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Thursday 24 September 2026
Qualcomm pushes Snapdragon PCs further into Linux, GoogleBook as AI shifts to the device edge

Qualcomm used the second day of its Snapdragon Summit 2026 to underline a broader shift for Snapdragon-powered PCs, announcing Linux...

Thursday 24 September 2026
TSMC locks in 3-6% wafer out price hikes for 2027

TSMC is reportedly planning another wafer foundry price increase, with supply chain sources saying its order visibility now extends...

Thursday 24 September 2026
Qualcomm bets on earphones as the voice gateway for personal AI
Qualcomm used its keynote on the second day of Snapdragon Summit 2026 to argue that earphones, glasses, and other wearables will shape the next phase of AI computing. For global consumers...
Thursday 24 September 2026
Qualcomm adopts 'offset PoP' packaging to cool new flagship phone SoC
Qualcomm unveiled two flagship mobile platforms at the Snapdragon Summit 2026, including the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, which changes its packaging approach to improve heat...
Thursday 24 September 2026
Alibaba Zhenwu V900 joins Huawei Ascend 960 in race to fill Nvidia's China AI compute gap
Alibaba has formally unveiled its self-developed Zhenwu V900 AI chip at the 2026 Apsara Conference, with CEO Eddie Wu describing the T-Head Semiconductor-designed processor as "China's...
Thursday 24 September 2026
Qualcomm's PickNik deal brings robotics software to its edge AI push
MoveIt's integration with Qualcomm's Dragonwing and Arduino platforms could give robot builders a more direct route from on-device AI to motion planning and control, while also testing...
Thursday 24 September 2026
Trump-Xi pre-summit watch: H20 setbacks and Ascend gains reshape China's Nvidia calculus
Ahead of the Trump-Xi summit, the key semiconductor question is no longer simply how much Nvidia hardware Washington will allow China to buy.
Thursday 24 September 2026
Microsoft reframes AI ROI calculations, keeps in-house ASICs for internal use

Microsoft is changing how companies evaluate their generative AI investments, as the technology evolves from its beginnings as a productivity...

Wednesday 23 September 2026
MediaTek, Qualcomm target Googlebook with Arm push
Preorders have officially opened for "Googlebook," Google's new laptop category purpose-built for Gemini Intelligence. IC design powerhouses Qualcomm and MediaTek announced their entry...
Wednesday 23 September 2026
Ascend 950 clears higher security bar in China's latest chip assessment: who else qualified?
China has tightened the security and reliability framework around its domestic computing stack, with the latest official evaluation placing Huawei's Ascend 950 at Level II and Kunlunxin's...
Wednesday 23 September 2026
Lightmatter launches an optical module that cuts AI cluster fiber in half
US photonics company Lightmatter has launched an optical module that sends and receives data over a single strand of fiber. The company says this halves the cabling needed to connect...
Tuesday 22 September 2026
SiPearl delivers first homegrown server chips for Europe's exascale supercomputer
SiPearl, a fabless company backed by the European Union and France, has delivered the first Rhea1 CPU samples to Bull for integration into Europe's JUPITER supercomputer, moving the...
Tuesday 22 September 2026
Meta's AI agent Muse tops app charts, driving AMD's market cap past US$1 trillion

Meta's new AI agent, Muse, has leapt to the top of app charts roughly two weeks after its release. Its popularity has helped push up...

Tuesday 22 September 2026
DeepSeek bets on Huawei chips for model training as Nvidia's China sales slip

DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng said during a call with investors that he aims to rely on Huawei chips to train the startup's models in the...

Tuesday 22 September 2026
DEEPX targets smart glasses with low-power NPU, eyes 6G AI RAN
South Korean AI semiconductor company DEEPX is reportedly conducting a proof of concept with a US smart glasses company to test whether its low-power neural processing unit (NPU) can...