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Monday 7 September 2026
DeepSeek plans to buy 160,000 Huawei chips as China aims to wean itself off Nvidia
DeepSeek is reportedly planning to purchase 160,000 Huawei chips for its large 1 GW data center currently under construction in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia. This would make...
Monday 7 September 2026
Xiaomi warns of more India price hikes as AI squeezes the phone from both sides
The same AI boom that is filling handsets with new features is draining the memory supply that makes cheap phones possible—and in India, the world's second-largest smartphone...
Monday 7 September 2026
India's TCS unit secures land in Hyderabad for planned 1GW AI data center campus
HyperVault, a Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) subsidiary, has secured 264 acres in Hyderabad to build a large AI data center campus capable of reaching 1GW of capacity. The project...
Monday 7 September 2026
Foxconn revenue climbs on AI server demand, outlook improves
Foxconn said August sales rose sharply from a year earlier as demand for AI servers and related hardware continued to lift its cloud and networking business. The latest update suggests...
Monday 7 September 2026
Eaton expands AI data center stack from grid to chip
As AI data centers scale rapidly, Eaton is expanding beyond traditional power management into modular power deployment, next-generation DC conversion and liquid cooling, positioning...
Monday 7 September 2026
Orphans of the liquid cooling age: xMEMS targets data center 'hot spots,' eyes 2027 smartphone and smartglasses cooling ports
As the world's most powerful enterprise data centers undergo a massive migration to liquid cooling to support high-power artificial intelligence processors, a Silicon Valley chipmaker...
Monday 7 September 2026
SiliconAuto pushes AI chiplets as automotive SoC ties tighten
Taiwanese automotive microcontroller (MCU) maker SiliconAuto showcased its products at SEMICON Taiwan 2026, with CEO Gene Liu saying the company is now spotlighting AI chiplet architecture...
Monday 7 September 2026
Taiwan-Netherlands silicon photonics team targets 1.6T DR8 in 2026, 3.2T optical links next
AI data center demand is accelerating the shift to faster optical interconnects, putting transmission speed, power efficiency, and packaging integration at the center of next-generation...
Monday 7 September 2026
AI racks move toward MW scale as power, cooling converge
As AI computing power surges, the energy consumption of AI servers has become a major bottleneck that must be solved. The issue is spreading from chips into power delivery systems...
Sunday 6 September 2026
I-Chiun eyes Nvidia Vera Rubin supply chain as thermal business nears half of sales
I-Chiun Precision Industry is accelerating its shift from LED lead frames into high-end thermal solutions, with thermal products now accounting for 40-45% of revenue. The company expects...
Sunday 6 September 2026
Taiwan thermal supplier I-Chiun launches AI chip cooling venture targeting US$19.2B liquid-cooling market
I-Chiun Precision Industry and Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) have established Huizhi Advanced, the country's first startup focused on AI chip thermal design,...
Sunday 6 September 2026
Trumpf CTO says advanced packaging reshapes semiconductor equipment race
AI and high-performance computing (HPC) demand is changing the semiconductor industry's technology and investment priorities. As chip power consumption, computing density, and data...
Sunday 6 September 2026
Google's quantum boss says five years; his engineer says not so fast
Quantum computing has a trust problem. When a quantum machine produces an answer no ordinary computer can feasibly produce, there is no obvious way to tell whether the answer is ri...
Saturday 5 September 2026
Topco targets optical comms, cooling as copper gives way
System integration remains a key hurdle as the AI chip industry pushes for higher power efficiency and faster transmission speeds, drawing intense attention to when short-reach optical...
Friday 4 September 2026
Lite-On makes US$170 million strategic investment in DCX for AI cooling push
Lite-On Technology announced a strategic investment in Polish liquid cooling solutions provider DCX Polska, also known as DCX Liquid Cooling Systems. The deal will give Lite-On approximately...