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Friday 29 May 2026
Winbond pushes 3x-priced AI Si-Cap shipments as Semco order ramps in 2027
AI demand for high-performance chips is driving up orders for semiconductor silicon capacitors, or Si-Caps, with Samsung Electro-Mechanics and several Taiwanese memory makers emerging...
Friday 29 May 2026
EU seeks to spur government buying of homegrown chips
The European Commission wants governments to buy chips from EU startups as Brussels seeks to reduce the bloc's reliance on US and East Asian suppliers, Reuters reported, citing...
Friday 29 May 2026
Qualcomm bets on US$300 laptops as memory costs squeeze PC makers
Qualcomm Technologies is pushing its Windows-on-Arm strategy into lower-cost laptops with a new Snapdragon C platform, betting that PC makers squeezed by rising memory costs will look...
Friday 29 May 2026
Analysis: ASIC market tightens as capacity becomes key battleground for cloud chips
Cloud service providers' demand for application-specific integrated circuits, or ASICs, is increasingly locked in as advanced process nodes, advanced packaging, and component supply...
Thursday 28 May 2026
Taiwan's Thunder Tiger rejects China supply chain claims, advances to Phase II of US Drone Dominance Program
Taiwanese drone manufacturer Thunder Tiger, the first company in Asia to obtain the US Department of Defense's (DoD) Blue UAS cybersecurity certification, has passed the first phase...
Thursday 28 May 2026
Amazon and Snowflake expand alliance amid agentic AI race
Snowflake, the cloud data company at the center of the artificial intelligence boom, said on Wednesday that it would spend US$6 billion over the next five years on Amazon Web Services...
Thursday 28 May 2026
Commentary: China's AI chip certification becomes new market gatekeeper
China has brought AI chips into its national security and reliability evaluation framework for the first time, turning what looks like a product certification process into something...
Thursday 28 May 2026
ByteDance's chip ambition grows with US$70 billion capex plan
ByteDance is considering a sharp increase in capital spending this year as the TikTok owner pushes deeper into artificial intelligence infrastructure — a move that could make...
Thursday 28 May 2026
Qualcomm wins ASIC customers beyond ByteDance
Qualcomm has reportedly landed more than one ASIC customer, with a separate project for a US cloud service provider also taking shape, according to industry sources. The development...
Thursday 28 May 2026
Synopsys sees hyperscaler chip ambitions fueling AI-related demand
Synopsys said growing demand for artificial intelligence chips from semiconductor companies and hyperscale data center operators is driving broader adoption of its electronic design...
Thursday 28 May 2026
Samsung foundry targets robotics, auto AI chips with Cadence platform
Samsung Electronics is preparing to expand its foundry push into physical AI semiconductors through a chiplet platform developed with Cadence, targeting chips for robotics, automotive...
Wednesday 27 May 2026
Samsung reportedly to expand Vietnam footprint with new memory chip testing plant

Samsung Electronics plans to invest VND39 trillion (approx. US$1.5 billion) in a new semiconductor testing facility in northern Vietnam,...

Wednesday 27 May 2026
Qualcomm and ByteDance's rumored AI ASIC deal signals potential shift in China's data center chip supply
The agreement between Qualcomm and ByteDance positions the former for large-scale AI ASIC demand from the latter, as reported by Bloomberg, but market viability remains uncertain...
Wednesday 27 May 2026
China clears 9 domestic AI chips for state procurement
China has formally brought AI chips into its national security and reliability evaluation framework for the first time, marking a further expansion of the country's Information Technology...
Wednesday 27 May 2026
Qualcomm's ByteDance deal gives smartphone chipmaker entry into AI data center market
Qualcomm has reached a deal to supply AI data center chips to ByteDance, giving the US smartphone processor designer a potentially high-volume customer as it tries to expand into AI...