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Friday 5 September 2025
Tech Forum 2025: AI chip testing seen as necessary evil amid heterogeneous integration challenges, says National Instruments
As AI chip manufacturing technology rapidly evolves, US test equipment manufacturer National Instruments (NI) points out that many view the testing phase as a "necessary evil." Customers...
Friday 5 September 2025
Exclusive: NAND flash rally gains steam with SanDisk's 10% price hike
SanDisk is spearheading a fresh round of NAND flash price hikes, issuing an exclusive notice of a 10% increase across all channels and consumer products starting September 4. The...
Friday 5 September 2025
OpenAI reportedly developing custom AI chips with Broadcom, mass output slated for 2026
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan revealed the company has landed a US$10 billion order from a mystery customer, which insiders now identify as OpenAI. The two firms are developing OpenAI's first...
Friday 5 September 2025
China's AI agenda finds a backer: Ant Group expands into chips
Ant Group is ramping up investments in China's semiconductor industry, targeting several domestic chip startups. After securing dominance in payments and fintech, the company is shifting...
Friday 5 September 2025
Google reportedly explores combining TPU chips with Nvidia GPUs to cut costs and boost data center scaling
Google has reportedly been in talks with smaller CSPs to deploy its proprietary TPU chips alongside Nvidia Corporation's GPUs in data centers. This approach aims to reduce reliance...
Friday 5 September 2025
Samsung and SK Hynix reportedly delay DDR4 phase-out as older chips prove more profitable than DDR5
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are reportedly pushing back plans to phase out DDR4 DRAM, extending production until 2026 after prices for the older chips surged past next-generation...
Friday 5 September 2025
Huawei remains China’s sole heavyweight in AI chips
China's drive to localize artificial intelligence chips briefly sparked speculation that Cambricon Technologies would gain ground and that Alibaba might join the race with its own...
Thursday 4 September 2025
Tech Forum 2025: Global smartphone market plateaus as Apple and Samsung bet on chips and ecosystems
After over a decade of rapid expansion, the global smartphone market has reached a mature and highly competitive stage. DIGITIMES projects that global smartphone shipments will hit...
Thursday 4 September 2025
Korean industry sees US VEU revocations as rare earth talk leverage
Analysts say the US government's decision to revoke Verified End-User (VEU) authorizations for semiconductor equipment exports to Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix's Chinese factories...
Thursday 4 September 2025
Chunghwa Precision Test reports 37% revenue increase in August fueled by AI and mobile chip demand
Taiwan-based chip probing and testing solution provider Chunghwa Precision Test announced a 37% year-over-year revenue increase in August 2024, driven by rising demand for next-generation...
Thursday 4 September 2025
Baidu, Huawei push supernode clusters to sidestep chip limits in China's AI race
The generative AI surge is accelerating at record pace, with computing power emerging as the decisive asset. As advanced AI chips grow scarce under tightening export controls, China...
Thursday 4 September 2025
Tech Forum 2025: Qualcomm and MediaTek take smartphone rivalry to the cloud in AI chips
With global smartphone sales leveling off, Qualcomm and MediaTek are taking their long-running rivalry into the fast-growing cloud AI ASIC market. DIGITIMES Research estimates MediaTek...
Thursday 4 September 2025
China’s AI server market surges to US$22B, set to top US$100B by 2029
China is ramping up efforts to build an integrated nationwide computing network as the global race for artificial intelligence (AI) intensifies. The State Council's "AI+" strategy...
Wednesday 3 September 2025
Infineon teams up with Nvidia on 800V data center power, eyes EUR1 billion AI business
As artificial intelligence transforms data centers worldwide, the spotlight has expanded beyond computing and networking to power semiconductors. AI chips draw enormous amounts of...
Wednesday 3 September 2025
Ant Group buys stake in InnoStar to back China's chip self-sufficiency
Ant Group has taken a minority stake in InnoStar Semiconductor (Shanghai) Co., a rising Chinese memory chipmaker, highlighting Beijing's drive for semiconductor self-sufficiency as...