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Wednesday 23 April 2025
China's AI data centers resort to reselling graphics cards; Nvidia 4090 becomes lifeline
Following the US government's export control of Nvidia's China-specific H20 chips, rumors have surfaced that the flagship gaming graphics card RTX 5090D, also tailored for the Chinese...
Wednesday 23 April 2025
Huawei Ascend 910C chip set for mass rollout as China hunts for an Nvidia stand-in
Huawei is reportedly set to begin mass shipments of its next-gen AI chip, the Ascend 910C, as early as May 2025. Positioned as China's homegrown rival to Nvidia's H100, the chip is...
Tuesday 22 April 2025
TSMC warns of limits of ability to keep its AI chips from China
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. listed the challenges of ensuring export control compliance by its customers, months after the company's artificial intelligence silicon was...
Monday 21 April 2025
Samsung lifts HBM yield as US tariffs loom over China-made chips
South Korean media have reported that Samsung Electronics has made notable progress in developing next-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM). According to Chosun Biz, the...
Monday 21 April 2025
Tenstorrent aligns with Rapidus for 2nm chip validation, targets year-end tape-out
Tenstorrent, a US-based semiconductor design firm, held a press conference on April 17 at its newly established Tokyo office to discuss its deepening collaboration with Rapidus in...
Monday 21 April 2025
Samsung faces delays in 1c DRAM development, raising concerns over HBM4 timeline

Samsung Electronics is encountering delays in the development of its next-generation 1c DRAM chips, according to sources familiar with...

Monday 21 April 2025
Nvidia's China workaround crumbles as Huawei, domestic rivals race to fill void
Nvidia's China strategy recently suffered a major blow as the US Department of Commerce placed its China-specific H20 chip under indefinite export control. The move came just a day...
Monday 21 April 2025
Weekly news roundup: Huawei accelerates, Nvidia reels, and TSMC anchors next wave of US chip reshoring
These are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories from the week of April 14 – April 20.
Monday 21 April 2025
Tariff fears cloud ASML's outlook as Intel, Samsung pull back
Amid ongoing tariff disputes, the semiconductor industry is facing a severe test. In addition to the imminent semiconductor tariffs promised by US President Donald Trump, which remain...
Saturday 19 April 2025
Huawei's AI ambitions face energy efficiency test

Huawei's CloudMatrix 384 (CM384) is making waves as the most ambitious AI hardware rollout in China to date—a rack-scale system powered...

Saturday 19 April 2025
Taiwan accelerates unmanned vehicle push amid global defense and tariff tensions with the US
As global trade grapples with the turbulence of tariff disputes, defense and military demands remain undeterred, emerging as pivotal bargaining chips in negotiations over reciprocal...
Friday 18 April 2025
Chips, China, and Congress: Nvidia and Jensen Huang's high-stakes diplomatic balancing act
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang returned to China this week in a markedly more high-profile visit than before. According to the Financial Times, he...
Friday 18 April 2025
XPeng's AI power play: homegrown chips, humanoids, and the race to the skies
At its "Global Brand Night" in Hong Kong on April 15, XPeng Motors unveiled its 2025 global flagship, the XPeng X9, and laid out an ambitious new AI roadmap. Chairman and CEO He Xiaopeng...
Friday 18 April 2025
China tightens noose on US chips—with a twist that splits the industry
As US-China tariff tensions intensify, Beijing is taking aim at American-made semiconductors with new origin rules that could redraw the global chip supply map.
Friday 18 April 2025
Supply chain remains cautious as TSMC's confidence boost proves limited
On April 17, TSMC reported that there were no significant changes in its growth momentum and investment plans. The company stressed that customers have not made any adjustments in...