texas Instruments, NXP point to data centers and robots as industrial chips rebound
Texas Instruments (TI) and NXP Semiconductors both reported 40% to 50% year-over-year growth in their industrial businesses during their latest earnings calls for the third quarter...
Thursday 29 October 2026
Marvell reportedly in advanced talks to acquire Lumentum in AI optics deal
Marvell Technology is in advanced talks to acquire data-center optical component maker Lumentum Holdings, people familiar with the matter said, in what could become a major AI hardware...
Thursday 29 October 2026
Nvidia under probe by US justice officials over Hugging Face acquisition
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is reviewing how Nvidia's acquisition of Hugging Face could affect competition in the AI industry, while a years-long antitrust investigation continues...
Thursday 29 October 2026
NXP wins Volkswagen role in software-defined vehicle architecture
Volkswagen Group and NXP Semiconductors have agreed on a strategic partnership under which NXP's S32K5 microcontrollers (MCUs) are intended to serve as a building block of the carmaker's...
Thursday 29 October 2026
Analysis: Google opens its AI chips to rivals but won't say if it makes money
Google is now supplying its tensor processing units (TPUs) to companies it competes with, including Anthropic and Apple. On Alphabet's third-quarter earnings call, management gave...