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Tuesday 16 June 2026
Nvidia sells US$25 billion in bonds as investors seek foothold in AI boom
Nvidia launched a sale of US$25 billion worth of high-grade bonds on June 15, ultimately garnering up to US$85 billion in orders, or more than triple the bond's original size. This...
Tuesday 16 June 2026
China mass produces silicon-28 amid quantum computing race with US

China has achieved mass production of ultra-pure silicon, according to the state-owned China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) —...

Tuesday 16 June 2026
AMD opens EFB front beyond CoWoS, putting Taiwan substrate trio in play
The AI data center buildout is driving demand for high-performance computing (HPC) and networking chips, sending the global IC substrate industry into a new growth cycle. Order visibility...
Tuesday 16 June 2026
Qualcomm weighs Tenstorrent deal that could reach US$10 billion

Qualcomm has been in talks to acquire Tenstorrent, an AI chip startup, The Information reported, citing a person with direct...

Tuesday 16 June 2026
Apple's Siri AI push drives 12GB DRAM demand for Samsung and SK Hynix

Apple is stepping up the AI capabilities of its Siri voice assistant, and analysts say memory chip demand will rise along with it,...

Tuesday 16 June 2026
Supply security over cost: Google leads CSP charge to diversify InP substrate sourcing

China has recently eased controls on some indium phosphide (InP) substrates, relieving a bottleneck in optical communications capacity...

Tuesday 16 June 2026
Adani-Jabil partnership highlights India's push for domestic AI infrastructure
The deal between Gautam Adani's group and American engineering firm Jabil signals a broader shift toward domestic AI infrastructure in India, with potential consequences for global...
Tuesday 16 June 2026
Foxconn and Schneider Electric strike strategic partnership to build next-generation data center reference architecture
Foxconn and Schneider Electric announced a strategic partnership to jointly develop a next-generation data center reference architecture, combining Foxconn's capabilities in advanced...
Tuesday 16 June 2026
Yaskawa eyes physical AI boom with JPY25 billion capex
Yaskawa Electric is betting heavily on physical AI, the field that enables robots to operate autonomously, as it positions itself for a boom in AI robots. Since starting work with...
Tuesday 16 June 2026
Apple leans on Google Cloud and Nvidia GPUs in a pragmatic AI reset
After Apple's WWDC 2026 keynote, online rumors claimed that only premium devices with 12GB of memory could run on-device AI, but DIGITIMES analyst Luke Lin said on a podcast that that...
Tuesday 16 June 2026
Interview: From language to motion— Japanese startup APTO builds the data backbone for physical AI

Physical AI is emerging as a new frontier of model development. Any model, however, is only as good as the data used to train it. Because...

Monday 15 June 2026
Micron CEO turns visa rejection into US$1 trillion milestone
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's recent trip to South Korea put the spotlight on the rivalry between Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, while memory giant Micron crossed the US$1 trillion...
Monday 15 June 2026
Walsin sees passive component crunch stretching into 2028 as memory shortages weigh

Walsin Technology expects the tight supply of passive components could last into 2028, as demand from AI infrastructure, automotive...

Monday 15 June 2026
Exclusive: Wiwynn triples capital, president says it signals confidence
Wiwynn, Taiwan's smallest-capital server ODM with the highest EPS, is set to triple its share capital after shareholders approve a retained-earnings-to-capital-increase plan in 2026...
Monday 15 June 2026
Google's TPU diversification challenges MediaTek and other ASIC partners
Google's push to diversify its Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) supply chain is increasingly reaching into the foundry side, adding pressure on ASIC makers such as MediaTek. Recent reports...