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Tuesday 4 August 2026

Micron, MediaTek back ChipAgents as agentic AI startup extends series A to US$134 million

ChipAgents, a two-year-old startup building autonomous AI agents for chip design and verification, has raised an additional US$60 million...

Tuesday 4 August 2026

Taiwan targets NT$500 billion space industry by 2031 as U.S. cooperation expands

Taiwan's Taiwan Space Agency (TASA) has launched its TASA iSPARK startup incubation center to accelerate commercialization of space technologies and strengthen the country's space...

Sunday 2 August 2026

TASA opens space startup base to push Taiwan toward satellite ODM

The Taiwan Space Agency (TASA) opened its new space startup accelerator, TASA iSPARK, on July 31 at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University's Boai campus in Hsinchu. The center said...

Friday 31 July 2026

Intel's rare Atom IP deal gives RosaicLabs a shortcut to custom x86 chips

Intel has granted stealth chip startup RosaicLabs access to parts of its Atom processor technology, potentially including register-transfer...

Thursday 30 July 2026

OpenAI's ChatGPT about to reach 1B weekly users as AI rivalry heats up

OpenAI's chatbot is about to reach a new milestone of 1 billion weekly users, according to internal company data. Although this target was intended to be hit by the end of 2025, it...

Wednesday 29 July 2026

Moonshot AI reportedly eyes more Nvidia Blackwell chips for Kimi K4 despite US export curbs

Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI is planning its next frontier model, Kimi K4, and is seeking additional access to Nvidia's advanced...

Wednesday 29 July 2026

Tier IV lists in Tokyo to fund open autonomous driving platform

Japanese autonomous driving startup Tier IV listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on July 22 and said it planned to raise capital to expand...

Monday 27 July 2026

Singapore startup Acrab claims 7.5x speed edge over Mac Mini M4 Pro with new AI chip

A Singapore-based chip startup called Acrab on July 22 unveiled its first AI processor, claiming it can run large language models locally at speeds that outpace Apple's Mac Mini M4...

Monday 27 July 2026

IndieSemiC, Semtech partner on RISC-V IoT platform as India expands semiconductor design ecosystem

Gujarat-based fabless semiconductor startup IndieSemiC has partnered with US-based semiconductor supplier Semtech Corporation to develop a new RISC-V-based system-in-package (SiP)...

Monday 27 July 2026

India's HCLTech plans US$4.4B AI data center

HCLTech said it plans to establish its first AI data center at the upcoming Odisha Sovereign AI Park, marking a further step in its expansion into the full-stack artificial intelligence...

Monday 27 July 2026

DeepSeek reportedly pauses second funding round amid market and geopolitical scrutiny

Chinese artificial intelligence pioneer DeepSeek has verbally informed prospective investors that it is suspending its second fundraising round, according to people familiar with the...

Sunday 26 July 2026

Alphabet's purchase commitments surge past US$800 billion amid AI infrastructure expansion

Alphabet disclosed in its latest quarterly filing that its purchase commitments and other contractual obligations had climbed to US$811 billion as of the end of June, underscoring...

Friday 24 July 2026

Stripe reportedly eyes OpenRouter in potential US$10B AI infrastructure deal

Stripe is in talks to acquire AI model-routing startup OpenRouter in a deal that could value the company at around US$10 billion, according...

Thursday 23 July 2026

Moonshot AI model challenges EDA moat with 2-day chip design

China AI startup Moonshot AI has drawn intense attention from the semiconductor industry after unveiling its new large language model Kimi K3, which delivered strong results across...

Thursday 23 July 2026

SpaceXAI reportedly eyes Texas expansion in broader AI infrastructure push

SpaceXAI is laying the groundwork for at least one large-scale AI data center in Texas, a move that could significantly expand its...

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