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Friday 5 June 2026

NXP chief says factories will lead robot adoption globally

Industrial factories are likely to become the first major market for robots at scale, according to NXP chief executive Rafael Sotomayor, who said manufacturers want stable systems, dependable performance, and clear financial returns. This view suggests that the earliest gains from robotics may come in places where efficiency improvements are easiest to measure.

Friday 5 June 2026

Sambanova challenges GPU dominance in AI inference at Computex

SambaNova used a Computex 2026 session on June 4 to make its most public case yet that the GPU-only approach to AI inference is hitting a fundamental wall — and to demonstrate, live on stage, an alternative architecture it calls disaggregated inference running in a production data center.

Friday 5 June 2026

Huawei's Tau Law stirs debate over China's post-Moore's Law chip path

Huawei has formally introduced its "Tau Law," proposing a shift from traditional process-node scaling to "time scaling," a model aimed at improving chip performance through optimisation across components, circuits, chips, and systems, even under mature process technologies.

Friday 5 June 2026

Infineon India moves up the value chain as AI data centers boost power-chip demand

Infineon Technologies' India operations are moving beyond traditional engineering support into global ownership roles, as rising demand from AI data centers reshapes the power semiconductor market, according to Vinay Shenoy, managing director of Infineon Technologies India.

Friday 5 June 2026

Nvidia's Jensen Huang to meet South Korean business leaders beyond HBM sector

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is visiting South Korea on June 5 for meetings with major Korean business leaders, as the company's cooperation with local companies broadens beyond high-bandwidth memory into robotics, automobiles, gaming, and cloud infrastructure.

Friday 5 June 2026

Infineon sees early quantum computing gains as finance leads adoption

Infineon Technologies said its long-running work in quantum computing is beginning to pay off, with early demand strongest in finance, chemistry, and life sciences. For global readers, the company's comments signal that quantum systems are moving closer to commercial relevance, even as the market remains early, crowded, and dependent on wider industry cooperation.

Friday 5 June 2026

South Korea finalizes US$520 million on-device AI chip budget amid industry doubts

South Korea has finalized the budget for a state-backed on-device AI chip development project at KRW800.23 billion (US$520 million), about KRW200 billion below an earlier proposal, as industry concerns persist over whether the chips developed under the program will reach commercial products, according to The Elec.

Friday 5 June 2026

Foxconn deepens AI push with Intel on inference racks

Intel and Foxconn have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to cooperate on AI rack infrastructure, edge AI, physical AI platforms, and custom chip design services. The deal highlights Intel's bid to regain ground in artificial intelligence (AI), while broadening Foxconn's role in the global AI supply chain.

Friday 5 June 2026

Marvell says SerDes and packaging are key hurdles in switch chip development

Marvell says the next gains in switch chip performance will depend on faster SerDes and better packaging — issues that affect network capacity, signal quality, and cost across global data centers. The company is advancing its 100T TerraLynx T100 chip while preparing for more complex designs, higher speeds, and tighter integration ahead.

Friday 5 June 2026

Analysis: Intel turns to Foxconn partnership to strengthen position in evolving AI market

Foxconn and Intel have announced a strategic partnership focused on AI racks, Edge AI, and Physical AI. The move signals Intel's effort to rebuild competitiveness in a market increasingly shaped by Nvidia's dominance in AI training and inference.

Friday 5 June 2026

Arm says Taiwan powers its rise as agentic AI lifts PC growth

Arm CEO Rene Haas told the COMPUTEX keynote on June 2 that Taiwan has been inseparable from Arm's growth over the past 30 years, while Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that agentic AI will trigger the biggest PC industry transformation in 40 years and could expand the global PC market by 10 times.

Friday 5 June 2026

AI energy demand drives a shift to vertical power delivery and smaller modules

As the global demand for AI accelerates, a new industrial challenge has emerged: the sheer scale of energy required to power the "AI factories" of the future. This concern was the centerpiece of presentations by several industry figures at Computex in Taipei, where they presented solutions under development, from raw material innovations to shrinking component sizes.

Thursday 4 June 2026

Samsung's rumored CIS production shift highlights industry debate over fab ownership

Samsung Electronics' decision to place a key image sensor production line under its System LSI division highlights a broader question facing the CMOS image sensor (CIS) industry: whether chip designers should own manufacturing capacity or rely on external foundries as competition intensifies across smartphones, automotive systems, and AI-enabled devices.

Thursday 4 June 2026

LG Innotek targets Intel EMIB substrate chain with SK Hynix samples

LG Innotek is seeking to enter the supply chain for substrates used in Intel's EMIB advanced-packaging technology, supplying early samples to SK Hynix as it tries to move deeper into high-end semiconductor substrates, according to ZDNet Korea.

Thursday 4 June 2026

Nvidia's RTX Spark reveals Jensen Huang's bigger AI agent fight with Apple and Google

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang introduced RTX Spark, co-developed with MediaTek, at Nvidia GTC Taipei, with PC brands expected to launch products in the third quarter of 2026. While widely seen as Nvidia's return to Windows on Arm after a 15-year absence and a challenge to Qualcomm, RTX Spark points to a larger fight over AI-era endpoints.

Thursday 4 June 2026

The 'Wintel' of robotics? Nvidia allies with Unitree to standardize AI humanoid development

In a move set to reshape the global robotics landscape, Nvidia announced at GTC Taipei that it will partner with Chinese humanoid robot pioneer Unitree Robotics to launch the world's first open humanoid robot reference design. By deeply integrating advanced AI with physical hardware, the collaboration aims to drastically lower development barriers across the industry.

Thursday 4 June 2026

Broadcom says AI chip revenue on track to exceed US$100 billion in 2027, rules out rack business

At the earnings call on June 3, Broadcom said its AI semiconductor business continued to accelerate in the fiscal second quarter, with revenue reaching a record US$10.8 billion, up 143% from a year earlier, and bookings exceeding US$30 billion. CEO Hock Tan said demand for custom accelerators and networking remained "simply insatiable," adding that the company expects AI semiconductor revenue to double in the second half of fiscal 2026 from the first half.

Thursday 4 June 2026

Broadcom advances OpenAI custom chip program, expands Anthropic AI compute initiative

Broadcom said its AI semiconductor business remained in an "insatiable" demand environment on its second quarter of fiscal 2026 earnings call on June 3, as it outlined progress with its six core customers, including Google, OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, and Apollo-backed programs. Chief Executive Hock Tan said the company's AI semiconductor revenue reached a record US$10.8 billion in the quarter, up 143% year on year, and added that networking made up almost 40% of AI revenue. He also said bookings topped US$30 billion, while shipments totaled US$10.8 billion.

Thursday 4 June 2026

Broadcom forecasts strong third-quarter growth, but AI revenue outlook misses elevated expectations

Broadcom reported record second-quarter revenue and raised expectations for the current quarter, but its outlook for artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor sales fell short of elevated market expectations, prompting a sharp decline in the company's shares in after-hours trading.

Thursday 4 June 2026

Chip test equipment makers hit by FPGA, CPU supply crunch

Semiconductor test equipment makers are facing severe shortages of key components, with lead times for FPGAs, CPUs, GPUs, and driver ICs stretching sharply as AI and data center demand strain the broader chip supply chain, according to The Elec.

Thursday 4 June 2026

RISC-V will be 'default ISA of choice' for all new chip designs, architecture's CEO predicts

Andrea Gallo, CEO of RISC-V International, used his appearance at the MIPS Forum during Computex 2026 to declare that RISC-V has completed its transition from academic project to industrial standard — and that its dominance in physical AI is no longer a future prediction but a present reality.

Thursday 4 June 2026

Huawei's Tau Law exposes China's EDA gap; Empyrean advances memory chip design tools

Huawei's recently proposed Tau Law has drawn attention across the semiconductor industry, with the company arguing that chip performance can be improved by reducing the internal signal transmission time constant, known as τ, through multi-layer optimization across devices, circuits, architectures, systems, and algorithms.

Wednesday 3 June 2026

Physical AI must act before it thinks, NXP CEO argues at Computex

As robots and autonomous systems move from factory floors into hospitals, warehouses, and public spaces, NXP Semiconductors CEO Rafael Sotomayor used his Computex 2026 keynote to argue that the defining challenge of physical AI is not raw intelligence, but the ability to act in milliseconds without waiting for instructions from the cloud.

Wednesday 3 June 2026

MediaTek denies rumored EMIB adoption timeline

MediaTek denied a foreign report about a timeline for adopting Intel Corp.'s embedded multi-die interconnect bridge packaging at a recent investor event and said its supply-chain strategy remains focused on TSMC. The clarification came after a Goldman Sachs research note, and media coverage suggested MediaTek had set tape-out and mass-production dates for a project using Intel EMIB-T packaging.

Wednesday 3 June 2026

Microsoft's Majorana 2 quantum chip draws both industry interest and expert skepticism

Microsoft unveiled Majorana 2 on June 2, 2026, its latest quantum chip and the follow-up to Majorana 1, announced on February 19, 2025. The new chip continues Microsoft's bet on a distinctive approach to quantum computing, even as parts of the physics community continue to press for more independent evidence.

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