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Tuesday 18 August 2026
Rockchip profit jumps 62% as edge AI chips scale across devices

China AIoT chip designer Rockchip posted record first-half 2026 results, with revenue rising 40.6% year on year to CNY2.88 billion (US$427...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
VeriSilicon revenue surges 91% as AI ASIC backlog swells to US$1.85B

VeriSilicon posted record first-half 2026 revenue of CNY1.86 billion (US$276 million), up 91.37% year-on-year, as AI computing demand...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
Huawei Hubble builds China's InP optical chip stack for the AI interconnect era
Huawei's semiconductor investment arm is seeing an earlier optical-chip strategy line up with the AI infrastructure boom. Since 2019, Hubble Technology Investment Co. has backed a...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
Innolux posts 4th straight profit, sees consumer display slip in 3Q26
Innolux said net profit after tax reached NT$4.65 billion (US$146.3 million) in the second quarter of 2026, marking a fourth consecutive quarter in the black. The panel maker warned...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
China AI chip sales scale: Biren's revenue rockets up to 21-fold

Chinese AI chipmaker Biren expects first-half 2026 revenue to reach CNY1.15-1.3 billion (US$171-193 million), up about 1,852% to 2,107%...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
Nvidia swaps credit support for exclusive chip sales in OpenAI's Ohio data center campus

Nvidia has reached a deal with OpenAI to provide up to US$105 billion in credit guarantees for the AI startup's upcoming 8GW data center...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
Commentary: AMD's Taalas acquisition echoing Jensen Huang's Groq strategy

On February 20, 2026, Canadian AI chip startup Taalas unveiled its HC1 inference chip. Taalas said the chip ran the Llama 3.1 8B model...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
AI drives power semiconductors into at least a two-year shortage
The cloud AI data center boom is not close to bursting, according to chip supply-chain players. They say that analog ICs, including power semiconductors, will stay tight for years...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
MicroLED still lacks key LTPO TFT tech

MicroLED remains a promising next-generation display technology, but industry analysts say its commercial breakthrough still hinges...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
Arm faces capacity squeeze as CPU demand tops US$2 billion

Arm Holdings' expansion from asset-light IP licensing into finished data center processors is putting the company into direct competition...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
Eiso Enterprise's Guishan plant expansion doubles PCB capacity, eyes AI, aerospace, defense markets

Niche printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturer Eiso Enterprise has officially opened the second-phase expansion of its new plant in...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
Why AMD still owns US$565M of SpaceX shares after Musk chose Nvidia
Elon Musk has made SpaceX's AI hardware strategy unusually clear: future infrastructure will rely exclusively on Nvidia chips and technology. Yet AMD, Nvidia's largest rival in AI...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
Humanoid robots expose the limits of chasing higher TOPS

Humanoid robots are moving from demonstrations toward mass production, changing the priorities of chip design. Instead of simply chasing...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
MediaTek widens ASIC services as market share surges

MediaTek has reportedly landed major orders for Google TPU products in recent years, even appearing to challenge Broadcom's position...

Monday 17 August 2026
LG-Nvidia physical AI partnership speeds up as robotics chief reportedly heads to South Korea

Less than a week after LG Group and Nvidia signed a strategic memorandum of understanding (MOU), Madison Huang, Nvidia's senior director...