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Thursday 27 August 2026
Chart: Nvidia's hyperscale revenue doubled again — and that was the slower half of the business
Nvidia has made a point of it in three consecutive earnings decks: year-on-year growth has accelerated for four straight quarters, which the company calls unprecedented at its scale...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Commentary: YMTC's high-profile IPO masks three long-term hurdles
Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) has officially kicked off its STAR Market IPO process. In the first quarter of 2026, China's largest 3D NAND Flash manufacturer delivered an impressive...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Chart: Nvidia's segment split tells only half the AI demand story
Nvidia's data center business now splits almost evenly between hyperscalers and everyone else — US$48.7 billion against US$40.3 billion in the July quarter. The obvious reading...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Analysis: Smartwatch demand set to outpace broader hardware market in 2026
Smartwatch shipments are expected to continue rising faster than broader IT hardware in 2026, even as smartphones and notebook PCs see weaker growth due to higher memory costs. For...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Insight: One Nexperia, two supply chains? China-Europe split tests automotive chip model
Nexperia China is accelerating its separation from the Dutch chipmaker's traditional European manufacturing network, raising the prospect that one of the world's largest suppliers...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Commentary: Nvidia's 15% hike piles pressure on the AI supply chain, lifts ASIC prospects
Nvidia has reportedly notified major customers that server systems using its AI chips will rise by more than 15%, with the new pricing set to apply to models shipping from early 2027,...
Monday 24 August 2026
Analysis: SK Hynix pushes beyond HBM with HBF and CPO
SK Hynix is moving on several fronts as it pushes deeper into system-level memory competition. From high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and high-bandwidth flash (HBF) to a recently published...
Monday 24 August 2026
Commentary: Robots go to work— highlight of the five robotic trends at WRC 2026

The 2026 World Robot Conference (WRC) opened in Beijing on August 19, and the biggest change on this year's show floor was not the larger...

Friday 21 August 2026
Charts: TSMC's share of Taiwan chip manufacturing revenue falls to 81.8% as memory makers scale up
Foundry leader Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) grew 37% year to date — and still lost four percentage points of the sub-sector's revenue share, because the...
Friday 21 August 2026
Charts: AI test demand drives broadest growth among Taiwan's chip equipment suppliers
Thirty-eight of 43 companies grew year to date at a median rate of 28.7% — the highest of any semiconductor sub-sector — with test handlers, sockets and probe cards recurring...
Friday 21 August 2026
Charts: Foxconn is losing share of Taiwan's EMS revenue as Quanta and Wistron near double
The sub-sector's dominant supplier grew 37.9% year to date and still ranks only seventh of 20, while the other 19 companies grew 56.9% between them.
Thursday 20 August 2026
Analysis: Google keeps Sunfish at Broadcom, Zebrafish at MediaTek — Marvell's US$12.2bn warrant buys a category nobody was defending

One word in Marvell Technology's August 19 filing decides how the Google agreement should be read. The custom silicon programs, it says,...

Thursday 20 August 2026
Commentary: How iPad Air became a catalyst for IT OLED expansion
Apple kicked off the tablet OLED era in 2024, introducing Tandem OLED in the iPad Pro to overcome bottlenecks in display lifespan and brightness. The iPad mini followed, set to adopt...
Thursday 20 August 2026
Analysis: Unitree IPO exposes the economics behind China's humanoid robot boom

Unitree Robotics' August 19 debut on Shanghai's STAR Market did more than crown China's first mainland-listed humanoid robot maker....

Thursday 20 August 2026
Analysis: Marvell's US$120bn Google deal is the AI chip industry's new playbook — equity for orders, not cash
Marvell Technology is set to deepen its role in Google's AI infrastructure through an expanded agreement to develop custom chips, in a deal that could generate roughly US$120 billion...