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Thursday 10 September 2026
Loongson raises funds to expand CPU and GPU development as AI inference boosts domestic chip plans
Chinese CPU maker Loongson recently announced a CNY2.3 billion (approx. US$342.7 million) capital increase, with the funds mainly going into information technology chips and core CPU...
Thursday 10 September 2026
Apple's A20 Pro pushes mobile chips into the 2nm era — but AI may be the bigger disruption

For years, smartphone processors have competed through a familiar formula: faster CPUs, stronger graphics, and increasingly smaller...

Thursday 10 September 2026
Arm launches second-generation CSS, targets China's AI smartphone market with C2 CPU
Arm unveiled its second-generation mobile Compute Subsystem (CSS), Arm CSS for Mobile 2, at its annual Arm Everywhere China event in Shanghai on September 8, further integrating AI...
Wednesday 9 September 2026
Arm expands push for agentic AI infrastructure with new Neoverse chip design
Arm is stepping up its role in AI infrastructure as cloud providers, original equipment makers, and software partners build systems for agentic AI, a shift that could affect data centers...
Wednesday 9 September 2026
Arm expands AI platform strategy across cloud, robotics and mobile
Arm unveiled new platforms and ecosystem programs for cloud data centers, Physical AI and mobile devices on September 8, broadening its role beyond CPU intellectual property into a...
Tuesday 8 September 2026
Intel CPU prices reportedly rising 10% again as Qualcomm and MediaTek target IPC and IoT gaps
Intel's PC CPU prices have continued to rise since the end of 2025, and supply chain sources said the company is expected to raise them by another 10%. Its low-margin small-core line...
Tuesday 8 September 2026
Huawei Kirin 9050 Pro puts LogicFolding to the test with 55% density gain, 66% lower NPU power
Huawei's Kirin 9050 Pro is the first commercial test of its Tau Scaling Law, with the company claiming a 55% increase in transistor density at the same process node while cutting NPU,...
Monday 7 September 2026
Every Chinese CPU maker grew in 1H26 but only one grew on processors
Revenue rose at every Chinese chip company examined in the first half of 2026 amid the domestic-substitution push, but the interim filings show three quite different businesses hiding...
Saturday 5 September 2026
Google TPU splits training, inference as CPU becomes next focus
As AI model training, inference, and AI agent workloads continue to grow, AI accelerators are increasingly being optimized for different tasks. Amin Vahdat, Google's senior vice president...
Thursday 3 September 2026
Intel pre-funds EMIB-T and CPU capacity, will address DRAM through partners rather than fabs
Intel's US$23 billion equity raise in August was pre-funding for a capacity build driven by demand and process confidence rather than distress, chief financial officer David Zinsner...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
XCENA teams up with Samsung on rack-scale CXL memory; demos on Intel Xeon 6
South Korean chip startup XCENA is pushing CXL beyond memory expansion and toward a new layer of server computing, unveiling measured results for its MX1 computational memory device...
Monday 31 August 2026
SiFive BigSky brings RISC-V into data centers with CUDA, Nvidia links and enterprise Linux
SiFive has introduced its BigSky SF-2U870 development server, positioning the 2U rack system as a platform for hyperscalers, software vendors and SoC developers to port server workloads...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Nvidia caps its own growth at 70% because that is all the supply it can secure
Nvidia has guided a full year in advance for the first time, and the number it chose is not a demand forecast. Chief financial officer Colette Kress told the company's second-quarter...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
TSMC packaging shift could boost AMD CoWoS share and trim Nvidia's allocation
Morgan Stanley said TSMC's advanced packaging allocation is expected to shift in 2027, as processor demand tied to agentic AI lifts AMD's CoWoS usage and reduces Nvidia's share. The...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
Hot Chips 2026: Nvidia pushes deeper into server CPUs with Vera
Nvidia used Hot Chips 2026 to disclose more details about Vera, its next-generation data-center CPU, as the company pushes deeper into the standalone server processor market long dominated...