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Tuesday 18 August 2026
Nvidia swaps credit support for exclusive chip sales in OpenAI's Ohio data center campus

Nvidia has reached a deal with OpenAI to provide up to US$105 billion in credit guarantees for the AI startup's upcoming 8GW data center...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
Nvidia vs Broadcom: Dueling AI financing bets, Contrasting risks

Nvidia has unveiled a US$500 billion artificial intelligence (AI) compute financing plan with six Wall Street giants—Goldman...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
Nvidia's Taipei hub pushes power demand to 240MW, triggering scramble to keep lights on

Nvidia's new Taiwan headquarters will be located in the Beitou-Shilin Technology Park, with construction expected to begin by the end...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
Everlight Electronics' 2Q26 gross margin hit by raw material costs, recovery expected in 2H26
LED packaging manufacturer Everlight Electronics stated that due to higher raw material costs, gross margin fell to 24.16% in the second quarter of 2026, down 7.93pp year-over-year...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
AI drives power semiconductors into at least a two-year shortage
The cloud AI data center boom is not close to bursting, according to chip supply-chain players. They say that analog ICs, including power semiconductors, will stay tight for years...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
India moves beyond electronics assembly as new approvals deepen component and equipment ambitions

India is moving into the next phase of its electronics manufacturing strategy, using its progress in downstream assembly as a base...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
AI server supply chain ramps up capital, talent, and capacity
The AI server supply chain continues to expand capital expenditures, pouring in cash, building factories, and hiring aggressively, to heighten barriers to entry. On top of rapid product...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
Why AMD still owns US$565M of SpaceX shares after Musk chose Nvidia
Elon Musk has made SpaceX's AI hardware strategy unusually clear: future infrastructure will rely exclusively on Nvidia chips and technology. Yet AMD, Nvidia's largest rival in AI...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
Taiwan advances national quantum computing plan as key procurement contract nears

Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) is preparing the second-phase quantum research program, known as the "Quantum...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
ByteDance, Hollywood reach copyright pact for AI video, image tools
ByteDance and the Motion Picture Association (MPA) have reached an agreement to strengthen copyright safeguards for the Chinese tech giant's AI video and image-generation models, marking...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
South Korea-India venture Indichem targets semiconductor materials supply chain without China
A new joint venture between South Korean and Indian chemical firms is betting that semiconductor materials can be made without touching China at any stage, positioning itself as an...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
SpaceX-Cursor acquisition closes the loop between AI compute, models and applications
As the AI race increasingly evolves around who can secure the most compute, develop the strongest models and convert them into commercially viable applications, SpaceX has moved another...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
MediaTek widens ASIC services as market share surges

MediaTek has reportedly landed major orders for Google TPU products in recent years, even appearing to challenge Broadcom's position...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
Column: Why model training needs distillation
Around 2019, a friend working at a large cloud services provider excitedly shared that his team had trained a CNN model for document text recognition with good results, but the computing...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
Tech blocs of the new Cold War: US pushes allies to pick a side

The intensifying US-China technology rivalry is moving beyond export controls and semiconductor restrictions. What comes next could...