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Friday 2 October 2026
Commentary: Broadcom's US$42 billion Anthropic loan exposes AI's emerging chip-financing loop
When the underlying economics of infrastructure commitments meet the financing muscle of the companies supplying foundational compute, the traditional boundary between supplier and...
Friday 2 October 2026
Commentary: AMD challenges Nvidia in embodied AI as Lisa Su acquires Fei-Fei Li's World Labs
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has agreed to acquire World Labs in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately US$8.2 billion. Following the closing, World Labs will operate as...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Analysis: China's AI data center buildout vaults to No. 2 as Big Tech capex races toward US$100 billion

China's rapid expansion of AI applications is driving a fresh wave of data center construction. SemiAnalysis estimates that the country has already...

Thursday 1 October 2026
Focus: The hidden price of Nvidia's AI agent security play
Nvidia's new AI agent security platform puts hardware at the centre of agent control, but it also forces enterprises to weigh stronger protection against higher infrastructure costs...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Commentary: What risks does China's DRAM capacity face amid tightening market?
China's continued expansion of DRAM capacity has raised a key question for the global memory market: will supply and demand flip?
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Commentary: Garmin returns to OLED, putting Micro LED on notice
Garmin's decision to offer OLED options but no Micro LED version in its new flagship smartwatches, the fenix 9 and fenix 9 Pro, has revived debate over whether the emerging display...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Analysis: Elon Musk's AI safety push clashes with regulation

Global AI has entered a period of dramatic turmoil, with leading researchers warning that top labs are "gambling with our lives" and...

Thursday 24 September 2026
Commentary: Apple's M8 Ultra AI server plan could pull Apple Silicon into Nvidia's enterprise infrastructure game

After more than a decade away, Apple may be preparing to return to the enterprise server market. According to The Information, as reported...

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
Trump-Xi pre-summit watch: China charts a sovereignty-first path for frontier AI
When Donald Trump and Xi Jinping discuss artificial intelligence, the deeper divide may not be over whether AI needs rules, but over what those rules are designed to protect.
Wednesday 23 September 2026
Commentary: Zhengfei Ren rumors expose a deeper chill across China's tech sector

Online rumors that Huawei founder Zhengfei Ren and his family had disappeared from public view have reignited concern over the fate...

Wednesday 23 September 2026
Analysis: Foxconn's EV push moves beyond demo and toward scale
Foxconn Group's electric vehicle business is entering a new phase as it shifts from proving the concept to preparing for mass production and wider regional expansion. The change could...
Tuesday 22 September 2026
Analysis: Will AI glasses replace the iPhone? —Cook and Ternus see it differently
Following Apple's executive transition, former CEO Tim Cook and new chief John Ternus have presented contrasting visions for the next generation of mobile devices, spotlighting a key...
Monday 21 September 2026
Analysis: The race to superintelligence meets a demand for restraint — and the industry is split
The extraordinary technological progress humanity has witnessed since AI first emerged has propelled a fundamental shift in industrial development. With experts hailing AI as the next...
Friday 18 September 2026
Analysis: China's 15th five-year plan spotlights diamond for AI chip thermal management
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) have highlighted ultra-wide bandgap (UWBG) semiconductor materials,...