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Tuesday 1 September 2026
Marvell CTO: power and density bottlenecks are driving CPO adoption in AI data centers
Speaking at the Silicon Photonics Global Summit ahead of Semicon Taiwan 2026, Marvell Technology CTO Radha Nagarajan highlighted that the core focus for upgrading connectivity in the...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Samsung Electro-Mechanics takes glass substrates to SEMICON Taiwan
As AI packages grow larger, the next substrate battleground is rapidly extending from traditional organic materials to glass. Samsung Electro-Mechanics (SEMCO) will make its first...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Anthropic's rumored US$35 billion Lambda deal shows how far Nvidia will go to bankroll its own customers
Anthropic has reportedly signed a cloud-computing contract worth US$35 billion with Lambda, an Nvidia-backed cloud provider, under which Nvidia itself holds the data center lease,...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
XCENA teams up with Samsung on rack-scale CXL memory; demos on Intel Xeon 6
South Korean chip startup XCENA is pushing CXL beyond memory expansion and toward a new layer of server computing, unveiling measured results for its MX1 computational memory device...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
India expands chip ambitions with full Semicon 2.0 notification
India has unveiled the next phase of its semiconductor policy, a move that could reshape global chip supply chains, investment flows, and talent markets. The expanded program aims...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
SEMICON Taiwan 2026 to spotlight AI-driven semiconductor supply chain shifts
SEMICON Taiwan 2026 is set to open soon as Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International said AI is pushing a new wave of technology upgrades across the global chip industry...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Nvidia's MediaTek investment signals a broader push to shape AI infrastructure
Nvidia's US$3.5 billion investment in MediaTek's overseas convertible bonds marks more than a financial bet. It underscores how the chip leader is trying to anchor its AI infrastructure...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Nvidia and MediaTek link AI technologies in bid to accelerate custom data center chip adoption
Nvidia and MediaTek are widening a global AI partnership that could reshape data center, edge, and PC hardware markets. MediaTek's US$3.9 billion overseas convertible bond sale, largely...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Nvidia targets HBM race with custom NVHBM, expands NVLink Fusion
As trillion-parameter large language models (LLMs) and agentic AI become mainstream, the AI infrastructure bottleneck is shifting from raw compute power toward system-level integration...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Silergy data center business surges as new products scale up
Silergy said at a recent earnings call that most of its applications, excluding its computing product line, posted quarter-over-quarter growth of more than 20% in the second quarter...
Monday 31 August 2026
Nvidia takes US$3.5 billion of MediaTek's record US$3.9 billion convertible bond
MediaTek has completed pricing on US$3.9 billion of overseas convertible bonds, more than NT$120 billion and what the company says is the largest overseas CB ever issued in Taiwan's...
Monday 31 August 2026
Marvell sees 2027 acceleration in scale-up optics
Marvell said on its fiscal second-quarter of 2027 earnings call that customers are actively planning to deploy scale-up optical solutions as early as 2027, with demand for near-package...
Monday 31 August 2026
Nvidia demand nearly doubles as supply meets only 70%
Nvidia reported second-quarter revenue for fiscal year 2027 of US$96.22 billion, a 106% year-over-year increase, driven by a 117% surge in data center revenue to US$89 billion. With...
Monday 31 August 2026
Unimicron search puts spotlight on cross-border manufacturing for Taiwan's electronics sector
Unimicron, a major Taiwanese IC substrate maker, came under intense supply chain scrutiny last week after reports that prosecutors and investigators searched the company over a suspected...
Monday 31 August 2026
Agentrys, agentic chip design startup backed by MediaTek, raises US$24.5M in funding
Chip design company Agentrys announced last week that it raised US$24.5 million in funding from backers including MediaTek. It is one among an emerging crop of startups using agentic...