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Monday 23 March 2026
Can Elon Musk's Terafab turn chip independence into reality—or is it too ambitious to succeed?
Elon Musk has unveiled one of his most ambitious industrial visions yet: a "Terafab" that would allow Tesla and SpaceX to design and manufacture their own semiconductors for artificial...
Monday 23 March 2026
Commentary: CPO mass production put to test as photonic integration faces challenges
Driven by massive demand from cloud AI, silicon photonics continues to gain momentum. At the Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC 2026), industry players engaged in in-depth...
Sunday 22 March 2026
Samsung union votes to strike, risking Nvidia HBM4 supply disruption
Samsung Electronics' labor union has voted overwhelmingly to initiate dispute proceedings following a breakdown in wage negotiations, raising concerns over potential disruptions to...
Sunday 22 March 2026
MediaTek, Microsoft Research crack AOC power barrier with Micro LED, 50% reduction

A joint R&D team, including MediaTek, Microsoft Research, and other suppliers, has developed a next-generation active optical cable...

Saturday 21 March 2026
Analysis: Samsung's Exynos chip rebounds with mixed performance in 2nm era
Samsung Electronics' self-developed mobile application processor (AP) series, Exynos, long criticized for poor performance and overheating issues, is showing signs of revival. The...
Friday 20 March 2026
Lumotive makes optical breakthrough, targets 10,000-port data centers

As Nvidia and Coherent signal a shift toward all-optical networking to solve the AI power crisis, Redmond-based Lumotive has announced a milestone...

Friday 20 March 2026
Nvidia and AWS strike massive GPU supply deal through 2027

On March 19, senior executives at Nvidia said the company has reached an agreement with the cloud computing division of Amazon to supply...

Friday 20 March 2026
Commentary: Nvidia sees Groq as its next Mellanox
Since the start of 2026, Jensen Huang has twice drawn a striking parallel: likening a potential deal involving Groq to Nvidia's 2020 acquisition of Mellanox Technologies. He first...
Friday 20 March 2026
As NAND makers move on, MLC memory nears the end of the line

As global NAND flash makers shift toward higher-layer 3D architectures, legacy MLC NAND is slipping into a severe supply-demand imbalance...

Friday 20 March 2026
UK-Taiwan R&D ties scale up with Foxconn, Turing Space, NSYSU
Taiwan has long leveraged its manufacturing strengths to carve out a place in the global supply chain. Now, it is going further. With research and development reach expanding overseas,...
Thursday 19 March 2026
Nvidia hosts Taiwan night at GTC 2026, Huang vows to defend Taiwan
Nvidia's GTC 2026 is well underway, with the event reaching a record scale as among the major annual events in the AI landscape. Despite a packed schedule, CEO Jensen Huang attended...
Thursday 19 March 2026
Nvidia positions Groq 3 LPUs alongside Vera Rubin for an inference-first era
The 2026 Nvidia GTC keynote signaled a clear industry shift toward inference. CEO Jensen Huang declared that "training is just the beginning — inference is the core battleground...
Thursday 19 March 2026
Groq anchors Nvidia's inference strategy; CPU redefines architecture for AI agents
As AI evolves from generating information to executing tasks, inference scenarios characterized by coding agents and requiring low latency and high throughput are ushering in the next...
Thursday 19 March 2026
Chip price surge in 2Q26 shifts cost pressure to end markets
As more European and American chipmakers and IDM giants publicly announce price hikes effective April 1 of this year, mature process foundries in Taiwan and China have also nearly...
Thursday 19 March 2026
Samsung, AMD expand AI memory and compute partnership with MOU to align HBM4 supply and DDR5 support
Samsung Electronics announced it signed a Memorandum of Understanding with AMD to expand its strategic collaboration on next-generation AI memory and computing technologies.