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Wednesday 2 September 2026
UMC targets 12-inch TFLN to break 400G SiPh bottleneck
As interconnect traffic in AI hyperscale data centers climbs, optical modules are moving toward the 1.6T and 3.2T generations. United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), Taiwan's second-largest...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
Apple's M6 and M5 Ultra break rule tying process to chip strength
Apple has unveiled new Mac mini and Mac Studio models, equipped respectively with its first 2-nanometer chip, the M6, and the four-die M5 Ultra. Most notably, the latest 2-nanometer...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
8 September Hsinchu seminar: Silicon photonics driving AI chains

As AI infrastructure drives demand for higher bandwidth, lower power consumption and faster connectivity, silicon photonics is becoming increasingly important to the...

Wednesday 2 September 2026
Nvidia pushes into HBM base dies as NVHBM battle heats up
The competition in high-bandwidth memory (HBM) is moving beyond DRAM stack height, bandwidth, and packaging to the base die at the very bottom of the package. As Nvidia pushes its...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Samsung eyes early 2027 LPDDR5X-PIM production, touts 3.8x performance gain
Samsung Electronics is targeting mass production of its LPDDR5X processing-in-memory (PIM) solution in late 2026 or early 2027, moving the technology closer to commercialization as...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Research insights: AI Fabric optical interconnects move into racks as 400G/lane and CPO maturity emerge as key variables
DIGITIMES observed that as AI systems continued to scale, interconnect requirements inside AI data centers had expanded from chips, packages, and boards to racks, clusters, and eventually...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Cisco: CPO is ready for mass deployment amid surging AI data-center demand
For global cloud operators and network vendors, Cisco said co-packaged optics (CPO) is moving from lab promise to commercial necessity as AI data centers strain power budgets and bandwidth...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Samsung is said to develop 8-layer HBM4E for Nvidia's NVHBM push
Samsung Electronics is reportedly developing an 8-layer version of seventh-generation high-bandwidth memory for Nvidia, matching the chipmaker's requirements for its customized NVHBM...
Monday 31 August 2026
TSMC tackles the AI I/O wall with two COUPE bandwidth paths and deeper heterogeneous integration
TSMC is sharpening its silicon photonics (SiPh) roadmap to address the widening gap between AI compute growth and chip-to-chip data movement, unveiling two bandwidth-scaling paths...
Saturday 29 August 2026
Qualcomm's HBC play pulls Samsung and SK hynix into a new race beyond HBM
The AI infrastructure race has spent the past few years fixated on high-bandwidth memory as one of the most indispensable building blocks of accelerated compute. Yet as model sizes,...
Friday 28 August 2026
Samsung eyes zHBM products from 2029 as heat remains key hurdle
Samsung Electronics expects products based on its first-generation zHBM specifications to appear in 2029 or later, giving the 3D memory concept unveiled earlier this month an initial...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Samsung signals zHBF push as memory race moves beyond HBM
Samsung Electronics is signaling a push into high bandwidth flash (HBF), extending its next-generation memory ambitions beyond HBM as rivals move to establish a new NAND-based memory...
Thursday 27 August 2026
CXMT DDR5 closes in on SK Hynix at 8,000 MT/s, benchmark gap falls below 1%
CXMT is narrowing the performance gap with SK Hynix in high-speed DDR5 memory, with new benchmark tests showing CXMT chips running stably at 8,000 MT/s and delivering productivity...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
Hot Chips 2026: Samsung advances LPDDR5X-PIM as HBM costs mount
At Hot Chips 2026, Samsung Electronics moved processing-in-memory (PIM) closer to practical deployment, presenting what it described as the industry's first LPDDR-based PIM device...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
Apple gives 2nm debut to Mac, not iPhone: M6 leads TSMC node transition
Apple on Aug. 25 introduced M6 in a new Mac mini and M5 Ultra in a new Mac Studio, framing both chips around AI compute and memory bandwidth rather than conventional CPU headline numbers...