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Tuesday 10 November 2026
Spy probe highlights Nvidia's heavy reliance on CEO
Nvidia's management structure has become a topic of discussion after CEO Jensen Huang became embroiled in an espionage case following his affair with an alleged Chinese spy. With power...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Nvidia could face more scrutiny by new Congress in wake of spy probe
An incoming Democratic majority in the US Congress is likely to place Nvidia under greater scrutiny in light of recent revelations that the chipmaker's CEO, Jensen Huang, had an affair...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
AI server demand squeezes India's PCB supply as material costs surge
India's electronics manufacturers are paying sharply more for printed circuit boards (PCBs) as material suppliers shift capacity to artificial intelligence servers, with industry groups...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Intel looks beyond 18A and 14A to reshape computing
Intel has fallen noticeably behind rivals including Nvidia and AMD in the generative AI boom. Rather than concentrating all its resources on catching current market leaders, the company...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Jensen Huang drawn into spy allegations as China denies complicity
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s admission of an extramarital affair with Alice Huang, a former senior executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed, has triggered controversy, while China’s...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Nokia eyes AI optical interconnect market, potentially challenging Lumentum and Coherent
The AI data center optical interconnect market may soon see another heavyweight contender. Roughly a week after Marvell announced a US$1.15 billion acquisition of Lumentum to bolster...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
South Korea approves advanced display research platform
South Korea has approved a seven-year national research program to support display technology development and provide companies with shared testing and commercialization facilities...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
OLED smartphone panel market faces pressure in 2026, Counterpoint says
The global smartphone display market faces a weaker 2026, as OLED panel shipments and revenue are forecast to decline, while memory constraints, rising production costs, and shifting...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Apple's OLED iPad Air targets 2027, SDC leads panel supply
Apple is reportedly set to launch an OLED iPad Air in the first half of 2027, expanding its OLED tablet lineup. The supply chain expects Samsung Display (SDC) to lead overall OLED...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Commentary: How will US midterms and Jensen Huang controversy reshape AI policy?
Recent developments, including the Democratic Party's strong showing in the US midterm elections and calls for Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to brief Congress on national security matters,...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Novatek faces AI infrastructure squeeze, pins growth ramp-up on new products
Novatek Microelectronics, a leading Taiwanese display driver IC (DDI) design house, hosted its quarterly earnings conference last week. Novatek President and Vice Chairman Steve Wang...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Trump says FBI examining Huang affair as Nvidia faces widening legal scrutiny
US scrutiny surrounding Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is expanding across national security, chip export enforcement, and shareholder disclosures, with US President Donald Trump saying the...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Google expands eighth-generation TPU portfolio to target secure, high-context agentic AI
Google has expanded its eighth-generation TPU portfolio with the announcement of two specialized AI systems—the TPU 8tx for hardware-encrypted confidential compute and the TPU...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Exclusive: Designing light for everyone—Wave Photonics seeks to make custom photonic chips accessible
In a Cambridge laboratory, an automated testing machine sits at the end of a process that has traditionally demanded years of specialized engineering: designing a photonic chip, sending...
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Column: Nvidia explores PTFE for AI servers amid PFAS concerns
Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), the material behind the Teflon brand, has become one of the most closely watched materials for advanced electronics, drawing attention at the Open Compute...