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Monday 23 March 2026
Inergy Technology eyes SiC expansion for HVDC as AI power demand rises
Power semiconductor design company Inergy Technology expects strong growth momentum in its cooling and power device businesses in 2026, supported by rising demand from artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, with AI server-related products projected to account for 25% of its portfolio.
Monday 23 March 2026
India's FDI reset opens controlled door to Chinese participation in semiconductor supply chains
India's decision to ease foreign direct investment (FDI) restrictions for neighboring countries marks a calibrated shift in policy that could reshape its electronics and semiconductor supply chains, even as geopolitical sensitivities remain intact.
Monday 23 March 2026
Meet the duo bridging Jensen Huang to Taiwan at GTC 2026
At Nvidia's GTC 2026 conference last week, two figures were notable in helping CEO Jensen Huang connect with major Taiwanese business partners.
Monday 23 March 2026
Nvidia sees self-driving cars as a long-term growth engine
Beyond its GTC conference, autonomous vehicles have long stood out as a key application in Nvidia's AI ecosystem. For the company, revenue from self-driving systems represented only about 1% of total sales in 2025. Yet Chief Executive Jensen Huang views the segment as a strategic foothold akin to the early days of CUDA — a launchpad from which the company could potentially scale into multi-trillion-dollar markets.
Monday 23 March 2026
Nvidia pushes deeper into AI inference to counter custom chip rivals
At its GTC 2026 conference, Nvidia showcased a slate of technologies and new products squarely aimed at the next wave of artificial intelligence inference. With the integration of Groq's LPU technology, Nvidia's portfolio appears markedly more competitive on the inference side — widely seen as a strategic effort to defend its market share and discourage customers from turning to application-specific integrated circuits, or ASICs.
Monday 23 March 2026
Weekly news roundup: geopolitics, AI memory, racing for semiconductor control
Below are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories from the week of March 16-22, 2026:
Monday 23 March 2026
Can Elon Musk's Terafab turn chip independence into reality—or is it too ambitious to succeed?
Elon Musk has unveiled one of his most ambitious industrial visions yet: a "Terafab" that would allow Tesla and SpaceX to design and manufacture their own semiconductors for artificial intelligence, robotics, and even space-based data centers. While the project reflects Musk's sweeping vision of a vertically integrated, AI-driven future, analysts and industry realities suggest the plan may face formidable technical, financial, and structural obstacles.
Monday 23 March 2026
Commentary: CPO mass production put to test as photonic integration faces challenges
Driven by massive demand from cloud AI, silicon photonics continues to gain momentum. At the Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC 2026), industry players engaged in in-depth discussions on the current state of co-packaged optics (CPO) mass production. IC design experts observed that, compared with previous OFC events, which focused primarily on new technological breakthroughs, the industry in 2026 is clearly more concerned with whether solutions can be delivered on time.
Sunday 22 March 2026
Samsung union votes to strike, risking Nvidia HBM4 supply disruption
Samsung Electronics' labor union has voted overwhelmingly to initiate dispute proceedings following a breakdown in wage negotiations, raising concerns over potential disruptions to the supply of HBM4 memory for Nvidia's next-generation AI accelerators.
Sunday 22 March 2026
MediaTek, Microsoft Research crack AOC power barrier with Micro LED, 50% reduction

A joint R&D team, including MediaTek, Microsoft Research, and other suppliers, has developed a next-generation active optical cable (AOC) based on miniaturized Micro LED light sources. The Active Micro LED Cable delivers copper-like reliability while significantly extending transmission distance.

Saturday 21 March 2026
Analysis: Samsung's Exynos chip rebounds with mixed performance in 2nm era
Samsung Electronics' self-developed mobile application processor (AP) series, Exynos, long criticized for poor performance and overheating issues, is showing signs of revival. The new Exynos 2600, built on the advanced 2nm second-generation process (SF2), has delivered unexpectedly strong performance results compared to its previous chips, laying a foundation for the once-struggling chip line to bounce back.
Friday 20 March 2026
Lumotive makes optical breakthrough, targets 10,000-port data centers

As Nvidia and Coherent signal a shift toward all-optical networking to solve the AI power crisis, Redmond-based Lumotive has announced a milestone that could redefine data center scalability. In an interview with DIGITIMES Asia, Gleb Akselrod, Co-founder and CTO of Lumotive, detailed the success of the world's first programmable 2D optical beamforming chip.

Friday 20 March 2026
Nvidia and AWS strike massive GPU supply deal through 2027

On March 19, senior executives at Nvidia said the company has reached an agreement with the cloud computing division of Amazon to supply large-scale GPU infrastructure through 2027.

Friday 20 March 2026
Commentary: Nvidia sees Groq as its next Mellanox
Since the start of 2026, Jensen Huang has twice drawn a striking parallel: likening a potential deal involving Groq to Nvidia's 2020 acquisition of Mellanox Technologies. He first made the comparison during a late-February earnings call, and again in an interview following his keynote at GTC 2026 in March.
Friday 20 March 2026
As NAND makers move on, MLC memory nears the end of the line

As global NAND flash makers shift toward higher-layer 3D architectures, legacy MLC NAND is slipping into a severe supply-demand imbalance and edging toward obsolescence.

Friday 20 March 2026
UK-Taiwan R&D ties scale up with Foxconn, Turing Space, NSYSU
Taiwan has long leveraged its manufacturing strengths to carve out a place in the global supply chain. Now, it is going further. With research and development reach expanding overseas, the country is shifting from contract manufacturing to joint innovation. The UK-Taiwan Innovative Industries Programme (I2P), run under the British Office Taipei and ITRI, has hit a record scale in 2026, with 17 research and development teams taking part in bilateral exchanges.
Thursday 19 March 2026
Nvidia hosts Taiwan night at GTC 2026, Huang vows to defend Taiwan
Nvidia's GTC 2026 is well underway, with the event reaching a record scale as among the major annual events in the AI landscape. Despite a packed schedule, CEO Jensen Huang attended the conference's "Taiwan Night" on March 18 (local time) to engage with Taiwanese partners and express his appreciation for their work.
Thursday 19 March 2026
Nvidia positions Groq 3 LPUs alongside Vera Rubin for an inference-first era
The 2026 Nvidia GTC keynote signaled a clear industry shift toward inference. CEO Jensen Huang declared that "training is just the beginning — inference is the core battleground for AI commercialization." Attendees expected AI agents to dominate the event's agenda.
Thursday 19 March 2026
Groq anchors Nvidia's inference strategy; CPU redefines architecture for AI agents
As AI evolves from generating information to executing tasks, inference scenarios characterized by coding agents and requiring low latency and high throughput are ushering in the next phase of AI infrastructure commercialization. However, even powerful systems like Vera Rubin face challenges when confronted with extreme generation demands. While Nvidia remains the undisputed leader in throughput, traditional GPU architectures appear too heavy for ultra-low-latency token generation. This is why Jensen Huang moved quickly to secure IP licensing and talent from Groq ahead of Christmas 2025.
Thursday 19 March 2026
Chip price surge in 2Q26 shifts cost pressure to end markets
As more European and American chipmakers and IDM giants publicly announce price hikes effective April 1 of this year, mature process foundries in Taiwan and China have also nearly finalized plans to raise prices. The semiconductor industry is clearly entering a broad wave of chip price increases that will likely push costs onto end markets.
Thursday 19 March 2026
Samsung, AMD expand AI memory and compute partnership with MOU to align HBM4 supply and DDR5 support
Samsung Electronics announced it signed a Memorandum of Understanding with AMD to expand its strategic collaboration on next-generation AI memory and computing technologies.
Thursday 19 March 2026
AMD deepens ties with Naver in bid to expand AI infrastructure
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is set to deepen its collaboration with Naver Corporation after CEO Lisa Su visits South Korea, with the companies signing an MOU to jointly develop GPU and infrastructure technologies for large-scale AI models.
Thursday 19 March 2026
Nvidia adopts Groq to tackle AI inference and expand global reach
At its annual GTC conference in San Jose, Nvidia unveiled a major shift in its AI hardware strategy: integrating technology from AI chip startup Groq to address growing demand in AI inference, while simultaneously preparing new products for global markets, including China.
Thursday 19 March 2026
How Hwaseong became South Korea's semiconductor supply-chain capital
The global race to onshore semiconductor production has a new focal point: Hwaseong. Nestled in South Korea's Gyeonggi-do province, the city is quietly emerging as the spine of the country's domestic chip supply chain — and a testbed for AI-driven manufacturing.
Wednesday 18 March 2026
Nvidia partners with chipmakers to advance industrial robotics
At Nvidia's GTC 2026 conference, major chipmakers — including Texas Instruments (TI), Infineon Technologies AG, NXP Semiconductors, Analog Devices (ADI), and Synopsys — announced new collaborations centered on robotics built around Nvidia's platform. Robotics is now the defining focus for IDM firms and the broader industrial control chip ecosystem.