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Wednesday 6 May 2026

Anthropic strikes massive cloud pact with Google, highlighting AI industry concentration

A sweeping new agreement between Anthropic and Google Cloud is throwing into sharp relief just how concentrated — and how enormous...

Wednesday 6 May 2026

Intel Capital leads QuantWare's US$178 million bet on hyperscale quantum computing ambitions

QuantWare's US$178 million Series B round aims to accelerate the global rollout of larger, industrial-scale quantum processors, promising hyperscale quantum compute through its VIO-40K...

Wednesday 6 May 2026

Flex jumps on 2027 outlook beat, AI data-center unit spinoff plan

Flex shares rose 13% in after-hours trading on May 5 after the electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider forecast fiscal 2027...

Wednesday 6 May 2026

MediaTek unit Airoha targets AI networking surge with triple optical growth

MediaTek subsidiary Airoha Technology said its first-quarter 2026 performance met expectations, driven by continued improvement in product mix and accelerating demand across its optical...

Wednesday 6 May 2026

RichWave sees Wi-Fi 7 growth outrunning memory price pressure

Radio frequency (RF) front-end chip maker RichWave said on May 4 that Wi-Fi 7 momentum will remain very strong in the first quarter of 2026, even as rising memory and component costs...

Wednesday 6 May 2026

Explainer: Why Supermicro's margins bounced back — one customer pulled back

Supermicro's third-quarter of fiscal 2026 gross margins snapped back to 10.1% non-GAAP, up from 6.4% in the second quarter of fiscal 2026. CEO Charles Liang attributed the recovery...

Wednesday 6 May 2026

Analysis: The US$2.5 billion smuggling case hanging over Supermicro's US$40 billion year

Supermicro CEO Charles Liang used the opening of his fiscal third quarter of 2026 earnings call to address a topic unrelated to revenue or margins: the DOJ indictment of former employees...

Wednesday 6 May 2026

iPhone 17 topples charts as memory costs threaten midrange Android momentum

Apple and Samsung led the global smartphone market in the first quarter of 2026 as premium demand helped them buck broader shipment declines, industry data showed. According to Counterpoint,...

Wednesday 6 May 2026

Supermicro posts US$10.2B in Q3 revenue, missing own guidance by US$2B as working capital swings drive US$6.6B cash outflow

Supermicro reported fiscal third-quarter revenue of US$10.24 billion, up 123% year-over-year but down 19% sequentially and well below both the company's own guidance of at least US$12.3...

Wednesday 6 May 2026

From China to Arizona: How AI and TSMC are redrawing Taiwan's economic map

Taiwan's decades-long tilt toward China is giving way to a sharper, US-focused strategy. Semiconductor expansion and surging demand for AI infrastructure are redrawing the island's...

Tuesday 5 May 2026

SEMICON SEA 2026: Delta showcases AI-enabled smart manufacturing

Delta Electronics presented its latest AI-enabled smart manufacturing solutions at SEMICON Southeast Asia 2026, underscoring its efforts to advance efficiency, precision, and scalability...

Tuesday 5 May 2026

Google's TPU push hits Nvidia's neocloud grip

Google's effort to expand its tensor processing units (TPU) beyond its own cloud is meeting resistance from some of the AI infrastructure...

Tuesday 5 May 2026

Another Qualcomm exec joins Intel to lead PC and physical AI unit

Intel has announced that it has appointed Alex Katouzian as head of its Client Computing and Physical AI Division. With this hire, Intel seeks to align its consumer PC business with...

Tuesday 5 May 2026

DDR6 server memory moves into early development as industry prepares for next-generation AI demand

The development of next-generation server memory DDR6 is reportedly entering early hardware validation, as memory makers and supply chain partners begin pre-development work ahead...

Tuesday 5 May 2026

Intel PC chip roadmap takes shape as Razor Lake, Titan Lake stay on track

Intel is gaining momentum in both chip design and foundry operations. Its PC platform roadmap for the next two years is coming into sharper focus as process technology and yield improve,...

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