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Wednesday 16 September 2026

Beyond 2nm: Dimensity 9600 Pro gives MediaTek a bigger role in mobile AI

MediaTek has officially launched the Dimensity 9600 Pro, introducing a major architectural overhaul for its 2026 flagship mobile chip. Beyond the shift to a 2nm process, the new platform...

Wednesday 16 September 2026

Taiwan can power its AI chip boom — but not with green energy

DIGITIMES Intelligence observes that discussions at the semiconductor sustainability and energy forum during SEMICON Taiwan 2026 centered on two questions: whether Taiwan will have...

Wednesday 16 September 2026

South Korean NPU startups face validation hurdle in push for global sales

South Korea's neural processing unit (NPU) startups are moving from chip development toward commercial deployment, but limited experience...

Wednesday 16 September 2026

ITRI showcases AI robots, drones to push commercialization in southern Taiwan

The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) held its ITRI Innovation Day on September 15 in Tainan, Taiwan, bringing together...

Wednesday 16 September 2026

China's humanoid robot race, Part 2: Upstream profits gather around dexterous hands

Humanoid robot makers are cutting prices and scaling production, yet much of the industry remains unprofitable. Upstream suppliers are starting to show a different economics —...

Wednesday 16 September 2026

DeepSeek to hire its first CFO as it aims for public listing, expands workforce

DeepSeek is reportedly set to hire Wentao Yan, a partner at venture capital firm GL Ventures, as its first CFO. If the appointment takes...

Wednesday 16 September 2026

Apple exits Musk's AI lawsuit, but the fight over iPhone AI access is only getting bigger

The recent AI antitrust case between two of the high-tech landscape's most powerful camps appears to have quietly ended following Elon Musk's legal retreat from Apple. But the battle...

Wednesday 16 September 2026

As AI data centers hit a transmission wall, GlobalFoundries pushes into silicon photonics

At the China International Optoelectronics Expo (CIOE), a palm-sized metal transceiver represents the shift from copper to light in data center infrastructure, one of the biggest transformations...

Wednesday 16 September 2026

Research Insight: Google scales TPU systems to 1 million chips as power becomes the bottleneck

At SEMICON Taiwan 2026, Google outlined the direction of its AI infrastructure, and DIGITIMES notes that the discussion extended well...

Wednesday 16 September 2026

Amodei's AI slowdown call is unlikely to dent chip demand, industry sources say

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call to slow frontier AI development has stirred debate over safety, but chip industry sources say global...

Tuesday 15 September 2026

The Boring lands US$3 billion from UAE investors, fueling Musk's underground transit dream

Even as he leads SpaceX through the largest IPO in history and rolls out Tesla's Cybercab robotaxi fleet in Austin, Texas, Elon Musk has not let go of his ambitions for underground...

Tuesday 15 September 2026

Tesla's rare-earth-free Cybercab challenges China's grip on EV magnets

With Tesla's EV ambitions growing amid a years-long push toward full electrification, the deployment of the Cybercab has emerged as a major experiment testing the boundaries of autonomous...

Tuesday 15 September 2026

How AI real-world deployment is rewriting IPC business models

Mega-construction projects currently underway across the US, South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan are heavily concentrated in two main sectors: semiconductor fabs and automated warehousing/logistics...

Tuesday 15 September 2026

Wiwynn deepens US AI server footprint with US$1.6 billion Texas manufacturing hub

Wiwynn has officially opened its advanced manufacturing facility in Socorro, Texas, deepening the Taiwan-based server maker's US footprint. The move comes as booming AI infrastructure...

Tuesday 15 September 2026

South Korea updates AI safeguards as Microsoft sets shutdown rules

South Korea is updating its artificial intelligence security guidance as companies deploy AI agents capable of operating with limited...

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