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Thursday 29 October 2026
Samsung's AI memory boom drives record profit as device division stays in loss
Samsung Electronics' latest results show AI infrastructure demand increasingly determining the group's earnings, with soaring semiconductor profit offsetting continued losses in its...
Thursday 29 October 2026
Apple ends its touchscreen holdout with OLED MacBook Pro, with Samsung Display reported as sole panel supplier
Apple's first touchscreen Mac reverses a design stance the company defended for more than a decade and is a premium-priced test of whether touch and tandem OLED can lift Mac demand...
Thursday 29 October 2026
Google's cloud expansion strengthens AI business but strains cash generation
Google's parent, Alphabet, is turning demand for artificial intelligence into a larger cloud business. Still, its latest quarter shows that stronger operating performance does not...
Thursday 29 October 2026
Microsoft's cloud growth outpaces infrastructure spending delays
Microsoft's latest results suggest that enterprise demand for cloud computing and artificial intelligence is supporting stronger operating earnings even as some infrastructure capacity...
Thursday 29 October 2026
Onsemi reportedly in talks to buy AI power-chip startup Ferric for close to US$1 billion
Onsemi has been discussing an acquisition of Ferric, a New York-based maker of integrated voltage regulators for AI chips, for close to US$1 billion, The Information reported...
Thursday 29 October 2026
Powertech shifts to advanced packaging as AI demand drives growth
Rising demand for high-end AI chips is accelerating Powertech's transformation into an advanced packaging strategic partner. Powertech said its utilization rate exceeded 90% in the...
Wednesday 28 October 2026
Ex-TSMC CTO says Taiwan's research institutes get too much funding and train too little talent
Taiwan directs too much public research and development (R&D) funding to its national research institutes, according to Chenming Hu, a former chief technology officer of Taiwan...
Wednesday 28 October 2026
Transformation in focus as display supply chain kicks off investor briefings
The panel display supply chain's transformation marathon continues as companies begin a week of investor briefings centered on new businesses. CoreIntelligence (CiHC), AUO, Radiant,...
Wednesday 28 October 2026
Oracle accelerates AI chip diversification with Cerebras, Google, and SambaNova deals
Oracle has signed partnerships with Cerebras and other chipmakers to host their chips in its cloud infrastructure. The Cerebras deal gives the chipmaker a new large customer to anchor...
Wednesday 28 October 2026
AMD to invest US$1 billion in Meta's stock sale as Helios racks enter testing
AMD is backing one of its largest AI customers with capital and chips. Alongside an update on its hardware work with Meta, the chipmaker said on October 27 that it will invest US$1...
Wednesday 28 October 2026
Google TPUs land Oracle, with OpenAI reportedly next
Google's tensor processing unit (TPU) business has gained one confirmed and one reported major customer within a week, adding pressure on Nvidia, whose graphics processors still dominate...
Wednesday 28 October 2026
Unimicron steers resources to Taiwan AI substrates with NT$50.9B equipment orders, Japan unit sale
Unimicron Technology is reshaping its global production footprint and steering resources toward Taiwan's higher-margin AI supply chain as surging AI and high-performance computing...
Wednesday 28 October 2026
IC designers MediaTek, Realtek, and Parade face 3Q26 earnings tests
Taiwanese IC design leaders MediaTek, Realtek, and Parade Technologies will hold their third-quarter 2026 earnings conferences in succession this week, offering the market an early...
Wednesday 28 October 2026
Anthropic's surging compute demand fuels ASIC prospects, favoring Broadcom over MediaTek
Anthropic recently disclosed details of its computing partnerships with Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), and other providers in its S-1 filing...
Wednesday 28 October 2026
NXP's automotive content gains, industrial demand strengthen its growth outlook
NXP Semiconductors' latest results point to a business gaining from more complex vehicle electronics and industrial computing, while its emerging data center operation offers another...