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Wednesday 16 September 2026
South Korean NPU startups face validation hurdle in push for global sales

South Korea's neural processing unit (NPU) startups are moving from chip development toward commercial deployment, but limited experience...

Wednesday 16 September 2026
DeepSeek to hire its first CFO as it aims for public listing, expands workforce

DeepSeek is reportedly set to hire Wentao Yan, a partner at venture capital firm GL Ventures, as its first CFO. If the appointment takes...

Wednesday 16 September 2026
As AI data centers hit a transmission wall, GlobalFoundries pushes into silicon photonics
At the China International Optoelectronics Expo (CIOE), a palm-sized metal transceiver represents the shift from copper to light in data center infrastructure, one of the biggest transformations...
Wednesday 16 September 2026
Research Insight: Google scales TPU systems to 1 million chips as power becomes the bottleneck

At SEMICON Taiwan 2026, Google outlined the direction of its AI infrastructure, and DIGITIMES notes that the discussion extended well...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
The Boring lands US$3 billion from UAE investors, fueling Musk's underground transit dream
Even as he leads SpaceX through the largest IPO in history and rolls out Tesla's Cybercab robotaxi fleet in Austin, Texas, Elon Musk has not let go of his ambitions for underground...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
Wiwynn deepens US AI server footprint with US$1.6 billion Texas manufacturing hub
Wiwynn has officially opened its advanced manufacturing facility in Socorro, Texas, deepening the Taiwan-based server maker's US footprint. The move comes as booming AI infrastructure...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: AI sends the semiconductor market toward US$1.6T, with memory doing the heavy lifting
DIGITIMES Intelligence forecasts the global semiconductor market will expand from US$791.7 billion in 2025 to US$1.6 trillion in 2026, representing year-on-year growth of 109.1%.
Tuesday 15 September 2026
Global semiconductor revenue hits record US$425B in 2Q26
Global semiconductor revenue reached a record US$425 billion in the second quarter of 2026, surging 31.4% quarter-over-quarter, as AI demand and strong memory pricing continued to...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
China's space-computing race moves beyond single satellites: Shanghai's gigawatt-scale AI ambition lands in orbit
While the US showcases its strength as one of the world's established space powers — reinforced by SpaceX's growing dominance in satellite connectivity — a quieter but...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
OEM/EMS AI servers: August revenue trends, operational outlook

Taiwan's original equipment manufacturer/electronics manufacturing services (OEM/EMS) sector is witnessing a structural split between...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
AI's next bottleneck may be profitability, not compute, SK chair warns
For years, as the heat surrounding AI continued to build, competitiveness across the industry was largely measured by brute-force computing power. The broader infrastructure race was...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
Inside CIOE: takeaways from China's biggest optoelectronics show
Last week, from September 9 to 11, thousands of vendors gathered for an enormous trade show in the Chinese tech hub of Shenzhen. At the China International Optoelectronic Expo (CIOE),...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
Global data center capex could reach US$31.6 trillion by 2050 as AI demand surges
PwC and Oxford Economics jointly released their Global Data Centre Outlook 2026–50 in early September, projecting cumulative global...
Monday 14 September 2026
Kokusai Electric gains from Hitachi split as AI memory demand surges
Kokusai Electric, the semiconductor equipment maker spun off from Hitachi and later acquired by KKR, has emerged as one of the clearest winners from Hitachi's restructuring. According...
Monday 14 September 2026
Taiwan drone maker Twoway breaks into US defense supply chain with Oklahoma procurement deal
Twoway has signed an agency procurement contract with a purchasing delegation from Oklahoma, marking a breakthrough in its defense strategy as it expands North American deployment...