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Tuesday 28 April 2026
Cadence signals strong start to 2026 as AI drives growth across EDA and IP

Cadence Design Systems reported a robust first quarter for 2026, underscoring how accelerating demand for AI is reshaping semiconductor...

Tuesday 28 April 2026
AI-driven demand and record backlog fuel Cadence's strong start to 2026
Cadence Design Systems reported a solid first quarter for 2026, with growth driven by accelerating AI demand and sustained customer investment in chip and system design tools.
Tuesday 28 April 2026
Moore Threads hits first profit, AI compute orders drive growth
China's domestic GPU developer Moore Threads is shifting from heavy R&D spending to early monetisation, delivering triple-digit revenue growth in 2025 and its first quarterly profit...
Monday 27 April 2026
OpenAI reportedly taps Apple suppliers for hardware push; MediaTek, Qualcomm, Luxshare in focus

OpenAI's expanding push into consumer hardware is drawing attention to potential supply chain shifts, after industry analyst Ming-Chi...

Monday 27 April 2026
Meta signs deal for AWS's Graviton CPUs as inferential and agentic AI enter the scene
Meta and Amazon announced on April 24 that Meta will use Graviton5 CPUs made by Amazon Web Services (AWS). The deal illustrates the growing importance of CPU chips for increasingly...
Monday 27 April 2026
Broadcom, Marvell set to benefit as 1.6T optical modules near mass production
1.6T optical communication modules are set for broad adoption in AI data centers in 2026, with optical transceiver vendors and key IC design houses preparing for shipments. Broadcom's...
Monday 27 April 2026
MediaTek ASIC revenue may overtake smartphone chips amid Google's TPU ramps
MediaTek's application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) business is drawing market attention as volume production of Google's tensor processing units (TPUs) is expected to ramp from...
Monday 27 April 2026
India roundup: Micron ramp, Dholera SEZ push India toward full-stack chip manufacturing

India is accelerating its semiconductor ambitions, from Micron Technology's Sanand ramp to new...

Friday 24 April 2026
Chipmakers face higher cost pressure as packaging outpaces foundry price hikes
In recent weeks, chip companies ranging from major players to small and medium-sized firms have issued price increase notices or begun renegotiating product prices with select customers...
Friday 24 April 2026
Google splits AI chips into training and inference TPUs, signaling shift toward workload-specialized AI infrastructure
At Google Cloud Next 26, Google Cloud announced a strategic shift in its AI hardware approach by introducing two distinct eighth-generation Tensor Processing Units: the TPU v8t for...
Friday 24 April 2026
STMicroelectronics tops 1Q26 guidance, sees data center revenue surpass US$1 billion by 2027
STMicroelectronics reported first-quarter 2026 revenue of US$3.10 billion, up 23% year over year, with results coming in above the midpoint of its guidance as growth in personal electronics...
Friday 24 April 2026
Texas Instruments eyes further price hikes amid strong data center, industrial chip demand
Texas Instruments (TI) reported robust results for the first quarter of 2026 on April 23, driven by surging AI data center demand and a notable rebound in industrial control applications...
Friday 24 April 2026
MCU supplier Artery weighs price hikes on AI capacity squeeze, new applications drive growth

Microcontroller supplier Artery Technology (Arterytek or Arterychip) delivered a strong start to 2026, posting first-quarter consolidated...

Friday 24 April 2026
Texas Instruments says edge AI opportunities extend beyond robots
In an April 23 interview, Amichai Ron of Texas Instruments (TI) warned that edge AI will reshape devices worldwide, extending far beyond robotics and driving greater semiconductor...
Friday 24 April 2026
Exclusive: Google ramps new TPU servers, Taiwan suppliers gain share

Google's unveiling of its eighth-generation tensor processing unit (TPU) at Cloud Next 2026 is expected to drive the next wave of growth...