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Friday 29 May 2026
MediaTek weighs price hikes, reaffirms TSMC partnership
MediaTek held its shareholders' meeting on May 29. Addressing the company's future outlook, Chairman Ming-Kai Tsai said that while the mobile phone market in 2026 has performed below...
Friday 29 May 2026
Analysis: ASIC market tightens as capacity becomes key battleground for cloud chips
Cloud service providers' demand for application-specific integrated circuits, or ASICs, is increasingly locked in as advanced process nodes, advanced packaging, and component supply...
Friday 29 May 2026
MediaTek brings Wi-Fi 8, 6G and optical interconnects to COMPUTEX
MediaTek will bring a broad slate of next-generation connectivity and compute technologies to COMPUTEX 2026, highlighting Wi-Fi 8, 6G concepts, optical data-center interconnects and...
Thursday 28 May 2026
Qualcomm wins ASIC customers beyond ByteDance
Qualcomm has reportedly landed more than one ASIC customer, with a separate project for a US cloud service provider also taking shape, according to industry sources. The development...
Wednesday 27 May 2026
Broadcom and Taiwan's chipmakers ride ASIC wave
The world's largest chip designers are steadily growing more bullish on the future of cloud artificial intelligence (AI) chips known as ASICs (application-specific integrated circuits)...
Friday 22 May 2026
Samsung's quiet Taiwan play: Pairing memory with foundry to chip away at TSMC
Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Jae-yong quietly visited Taiwan on May 21 and met with MediaTek CEO Rick Tsai, according to semiconductor supply chain sources, in a move aimed at...
Wednesday 20 May 2026
Google and Blackstone could lift ASIC demand with TPU leasing joint venture
Recent media reports say Google is set to team up with Blackstone to form a new cloud computing leasing company, with Blackstone as the main shareholder. The new venture aims to build...
Tuesday 19 May 2026
MediaTek probe jolts Taiwan lawmakers as market shifts
As of May 18, 2026, TSMC's market value stood at NT$58 trillion (US$1.8 billion), MediaTek's at NT$5.45 trillion, and Delta Electronics' at NT$5.2 trillion — the three largest...
Tuesday 19 May 2026
Chipmakers rejoice as Googlebook entry heats up AI PC race
Google's announcement for the upcoming Googlebook, which tightly integrates Gemini features, signals that it is no longer limiting its PC strategy to the Chromebook line and is pushing...
Friday 15 May 2026
Phison aiDAPTIV accelerates edge AI deployment with Dimensity 9500
Phison and MediaTek teamed up at the recent Dimensity Developer Conference (MDDC 2026) to run a 20B large language model (LLM) on a single device using aiDAPTIV on MediaTek's Dimensity...
Thursday 14 May 2026
MediaTek courts Intel as Google pushes for alternatives to CoWoS
MediaTek's decision to pursue advanced packaging partnerships with both TSMC's CoWoS ecosystem and Intel's EMIB platform has become one of the semiconductor industry's most closely...
Tuesday 12 May 2026
Apple, Qualcomm and MediaTek take different paths as TSMC capacity stays tight
TSMC is facing fierce customer competition and supply shortages as demand surges for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing chips, forcing fabless chipmakers to consider...
Monday 11 May 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: MediaTek denies Intel link as TSMC's packaging lead faces new test

DIGITIMES senior analyst Luke Lin said Warren Buffett's investment in Apple should be viewed not simply as a stock trade, but as a bet...

Monday 11 May 2026
Weekly news roundup: Taiwan freezes trading in MediaTek; 2D NAND shortage spirals
Below are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories from the week of May 4-10, 2026:
Thursday 7 May 2026
Taiwan freezes trading in MediaTek as AI chip rally pushes valuation past US$165 billion
Taiwan's stock exchange placed MediaTek — the chip designer behind silicon used in Samsung phones, Chromebooks, and a growing share of AI hardware — under trading restrictions...