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Tuesday 26 May 2026

Analysis: Nvidia's Vera CPU opens new front in data center chip race

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is pushing the company deeper into the CPU market, betting that the rise of agentic AI will create a new growth engine beyond the GPUs that made Nvidia the dominant supplier of AI computing hardware.

Monday 25 May 2026

Huawei reveals post-Moore semiconductor roadmap targeting 1.4nm-equivalent chip performance

As the global semiconductor industry confronts the limits of Moore's Law, Huawei has unveiled a new roadmap aimed at extending chip performance growth through architecture, interconnect, and system-level optimisation rather than pure transistor miniaturisation.

Monday 25 May 2026

India-based Cyient Semiconductors raises US$30 million to scale power chips for global AI markets

Cyient Semiconductors has secured a total of about US$30 million in financing from Edelweiss-managed funds and co-investors, comprising a US$10 million equity investment at a valuation of roughly US$500 million alongside structured debt. The deal bolsters its capital base to scale its power semiconductor and custom silicon offerings for global AI markets.

Monday 25 May 2026

Nvidia's reporting pivot and AMD's US$10B Taiwan bet signal a new frontier in AI chip war

Nvidia's structural pivot to isolate its ACIE market and AMD's US$10 billion investment in Taiwan infrastructure signal a profound realignment in the AI chip war. Both developments reflect a shared urgency to expand beyond traditional hyperscale clouds into the booming, highly lucrative global enterprise, industrial, and sovereign AI factory frontiers.

Monday 25 May 2026

Anthropic-Microsoft deal could broaden ASIC demand across cloud supply chains

Anthropic has reportedly approached Microsoft about renting AI computing power running on Microsoft's in-house chips to expand support for its Claude model business. The move is a positive sign for Microsoft and could generate momentum for the mass production of its recently unveiled Maia 200 chip, while ASIC players such as Global Unichip and Ethernet chip suppliers Marvell Technology and Broadcom also stand to benefit.

Monday 25 May 2026

Analysis: Lisa Su moves on China — and Nvidia's CUDA moat

For AMD CEO Lisa Su, the current moment presents an opening that Nvidia does not have. Nvidia's high-end chips have repeatedly faced scrutiny and export restrictions in China, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang only recently confirmed in May that Nvidia once held as much as 95% market share there. That dominance has since been reset, with the bulk of that share ceding to domestic rival Huawei.

Monday 25 May 2026

Stellantis and Qualcomm expand Snapdragon Digital Chassis deployment across global vehicle lines

Stellantis and Qualcomm expanded their multi-year collaboration to deploy Snapdragon Digital Chassis system-on-chip (SoC) solutions across Stellantis' global vehicle portfolio, affecting cockpit, connectivity, and driver-assistance systems. The move aims to standardize platforms, cut costs, and accelerate the deployment of advanced driver-assist and automated-driving features for customers worldwide, while enabling continuous updates and AI-driven driving experiences.

Monday 25 May 2026

AI server boom lifts memory interface chip leader, but DDR5 risks linger

Montage Technology, a company that does not manufacture memory chips itself but instead supplies the interface chips linking CPUs and memory, has quietly emerged as one of the semiconductor sector's most valuable players during the current memory upcycle.

Sunday 24 May 2026

Geopolitics disrupts chips — can Taiwan and South Korea cooperate to hold the line?

The global semiconductor industry is being pulled in two directions. On one side, the cost of building a single advanced chip factory has ballooned to as much as US$40 billion, concentrating production in the hands of a shrinking club of players. On the other hand, US-China technology rivalry is redrawing the map of who gets to make what — and for whom.

Saturday 23 May 2026

Jensen Huang lands in Taiwan, calls Vera Rubin biggest product ramp in computer history

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang arrived in Taiwan on May 23 ahead of COMPUTEX, telling reporters that the company's next-generation AI server platform — codenamed Vera Rubin — will be the most successful product generation in Nvidia's history and potentially the largest product rollout Taiwan's electronics industry has ever seen.

Saturday 23 May 2026

Huawei continues to erode Nvidia's market share as China remains closed despite hopes of reopening

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he expects Chinese authorities to eventually allow imports of US artificial intelligence (AI) chips, according to Bloomberg Television. Still, the remarks also underscored the growing implications of export controls that have weakened Nvidia's position in China while creating opportunities for domestic rival Huawei Technologies and other local suppliers.

Friday 22 May 2026

AMD's Lisa Su says memory is becoming another pressure point for AI chips

AMD CEO Lisa Su said the company is satisfied with its current CoWoS supply from TSMC, while noting that memory has become another pressure point in the AI chip supply chain.

Friday 22 May 2026

AMD's Lisa Su says AI demand is 'absolutely real' as CPUs return to focus

AMD CEO Lisa Su pushed back against concerns of an AI bubble on May 22, saying demand is "absolutely real" and that the industry remains in an early phase of growth.

Friday 22 May 2026

Anthropic reportedly eyes Microsoft Maia chips to cut Nvidia reliance

Microsoft is in early discussions to provide AI servers powered by its in-house Maia chips to Anthropic, deepening ties between the two companies as cloud providers race to reduce dependence on Nvidia hardware and secure a stronger position in the AI infrastructure market.

Friday 22 May 2026

AIC expands analog ICs into fiber optics; orders reach 1Q27

AIC's expansion from analog ICs into fiber-optic components and other products, and its inclusion in a major US cloud service provider's supply chain, extend order visibility to the first quarter of 2027, signaling global demand pressures and supply-chain implications for cloud infrastructure suppliers and telecom equipment markets worldwide.

Friday 22 May 2026

Broadcom, Applied Materials, GlobalFoundries, Meta, and Synopsys back US$125M UCLA Semiconductor Hub

Broadcom, Applied Materials, GlobalFoundries, Meta, and Synopsys are partnering with UCLA Samueli to create a US$125 million Semiconductor Hub to accelerate research and workforce development in AI-driven chip technologies, promising global impacts on computing speed, energy efficiency, and applications from healthcare to transportation while strengthening US competitiveness and innovation globally.

Friday 22 May 2026

Forcelead Technology bets on stable 2026 as it expands into TDDI and new automotive displays

Forcelead Technology said it expects stable operations through 2026 as it rolls out a touch-TDDI product and pursues new automotive display opportunities, a development with implications for global suppliers and aftermarket channels as automakers adopt more advanced cockpit features. The company aims to protect margins while expanding beyond its core display business.

Friday 22 May 2026

Xiaomi expands YU7 lineup with new GT model and entry-level variant

On May 21 in Beijing, Xiaomi held its "Human–Car–Home" ecosystem product launch event, where founder, chairman, and CEO Lei Jun unveiled the updated Xiaomi YU7 family, introducing two new variants: the YU7 GT and the YU7 Standard Edition.

Friday 22 May 2026

AP Memory IPD enters Intel's EMIB supply chain, shipments set for 2Q26

Specialty memory design company AP Memory is positioning itself to capture growth momentum from stack silicon capacitors (S-SiCap). The company said its discrete S-SiCap products, also known as discrete silicon capacitors (IPD), will begin small-volume shipments in the second quarter of 2026, making it the first supplier qualified for Intel's embedded multi-die interconnect bridge (EMIB) advanced packaging solution, as shipments gain strong momentum.

Friday 22 May 2026

Samsung's quiet Taiwan play: Pairing memory with foundry to chip away at TSMC

Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Jae-yong quietly visited Taiwan on May 21 and met with MediaTek CEO Rick Tsai, according to semiconductor supply chain sources, in a move aimed at expanding Samsung's foundry business by securing another major customer after deals with Tesla and renewed work with AMD. Samsung declined to comment, and MediaTek had not issued an official response by press time.

Friday 22 May 2026

Analysis: Samsung deal prevents walkout but deepens internal rifts over compensation

Samsung Electronics and its union signed a provisional agreement late at night, about an hour before a scheduled May 21 strike, averting an industry estimate of more than KRW100 trillion (approx. US$66.8 billion) in supply chain disruption. The deal eases an immediate labor crisis but leaves unresolved structural conflicts and rising personnel costs.

Friday 22 May 2026

South Korea aims for 50% domestic defense semiconductor supply by 2029

South Korea announced a national plan to raise domestic production of defense semiconductors to 50% by 2029, targeting heavy reliance on US and Taiwan supply chains to bolster national security. The initiative, unveiled at the 2026 Advanced Strategic Semiconductor Innovation Conference, covers research and development, manufacturing, ecosystem building and workforce training and follows the recent passage of the Defense Semiconductor Act by the National Assembly on May 7, 2026.

Friday 22 May 2026

InPsytech taps former Altera and Intel executive as senior strategy adviser to drive global expansion

InPsytech, the intellectual property unit of Egis Technology Group, announced on May 21 that it hired a former Altera CEO and ex-Intel executive as a senior strategy adviser to support global market expansion and large-scale growth. The firm said the appointment aims to leverage the adviser's semiconductor leadership experience to guide worldwide strategy and help scale the company's business in international markets.

Friday 22 May 2026

US-Japan cooperation could protect Taiwan '99%', defense investors told at Silicon Valley summit

Taiwan's semiconductor industry and the military implications of a potential cross-strait conflict dominated the aerospace and defense track on the second day of the Plug and Play Silicon Valley May Summit, as investors and defense technology executives described a geopolitical environment that is fundamentally reshaping where capital flows and why.

Friday 22 May 2026

Tech Forum 2026: AI agents drive Arm CPU demand surge; 2026 shipments expected to exceed 6 million units

On May 20, 2026, DIGITIMES held its Tech Forum, where senior analyst Jim Hsiao delivered a presentation, "AI server market outlook and trends amid the explosion of agent applications." In it, Hsiao explained that demand is rising sharply not only for x86 server CPUs from Intel and AMD, but also for Arm-based CPUs, which are expected to see explosive growth in 2026.

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