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Tuesday 16 September 2025
Beijing's anti-dumping drive puts US analog chips on notice, clearing path for Chinese alternatives
The US–China semiconductor dispute has entered a new phase of escalation, with the US Department of Commerce adding 23 Chinese entities to its Entity List, including 13 semiconductor...
Tuesday 16 September 2025
Intel offloads majority stake in Altera to Silver Lake, tightening focus on core business
Intel Corp. has completed the sale of a controlling stake in its Altera programmable chip unit to private equity firm Silver Lake, marking a significant step in the company's ongoing...
Tuesday 16 September 2025
Immigration raids raise doubts over Samsung’s 2026 Texas fab schedule
Samsung's ambitious US expansion faces an unexpected obstacle that could derail its 2026 production timeline. A mounting visa crisis, triggered by immigration raids on South Korean...
Tuesday 16 September 2025
Huawei’s Ren says failed Motorola deal set stage for chip self-reliance
Since Huawei established Shenzhen HiSilicon Semiconductor in 2004, its semiconductor business has supported over two decades of development and innovation within Huawei's product...
Tuesday 16 September 2025
NVIDIA's Rubin CPX may reshape AI memory demand, boosting GDDR7 over HBM
Nvidia is preparing a potential shake-up in the AI semiconductor memory market with the introduction of its next-generation AI processor, Rubin CPX, which is designed for large-context...
Monday 15 September 2025
Nvidia antitrust ruling clouds US-China trade talks

US and Chinese officials entered a second day of negotiations in Madrid on Monday, just as Beijing announced a preliminary ruling that...

Monday 15 September 2025
Taiwan's government-built 12-inch fab to come online in 2028, integrating industry and academia capabilities
TSMC has donated several sets of used 12-inch chipmaking equipment to the government, which has had the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) under the Ministry of Economic...
Monday 15 September 2025
Chipmakers bet big on AI glasses as market momentum builds
Although the AI glasses market has yet to experience clear explosive growth, major system manufacturers, brands, and startups are continuously increasing their resources and development...
Monday 15 September 2025
Arm raises stakes in mobile AI with Lumex CSS; debuts C1 CPU and Mali G1-Ultra GPU
Arm unveiled its Lumex Compute Subsystem (CSS) on September 10 at the Unlocked Summit in Shanghai, signaling its boldest step yet to elevate AI and gaming on flagship smartphones...
Monday 15 September 2025
Omnipotent combination of semiconductor and AI ushers in new phase of technological explosion, says former TSMC R&D VP
Former TSMC R&D vice president Jack Sun, who currently serves as senior vice president at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), emphasized that semiconductors can no...
Monday 15 September 2025
Google eyes Nvidia's turf with new TPU-as-a-service model

In a significant strategic pivot, Google is preparing to move its custom-built Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) beyond its own cloud infrastructure—marking...

Monday 15 September 2025
Weekly news roundup: Tech giants pivot and partner as AI demand collides with geopolitical reality
Below are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories from the week of September 8–September 14.
Monday 15 September 2025
US adds 23 Chinese firms to entity list as China launches anti-dumping probe on US chip imports
The technological rivalry between China and the US escalated further on September 12, when the US Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) added 23 Chinese companies,...
Monday 15 September 2025
What Huawei’s shake-up at HiSilicon means
On September 11, Chinese media reported that Huawei's semiconductor unit HiSilicon has entered a new leadership phase. Eric Xu resigned as chairman, with Jeffrey Gao assuming the...
Sunday 14 September 2025
Beyond the data center: Nvidia’s GB10 and DGX Spark mark a new phase in its AI strategy
At the recent Hot Chips 2025 conference, Nvidia detailed its latest GB10 system-on-chip (SoC) architecture, representing a miniaturized application of the Blackwell GPU architecture...