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Tuesday 28 July 2026

Nvidia invests in Ilya Sutskever's SSI, providing access to Vera Rubin compute platform

Nvidia has made a strategic investment in Safe Superintelligence Inc. and announced a long-term partnership with the secretive AI lab founded by OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, giving...

Tuesday 28 July 2026

Apple plans OLED touch MacBook Pro with Samsung Display as sole panel supplier

Apple is developing a new MacBook Pro with OLED touch panels and is expected to rely solely on Samsung Display for the screens, according...

Tuesday 28 July 2026

Panel makers reject 10% polarizer price increase as China suppliers retreat

Rising upstream material prices are continuing to pressure the polarizer industry. During the second quarter, polarizer suppliers in China and Taiwan sought price increases of about...

Tuesday 28 July 2026

Google TPU surge and Meta capacity push fuel CSP capex wave

AI demand and whether the boom is heading into a bubble are back in focus, and capital expenditure by cloud service providers (CSPs) and their supply chains is emerging as a key gauge...

Tuesday 28 July 2026

Eiso raises NT$300M to accelerate AI, aerospace, defense PCB expansion

Printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturer Eiso Enterprise has completed its annual fundraising plan. To strengthen working capital for...

Tuesday 28 July 2026

Cadence raises 2026 outlook after record quarter, flags major Intel deal as revenue driver

Cadence Design Systems posted stronger-than-expected second-quarter results on July 27 and raised its full-year revenue growth outlook...

Tuesday 28 July 2026

Smart glasses ignite AI device battle as China nears 80% global brand share

Smart glasses are emerging as a major next-generation consumer device as breakthroughs in generative AI and large language models (LLMs) reshape the wearable market. Once constrained...

Tuesday 28 July 2026

Robot boom heats up as Taiwan chipmakers race to catch up

Cloud AI chip giants are stepping up investment in robot applications, putting robots back at the center of industry debate. For Taiwanese chipmakers, the broad range of robot use...

Tuesday 28 July 2026

Nvidia's Vera targets AI server growth, with CSP adoption the key test

Nvidia is pushing into the server CPU market with its Vera chip as AI infrastructure competition enters a new phase, seeking to evolve from a chip supplier into a full AI computing...

Tuesday 28 July 2026

China faces AI compute divide as advanced capacity falls short and lower-tier resources sit underused

China's AI computing infrastructure is developing along two sharply divergent paths. As large language models and AI agents gain traction across industries, rapidly rising token consumption...

Monday 27 July 2026

South Korea, AMD team up to integrate homegrown NPUs with CPUs and GPUs

South Korea and AMD have agreed to build and demonstrate heterogeneous AI computing infrastructure integrating AMD CPUs and GPUs with homegrown neural processing units, as Seoul seeks...

Monday 27 July 2026

Samsung converts AMD and OpenAI ties into HBM4 supply wins

Samsung Electronics is showing renewed momentum in the AI memory race as it deepens ties with both OpenAI and AMD, two partnerships...

Monday 27 July 2026

Rebellions readies Rebel100 shipments as AI inference demand grows

South Korean AI chip designer Rebellions plans to begin shipping its next-generation Rebel100 accelerator in the second half of 2026, betting that wider use of AI agents and commercial...

Monday 27 July 2026

India's NIELIT and SCL expand access to indigenous semiconductor design kit through eChipHub

India's National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT) and the Semiconductor Laboratory (SCL) have collaborated to make SCL's indigenous 1.2-micrometer Process...

Monday 27 July 2026

Qualcomm tells customers chip prices will rise by double digits from September

Qualcomm plans to raise chip prices by a double-digit percentage from September 1, passing higher supplier costs into a smartphone market...

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