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Monday 14 September 2026
Foxconn subsidiary broadens AI interconnect role as 1.6T enters deployment
AI data centers are moving decisively toward 1.6T connectivity, with 800G now mainstream in AI clusters and 400G remaining common in general cloud and enterprise deployments.
Monday 14 September 2026
Sandisk recruits engineers in Korea as memory talent race heats up

Sandisk is making an unusual push into engineering recruitment in South Korea, seeking talent across NAND system architecture, NAND...

Monday 14 September 2026
Google TPU pays back investment in 1 year, creating upside for MediaTek, Broadcom ASIC revenues

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian recently revealed that Google's overall payback period for AI server investments is less than two years,...

Monday 14 September 2026
CPO nears mass production — next battle about interfaces, yield and maintenance
As AI computing bandwidth keeps rising, optical interconnect architectures are moving beyond pluggable optical modules toward near-packaged optics (NPO) and co-packaged optics (CPO)...
Monday 14 September 2026
AI server tracker: Taiwan ASIC design houses diverge as AI projects enter different revenue cycles
Taiwan's ASIC design-service suppliers all posted year-over-year revenue growth in August 2026, but the underlying figures point to sharply different stages of the custom-silicon c...
Monday 14 September 2026
India's chip show nearly doubles in two years, with suppliers leading the build-out
The exhibitor list for Semicon India 2026 suggests the country's semiconductor push has moved past announcements and into procurement. The show has drawn 535 exhibiting companies,...
Friday 11 September 2026
Taiwan govt boosts EDA R&D to target global gaps
Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) briefed Premier Jung-tai Cho on September 10, 2026, at an Executive Yuan meeting on the Chip-Driven, Taiwan-wide semiconductor...
Friday 11 September 2026
Huawei, Xiaomi, Apple take different bets on foldables

Competition in the foldable smartphone market is intensifying as Huawei, Xiaomi, and Apple roll out or prepare next-generation foldable...

Friday 11 September 2026
Apple makes the hinge, not the screen, the centerpiece of its first foldable
Apple has built its first foldable around a component nobody sees. The iPhone Duo, unveiled 9 September and on sale from 23 October at a starting price of US$1,999, is defined less...
Friday 11 September 2026
Samsung 2nm push gains momentum as Synopsys cuts NPU die area by 22%
Synopsys has reported a 22% reduction in die area for a neural processing unit (NPU) implemented with its Fusion Compiler design tool on Samsung Foundry's SF2P process, providing a...
Thursday 10 September 2026
MicroIP lands NT$630 million AI smart-building contract in northern Taiwan
MicroIP said on Sept. 10 that it secured a systems integration contract worth about NT$630 million for a major AI smart residential project in northern Taiwan. The agreement is expected...
Thursday 10 September 2026
STMicroelectronics ties AI data center carbon cuts to power design, not location
STMicroelectronics (ST) recently shared its perspective on balancing AI growth with sustainability during a press conference in Taiwan. The company emphasized that controlling carbon...
Thursday 10 September 2026
SK Hynix says 3D DRAM will borrow from logic foundry playbook
SK Hynix is signaling a shift in memory design that could matter far beyond South Korea. By adopting logic foundry techniques for 3D DRAM, the company is moving toward a future where...
Thursday 10 September 2026
Samsung trims foundry partner network as remaining DSPs gain momentum
Samsung Electronics has reduced its foundry Design Solution Partner (DSP) network to 11 companies from 13, as the chipmaker shifts toward greater emphasis on partners that can secure...
Thursday 10 September 2026
Loongson raises funds to expand CPU and GPU development as AI inference boosts domestic chip plans
Chinese CPU maker Loongson recently announced a CNY2.3 billion (approx. US$342.7 million) capital increase, with the funds mainly going into information technology chips and core CPU...