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Tuesday 19 May 2026
Commentary: TSMC Arizona profit tops SMIC and UMC combined, fueled by three key drivers
TSMC's Arizona fab has turned profitable, surprising the market and supply chain after years of warnings from founder Morris Chang and others that overseas fabs could lose money. Supply-chain...
Tuesday 19 May 2026
Analysis: CXMT's profit surge highlights tighter memory-logic ties in China
ChangXin Memory Technologies' latest IPO financial disclosures have sent a strong signal across China's semiconductor industry, revealing how quickly the country's top DRAM maker has...
Tuesday 19 May 2026
Commentary: Sanctions reshaped China's foundry sector — just not in the way markets expected
China's foundry sector is charting a different course as the global semiconductor market remains focused on AI GPUs, the 2nm process node, and advanced packaging. Led by Semiconductor...
Friday 15 May 2026
Commentary: The Thucydides trap and TSMC's COUPE
On May 14, Xi Jinping opened his summit with Donald Trump in Beijing by invoking the Thucydides Trap — the idea that a rising power and an established hegemon are structurally...
Friday 15 May 2026
Analysis: Mythos sparks access fight as AI models become strategic assets
Anthropic's decision to limit access of its advanced model, Claude Mythos, to only the US government and a circle of more than 40 Project Glasswing partners has broad implications...
Friday 15 May 2026
Analysis: Europe embraces Chinese EVs while North America loses momentum
Despite persistent uncertainty in the global economy, volatility in energy markets is accelerating a structural shift in the auto industry. New data released May 13 by the consultancy...
Thursday 14 May 2026
Analysis: Samsung labor standoff underscores diverging Taiwan-Korea semiconductor workforce models
The ongoing Samsung Electronics labor dispute highlights sharply different labor models in South Korea and Taiwan, where firms such as TSMC operate with minimal union presence and...
Thursday 14 May 2026
Analysis: How OpenAI is playing the Cerebras card to reshape its AI supply chain
OpenAI's deep partnership with chipmaker Cerebras has taken a public turn as Cerebras prepares to list in the US, a development that underscores OpenAI's effort to restructure its...
Wednesday 13 May 2026
Commentary: AI server ODMs face margin squeeze as memory costs soar
As AI server orders surge, system assembly makers are finding that more business does not always mean better profits. High-priced GPUs and soaring memory costs are pushing up revenue...
Wednesday 13 May 2026
Commentary: Trump's China dealbook favors Boeing, soybeans, and Wall Street over AI chips

Against a backdrop of persistently high tensions between the US and China, the upcoming Trump-Xi summit is being closely watched not only...

Tuesday 12 May 2026
Commentary: Trump-Xi summit may offer China a pause, not a truce

Ahead of the expected Trump-Xi summit in Beijing, the US and China are first holding preparatory talks in South Korea, placing trade, technology,...

Tuesday 12 May 2026
Commentary: SEA semiconductor industry pivots towards AI as a strategic hub
SEMICON SEA 2026 drew heavy crowds, underscoring Southeast Asia's emergence as an indispensable "strategic hub" in the global AI compute supply chain. The region's semiconductor players...
Tuesday 12 May 2026
Commentary: Musk's xAI exit shows Anthropic's AI strength
On May 6, Elon Musk was in several places at once: confronting OpenAI in court, announcing on X that xAI would no longer operate as an independent company, and handing over a large...
Monday 11 May 2026
Analysis: Forget the hardware race — Unitree wants to own the robot platform
When Unitree Robotics added "Mantis Boxing", Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do and even "Kamehameha" moves to its humanoid robot application store, the immediate reaction from many observers...
Friday 8 May 2026
Analysis: Anthropic's xAI deal puts Musk's GPU efficiency problem in focus

Elon Musk's latest move to team up with Anthropic in a major computing-capacity agreement captures the logic of "the enemy of my enemy...